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 Wallace Wylie

Death Rattle – The Stone Roses, Primal Scream, Oasis and the travesty of British Alternative Rock in the 90s

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.

 Hannah Golightly

Fuck The Dream. Marry for the love and not the money.

I sense a spirit of love that infuses the music with soul and self-expression. And if you think this description suggests a kitsch twee puke-fest, then I’d have sorely done the depth and strength of their music an injustice.

 EdG

Review of Wolf-Wolf, Indiewolf, and Pearbear at TeenageHairWaste

Review of Wolf-Wolf, Indiewolf, and Pearbear at TeenageHairWaste

Walking home from the gig I started to think about the solid future of indie rock as a genre and how interesting and different bands are.

 Everett True

(Anti-)Song of the day – 277: New Waver (free download)

This is just about the worst music I’ve heard in years. So bad it’s bad.

 EdG

Five albums you probably have never heard of

1. The Walker Brothers – Nite Flights The Walker Brothers were a huge Sixties sensation, arguably bigger than The Beatles in the UK for a while in their heyday. As with many boy bands in the Sixties, fame didn’t last forever and they split ways in 1967. Probably due to poverty more than anything they […]

 Everett True

Song of the day – 130: The Social Icons

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 […]

 Everett True

Song of the day – 46: Television Personalities

There’s a new Television Personalities album out shortly. It’s called A Memory Is Better Than Nothing. Information about it is typically sketchy but it’s coming out on Rocket Girl. It’s far more focused and orchestrated than the majority of Dan’s recent work since his return in the 00s. His songs have been sensitively and fully […]

 Everett True

Spotlight – 34: Peepholes

Again, I’m reminded of the section in the infamous Steve Albini article/tirade against major labels, originally printed in The Baffler, wherein he wishes that bands would try to sound more like Metal Urbain instead of The Beatles. Because, as I’ve written before, it seems that we’ve turned full circle – at least in the circles […]

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