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 October 10, 2010
Everett True
Blank Realm , Happy Mondays , McTells , New Zealand , Straitjacket Fits , Texas , The Black Angels , The Clean , The Dandy Warhols , Thought Creature , Wellington
These are New Zealand folk who you feel probably aren’t too familiar with conventional approaches to the razor-blade or obtaining prescriptions for over-the-counter pharmaceuticals
Added on June 24, 2010
Everett True
Galaxie 500 , Songs , The Clean , The Go-Betweens , The Vine
This song is a couple of years old – and this is newer material available – but have you any idea how hard it is doing a Google Search on the word ‘Songs’? I’m motivated to put this one up today for a couple of reasons. 1. This Sydney band’s self-titled debut long-player I nominated […]
Added on February 22, 2010
Everett True
Bitch Prefect , Half-Japanese , Kitchen\'s Floor , McTells , The Clean , The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart , The Pastels , The Vaselines , The Velvet Underground , The Verlaines
This recommendation comes courtesy of the fine Eternal Soundcheck blog. As Matt writes, “Bitch Prefect are from Adelaide and play really nice simple pop music – Think the Clean, Velvet Underground, a bit of Half/Japanese and mix it up with the retardation that growing up in a small city town in Australia would do to […]
Added on December 4, 2009
Everett True
Bo Ningen , Goran Bregović , Hugs And Kisses , Joseph Spence , Karen O And The Kids , Munster Records , Playground , Ray Rumours , Rodrigo y Gabriela , Songs , Tap Tap , The Bats , The Clean , The Thin Kids
This was written for Spanish website Playground a couple of days ago. I dutifully sent it off, and received a return email stating the column had been pulled, financial considerations. Damn. They could have told me that before I wrote it! Anyway. Thought it was too good to waste. Hugs And Kisses The Strangely Muted […]
