Added on December 8, 2011
Everett True
10 greatest albums , Beat Happening , Dexys Midnight Runners , Hole , Nirvana , Orange Juice , Ramones , The Fall , The Jam , The Raincoats , The Slits , Young Marble Giants
Who couldn’t relate to a stiff upper lyric like that?
Added on August 30, 2011
Everett True
8 Eye Spy , Beijing , Can , China , Electrelane , Everett True , Jim Morrison , Music criticism , Neu! , New Age Steppers , No Mas Bodas , No Wave , Ourself Beside Me , Rough Trade , Tenzenmen , The Fall , The Slits , The Velvet Underground , Vampire Weekend
This is a fine companion piece to 8 Eye Spy. I am beyond good and evil.
Added on August 24, 2011
Everett True
Butch Vig , Collapse Board , Cream , Dinosaur Jr , Everett True , Husker Du , Killdozer , Kurt Cobain , Metallica , Music criticism , Nevermind , Nevermind 20 Years On , Nirvana , original album review , Seattle , Sub Pop , The Jam , The Slits , Young Marble Giants
It’s taken me nearly two decades to admit to liking Nevermind in public again. In celebration, I’ve decided to reprint my original review.
Added on July 18, 2011
Everett True
Abba , Althea And Donna , Annette and Inga Humpe , Everett True , Humpe Humpe , Las Kellies , Pet Shop Boys , Song Of The Day , The Slits
I cannot get the haunting keyboard motif and melody out of my mind, and I do not in any way want to try.
Added on June 13, 2011
Everett True
!!! , Athens Georgia , Belinda Carlisle , Bitchy Bitch , Coldplay , DFA , Gang Of Four , Green Thrift Grocery , James Brown , Mission Of Burma , Numbers , Plan B Magazine , Pylon , R.E.M. , Sleater-Kinney , Supercluster , Talking Heads , The B-52s , the Side Effects , The Slits , Tunabunny , Vanessa Briscoe Hay
This sound is so glorious! It’s like if (early) B-52s and Pylon remained the best-known bands from Athens instead of … goddammit, what was that band’s name again? Coldplay?
Added on May 11, 2011
Everett True
Agent Ribbons , Dazed And Confused , Gang Of Four , Larceny & Lace , Nirvana , Pearl Jam , Riot Grrrl , The Coathangers , The Slits , Vice
Vice has them as, “The Black Lips with boobs”. Man, and they say the art of music criticism is dead.
Added on May 10, 2011
Everett True
Babes In Toyland , Furious Pig , grunge , Heavens To Betsy , London , Riot Grrrl , Rough Trade , Skinny Girl Diet , Tatty Devine , The Gossip , The Slits
Riot Grrrl, like I always understood it … i.e. female empowering, and not scared to experiment with new musical forms, and not rooted.
Added on April 26, 2011
Everett True
Bikini KIll , Chelmsford , Fixed Grin , Generation Indigo , Gold Blade , John Robb , Kathleen Hanna , Marianne Joan Elliott-Said , Poly Styrene , Poly Styrene R.I.P. , punk rock , The Day The World Turned Day-Glo , The Slits , X-Ray Spex
Poly Styrene was the fucking coolest singer ever. That was so much a given, it feels weird to offer any reasons even now.
Added on March 26, 2011
Everett True
Agent Ribbons , Armedalite Rifles , Belle And Sebastian , Coolies , Cornershop , Crass , Edwin Hawkins Singers , Edwyn Collins , Fever Fever , Frankie Rose And The Outs , Hotpants Romance , It Sound , Jonathan Richman , kyü , Las Kellies , Lispector , Lykke Li , Nico's Bike , Orange Juice , Pete And The Pirates , Pigeonhed , PJ Harvey , Pris , Scarce , Shannon And The Clams , She Makes War , Sheezer , Sky Needle , Song Of The Day , Talulah Gosh , The Cheapmunks , The Dandelions , The Distractions , The Konki Duet , The Lovely Eggs , The Loves , The Nuns , The Slits , Thee Spivs , Top 40 , Tunabunny
fluttering wing-movements and stuttering synth breaks and fluting woodwind and those stunning voices
