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(Anti-)Song of the day – 277: New Waver (free download)
This is just about the worst music I’ve heard in years. So bad it’s bad. It thinks maybe it’s Negativland. It’s not. It thinks maybe it’s The Residents. It’s so not. It think maybe it’s...
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The Strokes – Under Cover Of Darkness (video and song)
I’m one of those people who really liked The Strokes. I got excited upon hearing their first EP, and even saw them live at 7th Street Entry before they blew up. (For those who don’t know 7th Street...
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White America Reacts to the Death of Clarence Clemons Pretty Much Exactly the...
by Scott Creney Clarence Clemons, best known as the saxophone player for Lady Gaga — er, Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band — died last week. Naturally, Timothy Egan, a Pulitzer-prize winning columnist...
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Australian Idolatory – the growth and growth of Hillsong
As an album of Christian music outsells Beyonce and Lady Gaga down under, now seems like a good time to audio-blog my experience earlier this year discovering Australia’s fastest-growing Pentecostal...
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The 1980s Was Way Shittier Than You Think It Was – A Retrospective
(Or Scraping the Bottom of the Top of the Barrel) By Scott Creney As Billy Joel sang in his 1984 top 20 hit ‘Keeping The Faith’, “The good old days weren’t always good/Tomorrow ain’t as bad as it...
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Kimbra – Vows (Warner Brothers)
By Scott Creney The singer of the most popular verse in the world’s most popular song written by Australia’s most popular man (Everett’s still running a distant 47th), Kimbra’s album is out now in the...
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A.R. Kane – The Complete Singles Collection (One Little Indian)
By Scott Creney Like My Bloody Valentine, A.R. Kane began their life inspired by/derivative of The Jesus and Mary Chain… … and immediately set about carving new, previously u-imagined, sonic...
View Article‘Blurred Lines’ and the Banality of Male Sexuality
By Wallace Wylie I’m going to be honest here, I initially tried to ignore the criticisms of ‘Blurred Lines’. After ‘Get Lucky’ I was hungry for another pop smash and ‘Blurred Lines’ seemed to fit 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 Definitive List | The 100 Greatest Songs of All Time, Part 6
It seems like folk out there are becoming disenchanted with the claiming of authority within the problematic field of music journalism. Some feel that authority is overrated as a virtue in criticism,...
View ArticleSong of the Day #683 – Ike
Sexuality is something I haven’t cracked yet. Kinda like hose, tall leather boots, and low-rise jeans – it’s a garment that never seemed to fit, both in a physical and metaphorical sense. Me, I wanted...
View ArticleObservations made around the new D’Angelo album
The fact Black Messiah reached Number One in Village Voice’s annual Pazz + Jop poll tells us nothing about the merits of the album itself, plenty about the 700 or so “music critics” who voted in the...
View ArticleYoung Guv – Ripe 4 Luv (Slumberland)
You know that kick-in-the-head moment? You know, when you hear this modern song, and it reminds you of something dear, but you can’t put your finger on it? And then you spend a morning with an old...
View ArticleSegregation Under a Groove: Pop Music’s Unspoken Colour Lines
Many years ago, a great schism occurred in the history of popular music. As amps got louder and concerts got bigger, new groups responded by creating a heavier kind of music that relied on sheer sonic...
View ArticleTame Impala – Currents (Interscope)
HEY SO check out Tame Impala, huh. Check out that cover. A shiny silver sphere in a white/black void. It even looks like one of those post-prog 80s albums from Genesis or Yes, the whole “we’re modern...
View ArticleConsidering Pitchfork’s 200 Best 80’s Songs
By Scott Creney Ask anyone who’s ever worked for a literary magazine, democracy is a shitty way to evaluate art. The polarizing stuff rarely makes it through. Instead you end up with a bunch of B-plus...
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