The Collapse Board interview – Fire Witch
Fire Witch’s record, Liars, sat on my coffee table for a month before I bothered to listen to it. Its craft-paper and notebook margin-like doodlings didn’t scream LOUD or DRONING IRRESISTABLE METAL...
View ArticleCollapse Board manifesto: The Pervert
by Lewis G. Parker The reasons I care about music so much are essentially unknown to me. It would take a good deal of psychoanalysis — one of the few wholly indulgent and self-worshipping hobbies I’m...
View ArticleRyan Adams – Ashes & Fire (PAX-AM/Capitol)
By Wallace Wylie The fact that Ryan Adams is still getting press is a good example of everything wrong with our current critical climate with regards to music. Here is a man seemingly incapable of...
View ArticleNeil Young covers 'God Save The Queen'. Yes, that Neil Young. Yes, that 'God...
It”s not like there aren”t precursors for this. I used to regularly dream that the Ramones played Legend! covers down my local. Listen. It”s late at night. I know that Dylan once sang Christmas, much...
View ArticleBambino Koresh @ Annandale Hotel, Sydney, 15.06.12
By Tom Randall Show me a band that has me mainlining this much emotion, that claws at and teases my heartstrings as effortlessly as Bambino Koresh, and I’ll be in your corner forever. This review...
View ArticleJewel – this note’s for Walmart
I hear Jewel’s got a new song. Its chorus goes something like this: Ain’t singin’ for Pepsi Ain’t singin’ for Coke I don’t sing for nobody Makes me look like a joke This note’s for Walmart In a recent...
View ArticleSome random thoughts on ‘Still Crazy After All These Years’ and Paul Simon in...
By Wallace Wylie I have of late, but why I know not, become obsessed with the song ‘Still Crazy After All These Years’ by Paul Simon. Where did this obsession come from? I have no idea. I heard the...
View ArticleBeck – Morning Phase (Fonograf/Capitol)
Damn it, Beck. It’s not that I – or anyone else at Collapse Board, for that matter – hate successful white guys with guitars. We’re just hard-pressed to find one that doesn’t bore us to tears or drive...
View ArticleWithered Hand – New Gods (Fortuna POP!/Slumberland)
Phew. So lots and lots has happened between here and Xiu Xiu (th-thump, th-thump), and my private ledger of reviews to write has been swelling as subtly as my belly while I attended to other crucial...
View ArticleThe return of Everett True | 42. Neil Young
I’m not Neil Young. There are many reasons for this, not the least of which is that when I sing I don’t sound like a cranky Kermit the Frog. Also, I can’t fucking play electric guitar or manipulate...
View ArticleEverett True and his 40 favourite songs of 2014
This year stuttered in bits and firsts. Music is the healer. Here are the songs. The Aquadolls – Wander It’s knowing that passion can be full-tilt and consuming. It’s about Shadow Morton and Ellis...
View ArticleThe Only Apple Music Article You Need To Read
By Scott Creney So when you first join up there’s all these goddamned floating circles and you’re supposed to pick your favorite genre of music from a bunch of categories that are so broad & vague...
View ArticleScott Creney’s Album Roundup: July 2015
July’s always been a shitty month for music. All the good mainstream stuff comes out at the beginning of the summer and all the good indie stuff waits until the college kids come back in the fall. Or...
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