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 Everett True

Deconstructing The Myth | 10 Reasons Why “Secret Memo Regarding Nirvana’s ‘In Utero’ Reissue Leaked” Is Not For Real

To sum up. I think this memo is probably a spoof. A very cleverly worded and artful spoof for sure… but still a spoof.

 Wallace Wylie

Secret Memo Regarding Nirvana’s ‘In Utero’ Reissue Leaked

Secret Memo Regarding Nirvana’s ‘In Utero’ Reissue Leaked

People not only like to read the same story over and over again, they demand it. Our job is to retell the story, to reinforce the legends, to emphasise the inflexibility of the narrative.

 Scott Creney

The Audacity of Barry Manilow

The first line alone contains two historically volcanic eruptions of bragging. Not even Kanye has the ego to say he’s been alive forever, let alone that he wrote the very first goddamn song

 Wallace Wylie

The iPod and the Function of Music

Unless a particular artistic discipline has massive popular support then it ceases to become culturally relevant.

 Everett True

Sonic Youth as The Beatles

Lee Ranaldo is George Harrison (obviously)

 Scott Creney

REVIEWED IN WORDS Animal Collective – Centipede Hz (Domino)

The new Animal Collective album bores the shit out of me. It’s tedious and unimaginative. It is lazy in every conceivable sense — lyrically, melodically, sonically, creatively.

 Princess Stomper

Why artists shouldn’t stick to art

The thunking riffs are suitably portentous, but the amusing video would have tickled Beksinski’s reportedly excellent sense of humour.

 Everett True

Song of the day – 472: Ronnie Spector (+ interview)

[Oh my god! Ronnie Spector is singing to me!]

 Hannah Golightly

Collapse Board's answer to the Moonrise Kingdom soundtrack

Yes, I am going to bend that spoon with my mind, so pay attention…

 Wallace Wylie

Ignorant Fantasies | Race and Class Delusions From David Thomas

The fantasy world that David Thomas inhabits reeks of privilege and conceit. Perhaps I expected a bit more intelligence, a bit more individuality, a bit more adventurousness to his thinking. Then again, he is a white middle-class American male. We can’t expect too much.