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 Lee Adcock

Primus – Primus & The Chocolate Factory With the Fungi Ensemble (ATO Records/ [PIAS] Australia)

Primus  – Primus & The Chocolate Factory With the Fungi Ensemble (ATO Records/ [PIAS] Australia)

A few weeks back, a plastic jar of gobstoppers arrived at the record store with all the usual promo parcels. Came with some rich, velvety-colored storybook banners which even the resident graphic designed doffed his (non-existent) hat to. Spot color inks, he said. Now, we’ve gone over this a hundred times – I’m still a […]

 Everett True

The return of Everett True | 58. Marianne Faithfull

The return of Everett True | 58. Marianne Faithfull

I’m going to preface this entry with a comment someone left on something I wrote about The Drones a while back. Yeah, I like the Drones but their songs depict the world as a cold, uncaring, violent place and people associate that with authenticity. One review says Gareth Liddiard, “tells it like it is.” But […]

 Everett True

The Definitive List | The 100 Greatest Songs of All Time, Part 7

The Definitive List | The 100 Greatest Songs of All Time, Part 7

What could be more exciting than ascribing numerical value to music? I mean, really?

 Everett True

The Definitive List | The 100 Greatest Songs of All Time, Part 6

The Definitive List | The 100 Greatest Songs of All Time, Part 6

Authority is All That Matters in music criticism, especially when it comes to creating Lists

 Everett True

Song of the day – 462: Willis Earl Beal

It’s soul music and it’s sorcery and it’s subtle

 Scott Creney

The Bastards Of Fate – Who’s A Fuzzy Buddy (This Will Be Our Summer)

Keep your ears tuned to the small towns. The future of music is living in South Dakota.

 Scott Creney

Willis Earl Beal – Acousmatic Sorcery (Hot Charity/XL)

There’s a righteousness at the heart of these songs, a riveting freedom that makes Contemporary Indie — cute, smug, obvious, self-obsessed, eager to please — seem hilariously and stupidly irrelevant.

 Everett True

Song of the day – 450: Bruce Springsteen (+ bonus album review)

It’s a thin between sounding authentic and sounding like you’re writing the music for a future Levi’s advert.

 alexg

The soundtrack to the inside of my head over the last year | Alex Gillies

Maybe, just maybe, I’m not the only one in this world with these fears and desires … and that’s what makes music so special.

 collapseboard

Music is far too important to be relegated to the background. Conan Neutron’s top albums of 2011

Music is far too important to be relegated to the background.