Beat Happening | COLLAPSE BOARD
Added on February 1, 2015 Everett True Beat Happening , Citizen Dick , Everett True , grunge , Huggy Bear , Melvins , Mudhoney , Nirvana , Pavement , Silverfish , STP , Tad , The Jesus Lizard
The people have spoken | The greatest band of the grunge era
Grunge began in 1990 when my previous girlfriend broke my heart by leaving me for some bloke she met on a railway station in Germany. Grunge finished in 1996 when I met the woman who would become my future wife. (In between I went out with a woman who – by being my grunge girlfriend – […]
Added on November 4, 2014 Lee Adcock Beat Happening , Crayon , Dead Milkmen , Fly Ashtray , HHBTM , House of Love , Josef K , Lee Adcock , Pastels , Pixies , Ride , The Cramps , The Pale Saints , Tullycraft
Crayon – Brick Factory (HHBTM)
I regret not knowing about so much music when I was growing up. For instance – where was Kraftwerk when I was younger, when I could wander down the Autobahn and invent some elaborate fantasy plot on the spot? Why did I never tap into the teenage rebellion of Nirvana (In Utero, to be exact) […]
Added on August 5, 2014 Lee Adcock 2014 , Athens , Beat Happening , feminism , Lee Adcock , live review , Pylon
Girls Rock Athens! – Live Review Of a Free Youth Concert
When you fall in love with Tunabunny, you fall in love with this notion of freedom – dontcha? And when you watch the videos, and you read that this whimsical place of light and paint is Athens, Georgia, you connect the two, and believe that some happy magic in the soil must nurture this pink […]
Added on January 7, 2014 Everett True Beat Happening , David Nichols , Everett True , NME , Rabbits Wedding , Rough Trade , The Cannanes , The Legend
The FULL story of the 10 records David Nichols took round to The Legend!’s house in mid-1986
By David Nichols The full story needs a caveat. Over the last ten years I have found my celebrity accelerated in some quarters (from a 0 to a 1) by a story in which I apparently am a major hero. I visited Calvin Johnson in Olympia in April 1986. He gave me some copies of […]
Added on October 20, 2013 Everett True Alternative TV , Beat Happening , Bonnie Tyler , Elton Motello , Everett True , Heart , M.O.T.O. , pop music , sex , Sham 69 , survivor , The 100 Greatest Songs of All Time , The Only Ones , Toto , user-generated content
The Definitive List | The 100 Greatest Songs of All Time, Part 1
This isn’t just user-generated content. This is LOSER-generated content. Realer than the real deal cos it’s got folk from America voting in it as well.
Added on July 25, 2012 Everett True Beat Happening , Calvin Johnson , Damon & Naomi , Everett True , Galaxie 500 , Nirvana , Shop Assistants , The Go Team , The Legend
The Legend! live (with Shop Assistants, Galaxie 500, Nirvana, Calvin Johnson)
Thought I’d upload a couple of songs onto YouTube.
Added on March 19, 2012 Everett True Beat Happening , Bi-Joopiter , Calvin Johnson , Everett True , Happy Mondays , Marine Girls , Paul Rixon , Swell Maps , The Cannanes , The McTells
The 4-track DIY aesthetic of The McTells
I used to love their scratchy, fragile, poignant, personal music. They always seemed like scurrying little creatures bringing light to the deepest shadows.
Added on February 10, 2012 Tobi Vail Beat Happening , Calvin Johnson , Dirtbombs , Electric Eels , Fire Engines , Gene Thomas , Hello from Olympia , Hooded Hags , Lovechild , Mecca Normal , Morgan and the Organ Donors , Olympia , Some Velvet Sidewalk , The Belles , The Cramps , The Frumpies , The Maxines , The Monks , The White Stripes , Tobi Vail , Willie Nelson
Hello from Olympia, WA – 2: Morgan And The Organ Donors, Hooded Hags + The Maxines, live at the Midnight Sun
I like a band that takes the time to dress up, it makes them seem cohesive and prepared.