Added on March 24, 2011
Wallace Wylie
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
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.
Added on November 13, 2010
Everett True
Blue Cheer , Boston , Dinosaur Jr , grunge , Killdozer , Mindy Misty , Mudhoney , Scandinavia , Scarce , Seattle , Shocking Blue , Smudge , Tad , Teenage Fanclub
Grunge. Done badly, it’s horrendous. (I was going to link to a Silverchair video here, but thought better of it.)
Added on November 2, 2010
Everett True
Euros Childs , Gorky's Zygotic Mynci , Jan And Dean , Jonny , Norman Blake , Teenage Fanclub , The Easybeats
Blimey. There’s Norman Blake, he of my much-loved Glaswegian pop stars Teenage Fanclub. (True story: my first girlfriend named her pet hamster after Norman – then in The Boy Hairdressers. It was after we split.) There’s Euros Childs, he of my much-loved Welsh pop stars Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci. (True story: Gorky’s press agent called me […]
Added on October 18, 2010
Everett True
Dada With Juice , Domino Records , Edwyn Collins , Grace Maxwell , Harry Belafonte , Losing Sleep , Melody Maker , Orange Juice , Simply Thrilled Honey , Stephen Pastel , Teenage Fanclub , The Cribs , The Muppets , With A Girl Like You
There’s a new Edwyn Collins album out. You don’t know how happy it makes me, just typing those words.
Added on September 1, 2010
Everett True
Armedalite Rifles , Black Diamonds , C86 , Can , Captain Beefheart , David Thomas , Frank Black , Gang Of Four , Kurt Cobain , Lenny Kaye , New Age Steppers , Pere Ubu , Sarandon , shambling , Teenage Fanclub , The Deadnotes , The Feelies , twee pop , Wild Colonials
So some guy reads my piece on Australian garage bands and decides to contact me on Facebook, asking if I’d like to hear a CD of his band. I say, direct me to your music first, so he does. I give it a listen. I like it. It’s all spark and fire: rhythms like Captain […]
Added on July 17, 2010
Everett True
Neil Diamond , Plush , Teenage Fanclub , Television Personalities , The Beatles , The Runaways , The Social Icons , The Webb Brothers , Urge Overkill
Do yourself a favour. Scroll down the left hand side of this page I’ve just linked you to, and have yourself a listen to the most excellent pop of ‘Eastwing’. It’s a little bit Teenage Fanclub, a little bit Mod, a little bit Urge Overkill circa that moment when they crystallised easy into the perfect […]
Added on July 7, 2010
Everett True
Patrik Fitzgerald , Pulco , Teenage Fanclub
I’m a sucker for a Welsh accent. This is beautiful gentle funny and smart pastoral music, made by a fellow who’s played with Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci and Sebadoh, apparently. The entire album is fetching and beguiling and several other words that end in ‘ing’, and the harmonies sometimes remind me of Teenage Fanclub because they […]
Added on March 24, 2010
Everett True
Nirvana , Song Of The Day , Teenage Fanclub
This song can reduce me to tears. Just beautiful. That line, the harmonies on that line, “Here is a sunrise/Ain’t that enough/True as a clear sky/Ain’t that enough?” Ignore the weird intro bit at the start of this video. You need to start listening at 0.17 seconds. I received an advance copy of Teenage Fanclub’s […]
Added on September 7, 2009
Everett True
Helen Love , McFly , Ramones , Redd Kross , Teenage Fanclub , Town Bike
Um. Oh. Wait a sec… I was going to wholeheartedly recommend this, because every decade needs a new Helen Love, a new Bangs – plus, this bunch match the sheer 60s pop ramalama delight of Ramones to the gorgeously outdated harmonies of Redd Kross or Teenage Fanclub on a song like ‘Hey Hey Ho’ or […]
