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Added on November 26, 2015 ed 2015 , BBC3 , Charli XCX , documentary , feminism , Sucker , Taylor Swift , The F Word and Me
Watch: Charli XCX – The F Word and Me
Collapse Board favourite, Charli XCX has made a documentary for BBC3 about feminism. Even though it only really scrapes the surface and is more of a tour diary with some interviews included as opposed to solely being an in-depth assessment/analysis of being a woman in the music industry in 2015, you should watch it. Just […]
Added on October 18, 2015 Everett True Brighton , Everett True , feminism , Green Door , Helen And The Horns , Helen McCookerybook , punk rock , The Chefs
The importance of being Helen
I have two mice. One for good thoughts, one for evil. Forgive while I wallow for a little in one of those years I have no memory of: 1983, say. Somewhere, I lost track. Somewhere I lost sight of the… I’m thinking of what your fingers would look like holding this mouse, the stretch and […]
Added on February 21, 2015 Everett True DIY , Everett True , feminism , great music , indie , punk , soul , The favourite songs of Collapse Board readers and contributors
Yesterday and today: favourite songs of the Interweb (volume three)
School was out. Now it’s back in again. The idea behind much of Collapse Board is to find new ways of presenting you with music you may not have heard before. Click on the high grades! These are the folk who’ve gone the extra mile. Click on the low! All taste is equal yet different. Grades […]
Added on February 17, 2015 Everett True feminism , It's My Party , Lesley Gore , Lesley Gore R.I.P. , You Don't Own Me
Lesley Gore R.I.P.
Feminist icon and inspirational pop singer Lesley Gore has died in a New York hospital, aged 68, from lung cancer. I love Lesley Gore’s music. She’s always one of my go-to references when I want to refer to a certain type of 6os girl group/teenage heartbreak music – indeed, I mentioned her in yesterday’s Song of […]
Added on January 23, 2015 Everett True DIY , Everett True , feminism , great music , indie , punk , soul , The favourite songs of Collapse Board readers and contributors
Yesterday and today: favourite songs of the Interweb (volume two)
The idea behind this series is to find a new way of presenting you with music you may not have heard before. Click on the high grades! These are the music students who’ve gone the extra mile. Click on the low! All taste is equal yet different. And yes, there will be a test afterwards. Grades go […]
Added on January 21, 2015 Everett True bullshit , ethics in music criticism , Everett True , feminism , Music criticism , music journalism , punk rock , Scott Creney
Is it OK to write negative reviews of other people’s music?
So, we opened up the “secret” Collapse Board Contributors Facebook group to a few hundred readers the other day. Cue much confusion and hilarity and the odd piece of incredible music being shared. After the usual butt-clenching and soul-wringing and back-slapping, a few folk posited that they could indeed write some stuff for Collapse Board […]
Added on January 17, 2015 Everett True DIY , Everett True , feminism , great music , indie , punk , soul , The favourite songs of Collapse Board readers and contributors
Yesterday and today: favourite songs of the Interweb (volume one)
To celebrate the new enlarged, enlightened Collapse Board contributors Facebook group, I asked all members to nominate their favourite songs of the day – one old, one new. Here are the results. Grades go HD (High Distinction), D (Distinction), C (Credit), P (Pass), F (Fail) OLD: Sleater-Kinney – Dig Me Out NEW: Sleater-Kinney – No Cities to Love GRADE: […]
Added on October 28, 2014 ed 1989 , Album , analysis , female music writers , feminism , Review , Taylor Swift
No one sent us the new Taylor Swift album to review
So no one sent us the new Taylor Swift album to review. It’s a shame as we would have done our best to buck the trend and not have another review written by a male reviewer. Spot the difference: NME’s review of Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ by Matthew Horton Rolling Stone’s review of Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ by […]
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 July 22, 2014 Lee Adcock 2014 , 5 Seconds of Summer , album review , Fall Out Boy , feminism , Foo Fighters , Green Day , Lee Adcock , Maroon 5 , Nirvana , pop punk , Sky Ferreira , Twilight
5 Seconds of Summer – s/t (Capitol)
(And before you protest – “But Lee, how dare you bash pop music” – I direct you to this. Read it and weep, you smug little louts.) Any 20-something American probably recalls the irrepressible refrain from Fall Out Boy rebounding down their school halls – “down, down, in an earlier round, / sugar we’re going […]