stuff you probably shouldn’t include in your press release
Let’s talk about cliché, baby. How many can you count in this short description?
A Conversation with Everett True, October 2013
Listening to whole albums has become irrelevant due to the immediacy of the internet
Music criticism boot camp, week 314 | Criticism by comparison
One person’s Starbucks is another’s precious recorded-over Daniel Johnston tape.
My review of Too Late To Die Young Now, as rejected by The Monthly
During most of the 90s, Melody Maker was a law unto itself.
Six more golden rules of music criticism (with explanations)
Reviewing music is never just about ‘the music’. If it was, then… uh… music criticism would be fucked.
Peace – In Love (Columbia)
I say fuck youth when it’s this old, fuck fans if they’re this fucking stupid, and fuck happiness if it means the smug assurance that the middling will triumph whilst the revolutionary and revelatory will be impoverished & obliterated
DO YOU WANT WORK EXPERIENCE WITH COLLAPSE BOARD?
Working at Collapse Board isn’t all writing about bands no one’s heard of, not getting sent albums and being refused places on guest lists. Sometimes we get abused as “boring, self satisfied hipster cunts” too
The Creator and the Critic
How to Distract Yourself from Making Art, or “Did You Read That Article?”
