Book Review – The City is Ablaze! The Story of A Post Punk Popzine 1984 – 1994
By Scott Creney Ablaze! was a UK zine (neither strictly fan- nor strictly maga-) published by Karren Ablaze from 1984-1994, which really hit its stride in the late 80’s. Grouped chronologically, the...
View Article30 Songs That Suggest Music In 2013 Isn’t As Bad As You Think It Is
By Scott Creney Now there’s a buzz(feed)worthy headline for you. These aren’t in any particular order. The list neither counts up nor counts down. Some of these are from albums I’ve hated; some are...
View ArticleAn Immodest Proposal
By Scott Creney Dear Sub Pop and Matador. I’m not asking for much. I think $25,000 is a more than reasonable amount of money. In return, I promise not to write about music for an entire year. The way I...
View ArticleIt’s Your Funeral, Motherfuckers
By Scott Creney Sigh… some people, right? Look, I tried to do this the easy way. Quick and simple. Like ordering a pizza. Or sex with Gerard Cosloy. I’m kidding, I’m kidding. But seriously, no wonder...
View Article100 Greatest Songs Of All Time If You Spent Your Childhood Moving Around the...
By Scott Creney 100. Cameo – Word Up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZjAantupsA 99. The Slits – Shoplifitng http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xb1NFkGWZk 98. Superchunk – Throwing Things (acoustic)...
View ArticlePaul McCartney’s Child Labor Problem
By Scott Creney So it’s Christmas time again, and in the endless parade of holiday songs, the same ones over and over until we can’t stand it, there’s one song that stands out more than any other for...
View ArticleA year and change | The Return of Scott Creney
By Scott Creney Just so you know, I had CB’s lawyers (lawyer, singular, who are we kidding?) give this a quick readthrough to make sure I wasn’t disclosing too much information, but I figured a very,...
View ArticleNick Marsh of Flesh For Lulu | Death & Remembrance
By Scott Creney I imagine the day the band finished working on this song they were convinced it was going to be huge. I can imagine them ordering some food, several cases of beer, maybe some champagne,...
View ArticleTen 90s Albums More Feminist Than Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill
By Scott Creney Look, I know the article’s probably meant to be bullshit and I’m a sucker for clicking on it in the first place (and for what it’s worth I held out a full day before curiosity got the...
View ArticleThe Only Apple Music Article You Need To Read
By Scott Creney So when you first join up there’s all these goddamned floating circles and you’re supposed to pick your favorite genre of music from a bunch of categories that are so broad & vague...
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