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 Everett True

TRUE STORY! 22th February 2011 (translated from the Italian)

“DO YOU REMEMBER THAT BAND THAT MADE YOU DREAM ALL SUMMER LONG, THE BAND WHOSE SONGS YOU KNOW BY HEART ALL THE LYRICS? WELL, IT’S CRAP! AND SO ARE YOU!”

 Everett True

Song of the day – 336: Subway Sect

“There is a prostitute in all of us…”

 Everett True

Thought for the day (Billy Childish)

“There’s no such thing as a good song. There’s only a good performance and sound.”

 Everett True

Song of the day – 297: Lispector

This is the greatest hidden music you’ll encounter all year. Five hundred songs, and I haven’t yet found one I don’t think is less than magical.

 Everett True

the first interview I ever did

Ultimately, the music is the most important thing. If we never did any gigs then it’d be terrible.

 Everett True

Arcade Fire, Vampire Weekend and the pernicious influence of Pitchfork

If there’s a better argument for demanding the immediate shutdown of Pitchfork than the rise and rise of Vampire Weekend and Arcade Fire, I’m not sure I want to hear it.

 Rhian

Women, Men, and Music: the XY factor (part one)

I’m sceptical of the patronising and reductive idea that men and women appreciate music in intrinsically different ways

 Everett True

Song of the day – 271: Ruth

Love the stilted male vocal and the warm sweeps of synthetic, synthesized melody and looped beats.

 Everett True

Everett True in the UK, part two – London

“I didn’t listen to pop music growing up,” he reveals. “If I listened to music, it would be something classical”

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Everett True in the UK, part one – Southampton

“Most music critics are reading other music critics to find out what they should like”