Song of the day – 102: Dexys Midnight Runners
The following is reprinted from my favourite US newspaper, The Stranger. I once punched a fellow music critic for telling me how much he liked Dexys. I’m not proud of myself. It was due to drink more...
View ArticleSong of the day – 118: Segun Bucknor & His Revolution
Been watching Sidney Poitier’s 1961 tour de force, A Raisin In The Sun. (The original was the first play written by a black woman to debut on Broadway.) Damn, but it’s fine. Pride and anger and...
View ArticleI want to dance like Jonathan Richman
I want to dance like Jonathan Richman I want to dance like Nikki McClure I want to dance like Calvin Johnson I want to dance like Karen O I want to dance like Serena from Bewitched I want to dance...
View ArticleSong of the day – 363: Supercluster (a love song to Athens GA, part one)
I dunno, man. There are crap ways to write emails to Collapse Board, and there are cool ways. And then there are ways so fucking super-cool, they leave me near breathless. Take this one from Athens,...
View ArticleJoe Cardamone (Icarus Line) – The Collapse Board Interview
by Bianca Valentino It’s been several years since the world has heard a peep from Los Angeles band Icarus Line, a band once known for their outrageous antics – smashing a glass case containing a...
View ArticleShabazz Palaces – Black Up (Sub Pop)
by Tom Randall In my last few years of high school ( that laboratory of the opinions and vices that will come to characterise one’s early adulthood) I became obsessed with funky, jazz-influenced...
View ArticleCan – Tago Mago (Spoon/Mute)
By Scott Creney This isn’t an album; it is a universe. It’s a sacred text obsessed with space, with silence and sound, with magic and power. It is music as a lifeforce — one as equally capable of...
View ArticleThe Fall – Re-Mit (Cherry Red)
By Scott Creney Hey, it’s a new Fall album. Mark E. Smith (the E is for edutainment) has learned the trick to avoid writer’s block — never stop moving. Keeping pushing through the rough spots and...
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