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6-7 MAHER SHALAL HASH BAZ
Your throat becomes dry, and tears well up when you least expect them
8-9 YEAH YEAH YEAHS
FUCK LONDON! LONDON SUCKS! NYC! NYC!
50-52 ALL TOMORROW’S PARTIES
Dead Moon rock more than Shellac and Cheap Trick put together. That is
a fact
54 VALERIE
‘When you barked, “Quit living in the past”, I wanted to
stick your Rickenbacker up your fucking ass’
55 THE BREEDERS
One part Keith Richards don’t-give-a-fuck attitude, one part surreal
angelic pixie
57 THE FALL
Smith groans and whines, toothless, dressed in two shirts with piss stains
around the crotch
FEATURES
12-15 THE BELLRAYS
‘Most bands don’t give a fuck. They can barely play anyway.
They can’t even play minor chords’
18-20 THE (INTERNATIONAL) NOISE CONSPIRACY
‘We don’t want the revolution to be a crucifixion of yourself’
22-23 KEVIN ROWLAND
‘I felt dwarfed by the whole experience, beaten. I was just punching
it out’
24-27 SONIC YOUTH
‘I wanted to wake up the audience, and alter whatever their idea
of electronica was’
46-47 RICHARD HELL
‘All the time I was doing drugs, anything I had of any value would
eventually get sold to buy drugs’
48-49 LEE HAZLEWOOD
‘I’m a soprano compared to my dad’
72-73 THE GOSSIP
This is raw, like Jerry Lee must’ve been when his hipflask was freshly
drained
74-76 THE BREEDERS
‘You can’t let those fucking dirty white boys go into the corners
of your room…’
78-79 TYSTION
‘The problem with Wales is that it’s too inward-looking’
80-83 EL-P
‘Absolute headfuck. That’s what I’m interested in’
84-88 YEAH YEAH YEAHS
‘One of those bitches from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs threw me down!’
‘Which one?’ ‘I don’t know. They were all wearing
masks’
CARELESS WHISPERS
30 WHY I LOVE… MIRAH
Pop is like that weird friend you had who claimed not to masturbate
31 WHY I HATE… THE JAM
As ever in these situations, I blame punk
33 GONZALES
I’m turning into a man. Oh Christ, no, not looks wise, dumb ass
36-37 ANDREW’S BIT
Wake at eight. I can’t get back to sleep because I’m so excited
that it’s St Patrick’s Day
39 SHOP ASSISTANTS
The Shangri-Las if they grew up in late 70s New York and hung out at CBGBs
40 ELECTRONICAT
I’m thinking sonic torture: bass so low the audience spontaneously
empty their bowels and spray vomit across the walls
41 PICKLED EGG LABEL
‘There were so many great artists who didn’t fit the post-rock
or alt-cunt mould’
43 RONDELLES
All I can think of is SEX and Catholic schoolgirls singing sultry but
remaining chaste
44-45 THE TRUE REPORT
Stay away from me, you Coldplay-loving, Oxford United-supporting, sensitive
student freaks, you!
90 BRITISH SEA POWER
Ack. What a horrid name. Have you ever heard Montgomery’s Motorboat?
Much better
93 KAWABATA MAKOTO
‘I love only beautiful good music, I hate boring bad music!’
58-71 ALBUMS
A Certain Ratio, Belle & Sebastian, Boom Bip & Doseone, Dillinger
Escape Plan, The Go-Betweens, Lauryn Hill, Melvins, Mission Of Burma,
Mooz, Patti Smith, The Streets, Tom Waits, Bill Wells … plus loads
more, in a handy A–Z format
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