Added on September 20, 2011
Wallace Wylie
Abba , Everybody Loves Raymond , Fleet Foxes , INXS , Led Zeppelin , Lester Bangs , Michael Jackson , Music criticism , Music Writing , Nirvana , Outkast , The Beatles , The World's Strongest Man , Wallace Wylie
Have you read Lester Bangs? Guess what? He was a failed musician.
Added on September 8, 2011
Ben Pratt
Alternate Press , Andy Hull , Band Of Horses , Ben Pratt , Brand New , Bright Eyes , CREEM , Death Cab For Cutie , Lester Bangs , Manchester Orchestra , Mojo , Music criticism , Pitchfork , Rolling Stone , Simple Math , The Beatles , The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me , The Grateful Dead , Yellow Submarine
Nationally-distributed music magazines have turned into paper-thin circle-jerk bullshit
Added on August 28, 2011
Scott Creney
album review , Chihei Hatakeyama , Mirror , Music criticism , Room 40 , Scott Creney , The Beatles
Dr. Doolittle wanted to talk to the animals, but Chihei Hatakeyama has his ear against the plankton.
Added on August 26, 2011
Wallace Wylie
Breed , Collapse Board , Elliott Smith , Inspiral Carpets , Kurt Cobain , Lithium , Manic Street Preachers , Nevermind , Nirvana , On a Plain , Pavement , R.E.M. , Richey James , Sebadoh , Smells Like Teen Spirit , Teenage Fanclub , The Beatles , The Doors , The Jam , The Stone Roses , U2 , Wallace Wylie
Stuck with powerful sexual impulses, I convinced myself that to act on them was disrespectful and cheap.
Added on July 26, 2011
Erika Meyer
Carrie Brownstein , Chuck Berry , Dead Kennedys , Erika Meyer , Olympia , Ramones , Seattle , Sleater-Kinney , The Beatles , The Cramps , The Go-Go's
Great rock music has less to do with ‘skill’ and ‘talent’ and more to do with a person’s ability to use music as an artistic medium.
Added on June 1, 2011
Everett True
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
Pop music that shits all over the tired, tepid male rock posturing of the other nine videos from a wonderfully giddy height.
Added on May 24, 2011
Everett True
Please Mr Postman , The Beatles , The Marvelettes
Postmen, railway stations, talking in the street for half-an-hour after you last said goodbye … folk go for the most obvious signifiers.
Added on May 20, 2011
Everett True
Arcade Fire , Coldplay , Everett True , Federica Pierino , Gorilla vs Bear , Grammys , Hipster Runoff , Italy , Mainstrindie , Marina Pierri , Music criticism , Pitchfork , Plan B Magazine , Radiohead , Sgt. Pepper , The Beatles , trombones , Twitter , Vampire Weekend , Vitaminic
“DO YOU REMEMBER THAT BAND THAT MADE YOU DREAM ALL SUMMER LONG, THE BAND WHOSE SONGS YOU KNOW BY HEART ALL THE LYRICS? WELL, IT’S CRAP! AND SO ARE YOU!”
Added on March 28, 2011
Everett True
Dolores O'Riordan , Imagine , John Lennon , Madonna , Melody Maker , Phil Spector , Ramones , Taylor Parkes , The Beatles , The Cranberries , To The Faithful Departed
It’s a weak, flimsy premise for a song: not thought-through, sappy, opportunistic, smug, the opposite of naive … something that this song is often called by its defenders.
