The Vine | COLLAPSE BOARD
Added on December 6, 2013 Everett True Arcade Fire , Bob Dylan , Britney Spears , Everett True , Music criticism , Song of the day , The Vine , Work , Work Bitch
Song of the day – 673: Britney Spears
Judging Britney the same way you’d judge Dylan or Elliott Smith is like taking a baseball bat to a cricket game.
Added on November 14, 2013 Everett True Everett True , Hard Out Here , Lily Allen , Lucy Cage , racism , Robin Thicke , sexism etc , The Guardian , The Quietus , The Vine
Some conversations held in public around the new Lily Allen video
Like, is there really no other way of challenging sexism and racism in music videos accept by doing the EXACT SAME THING but with a knowing wink? Really?
Added on June 22, 2013 Everett True Electrelane , Everett True , Mary Poppins , Song of the day , Songs , The Vine
Song of the day – 594: Songs
“I am earth and air and fire and water,” she said softly. “I come from the Dark where all things have their beginning”
Added on December 31, 2012 Everett True Blank Realm , Collapse Board , Everett True , Ian Rogers , Kitchen\'s Floor , Music criticism , Royal Headache , The Australian , The Vine , The Washington Post
How sad is this? The Washington Post gets the drop on almost every Australian publication with its summary of Australian music in 2012
How sad is this? The Washington Post gets the drop on almost every Australian publication with its summary of Australian music in 2012: It’s been an especially fruitful year for my favorite geographic micro-genre, with woozy, wobbly, strummy guitar rock emerging as a distinct sound Down Under. One reason for the largely unified aesthetic is […]
Added on January 29, 2012 collapseboard 2012 , Anna Calvi , Austra , Brisbane , Glasser , Jody Macgregor , Laneway , Laneway Festival , M83 , Pajama Club , Rave , Sunday Mail , The Feist , The Horrors , The Vine
Laneway Festival @ RNA Showground, Brisbane, 28.01.12
I hate music festivals because I love music, and I mean properly love music. Real love is unhealthy, obsessive, consuming. I am outside Music’s house in defiance of a restraining order. I am frightening off Music’s new boyfriend. I am holding Music’s pets to ransom until Music agrees to return my calls.
Added on May 13, 2011 Everett True 4ZzZ , Audiopollen , Big Sound , Brisbane , Brisbane Sounds , Epithets , I Heart Hiroshima , Nick Smethurst , No Anchor , QMusic , Sky Needle , Sounds Like Brisbane , The Vine , UnConvention
An open question to Brisbane
Do I have to suspend critical judgment if I’m dealing with anything local (or even national)?
Added on April 12, 2011 dearmegwhite Alex Grey , Andrew McMillen , Bettina Arndt , Big Boi , Brisbane , Dan Baum , Esquire , Icons , Maynard James Keenan , Meg White , Mess And Noise , Rich Schapiro , Robert Forster , The Go-Betweens , The Vine , Tool
Andrew McMillen on interviews (Ed’s note: mandatory reading for any media student)
Treat every interview as if it’s the most important thing in the world, just for that 15 minutes or half hour or hour, even if it’s not. Boring interviews are still boring on paper.
Added on April 5, 2011 ed Amanda Palmer , Andrew McMillen , Brisbane , Carol King , Cheap Trick , Coldplay , copyright , First Three No Flash rule , Foo Fighters , KISS , live photography , Muse , Music Photography , Not A Photo Opportunity , Peter Hook , Queens Of The Stone Age , Rammstein , Stevie Wonder , Stone Temple Pilots , The Cult , The Hold Steady , The New Pornographers , The Vine , The Zoo , Tony Mott , Tool
Throughout The Universe, In Perpetuity: Why I Don’t Sign Copyright-Grabbing Photo Contracts
Once there was no “three songs, no flash” rule, now it’s industry standard in all but the small, local shows. Once there were no releases. Once there were no copyright-grabbing contracts.