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My review of Dallas, as rejected by The Guardian

My review of Dallas, as rejected by The Guardian

By Everett True I wrote this several months ago. The Guardian had started up in Australia, and I was suggesting several different series to them, one of which would focus on notable Australian albums. They liked the idea, but eventually decided not to run with it. Sadly, this review slipped through the cracks while the […]

 Everett True

Song of the day – 601: Heart Beach

Maybe that’s why I’m increasingly turning to Tasmania. I know what it’s like to be ignored.

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Song of the day – 599: Secret Valley

Song of the day – 599: Secret Valley

If everyone sings like they’re hungover, and if all the instruments sound very vaguely woozy and splatted with alcohol, it’s because they very probably are.

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Song of the day – 598: Dogtower

Song of the day – 598: Dogtower

Sleater-Kinney with a sense of humour but no loss of girl-girl power

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how to get featured on a music website, pt 4

Most everything is fractured. This is good.

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Song of the day – 367: Naked (free download + essay on music criticism)

Presumably, the idea is to make yourself so boring when writing about music that your reader is forced to go and listen to the music in question as relief therapy.

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how to get featured on a music website – part 3

Why not cut out the middle-people and get the professionals to do it straight? Not only are we cheaper, we’re also better at it.

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AXXONN tour blog

I’m happy to terrify others grandmothers but wasn’t so sure about terrifying my own.

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Song of the day – 206: Sonny & The Sunsets

I dunno. Whenever I see the words “vintage styled West Coast pop”, my heart sinks. It usually means some asshole or other getting all postmodern on the Beach Boys’ widescreen asses

 EdG

Five albums you probably have never heard of

1. The Walker Brothers – Nite Flights The Walker Brothers were a huge Sixties sensation, arguably bigger than The Beatles in the UK for a while in their heyday. As with many boy bands in the Sixties, fame didn’t last forever and they split ways in 1967. Probably due to poverty more than anything they […]