Father John Misty vs Ryan Adams | who is the biggest asshole?

Here is the ‘news’ story. 

Song of the day (the new and the old) – 18. Skytone and Felt

Sometimes, music catches you like that.

The magic begins, close to home | a review of Day 2 ‘At the Edge of the Sea’ (Cinerama, Popguns, Helen McCookerybook and so forth)

Thursday was not good.

Song of the day (the new and the new) – 17. Lorde and Lorde (and Lorde and Lorde and Lorde and Lorde)

Haven’t much to say here. Should have, but haven’t.

Ideas for future directions | a poll

London Grammar is shit. Not sure where this blog is going. 

Arcade Fire is shit

Win Butler, what have you done

London Grammar is shit

London Grammar is shit.

Chester Bennington R.I.P.

Sometimes, taste in music is irrelevant.

Is Lana Del Rey the American Morrissey? ask Pitchfork

Is Lana Del Rey the American Morrissey? ask Pitchfork. I don’t know the answer to that. But I do have some other questions for them.

The Chainsmokers is shit

The Chainsmokers is shit.

The Go-Betweens

Not The Go-Betweens, actually. Robert Forster. The Go-Betweens could so easily have been a band the (commercial) stature of a Smiths or R.E.M., you know. Fortunately, they are far superior to either.

A whole heap of shit | the Top 10 most read blog posts, here

That’s a whole heap of shit. The top entry has as many hits as the next three put together.

Shout out to my ex

New music. There is always more new music then anyone can compartmentalise.

Ball and chain

The day promises. Not much, but days always promise.

Away from the numbers

2017. Not good.

your top 20 favourite Jam songs

“My first love. My true love. He was only like 23 when he broke them up. Absolutely fucking incredible.”

R.I.P. Chris Cornell. I am so proud to have known you.

This is an anecdote I did not share in my Classic Rock piece I just wrote on Soundgarden. I felt it was a little too off-target, too personal.

the troubled diary of a David Bowie fan, day 485

Woke up this morning. David Bowie is dead.

Father John Misty vs Ed Sheeran. Who is the more shit?

The jury is IN.

1026 words on the epic new @fatherjohnmisty album.

You ready for this?

Everything that is wrong about music journalism, on one handy web page

I was browsing online for material to give my music journalism students at Solent in tomorrow’s lecture, when I changed across this (top result on Google for the term How To Become A Music Critic). It struck me as a good indication of what is so fucked about music journalism in 2017 – online, certainly. The original article is here.

Outtakes from The Electrical Storm – 1. Wire (Willesden Green, London, 1986)

…154 was always my favourite! 

Bon Iver IS shit. The original post translated into audio

Bon Iver IS shit. Jes’ sayin’.

The 50 Worst Britpop Albums

Any similarities to any other polls, living or dead, are purely coincidental.

Bono is shit. The original post, translated into visuals, using Google Image Search.

WARNING: May contain visuals that some find distressing or offensive. Particularly the ones of Donald Trump.