Wednesday 16th December 2009

THE YEAR IN REVIEWS

Earlier this year I started writing for Platform, for the most part about music, in one form or another. It’s still not a real job, but it’s a start, and stop judging me. Tory.

Below I’ve copied in links to various articles I hope may be of interest (I also wrote about a lot of things relating to girls too, but you can find those articles using your own initiative). There’s a host of free music to download, in keeping with the saintly spirit of the festive period.

Retrohohohospective! 

TRACK REVIEWS

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros – “Home”
Fair Ohs – “Almost Island”
Japandroids – “Young Hearts Spark Fire”
Small Black – “Despicable Dogs”
Summer Camp – “I Only Have Eyes For You”
Tap Tap – “Queen of Hearts”
Truman Peyote – “New Wife, New Life” 
The Twilight Sad – “I Became A Prostitute”

LIVE REVIEWS/INTERVIEWS

Bill Callahan @ Union Chapel + interview
Blur @ Hyde Park
Steve Gullick Interview
Transgressive Records Interview

MIXTAPES

Becoming Real – Get Hyperreal Mixtape
Fair Ohs – Women, Death, Beer Mixtape
Washed Out – Fantastic Symphony Mixtape

OTHER 

ATP Film Review
ATP Fans Retrospective
Classic Shit Albums
Crisis Or A Boring Change? – Pavement Reform
Essential Student Albums
Guided By Voices
Soundtrack Your Heartbreak
Soundtrack Your Suicide  
Ungrateful Dead – Exploding Hearts