10 Oct

spmorrissey:

curiousphase:

«My mother, who’s an assistant librarian, introduced me to his writing when I was 8. She insisted I read him and I immediately became obsessed. Every single line affected me in some way. I liked the simplicity of the way he wrote. There was a piece called “The Nightingale And The Rose” that appealed to me immensely then. It was about a nightingale who sacrificed herself for these two star-crossed lovers. It ends when the nightingale presses her heart against this rose because in a strange, mystical way it means that if she dies, then the two lovers can be together. This sense of truly high drama zipped through everything he wrote. He had a life that was really tragic and it’s curious that he was so witty. Here we have a creature persistently creased in pain whose life was a total travesty. He married, rashly had two children and almost immediately embarked on a love affair with a man. He was sent to prison for this. It’s a total disadvantage to care about Oscar Wilde, certainly when you come from a working class background. It’s total self-destruction almost. My personal saving grace at school was that I was something of a model athlete. I’m sure if I hadn’t been, I’d have been sacrificed in the first year. I got streams and streams of medals for running. As I blundered through my late teens, I was quite isolated and Oscar Wilde meant much more to me. In a way he became a companion. If that sounds pitiful, that was the way it was. I rarely left the house. I had no social life. Then, as I became a Smith, I used flowers because Oscar Wilde always used flowers. He once went to the Colorado salt mines and addressed a mass of miners there. He started the speech with, “Let me tell you why we worship the daffodil”. Of course, he was stoned to death. But I really admired his bravery and the idea of being constantly attached to some form of plant. As I get older, the adoration increases. I’m never without him. It’s almost biblical.
It’s like carrying your rosary around with you.
»

Morrissey

05 Oct
The Sound of Arrows.

The Sound of Arrows.

04 Oct

Marina & the Diamonds - I Am Not A Robot

30 Jul
buyhercandy:

northerndownpour:

letitride:

Ryan Adams (backstage, Brimingham Nov 08), taken by Neal Casal
my face = :D

buyhercandy:

northerndownpour:

letitride:

Ryan Adams (backstage, Brimingham Nov 08), taken by Neal Casal

my face = :D

25 Jul

Julian Casablancas - Phrazes for the Young

So excited for this.

25 Jul
Last night I was on @maddow. This AM I’m going to be on @anamariecox. My life is turning into a lovely lesbian political fantasy.
23 Jul

buyhercandy:

thedarkspark:

heute-und:

p-perez:

“Coming back to those artists that are being played on commercial stations elsewhere: Kanye West, Lily Allen, Ladyhawke, Cut Copy, the Presets…all of those acts were started by Triple J. All of those acts got their first airplay on Triple J. All of those acts have had absolute consistent airplay on Triple J – every one of their songs have hit the mark, and we’ve played every single album they’ve put out, or tracks thereof. Now, with the Sneaky Sound System stuff, we didn’t support them in the beginning. We felt like that band was going to go somewhere else. That band was designed for commercial radio. There was no need for us to go there.

So anyone that criticises us for not playing them – just because they’re Australian, just because they’re independent: fuck you.

They’re not right for us. We made the call, and we were right. Move on thanks, they’re popular, they’re getting played by everyone else. Did we need to go there? I am glad we never added them. We never playlisted them, because we gave all that attention to bands like Faker – and we saw what happened to them, five years after we supported them…and all of these other bands that were eventually groomed into being something else, and became popular.”

- Richard Kingsmall on why they don’t play Sneaky Sound System

I really recommend people go and read the full interview, despit it being a few weeks old, it does provide for some very insightful as to the mechanisms over Australia’s Youth station and what determines it’s music content. The indepth article also respondsto the many criticism that have been abounds since their “Golden Era” (for me it was the Paul Mac / Mikey Robbins to Adam Spencer era). I think those criticisms have become a little tiring and the station has gotton on it’s feet a bit more since then.

When people also bag the station out, I also sometimes like to rewmind them about the plight of the many regional centres in Australia who get serviced by horrible station playing Golden Oldies or the latest “Non-Stop-Block-Of Whatevers-On The Charts”.

Recommended read as well, if you haven’t. Particularly liked this…

“You know, we’ll admit when we’re wrong and when we’ve made the wrong judgments on them, but if anyone keeps on yabbering on to me about how we should’ve played Sneaky Sound System – and I’ve had this argument with Angus [McDonald – Sneaky’s songwriter/producer], I’ve emailed him and I’ve just said, “Pull your head in”. It’s just like, fuck, you’ve sold millions of records, and you’re popular – why are you whinging about us not playing you? They’re getting played everywhere. So fine – everywhere else can have them. They never felt right for us, so we never added them.

I think we were vindicated – they didn’t turn into Radiohead, as far as I know…”

I really can’t stand it when people give Triple J shit.  Oh you are SO fucking cool.  Sure, your listening needs may not be entirely met by the station, but know your history.  Think about the station’s role in changing Australia’s appetite for indie music and think about how that has affected who bothers to tour Australia and then think about how both of those two consequences have the knock-on effect of opening up your ears/the ears of those in your peer group in a way that made you all seek out other more genre specific music that you now love. Then, take a moment to be grateful and THEN just STFU!

As a kid growing up BEFORE THE INTERNET (*gasp!*) in a small regional town of Australia where the record stores wouldn’t risk buying anything interesting enough for me to bother flicking through, Triple J radio and clips on late night Rage were almost entirely responsible for initially triggering my interests in good music and then seeking out more on my own via music publications like the NME.

Sure, I think it is fair to say that the Triple J of today is not entirely the same station of my youth, but I expect there is some considerable pressure to maintain a reasonable audience share so as to justify their continued funding and as a result I think the innovativeness of their playlists have been diluted somewhat over time by over-playing certain bands and tracks well after they have gained considerable airplay on commercial radio.

But all things considered, I don’t think we should lose sight of how fortunate Australians are to have a national youth radio station without commercial ties that is generally adventurous in its programming, both of the music and non-music variety (like Hack for example).  I mean really. Think about how cool it was to have Australians across the nation and abroad all simultaneously glued to their radio/laptop during the recent Hottest 100 of All Time and tumblring/tweeting their thoughts in real time.  It was fucking magical.

21 Jul
thosemelodies:


notarobotbutaghost:


jennylewis:

elvisdepressley:
Brandon Flowers/Jenny Lewis/Conor Oberst

 This photo has too many of my favorite people in it to not reblog…

thosemelodies:

notarobotbutaghost:

jennylewis:

elvisdepressley:

Brandon Flowers/Jenny Lewis/Conor Oberst

 This photo has too many of my favorite people in it to not reblog…

14 Jul

Q magazine, 1992

  • Q: Let's go back in time to 1983 and The Smiths.
  • Morrissey: Why stop there? Let's go back to 1749.
13 Jul
12 Jul
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Plays: 56

semisetadrift:

buyhercandy:

Chin up, Australians. It can still be number one in our hearts.

Joy Division - ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ (Peel Session 1979)

That it is. I love this version, it has this odd feeling of clarity to it. Like this ill-placed thread of optimism that runs through it.

05 Jul
(via abc)
Rays of light from inside Neverland Ranch, Michael Jackson’s former home near Los Olivos, California, shine among the stars in the early morning darkness as fans worldwide continue to mourn the loss of the pop icon, July 2, 2009.

(via abc)

Rays of light from inside Neverland Ranch, Michael Jackson’s former home near Los Olivos, California, shine among the stars in the early morning darkness as fans worldwide continue to mourn the loss of the pop icon, July 2, 2009.

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