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Death Rattle – The Stone Roses, Primal Scream, Oasis and the travesty of British Alternative Rock in the 90s

Large elements of the UK alternative press seemed to be waiting for the right guitar band to get behind, the right guitar band to believe in. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you The Stone Roses.

Added on March 24, 2011 Everett True Arthur Russell , ATV , Commercial Zone , Debbie Harry , Family Fodder , New Age Steppers , Post Punk Progressive Party , post-punk , Robert Wyatt , Swell Maps , The Door And The Window , The Raincoats , The Red Crayola , The Slits , This Heat , Twelve Cubic Feet

Song of the Day – 309: Family Fodder

You can hear elements of everyone that mattered … Swell Maps, New Age Steppers, This Heat, The Door And The Window, ATV, Twelve Cubic Feet, Robert Wyatt, The Raincoats, Arthur Russell, The Slits …

Added on January 31, 2011 Emily Brian Eno , Courtney Love , drugs , Gang Of Four , Joy Division , New Order , NME , Peter Saville , PiL , Pitchfork , post-punk , R. Kelly , The Slits , U2 , Vibe , Wire

5 Music Journalism Clichés Which Should Go Away Forever

1. “(INSERT FEMALE ROCK/POP MUSICIAN’S NAME HERE), THE BAD GIRL OF ROCK…” Description: Virtually every female musician who dyes her hair ‘punk’ colors and/or makes vaguely ‘rebellious’ (or quasi-feminist) pronouncements is saddled with this phrase in music reviews or featured interviews. This travesty of words has been going on since The Slits, and most notoriously […]

Added on January 18, 2011 Everett True 8 Eye Spy , Arrington de Dionyso , Can , Dexys Midnight Runners , Dirtbombs , Donna Summer , Fuck Buttons , Gareth Liddiard , Grace Jones , Isaac Hayes , Kraftwerk , My Disco , Oneida , Propaganda , Sonic Youth , The Deadnotes , The Fall , The Legend , The Slits , Tunabunny

the longest songs in my iTunes library – Sonic Youth, Kraftwerk, Dirtbombs, Can, Tunabunny, Gareth Liddiard et al

I’m only listening to music that’s allowing itself space to breathe today.

Added on January 5, 2011 Everett True 2010 , Agent Ribbons , Belle And Sebastian , Bust Magazine , Domino Records , Edwyn Collins , It Sound , Nico's Bike , Orange Juice , Pigeonhed , Scarce , Sheezer , Song Of The Day , Steve Fisk , The Distractions , The Slits , Tunabunny , Weezer

Top 12 Songs on Collapse Board, 2010

These are the most viewed entries in the Song Of The Day category on Collapse Board. Remember, statistics are only valid for the main page (not comments pages etc), and from the end of August when CB started.

Added on January 2, 2011 Everett True 1001 Albums You Should Die Before You Hear , 2010 , Agent Ribbons , AIR , Ari Up , Ari Up R.I.P. , Australian Independent Music Awards , Brisbane , Collapse Board , Facebook , femme-pop , Frankly Festival , kyü , Mountain Man , music critics , My Disco , NME , Powerhouse , Q , The Slits , Tunabunny , Washington

Song of the day – 242: Viv Albertine (free download)

The oddest thing about this cautionary tale of Christmas alienation and loneliness with its gently chiding guitars and taut rhythms and repetition, as told by former Slits guitarist Viv Albertine, is that it sounds way, way more like prime Raincoats than it does her former band. There’s the same worrying paranoia and utilisation of vaguely […]

Added on November 23, 2010 Everett True 49 Americans , Athens , Bikini KIll , Georgia , New Order , Pavement , Pylon , Skinned Teen , The B-52s , The Slits , Tunabunny , Yoko Ono

Song of the day – 231: Tunabunny

Bangs wept. This music makes me deliriously happy. It clatters, it splatters, it shatters, it matters. I’ve listened to the album front to back, back to front, sideways, length ways, every which wrong ways, adored the New Order steals, the slices of unrequited Bikini Kill/Skinned Teen screaming, the tributes to the female Captain Beefheart, the […]

Added on November 17, 2010 Everett True Bjork , Lykke Li , The Slits

Song of the day – 227: Lykke Li (free download)

This is primal. Damn. Is that all I can think of to say? Played it twice, thoroughly entranced. This is sexual. Third time, I was hooked. Damn. Is there a certain age, beyond which I’m not allowed to refer to sex within discussions of music? Or is it always OK/not OK? This is thunderous. Damn, […]