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 March 24, 2011
Everett True
Arthur Russell , ATV , Commercial Zone , Debbie Harry , Family Fodder , New Age Steppers , Post Punk Progressive Party , post-punk , Robert Wyatt , Swell Maps , The Door And The Window , The Raincoats , The Red Crayola , The Slits , This Heat , Twelve Cubic Feet
You can hear elements of everyone that mattered … Swell Maps, New Age Steppers, This Heat, The Door And The Window, ATV, Twelve Cubic Feet, Robert Wyatt, The Raincoats, Arthur Russell, The Slits …
Added on January 22, 2011
Everett True
C86 , Creation Records , Jesus And Mary Chain , Ramones , Shop Assistants , Southampton Solent University , Talulah Gosh , The Loft , The Notes , The Raincoats , The Velvet Underground , Vivian Girls
The echo is sullen. The harmonies are anything but. The guitar sound is very early Creation and pure Shop Assistants
Added on December 8, 2010
Everett True
Ana de Silva , Kurt Cobain , Lola , The Raincoats , Viv Albertine
We’ve featured The Raincoats on Collapse Board before, right? Please tell me we’ve featured them before. No? Sigh.
Added on December 7, 2010
Everett True
Dennis Bovell , Judy Garland , The Raincoats , The Slits , Viv Albertine
The oddest thing about this cautionary tale of Christmas alienation and loneliness with its gently chiding guitars and taut rhythms and repetition, as told by former Slits guitarist Viv Albertine, is that it sounds way, way more like prime Raincoats than it does her former band. There’s the same worrying paranoia and utilisation of vaguely […]
Added on August 31, 2010
Everett True
Buzzcocks , C86 , Chicks On Speed , CSS , Electroclash , ESG , James Chance , Las Kellies , New York Noise , No Wave , Peaches , Pylon , Riot Grrrl , The Deadnotes , The Flying Lizards , The Go-Go's , The Pastels , The Raincoats , The Red Crayola
Let’s begin with a video. I’ve posted it before, but you’ll forgive me, right?
Added on April 22, 2010
Everett True
Defunkt , Effi Briest , Gang Gang Dance , Malaria , Patti Smith , Plan B Magazine , Song Of The Day , The Door And The Window , The Raincoats
Someone was kind enough to send me the Effi Briest album. I was thinking of subtitling this post “one more reason why I’m cooler than you” but realised that the increments of cultural capital I’m obtaining by behaving in such a juvenile way are micro-minute, and that probably I’m best left talking about circular patterns […]
Added on April 16, 2010
Everett True
Beat Happening , Lust-Cats of the Gutters , Petticoats , Ramones , Song Of The Day , The Raincoats , The Shaggs , web 2.0 environments
As I’ve stated before, I’m riotously easy to please. As I’ve stated before, you want me to hear your music? Send me a link to an MP3 or your MySpace page. Don’t bother your cute honey ass with money-wasting promo CDs and international postal rates. Lust-Cats of the Gutters will never be this great again. […]
Added on December 21, 2009
Everett True
Kitty Daisy And Lewis , The Raincoats
Say what you like about rockabilly. It’s always been fucking great live music. Family outfit Kitty Daisy & Lewis absolutely rocked the joint the other night. I’ve been a fan since their debut single, 2005’s Moon Mullican cover, ‘Honolulu Rock And Roll’ – and they sure didn’t disappoint. My feet are still sore and cracked […]
Added on December 7, 2009
Everett True
Arrington de Dionyso , Count Lasha , Hello Cuca , Hugs And Kisses , Kurt Cobain , Las Kellies , No Anchor , Pissed Jeans , Riot Grrrl , Soundman Shots , The Monster Women , The Raincoats
This is the first in the series of columns I wrote for Playground. I hope they commission more. I’ve really enjoyed writing them. Hugs And Kisses The Strangely Muted Outbursts of Everett True 1. Various Artists – Soundman Shots: the Caribou & Downbeat 78’s Story http://www.honestjons.com/shop.php?pid=35144&CatID=2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tQ8m_vjJTE http://everetttrue2.blogspot.com/2009/09/equators-elizabeth-archer_13.html Life is a continual distraction. You sit […]
