Added on March 11, 2011
Everett True
ATV , Best Coast , Blank Realm , Brisbane , Dunedin , Eddie Vedder , edgy , Eternal Soundcheck , Flying Nun , Hamish Kilgour , MGMT , Neu! , Panel Of Judges , Pavement , post-punk , Robert Scott , Songs , Sonic Youth , Spiral Stairs , Tally Ho , The Bats , The Clean , The Clientele , The Deadnotes , the Dunedin Sound , The Go-Betweens , The Laughing Clowns , The Legend , The Thin Kids , The Velvet Underground , The Vine , The Zoo , Turn It Up , Yo La Tengo
I doubt if there’s a single person here who undervalues The Clean’s beauty, their vivid guitar storms punctuated by trebly guitar excess and bursts of down-home, deprecating humour.
Added on March 9, 2011
Everett True
Blake Babies , Buffalo Tom , Comet Gain , Dublin , Gorky's Zygotic Mynci , Pavement , Sebadoh , Television Personalities , These Dancing Days , Yeh Deadlies
This is what the early parts of the 90s sounded like to me … um, the good early parts
Added on February 21, 2011
Wallace Wylie
Bill Withers , Brian Eno , Dan Bejar , David Sanborn , Destroyer , Guided By Voices , indie , Jazz , Kaputt , Leonard Cohen , Merge Records , New Order , New Pornographers , Pavement , Pitchfork , Roxy Music , Tapes 'n' Tapes
Kaputt is a dark city with no easy escape routes. Washed-out horns blow sorrowfully into the night.
Added on December 31, 2010
Everett True
2010 , Althea & Donna , Angus and Julia Stone , Ari Up , Beyonce , Bitch Prefect , Blank Realm , Byron Lee And The Dragonaires , Daniel Johnston , Dolly Mixture , Eternal Soundcheck , Fabulous Diamonds , Feathers , femme-pop , Gareth Liddiard , gent Ribbons , Ill Ease , Johanna Buccola , Kate Nash , kyü , La Sera , Lanie Lane , Lido Pimienta , Miu Mau , My Disco , Neverever , Pavement , Pikelet , Pixies , She And Him , Sky Needle , Soda Fountain Rag , Super Wild Horses , The Deadnotes , The Distractions , The John Steel Singers , The Lemonheads , The Loves , The Monster Women , The Psychedelic Furs , The Stress Of Leisure , The Thin Kids , The Unthanks , Trash Kit , Velociraptor , Viv Albertine , Washington , Woom
The problem with Brisbane appears to be an overload of the creative process: there are too many folk being creative and not enough people satisfied with being consumers
Added on November 26, 2010
Everett True
Guided By Voices , New York City , NYC , Pavement , Shark? , The Modern Lovers , The Strokes
Shark? aren’t bad. That’s it. End of review.
Added on November 23, 2010
Everett True
49 Americans , Athens , Bikini KIll , Georgia , New Order , Pavement , Pylon , Skinned Teen , The B-52s , The Slits , Tunabunny , Yoko Ono
Bangs wept. This music makes me deliriously happy. It clatters, it splatters, it shatters, it matters. I’ve listened to the album front to back, back to front, sideways, length ways, every which wrong ways, adored the New Order steals, the slices of unrequited Bikini Kill/Skinned Teen screaming, the tributes to the female Captain Beefheart, the […]
Added on October 28, 2010
Everett True
Careless Talk Costs Lives , Daniel Johnston , Drowned In Sound , Galaxie 500 , Herman Düne , Jasmine Minks , Jonathan Richman , Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers , Lesbo Pig , Los Campesinos , Orange Juice , Pavement , Peckham , Plan B Magazine , Revolving Paint Dream , Seattle , Television Personalities , The Go-Betweens , The Legend , The Modern Lovers , The Pastels , The Stranger , The Tronics , The Wave Pictures , Winston Echo
In response to a request from a friend on Twitter, I’ve collected together some of my more recent writings about Jonathan. And from tomorrow, you can listen to an incredible early demo of ‘The Morning Of Our Lives’ over here. ——————————————————————————————————————————– (from Plan B #18, originally printed in The Stranger) I first heard Jonathan Richman […]
Added on October 8, 2010
Everett True
Alice In Chains , Bruce Willis , Hole 2.0 , Pavement , River Cuomo , Sheezer , Smashing Pumpkins , The Fall , The Stranger , U2 , Weezer
This is quite my favourite ‘news’ story on the web this morning. A disgruntled Seattle music fan has offered to collect together $10m and give it to Weezer, if only River Cuomo and the gang will do the decent thing and SHUT THE FUCK UP. “Every year, Rivers Cuomo swears that he’s changed, and that […]
Added on April 27, 2010
Everett True
Guided By Voices , Pavement , Sneaky Feelings , Song Of The Day , The Apartments , The Cannanes , The Go-Betweens , The Stress Of Leisure
Can’t quite put my finger on it. It’s The Apartments, or someone. Sneaky Feelings. Something about the waver in the voice, and the soft burr of guitar. Well I mean, duh The Go-Betweens circa ‘Cattle And Cane’. Sorry to go all comparative on your ass. I really don’t like the video I’m linking to you […]
Added on April 5, 2010
Everett True
Cows , D.H Lawrence , Daisy Chainsaw , Kitchen\'s Floor , Pavement , Pixies , Sebadoh , Song Of The Day
Never trust a critic. Never trust an artist. Trust the tale. D.H Lawrence held that, “The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it”. It’s a great notion, and I understand what he means – the reason why it’s possible to love ‘Love Your Money’ by Daisy […]
