The London dreamers have borrowed their favourite parts from music’s past to create a headrush of love and mysticism
May 20, 2013 | Categories: Album Reviews | Tags: 2013, album review, Bill Haley and the Comets, Deep Purple, Kula Shaker, NME, Noel Gallagher, Oasis, Pink Floyd, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Charlatans, The Monkees, Wallace Wylie | 1 Comment »
The way The Smiths once covered their sleeves in 60s references, the way Wu-Tang Clan embraced the language and iconography of Shaolin, the way Oasis loved The Beatles, that’s the relationship Iceage has with xenophobia and white supremacy — it may not be the window, but it’s damn sure the drapes.
Feb 15, 2013 | Categories: Columns | Tags: 2 Live Crew, Andrew Dice Clay, Delta 5, Denmark, Gang Of Four, Iceage, Ku Klux Klan, Mekons, Oasis, Sarah Palin, Scott Creney, The Smiths, Tyler The Creator, Wu-Tang Clan | 72 Comments »
Lauren (age 1) was learning to stand today.
Oct 22, 2012 | Categories: Live Reviews | Tags: Alan Licht, Between The Times & The Tides, Brisbane, Everett True, George Harrison, Lee Ranaldo, Lee Ranaldo Band, Oasis, R.E.M., Sonic Youth, Steve Shelley, The Zoo | 6 Comments »
Secretly, what modern mainstream pop-hackery confirms is that there’s a fundamental sadness to the role of music writer, or at least there is if you let it take hold – you are employed to basically be a hanger-on, an eavesdropper, a spod, a geek, someone who won’t shut up about something the rest of the world just get on enjoying.
May 17, 2012 | Categories: Music Blogs | Tags: Cornershop, Hamish McBain, Massive Attack, Music criticism, Neil Kulkarni, NME, Oasis, pop hackery, Pulp | 3 Comments »
It was The Supremes’ ‘Baby Love’ that really brought back that Chunka-Chunka feeling
Nov 18, 2011 | Categories: Wallace Wylie | Tags: blues, Blur, Britpop, Cab Calloway, Chunka-Chunka, Elliott Smith, Jazz, Louis Armstrong, Mamie Smith, Motown, Oasis, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Kinks, The Move, The Small Faces, The Supremes, Wallace Wylie | 7 Comments »
Outflanked by Coldplay? He should be fucking ashamed of himself.
Nov 09, 2011 | Categories: Album Reviews | Tags: album review, Amorphous Androgynous, Coldplay, Hacienda, homoeroticism, Noel Gallager High Flying Birds is a pretty stupid fucking name, Noel Gallagher, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Oasis, Scott Creney, U2 | 6 Comments »
By Everett True
Oct 27, 2011 | Categories: Album Reviews | Tags: album review, Beady Eye, bush turkey, cassowary, dodo, emu, Everett True, Inaccessible Island Rail, kiwi, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Oasis, ostrich, penguin, penguins, Reviewed In Pictures, rhea, takahe | 3 Comments »
This song used to haunt my drunken waking moments.
Aug 11, 2011 | Categories: Everett True | Tags: Anacortes WA, Autohaze, Beat Happening, D+, Everett True, International Pop Underground, K Records, Lotion, NYC, Oasis, Olympia WA, Pounding Serfs, The Few | 2 Comments »
Most people just turn the other way for success. I think we’ve had a career of uncompromising vision.
Jul 19, 2011 | Categories: Interviews | Tags: Alan Moulder, Angels of Light, Annie Hardy, Ariel Pink, Art by Jhonny Russell, Bianca Valentino, Born Against, Buddyhead, Captain Beefheart, Dave Sardy, Def Leppard, DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, Giant Drag, Greg Gordon, Guns N\' Roses, Hard Rock Cafe, Icarus Line, Il Torquemada, interview, James Brown, Joe Cardamone, Los Angeles music scene, Metallica, Michael Jackson, Mike Mussmano, Music criticism, Oasis, Roar Scratch Records, Sly Stone, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Supergrass, The Beatles, The Icarus Line, The Stooges, The Strokes, Valley Recording Co., Wade Robinson, Wild Thing, Wildlife | 1 Comment »
Pop music that shits all over the tired, tepid male rock posturing of the other nine videos from a wonderfully giddy height.
Jun 01, 2011 | Categories: Everett True | Tags: AC/DC, Beyonce, Brian Jones, Bruce Springsteen, Bryan Adams, Cheap Trick, Cold Chisel, George Michael, Girls Aloud, Havana Brown, Howard Jones, INXS, Jennifer Lopez, Joan Jett, John Farnham, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Melody Maker, Men At Work, Midnight Oil, Mirrors, Mudhoney, NME, Oasis, paul kelly, Pearl Jam, Pitbull, pop music, Powderfinger, Pulp, Radiohead, Sally Oldfield, Smashing Pumpkins, Squeeze, Sugababes, Suzi Quatro, The Beatles, The Easybeats, The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, The Monkees, The Police, The Residents, The Rolling Stones, The Stereophonics | 3 Comments »
Born This Way is Lady Gaga’s Be Here Now. It is bloated and too full of itself.
May 30, 2011 | Categories: Album Reviews | Tags: Be Here Now, Bruce Springsteen, Carl Bean, Clarence Clemons, cocaine, Fleet Foxes, Harvey Fierstein, Harvey Milk, homosexuality, Lady Gaga, Lady Gaga Born This Way review, Lady Gaga fetish, Lady Gaga hermaphrodite, Lita Ford, Madonna, Meatloaf, Oasis, Odd Future, Scott Creney, Shania Twain, Tyler, Yoko Ono | 7 Comments »
I want a little glamour around my presence: glamour is the last thing I possess right now. I don’t know if I’ll ever recapture that mood again.
May 25, 2011 | Categories: Everett True | Tags: amazon, Autoboosh, Brighton, Careless Talk Costs Lives, Cat Power, Chan Marshall, Chicken Run, Coldplay, Dad's Army, Damaged Goods, Dublin, Dusty Springfield, Dusty The Musical, Elliott Smith, Front, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Graft, Grunge: The Everett True Years, Have I Got News For You, Hobomedia, Hunt Emerson, Jamie Sellers, John Robb, Jon Slade, Kathryn Williams, Kevin Shields, King's Reach Tower, Kurt Cobain, London, Mari Wilson, Mark Lamarr, Martin James, Mary Timony, Maslam, Maxim, Melody Maker, Metroland, Minesweeper, ninetynine, NME, Oasis, Passport To Pimlico, Peanuts, Plan B Magazine, Quasi, Reggie Perrin, Ronald Searle, Royal Trux, Seattle, Sleater-Kinney, Sonic Youth, Steven Berkoff, Supergrass, Tangents, The Browning Version, The Go-Betweens, The Guardian, the Millennium Dome, The Onion, The Simpsons, The Spice Girls, The Stranger, The Sun, The X-Files, Theatre Royal, Tony Benn, Uncut, Wichita Records | Leave A Comment »
It can feel like a betrayal, and the fan blames the band: they ‘sold out’, because they don’t belong to you exclusively any more.
May 08, 2011 | Categories: Princess Stomper | Tags: 30 Seconds to Mars, 4 REAL, Enter Sandman, fanzines, Jared Leto, Jordan Catalano, Linkin Park, Lord Of The Rings, Manic Street Preachers, Megadeth, Metallica, Oasis, Richie Edwards, selling-out, The Supremes, The Verve, Urban Hymns, VAST | 18 Comments »
Listening to No Anchor, it’s hard not to hear a weaker, less interesting version of their heroes.
May 03, 2011 | Categories: Album Reviews, Brisbane | Tags: Black Sabbath, Boris, Brisbane, Dylan Carlson, Earth, Fatima Mansions, Melvins, Nico Stai, No Anchor, Oasis, Scott Creney, Sham Pain Supernova, Sunn O)))) | 26 Comments »
My only complaint about The White Stripes was that the band weren’t composed of two Meg Whites
Mar 28, 2011 | Categories: Everett True | Tags: Conversations With Punx, Cults, Edwin Hawkins Singers, Float Riverer, Henry Rollins, Kings Of Leon, Meg White, music critics, Neil Diamond, Oasis, Primal Scream, SxSW, The Stone Roses, The White Stripes, Warpaint | Leave A Comment »
Large elements of the UK alternative press seemed to be waiting for the right guitar band to get behind, the right guitar band to believe in. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you The Stone Roses.
Mar 24, 2011 | Categories: Columns | Tags: 808 State, A Guy Called Gerald, Acid House, Andy Weatherall, Aphex Twin, Arctic Monkeys, Blur, Bobby Gillespie, Bomb The Bass, Britpop, Cabaret Voltaire, Creation Records, Damon Albarn, Definitely Maybe, Depeche Mode, Derrick May, Fool's Gold, Frankie Knuckles, Gary Numan, Give Out But Don’t Give Up, Happy Mondays, Higher Than the Sun, House, Ian Brown, Jack Your Body, Jimmy Miller, Joy Division, Kula Shaker, Led Zeppelin, Let It Be, Loaded, Love, Massive Attack, Morrissey, New Order, Noel Gallagher, Oasis, Orange Juice, Orbital, Paul Weller, Pet Shop Boys, PiL, Primal Scream, Public Enemy, Sally Cinnamon, Screamadelica, Song Of The Day, Suede, Teenage Fanclub, The Associates, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Black Crowes, The Boo Radleys, The Byrds, The Human League, The Jam, The KLF, The Libertines, The Orb, The Pastels, The Raincoats, The Rolling Stones, The Sex Pistols, The Slits, The Small Faces, The Smiths, The Soft Boys, The Stone Roses, The Strokes, The Wild Bunch, Uncle Tupelo, Vince Clarke, Visage, Wallace Wylie, We Call It Acieed, WFL, Yazoo | 65 Comments »
Yet another band whose sole reason for forming was to parade around in funky sunglasses at summer festivals.
Mar 01, 2011 | Categories: Columns | Tags: Brother, Chapel Club, CocoRosie, Coldplay, Jaimie Hodgson, Krissi Murison, Lewis G Parker, MGMT, Music criticism, Niki and the Dove, NME, Oasis, Rolling Stone, the naked and famous, The Vaccines, The White Stripes, Top Gear | 10 Comments »
Everyone needs to release their inner James Lawton sometimes
Feb 23, 2011 | Categories: Everett True | Tags: Best Coast, Billy Corgan, collective nouns, Courtney Love, Danielson Famile, Dexys Midnight Runners, Fleet Foxes, Foals, hipsters, James Lawton, Jesus And Mary Chain, Jet, Jethro Tull, Kings Of Leon, Lady Gaga, Metallica, Mogwai, Muse, music critics, Nirvana, Oasis, Orange Juice, PJ Harvey, post-rock, Run DMC, The Jam, The Pastels, The Pogues, The Shaggs, The Sweet, The Thin Kids, The Vaselines, The Wedding Present, Thom Yorke | 27 Comments »
(Excerpted from my 2001 journal, posted at the Tangents archives.) Saturday July 8 … so I’m stuck high up in the rafters at Dublin’s Lansdowne Road international football ground, freezing my fucking fingers off, chatting to Dave Simpson about the stupidity of editors and the rise and rise of PRs in the music business industry [...]
Aug 10, 2010 | Categories: Everett True | Tags: Brighton, Kathryn Williams, Melbourne, Melody Maker, Melting Vinyl, ninetynine, Oasis, Seattle, Supergrass, Tangents | 1 Comment »
Hey. Glad you could make it. Thought we might want to establish a few rules before I get down to the actual reviewing. This is a trial run for the format. So – duh – it might not work, as a format. The idea is that this live-to-air review takes it cue from the live [...]
Apr 26, 2010 | Categories: Album Reviews | Tags: Billy Corgan, Courtney Love, God, Guns N\' Roses, Hole, Joan Jett, Linda Perry, Marianne Faithfull, Micko, Nobody\'s Daughter, Oasis | 38 Comments »
