Everett True
Everett True started life as The Legend!, publishing the fanzine of that name and contributing to NME. Subsequently he wrote for some years for Melody Maker, for whom he wrote seminal pieces about Nirvana and others. He is the co-founder with photographer Steve Gullick of Careless Talk Costs Lives.
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Beck, Sebadoh: Beck and Sebadoh: It's Saturday, It's Two O'Clock and It's... Slackerjack!
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, November 1994
It seemed like a good idea at the time. Get BECK, the blue-eyed, wigged-out Californian space baby whose slacker anthem 'Loser' topped the American charts, ...
Report and Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, March 1996
BOSTON. IT'S COLD. Covered in snow. Twee. In the rarefied, tourist part of the city centre, fairy lights twinkle on the gaudy exterior of Doc ...
Kurt Cobain, Nirvana: Ten Myths About Grunge, Nirvana and Kurt Cobain
Guide by Everett True, Guardian, The, August 2011
KURT COBAIN loved Abba, wasn't from Seattle and didn't invent grunge. Everett True, the man who pushed the singer's wheelchair on stage for his last ...
Coldplay: 'Brightness and Hope and Devotion'
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, July 2000
THAT'S COLDPLAY'S MOOD, POST-'YELLOW'S' GLORIOUS SUCCESS. WE MEET THE BAND WHO ARE FAST PROVING HOW NICE GUYS CAN FINISH FIRST ...
Edwyn Collins: I'm Not Following You
Review by Everett True, Uncut, September 1997
WHAT IS it they say? "The first million is the hardest." If that's the case, then Edwyn Collins – quiffed-up maverick, sometime lush, inspiration for ...
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, November 1990
YOU WANT TO know how I feel when I listen to Espero, the new three-track EP from Portsmouth's Cranes, right? You want to know whether ...
Evan Dando, Lemonheads, The: Lemonheads
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, July 1992
JULIANA SCREAMS. SHE SOUNDS PETULANT, ANNOYED FRUSTRATED: "I JUST WANT A BIT PART IN YOUR LIFE! I JUST WANT A BIT PART IN YOUR LIFE!" ...
Darling Buds, The: The Darling Buds: Petal Music Machine
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, May 1990
POP SAID "BECAUSE we're in Newport and because we're in love and because the sun is shining and everyone has disappeared, lost among the flowers, ...
Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, The: The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy: Axe of Faith
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, September 1992
THE DISPOSABLE HEROES OF HIPHOPRISY don't piss about like most groups who claim to be 'political'. The Disposables just get on down and do something ...
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, September 1995
Read this, it's great! ECHOBELLY, who are Number Three at the time of going to press with their new album, On, have a habit of ...
Elastica: From Hype To Eternity
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, October 1994
ELASTICA were voted Best New Band in our Readers' Poll almost before the band had released a note. Why? Because you could tell just by ...
Lauryn Hill: Soulless Diva: Lauryn Hill
Comment by Everett True, Stranger, The, April 1999
I'M NOT DENYING she has looks, and talent, and a silky-smooth voice which can seduce even the most cynical listener. ...
Hole: Courtney Love vs. Everett True
Interview by Everett True, Stranger, The, February 1999
THE FOLLOWING are excerpts from a conversation that took place in a hotel room in Seattle, last December after the Hole concert at KeyArena. No ...
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, June 1991
CALIFORNIAN band HOLE sit around my Hollywood hotel room in various degrees of drunkenness. ...
Hole: My Body The Hand Grenade (City Slang)
Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, October 1997
COURTNEY LOVE reigned supreme in 1995 – and didn't we know she knew it. Now, with the release off a new album, well, it's all ...
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, January 1999
It's million-selling records, a 24-hour media circus and a limo in every city for HOLE, but does Courtney Love want even more success? Oh yes... ...
Huggy Bear, Bikini Kill: The 10 Myths of Riot Grrrl
Comment by Everett True, Guardian, The, September 2009
YOU READ a lot of stuff about Riot Grrrl, most of which isn't true. Things such as ... ...
L7, Nirvana, Breeders, The, Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, The: Nirvana: Cobain't That Peculiar
Report and Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, April 1993
Last week, Nirvana, L7, The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy and The Breeders staged a massive benefit for Bosnia at San Francisco's Cow Palace. Everett True ...
Lemonheads, The: The Lemonheads
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, April 1991
THEY'RE NOT doing themselves any favours, putting out another cover version. ...
Lemonheads, The: The Lemonheads: Car Button Cloth
Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, July 1996
NO RADICAL new departures for Evan, then. No jungle. No trip hop. No techno. No baggy. No "slo-fi", even. Thank f*** for that. A band who ...
Lemonheads, The: The Lemonheads: The Longhorn, Stuttgart
Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, March 1991
NICE CHAPS. I realise that this in itself isn't much of a recommendation when it comes to making music which fires the belly and fills ...
Retrospective and Interview by Everett True, Stranger, The, August 2002
*Not-So-Frequently-Asked Questions About One of Seattle's Best and Most Enduring Rock Bands. A Primer ...
Mudhoney: Sub Pop, Sub Normal, Subversion!
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, March 1989
SUDDENLY SEATTLE IS THE CENTRE OF ALL THINGS GRUNGE. EVERETT TRUE TRAVELS TO THE HOME OF THE ANTI-HITS TO MEET MUDHONEY WHO RECENTLY TRADED SONGS ...
Nirvana: Come As You Aren’t: Nirvana at Isle Of Calf Festival, Oslo
Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, July 1992
THEY DON'T DESERVE THIS. Forget any reports you may have heard that rock is alive and kicking. The world’s only credible arena rock band is ...
Nirvana: Extract from Nirvana: The True Story (Omnibus Press)
Book Excerpt by Everett True, Nirvana: The True Story (Omnibus), 2006
No music writer in the world was closer to Nirvana than Melody Maker's Everett True, who saw them perform on over 70 occasions, interviewed them ...
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, October 1989
Everett True Thrashes It Out With The Latest Wizards From Seattle's Sub Pop Label Who Arrive In Britain Next Week ...
Nirvana: Cow Palace, San Francisco
Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, May 1993
LET'S GO BACK a few years. Rock – as an innovative and thus creative form – is dead. I'll temper that. Rock, as created by ...
Nirvana: Crucified by Success?
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, July 1992
In the second part of his exclusive NIRVANA interview, Everett True meets the band in Stockholm and finds Kurt Cobain, Chris Novoselic and Dave Grohl ...
Nirvana: 'In My Head, I'm So Ugly'
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, July 1992
In the frankest and most comprehensive interview he's given since Nevermind blasted Nirvana into the rock super league, Kurt Cobain talks to EVERETT TRUE in ...
Nirvana: Station To Devastation
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, November 1991
On their recent European tour, Seattle's masters of chaos, Nirvana, managed to set their tour bus alight, upset the Pogues and The Ramones, piss into ...
Nirvana, Breeders, The: Kurt Cobain and Kim Deal: Sleepless In Seattle
Report and Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, December 1993
For a concert spectacular to be broadcast worldwide on New Year's Eve, MTV went to Seattle, where they'd but together a bill featuring Cypress Hill ...
Nirvana, Foo Fighters: Foo Fighters: The Chosen Foo
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, November 1995
THE FOO FIGHTERS Melody Maker interview takes place in the lobby of some swank hotel in Madrid, Spain. Outside, gun-toting cops keep the hookers at ...
Nirvana, Tad: Tad and Nirvana: The Larder They Come
Report and Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, March 1990
This was a tour not for the faint-hearted. Everett True witnesses the chaos & carnage caused by Tad & Nirvana as they rampaged through the ...
Pavement: R U Ready 2 Unrock?!
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, February 1994
PAVEMENT have mutated from being the weirdest band on Planet Pop to the '94 version of Easy Listening Gods, Steely Dan. EVERETT TRUE meets mainman ...
PJ Harvey: Is This Desire? (Island)
Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, September 1998
IT NEVER rains, it pours. The release of Is This Desire?, PJ Harvey's fifth album, comes hot on the heels of releases by such former ...
Placebo, Foo Fighters: Placebo & Foo Fighters: Hallo Spaceboys
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, February 1997
THE SETTING: Placebo's dressing room, backstage at Madison Square Garden. David Bowie is halfway through his 50th Birthday Concert. Two of his special guests are ...
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, January 1995
From a tiny town outside Bristol came last year's best album, the piercing, lovelorn and sexy-as-f*** Dummy by PORTISHEAD. EVERETT TRUE meets the band to ...
Posies, The, Ken Stringfellow: The Dandy: Getting Romantic with Ken Stringfellow
Interview by Everett True, Stranger, The, 1999
CONFESSION: I never liked the Posies. Felt they were too much in thrall to the sweet, spiked pop of Big Star. Disliked their skinny ties ...
Primal Scream: Primal Rant: Bobby Gillespie Vents His Spleen
Interview by Everett True, Stranger, The, April 2000
PRIMAL SCREAM is back. The band that released the pivotal U.K. album of the '90s (Screamadelica) and outraged and amused generations of fans with their ...
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, July 1989
It's been two years since we last heard from Bobby Gillespie's indie darlings, but the Galswegian Motormouth is finally back with a new single, 'Ivy ...
Queens Of The Stone Age: We Pride Ourselves On Giving You A Night You'll Never Remember
Report and Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, November 2000
WE JOIN QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, ROCK'S ULTIMATE HEDONISTS, ON THE ROAD IN THE UK FOR TALES OF DRUGS, DRINK AND ONSTAGE PENIS SHRINKAGE ...
Ramones, The, Phil Spector: End of the ‘70s: the Ramones Get Spectorized
Book Excerpt by Everett True, Omnibus Books, Fall 2002
An extract from Hey Ho Let’s Go – The Story of The Ramones by Everett True, published by Omnibus Press in 2002. (344pp, currently available ...
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, January 1994
In 1990, ROYAL TRUX released Twin Infinitives, a double album once described as one of the 'most hallucinatory avant-rock sprawls ever'. Then they got even ...
Screaming Trees: Ashes To Ashes
Report and Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, July 1996
WE'RE LUCKY Screaming Trees, peers of Nirvana, are still here, given mainman Mark Lanegan's excess-all-areas past. We're especially lucky because the Trees have just recorded ...
Sonic Youth: Goodby 20th Century
Review by Everett True, Uncut, February 2000
IN THE trade, this is known as noodling. Noodling occurs when a bunch of undeniably talented musicians gather together and decide they've had enough of ...
Soundgarden: Camden Underworld, London
Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, March 1992
CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP, swallow swallow grimace. The sound of a music journalist eating his own words. Good job my writing's normally so tasteful. Yum. Gobble ...
Soundgarden: The Mutate Gallery
Profile and Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, June 1989
EVERETT TRUE MEETS THE MOST AGGRESSIVE METAL MARAUDERS TO ESCAPE FROM THE SUB POP LABEL, WHOSE NEW SINGLE, 'FLOWER', SOUNDS LIKE DAS DAMEN COVERING BIG ...
Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, May 1992
STEREOLAB, to me, were always one of those anonymous State Of The Art bands which so needlessly cluttered up the pages of the music press, ...
Stone Roses, The: The Stone Roses at Spike Island
Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, June 1990
When The Stone Roses announced their plans for a gig at Spike Island the concert was eagerly heralded as the event of the year. Everett ...
Tad, Screaming Trees, Nirvana: Screaming Trees, Nirvana, Tad: Pine Street Theatre, Portland, OR
Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, March 1990
IT SEEMS incredible people still miss the point of Tad. Most (heavy) rock bands play for the sheer hell of it, and, sure Tad do ...
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Days and Nights of Nostalgia: Everett True's Diary of Change, Grunge, and Shameful Self-Promotion
Memoir by Everett True, Stranger, The, March 2001
THE STRANGER'S cantankerous former music editor Everett True recently returned from London to revisit his salad days in Seattle. Herewith is the record of his ...
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