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Song of the day – 470: Erkin Koray
Good morning, glad you could make it. (Looks around.) There aren’t so many of you here today, are there? What’s the matter? Put off by the thrill of the new, the petulant rub of the familiar? I’ll...
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This is obviously some kind of sick joke (The Swaras | Gumtree ad)
By Princess Stomper We are an establishing indie/rock female band who formed a few months ago, and now have offers from two major labels. Material is written and only now need to be recorded to...
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If Donna Summer was alive in the Facebook age…
If Donna Summer was alive in the Facebook age: I Feel Like Like To Like You Baby Like On & On I Like You Like Is The Healer Like’s Unkind Like Is In Control Unconditional Like Like Has A Mind Of...
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WHY I AM POSTING THAT DREADED FACEBOOK COPYRIGHT/PRIVACY MESSAGE
By Al Larsen A few weeks ago a number of people were posting a short declaration of copyright ownership on Facebook. You may have seen it. In case you haven’t, it goes something like this: In response...
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The art of creating popular music criticism in 2012 | 50 REALLY HOT PHOTOS OF...
From BuzzFeed (a website probably at least a quarter of my Facebook friends visit regularly, and several of which quote regularly in their Facebook feed). 30 Reasons Why Katy Perry Is The World’s Best...
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NPR’s ‘What Happened To Music Writing This Year?’| An Answer
What Happened to Music Writing This Year? poses Maura Johnston on NPR. Her editors forgot to include the words ‘mainstream’ and ‘American’ in the article’s title, but that’s the mainstream and...
View ArticleDO YOU WANT WORK EXPERIENCE WITH COLLAPSE BOARD?
Working at Collapse Board isn’t all writing about bands no one’s heard of, not getting sent albums and being refused places on guest lists. Sometimes we get abused as “boring, self satisfied hipster...
View ArticleSong of the day – 582: Camera Obscura
I love cooking, when it goes well. Quite a few years back now, I attended cooking school in Hove. The classes were aimed at single men which in practicality meant that every other attendee was a recent...
View ArticleThe 3 r’s | repetition, repetition, repetition
Remember the three ‘r’s. Repetition, repetition, repetition. From Facebook: There are two types of people. Those who like this and those who haven’t heard it. Paul Boggan, Chris Power, Ioan Humphreys...
View ArticleChristopher J. Ott | The other Guv’ner (pt 2)
Primarily, I am reprinting some of this because I agree with what a lot of what Chris has to say. And I think it’s important. This does not mean I condone everything he says or does. I’m surprised...
View ArticleThe return of Everett True | 48. FKA Twigs
You see, shit like this really puts me off artists. For New Year’s Eve 2013, Young Turks threw a special party in Tulum, Mexico. Here, FKA twigs performs Hide amidst Mayan ruins. I mean, how’s this any...
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