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Part of Everett True’s interview with Kurt Cobain, April 24th, 1993
This ‘interview’ took place in LA, 1993. We were back at the Cobain residence a couple of days after the San Francisco concert at the Cow Palace. (I was sleeping over.) The idea was that we were...
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A list of 20+ performances that have shocked
These are my notes from a lecture/workshop I just gave in Creative Performer 2 at QUT this afternoon. I forgot to give my students break in the three-hour class, so several of them were gasping for a...
View ArticleSong of the day – 645: Bill Callahan
For a while at Melody Maker, I felt untouchable. As Caitlin Moran recently correctly identified in an GQ interview, it was my habit to make up quotes from bands if I felt the interview wasn’t going...
View ArticleThe Definitive List | The 100 Greatest Songs of All Time, Part 5
Part five. And do I feel your enthusiasm flagging? Quite the contrary! It seems that you can barely contain yourselves as this list starts to inexorably move towards its climax, the Greatest Song of...
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‘No! Skating Polly, they kick ass and they’re heavy and they’re girls and I...
Who is the real Skating Polly? Hannah Golightly catches up with the band on their UK tour supporting Babes In Toyland to find out… 6pm 26 May 2015 I arrive at the venue and find the...
View ArticleTen 90s Albums More Feminist Than Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill
By Scott Creney Look, I know the article’s probably meant to be bullshit and I’m a sucker for clicking on it in the first place (and for what it’s worth I held out a full day before curiosity got the...
View ArticleSOTD #719 – Skating Polly
When I heard ‘Perfume For Now’, I took to Twitter with the words “Song of the year in February? Maybe.” Angered girlish squeals and powerful raging screamed words spat out in the direction of the...
View ArticleNOTS – Cosmetic (Goner): The Analytic Approach
“No novelty”, shouts Natalie Hoffman, lead singer and guitarist of Memphis punk band Nots, on their sophomore record Cosmetic. It’s one of the last tracks on the record, but it’s the one to reference...
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