Song of the day – 202: Edwyn Collins
There’s a new Edwyn Collins album out. You don’t know how happy it makes me, just typing those words. Edywn suffered a brain haemorrhage in February 2005 while he was working on his 10th album (I...
View ArticleSong of the day – 203: Orange Juice
Yesterday I posted the heart-warming news that former Orange Juice singer Edwyn Collins has a new album out. It seems only right to follow-up with this. So please, note this date: 8 November 2010....
View ArticleJonathan Richman
In response to a request from a friend on Twitter, I’ve collected together some of my more recent writings about Jonathan. And from tomorrow, you can listen to an incredible early demo of ‘The Morning...
View ArticleTop 12 Songs on Collapse Board, 2010
These are the most viewed entries in the Song Of The Day category on Collapse Board. Remember, statistics are only valid for the main page (not comments pages etc), and from the end of August when CB...
View ArticleCollective nouns for rock fans
Most of these write themselves. To paraphrase J.R. Nelson, everyone needs to release their inner James Lawton sometimes. A gaggle of Lady Gaga fans A deceit of Courtney Love fans A misery of Billy...
View ArticleDeath Rattle – The Stone Roses, Primal Scream, Oasis and the travesty of...
By Wallace Wylie I’d like to talk about The Stone Roses. In terms of the music this is no hatchet job because ultimately I regard their first album as something of a masterpiece. Maybe it was my age,...
View ArticleSong of the day – the Top 40
Haven’t done one of these for a while. This is the all-time Collapse Board Top 40 we’re talking about here. I’ll follow it up with a Bottom 10. P.S. There’s a link to a couple of mix-tapes at the...
View ArticleSong of the day – 336: Subway Sect
I’ve been asked by my friend Vincent Vanoli, the very talented French illustrator (formerly of Careless Talk Costs Lives and Plan B Magazine), to write a series of vignettes to accompany some drawings...
View ArticleThe Wild Swans – The Coldest Winter For A Hundred Years (Occultation)
By Wallace Wylie The Wild Swans’ peak years exist more as legend than fact. Tentatively emerging from the post-punk Liverpool scene, they released one single, ‘The Revolutionary Spirit’, on Zoo...
View ArticleEverett True’s 10 favourite albums of all time* … and one that changed his life
Words: Everett True Illustration: Eric Reynolds This article was originally written for a feature in Cyclic Defrost, but that was well over a year ago so I figure they long since lost interest in me....
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