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The Joy Formidable – The Big Roar (Atlantic)
It’s a discipline and a belief, this kind of guitar music and those who have tramped along to The Joy Formidable’s live shows the past couple of years, hungry for this debut, know this. They’re...
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Kristin Hersh – Paradoxical Undressing
by Lucy Cage Six-year-old Kristin Hersh, in the way of small children told not to touch something because it’s not a toy, imbued the guitar belonging to her university professor dad (whom everyone...
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Top 6 of 2011 (The story so far)
By Brigette Adair Herron 1. Vivian Girls – Share The Joy This album was criminally overlooked. Although you could have a look at what this guy wrote about it. Here’s what I wrote about it earlier this...
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Tunabunny – Minima Moralia (HHBTM)
By Lucy Cage “Sometimes the wrong time is the perfect time… “ Wrongness is an underrated virtue. Tunabunny revel in wrongness with all the grubby enthusiasm of a puppy rolling in mud and, puppylike,...
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Throwing Muses @ De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill 01.11.11
Words: Chris Razor Photography: Greg Neate It’s easy to forget just how important certain artists have been in your life. In the mid-80s, when the monochrome indie orthodoxy of Smiths-derived bands...
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Book Review – The City is Ablaze! The Story of A Post Punk Popzine 1984 – 1994
By Scott Creney Ablaze! was a UK zine (neither strictly fan- nor strictly maga-) published by Karren Ablaze from 1984-1994, which really hit its stride in the late 80’s. Grouped chronologically, the...
View ArticleThe Quality of Music and The Conformity of Youth | Dwindling Album Sales...
By Wallace Wylie Hear ye, hear ye. Come gather round friends and listen to the news. Album sales are at an all-time low. The American music industry is dying. The vultures are circling, the jackals are...
View ArticleThe return of Everett True | 54. Leggy
Move along. There’s nothing not for you to like here. There’s nothing you won’t have heard before, either. There’s no need for that drawn face, though. Back in the 90s, the crucial divide was between...
View ArticleThrowing Muses – Purgatory / Paradise: Thoughts.
I listened to nothing but the new Throwing Muses LP for one week in my car. Maybe you’ve heard it already – but even if you have, I’ve no doubt that you’re clamoring for my thoughts on it. Hold up a...
View ArticleThe Definitive Best Albums and Songs of 2014, Because Lee Adcock Said So
We know – you’ve been watching the best-of lists crop up on your social media feeds with fists firmly clenched, teeth gnashing, curses rolling off your tongue. “Confound these posers!” you might cry....
View ArticleTen great cover versions
Wonderful photography: Nataworry Photography Dedicated to F.U.N.K. 1. Like A Hurricane 2. Wave Of Mutilation 3. Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey 4. Pennyroyal Tea 5. Trouble 6....
View ArticleThe return of Everett True | 101. Throwing Muses
I’ve had occasion to remark upon my slowness before. Music. Currency is all. Or if not all, then a considerable part. No, it ain’t as facile as it sounds. Currency is tied up with notions of Bourdieu’s...
View ArticleThe people have spoken | 10 great songs from 2014-5
When I say “people”, I mean Collapse Board readers. But that’s OK, you’re one of them. When I say “Collapse Board readers”, I mean a handful of Collapse Board readers. But that’s OK, you may well be...
View ArticleThe return of Everett True | 143. Skating Polly
Some music gets it. Some music doesn’t get it. This gets it. The above song by Skating Polly reminds me more of Throwing Muses than the usual comparison points thrown their way. Wait a moment, please....
View ArticleSOTD #722 – Mandy
This song of the day came to me via their PR company. I usually just find my own songs without trying, but this track found its way into my inbox, and without a press person pitching this I’d probably...
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Live! – Belly @ Ritz, Manchester, 17 July 2016
Reprinted with permission from Toby Goodwin of musicgigsnthings. It was over twenty-three years ago that I first saw Belly live. To be exact it was Saturday 13th February 1993. At Wulfrun Hall in...
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