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 February 23, 2011
Everett True
Best Coast , Billy Corgan , collective nouns , Courtney Love , Danielson Famile , Dexys Midnight Runners , Fleet Foxes , Foals , hipsters , James Lawton , Jesus And Mary Chain , Jet , Jethro Tull , Kings Of Leon , Lady Gaga , Metallica , Mogwai , Muse , music critics , Nirvana , Oasis , Orange Juice , PJ Harvey , post-rock , Run DMC , The Jam , The Pastels , The Pogues , The Shaggs , The Sweet , The Thin Kids , The Vaselines , The Wedding Present , Thom Yorke
Everyone needs to release their inner James Lawton sometimes
Added on February 16, 2011
Everett True
Best Coast , Ramones , Vivian Girls
Vivian Girls are the guv’nesses, same way Ramones were once the guv’ners.
Added on November 19, 2010
Everett True
Best Coast , Pebbles , Shannon And The Clams , The Detroit Cobras
This shit from Oakland CA is off the hook!
Added on October 20, 2010
Tamsin
Best Coast , Echo & The Bunnymen , In The Red , Nick Cave , Shack , The Fresh And Onlys , The Go-Betweens , The Vivian Girls
Little things can make a big difference. Sometimes, it’s the difference between loving something and thinking it’s just OK. Or thinking it’s OK and hating it.
Added on September 17, 2010
Everett True
Allo Darlin' , Best Coast , Betty And The Werewolves , Beyonce , Busty & Cool , Byron Lee And The Dragonaires , Can , Etta James , Everybody Was In The French Resistance... Now , iTunes , Jad Fair , Lloyd Clarke , Neverever , She And Him , Soda Fountain Rag , The Deadnotes , The Legend , The Specials , The Thin Kids , The Unthanks , Woom
I’m only including one track per album (aside from the omnipresent Bluebeat 45s, from which I’ve drawn three) as to do otherwise would unbalance the entire chart. This isn’t accurate by any means, and complete omits any listening that takes place (for example) at the office, on the bus, in the car, on vinyl, in […]
Added on September 6, 2010
Everett True
Allo Darlin' , Best Coast , Bust , Dum Dum Girls , Everett True and his First Ladies Of Rock , Frankie Rose And The Outs , Las Kellies , Lust-Cats of the Gutters , Miu Mau , Neverever , Soda Fountain Rag , Something Awful , Super Wild Horses , The Hot Toddies , The Monster Women , The School , Tiny Microphone , Veronica Falls , Vivian Girls , Woom
I still write for a few other places. One of these is the excellent NYC femme-focused magazine, Bust, for which I write a regular column, Everett True and his First Ladies Of Rock, a short consumer guide look at some of the fine, unheralded, female-led bands around. I’ve been on at my contact at Bust […]
Added on July 22, 2010
Everett True
Best Coast , Beyonce , Neverever , Soda Fountain Rag , Woom
I want to be upfront about this. I can’t get this song out my head, and I don’t want to either. It’s absolutely competing with ‘Crazy In Love’ and ‘Dumplins’ for my Song of the Year right now. Oh, and I guess with the albums by Woom and Neverever and Best Coast and…