Song of the day – 275: I, Ludicrous
Here’s I, Ludicrous. Be gentle. Their van’s broken down again.
5 Music Journalism Clichés Which Should Go Away Forever
1. “(INSERT FEMALE ROCK/POP MUSICIAN’S NAME HERE), THE BAD GIRL OF ROCK…” Description: Virtually every female musician who dyes her hair ‘punk’ colors and/or makes vaguely ‘rebellious’ (or quasi-feminist) pronouncements is saddled with this phrase in music reviews or featured interviews. This travesty of words has been going on since The Slits, and most notoriously […]
Everett True in the UK, part two – London
“I didn’t listen to pop music growing up,” he reveals. “If I listened to music, it would be something classical”
Everett True in the UK, part one – Southampton
“Most music critics are reading other music critics to find out what they should like”
Top 10 Most Read Entries on Collapse Board, 2010
Australia. You worry me sometimes.
Song of the day – 260: Talulah Gosh (the original interview)
“Each time we play live we always repeat the magic words ‘punk rock, punk rock’ to each other just to reminds ourselves why we’re here”
quite a revealing blog entry about editorial policy at Q and NME
One of my regular correspondents on Twitter recently published this blog entry. I thought I’d reproduce it here, because I find it to be quite revealing: partway explanatory of what goes on behind the scenes at the mainstream rock press.
Song of the day – 128: Boo Frog
Despite the assertion from the editor of Mess And Noise that my blogging is all “NME this, or Franz Ferdinand that”, my desk seems to be currently sadly bereft of new releases from major labels, or even major indie labels. Instead, I’m reduced to scrabbling around among the scrag-ends of cultural abandon – or, as […]
Song of the day – 112: The Native Cats
Time to spread a little Tasmanian love. I wrote about The Native Cats a while back in the NME, perhaps erroneously comparing singer Peter Escott to Scott Walker. On this new White Denim seven-inch he sounds like a frayed-nerve throwback to the late 70s, fronting one of those scary, dark, misanthropic bands like The Passage, […]
Song of the day – 64: Helen And The Horns
It’s my birthday today, and I was looking for a special Song Of The Day to celebrate it with. So James Brown over on Facebook suggested this. Helen And The Horns – Freight Train It seems like a very appropriate choice to me. Two-thirds of the horns came directly from the college band I was […]
