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Everett True

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 was the co-founder with photographer Steve Gullick of Careless Talk Costs Lives, a deliberately short-lived publication designed to be the antidote to the established UK music magazines.

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The Triffids: Dominion, London

Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 10 September 1988

THE NEW VENERATION ...

The Wedding Present: Blackbird Leys Park, Oxford

Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 17 September 1988

THE SENSE of community, the sense of belonging, kids all clasped together under one benevolent corporate banner — no wonder festivals didn't dry up and ...

Fishbone: Truth and Soul (Epic)

Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 15 October 1988

FISHBONE'S PROBLEM is obvious. They're rooted in bitter redundancy and are trying to please too many of the people too much of the time. At ...

Bomb The Bass: Smiley's People

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 3 December 1988

THE PHENOMENAL SUCCESS OF BOMB THE BASS THIS YEAR HAS USHERED IN A PLETHORA OF DJ CUT RECORDS WHICH ARE NOW ASCENDING THE CHARTS. EVERETT ...

The Membranes, My Bloody Valentine, The Sperm Wails: My Bloody Valentine, The Membranes, The Sperm Wails: Boston Arms, London

Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 17 December 1988

"THERE IS no second encore." Sometimes, the humblest of phrases can take on unlooked-for importance. There is no second encore. What can I say? For ...

New Model Army: Happy Families

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 11 February 1989

On the eve of their British tour, and with 'Stupid Questions' their highest-ever chart entry, New Model Army take time out in Strasbourg to explain ...

Mudhoney: Sub Pop, Sub Normal, Subversion!

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 11 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 ...

Dinosaur Jr., Lunachicks: Dinosaur Jr, Lunachicks: Powerhaus, London

Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 6 May 1989

APATHY IN THE UK ...

Pussy Galore: Dial M For Motherf***er (Product Inc)

Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 13 May 1989

PARTY LINE ...

Screaming Trees: Buzz Factory (SST)

Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 20 May 1989

SCREAMING TREES' last album, Invisible Lantern, curdled my milk of human kindness two months ago with its lacklustre production and half-hearted nods to the Sixties. ...

The Stone Roses: ICA, London

Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 27 May 1989

STONED LOVE ...

Edwyn Collins: The Return of Fast Eddie

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 10 June 1989

AFTER FIVE YEARS IN THE ROCK'N'ROLL WILDERNESS, FORMER ORANGE JUICE MAIN MAN EDWYN COLLINS IS BACK WITH HIS FIRST SOLO ALBUM, THE HIGHLY-ACCLAIMED HOPE AND ...

Soundgarden: The Mutate Gallery

Profile and Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 10 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 ...

Baby Ford: Revolution Baby

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 17 June 1989

WITH TWO HITS UNDER HIS BELT AND A TECHNO-HOUSE VERSION OF T. REX'S 'CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION' RELEASED THIS WEEK, BABY FORD LOOKS SET TO ...

Primal Scream: The Ivy League

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 29 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 ...

The Family Cat: Purrfect Timing

Report and Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 12 August 1989

Of all the new bands attracting attention this summer, the Family Cat look among the fittest to survive. Everett True brushes up on a few ...

Nirvana: Bleached Wails

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 21 October 1989

Everett True Thrashes It Out With The Latest Wizards From Seattle's Sub Pop Label Who Arrive In Britain Next Week ...

The Sundays: School's Out

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 20 January 1990

OVER A YEAR AGO, the Maker discovered the Sundays and created the biggest media storm since we first put the Sugarcubes on the cover. Their ...

Nirvana, Screaming Trees, Tad: Screaming Trees, Nirvana, Tad: Pine Street Theatre, Portland, OR

Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 3 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 ...

Nirvana, Tad: Tad and Nirvana: The Larder They Come

Report and Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 17 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 ...

Kylie Minogue: Docklands Arena, London

Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 5 May 1990

KYLIE UNLIKELY ...

The Darling Buds: Petal Music Machine

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 26 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, ...

Mazzy Star: Ghost Riders in the Sky

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 9 June 1990

HAUNTING, SENSUAL AND DESOLATE, MAZZY STAR'S SHE HANGS BRIGHTLY IS ALREADY A STRONG CONTENDER FOR ALBUM OF THE YEAR. EVERETT TRUE TALKS TO ITS AUTHORS, DAVID ROBACK ...

The Stone Roses at Spike Island

Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 9 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 ...

Bleach (UK): Bleach: The Cube, London

Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 20 October 1990

SWEET AND SCOUR ...

Cranes: Indecent Obsessions

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 10 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 ...

L7: V is for Vixcore

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 1 December 1990

Are L7 really Californian white trash bitches from hell or is EVERETT TRUE just having another wet dream? It's best you read on... ...

Mazzy Star: Give 'Em Enough Hope

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 5 January 1991

Mazzy Star's debut album, She Hangs Brightly, was voted one of the Top Ten albums of 1990 by the Maker writers. This year they look ...

Silverfish: Fat Axl (Wiiija)

Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 12 January 1991

HOOK, LINE AND STINKER ...

Soho: Goddess

Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 16 February 1991

TOO OFTEN Goddess falls lamely into Belinda Carlisle territory, still reeling from the fallout of the disco trance/dance pulse of the early Eighties. Too often ...

Heavenly: The Satanic Verses

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 23 February 1991

WIDELY REVILED by the macho rock press in their previous incarnation as Talulah Gosh, Heavenly are trying to live down their former reputation for cuteness ...

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 ...

Throwing Muses: The Mayfair, Glasgow

Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 9 March 1991

THE GIRL flogging copies of Ablaze! fanzine by the door got it right first time as I stumbled out trying to cope with my feelings ...

The Lemonheads

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 13 April 1991

THEY'RE NOT doing themselves any favours, putting out another cover version. ...

Pet Shop Boys: Winter Gardens, Blackpool

Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 8 June 1991

TENNANT'S EXTRA ...

Hole

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 15 June 1991

CALIFORNIAN band HOLE sit around my Hollywood hotel room in various degrees of drunkenness. ...

GWAR Is Hell: GWAR: The Dome, London

Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 20 July 1991

THE IDEA BEING THAT the bloke in the spiked chainmail and extended cod-piece gets to chop off the heads off all his various enemies — ...

Nirvana: Nevermind (DGC)

Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 14 September 1991

HEAVEN UP HERE ...

The Cranberries: Eire To The Crown

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 26 October 1991

After months of anticipation, the Cranberries are finally releasing their debut single. Everett True travelled to Limerick to find out more about the much-heralded Irish ...

Nirvana: Station To Devastation

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 2 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 ...

Des'ree: Positive Vibrations

Interview by Sally Margaret Joy, Everett True, Melody Maker, 18 January 1992

She's the complete antithesis of the rock'n'roll bitch from hell. She is inspired and inspirational, optimistic in a climate of despair. She draws her strength ...

Daniel Johnston: Tell Laurie I Love Her: Daniel Johnston: Artistic Vice (Shimmydisc)

Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 8 February 1992

"EVERYTHING is so much better/Now that we are back together/I did what I had/To make you mine" ('I Feel So High') ...

Soundgarden: Camden Underworld, London

Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 21 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 ...

L7: Astoria, London

Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, May 1992

L'S BELLES ...

Adamski: Naughty (MCA)

Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 16 May 1992

HE'D HAD his day almost the moment he appeared, hadn't he? ...

Stereolab: Peng! (Too Pure)

Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 23 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, ...

Bikini Kill: Revolution Girl Style Now (Bikini Kill)

Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 30 May 1992

"Stop the j-word jealousy from killing girl love/Encourage in the face of insecurity." (Bikini Kill) ...

Tom Waits: Night On Earth (Island)

Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 30 May 1992

NOT A new album as such, but the soundtrack to the new Jim Jarmusch movie, which stars, among others, Winona Ryder, Giancarlo Esposito and Beatrice ...

Evan Dando, The Lemonheads: Lemonheads

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 11 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!" ...

Nirvana: 'In My Head, I'm So Ugly'

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 18 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: Come As You Aren’t: Nirvana at Isle Of Calf Festival, Oslo

Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 25 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: Crucified by Success?

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 25 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 ...

Urge Overkill: Life Is A Dry Martini

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 25 July 1992

Chicago's URGE OVERKILL are so cool, they don't even sweat. Some dunderheads think they they're a retro joke, but Dean Martin's a fan of their ...

Michael Jackson: The Man In The Mirror (hyuk, hyuk): Michael Jackson: Wembley Stadium, London

Live Review by Sally Margaret Joy, Everett True, Melody Maker, 8 August 1992

WE'VE SEEN JESUS, kids. And he ain't a pretty sight. ...

Mudhoney: In Seattle there is? Mudhoney

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 22 August 1992

NIRVANA may have niched the sales, Soundgarden may have filched the fans, Pearl Jam may have plundered the plaudits but if you really wanna get ...

The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy: Axe of Faith

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 26 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 ...

Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love: All You Need Is Love: Face to Face with Kurt and Courtney

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 19 December 1992

Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love are the most controversial rock couple since Sid and Nancy. Critics of their relationship have cast Courtney as a scheming, ...

Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love: Kurt and Courtney: Love and hate and the whole damned thing

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 2 January 1993

In the concluding part of our exclusive interview, Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love attempt to explain the truth behind their controversial relationship and how distorted ...

Ween: Pure Guava (Elektra)

Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 30 January 1993

NOTES FROM the underground... ...

Huggy Bear: The Revolution…

Comment by Everett True, Melody Maker, 27 February 1993

Ever since HUGGY BEAR released their debut EP, Rubbing The Impossible To Burst, the band have been educating, irritating and agitating with their confrontational "girl ...

The Breeders, The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, L7, Nirvana: Nirvana: Cobain't That Peculiar

Report and Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 24 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 ...

Nirvana: Cow Palace, San Francisco

Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 1 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 ...

Royal Trux: Royal Trux (Domino)

Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 8 May 1993

FOR TRUX SAKE ...

Band Of Susans: Uptown Bar, Minneapolis

Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 15 May 1993

THE FIRST three names which come to mind upon encountering Band Of Susans are (i) George Gershwin, (ii) Helmet and (iii) Blast First, circa '88. ...

Manic Street Preachers: Manic… depression!

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 29 May 1993

This is the MANIC STREET PREACHERS' first interview of 1993. That's the good news over with. Now for the bad: RICHEY believes that "ninety per ...

The Pastels: 10 reasons to love… The Pastels

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, July 1993

1. "PASTELISM IS a force of good. It's a network which brings together formerly isolated and scattered geographically people. It's about networking, empowering, making people ...

Boredoms: Metro, Chicago

Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 10 July 1993

NEXT TO ME stands Corey (Touch & Go), mouth agape. Next to him is Ian MacKaye (Fugazi), bobble hat bobbing deliriously. A few kids scatter-dance, ...

Smashing Pumpkins: The Metro, Chicago

Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 4 September 1993

GRUNGE LITE? ...

The Melvins: A Melvins Primer

Profile and Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 2 October 1993

Once, MELVINS were the loudest, heaviest and slowest band on the Pacific West Coast, loved by few, feared by many. For years, they devastated audiences ...

Madonna: Damsel In Distress?: Madonna: Wembley Stadium, London

Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 9 October 1993

"DO YOU think she's lonely?" The question comes halfway through a butt-bumping take on 'Deeper And Deeper'. ...

The Breeders, Nirvana: Kurt Cobain and Kim Deal: Sleepless In Seattle

Report and Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 25 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 ...

Royal Trux: Blood On The Trux

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 29 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 ...

Pavement: R U Ready 2 Unrock?!

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 12 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 ...

The Beastie Boys: Beastie Boys: Ill Communication (Capitol/20 tks/60 mins/FP)

Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 21 May 1994

When the BEASTIE BOYS first hit, they changed the face of pop, dragging hip hop into white culture. Needless to say, the results were controversial ...

Collapsed Lung, Cop Shoot Cop, The Jesus Lizard, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Henry Rollins, Senser, Stabbing Westward, Therapy?, The Wildhearts: Reading 94 Sunday. Main Stage

Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 3 September 1994

WOKE UP. No longer in hospital. Cool. Thought I'd check out this "rock festival" stuff. ...

Gravediggaz: Dead Dead Good

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 17 September 1994

GRAVEDIGGAZ are into black magic. They want to dig up your mental graves. They list ways to commit suicide on their debut LP, Niggamortis. Hmm, ...

The Auteurs, Gene, Sleeper: The Auteurs, Sleeper, Gene: Zap Club, Brighton

Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 24 September 1994

LUKE OF NATURE ...

Elastica: From Hype To Eternity

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 8 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 ...

Hole, Veruca Salt: Mississippi Nights, St Louis, MO

Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 19 November 1994

SWEET'N'SOUR ...

Beck, Sebadoh: Beck and Sebadoh: It's Saturday, It's Two O'Clock and It's... Slackerjack!

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 26 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, ...

Portishead: Give Good 'Head

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 21 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 ...

Supergrass: More Cock Than Doodle-Do

Interview by David Bennun, Everett True, Melody Maker, 11 February 1995

Oxford's SUPERGRASS put the POP! into apoplexy and inject hyper-charged glam into the Nineties Brit guitar thrill. Plus! Their second single — and first hit ...

The Bluetones, Supergrass: Supergrass, The Bluetones: Caught By The Buzz

Report and Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 10 March 1995

Have you heard the new Maker motto? They're On The Cover On Tuesday, They're In The Chart On Sunday! First Portishead, then Sleeper, and now ...

PJ Harvey, Tricky: PJ Harvey/Tricky: Barrowlands, Glasgow

Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 18 March 1995

IT'S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE to get a fix on these two artists. That this is one of THE tours of the year is indisputable. But the ...

Skunk Anansie: "We're Clitpop, not Britpop"

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 19 August 1995

Anger. Energy. Passion. Aggression. And that's just the journalist after spending a day with Skunk Anansie, the angriest, most Hi-NRG, in-yer-face, passionate and aggressive live-and-direct, ...

Money Mark: Organ Blinder — Keyboard Money Mark: Mark's Keyboard Repair (Mo'Wax MW034 20 tks/39 mins/FP)

Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 2 September 1995

You may not know it, but you've already chilled to Money Mark's Starsky'n'Hutch keyboard grooves on the last Beastie Boys record. Now he's kickin' it ...

The Flaming Lips: Clouds Taste Metallic (WEA 9362-45911-2 13 tks/48 mins/FP)

Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 16 September 1995

THE FLAMING LIPS are to rock what René Higuita is to goalkeeping. EVERETT TRUE salutes the band who arrive at obvious pop songs via the ...

The Bluetones: Feeling Supersonic, Here Comes 'Bluetonic'!

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 23 September 1995

THE BLUETONES have neatly dodged 'new Stone Roses' tags to become the first, and arguably the best, Britpop band from Hounslow. EVERETT TRUE reckons they're the ...

Echobelly: Let's Get It On

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 30 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 ...

Foo Fighters, Nirvana: 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 ...

Manic Street Preachers: Wembley Arena, London

Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 13 January 1996

THE MANICS HAVE made a career out of keeping the most impossible of promises and breaking the simplest of trusts. They said they'd split up ...

Pulp: NEC, Birmingham

Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 2 March 1996

The Good Sex Guy ...

Blur In America

Report and Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 9 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 ...

Bikini Kill: Stars and Gripes: Bikini Kill: Reject All American (Kill Rock Stars)

Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 6 April 1996

BIKINI KILL. Prime movers in 1992's Riot Grrrl scene. Agitators, manipulators, punk rockers, irritants. They're back! And EVERETT TRUE still loves 'em ...

Soundgarden: 'We're not dead yet'

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 25 May 1996

Kurt may be gone and grunge may have copped it, but SOUNDGARDEN live on, louder and fiercer than ever, ready to blow the likes of ...

Screaming Trees: Ashes To Ashes

Report and Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 13 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 ...

The Lemonheads: Car Button Cloth

Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 19 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 ...

Foo Fighters, Placebo: Placebo & Foo Fighters: Hallo Spaceboys

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 15 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 ...

Gabrielle: The Dome, Brighton

Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 3 May 1997

"DREAMS", she ruins. It's extended, distended, f***ed-over — sacrificed upon the all-consuming altar of crowd participation. ...

Placebo: Barrowlands, Glasgow

Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 17 May 1997

GLASGOW KISS ...

The Seahorses: Put An Annelid On It: The Seahorses: Do It Yourself (Geffen)

Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 24 May 1997

Question A: What the hell does John Squire think he's doing? Question B: Why is he doing it with THE SEAHORSES? Oh dear… ...

En Vogue: Style Be There: En Vogue: EV3 (east west)

Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 21 June 1997

Forget the bargain basement girl power of The Spice Girls — EN VOGUE are sexier, sassier and downright funky… ...

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 ...

Hole: My Body The Hand Grenade (City Slang)

Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 11 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 ...

Elliott Smith: Roman Candle; Elliott Smith (Domino)

Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 8 August 1998

PORTLAND, OREGON singer/songwriter Elliott Smith is the man responsible for this year's most vital album release, the mesmerising Either/Or. Imagine a more focused Sebadoh or ...

Courtney Love, Hole: Hole: Kith and Skin

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 12 September 1998

She's still angry, still got the "fire in her belly", still craving world domination for HOLE. We load up the tequila and discover that a ...

Canibus, Cypress Hill, Gang Starr, Wyclef Jean, Public Enemy: Public Enemy, Cypress Hill et al: Smokin' Grooves Tour, Key Arena, Seattle

Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 12 September 1998

TOKE THAT AND PARTY! ...

PJ Harvey: Is This Desire? (Island)

Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 26 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 ...

Ken Stringfellow, The Posies: The Dandy: Getting Romantic with Ken Stringfellow

Interview by Everett True, The Stranger, 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 ...

Hole: Sleepless in Seattle

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 30 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... ...

Hole: Courtney Love vs. Everett True

Interview by Everett True, The Stranger, 25 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 ...

Lauryn Hill: Soulless Diva: Lauryn Hill

Comment by Everett True, The Stranger, 1 April 1999

I'M NOT DENYING she has looks, and talent, and a silky-smooth voice which can seduce even the most cynical listener. ...

Sleater-Kinney: The Garage, London

Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 8 May 1999

"BUT SHE sounds just like Cher," my companion beseeches me, as Sleater-Kinney run through the fine, staccato 'The End Of You' — Corin Tucker's voice ...

Placebo: "We're falling apart at the seams"

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 17 November 1999

BRIAN MOLKO tells us about Internet porn, his festival experiences and the third PLACEBO album in the Melody Maker Interview ...

Sonic Youth: Goodbye 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 ...

Primal Scream: Primal Rant: Bobby Gillespie Vents His Spleen

Interview by Everett True, The Stranger, 27 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 ...

Coldplay: 'Brightness and Hope and Devotion'

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 19 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 ...

Muse: Around the World in 50 Dates

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 23 August 2000

...BUT IT'S NOT ALL FUN ON THE ROAD WITH MUSE. HERE THEY TELL US ABOUT THEIR WORLDWIDE FESTIVAL HIGHS AND LOWS ...

Marilyn Manson: "I suffered for Columbine, but everyone's responsible"

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 20 November 2000

No stranger to guns, Marilyn Manson tells us about Columbine, Courtney and Holy Wood in the Melody Maker interview ...

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, 29 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. ...

Dexys Midnight Runners: An in-depth interview with Kevin Rowland and Kevin Archer

Interview by Everett True, Tangents, 2001

ET: What have you been doing? ...

Tom Lehrer

Retrospective by Everett True, Tangents, 2001

TOM LEHRER WAS the man who first taught me that Americans could be both smart and satirical. He was also indirectly responsible for one of ...

Days and Nights of Nostalgia: Everett True's Diary of Change, Grunge, and Shameful Self-Promotion

Memoir by Everett True, The Stranger, 15 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 ...

Mudhoney NSFAQ*

Retrospective and Interview by Everett True, The Stranger, 15 August 2002

*Not-So-Frequently-Asked Questions About One of Seattle's Best and Most Enduring Rock Bands. A Primer ...

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Yeah Yeah Yeahs FAQ

Interview by Everett True, BB Gun, Summer 2002

AUTHOR'S NOTE: It's the small hours of the morning. I can't sleep. Got a Sex Drugs Rock N Roll lecture to give in under seven ...

Phil Spector, The Ramones: 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 ...

PJ Harvey: Uh Huh Her

Review by Everett True, Plan B, June 2004

POLLY HARVEY. This is her seventh album. It's better than her sixth, 2001 's set of NYC travel diaries, Stories From The City, Stories From ...

The Von Bondies: Sex the Von Bondies Way

Interview by Everett True, Plan B, June 2004

The anatomy of a Detroit love affair; or, why we no longer want to fuck The Von Bondies ...

Sonic Youth: Sonic Nurse

Review by Everett True, Plan B, June 2004

IT'S SONIC YOUTH. It comforts. It cajoles. It caresses. It's classic rock. ...

Joanna Newsom: Komedia, Brighton

Live Review by Everett True, Plan B, September 2004

THE GIRLS ARE chattering, talking in hushed whispers: "God, but she's so beautiful." Yeah, but it's a strange idyll of beauty, so Southern USA, so ...

Marianne Faithfull, Tom Waits: Marianne Faithfull: Before The Poison; Tom Waits: Real Gone

Review by Everett True, Plan B, September 2004

WHAT KEEPS FOLK like Waits and Faithfull from phoning it in? Why do they feel a need to reinvent themselves, seek out new styles like ...

Marine Girls: An Interview

Retrospective and Interview by Everett True, Plan B, September 2004

20 years ago, Marine Girls made two albums of beautifully minimal girly pop based round a shared love for flapjacks, Young Marble Giants and the ...

Lydia Lunch: The Bottom Line: Everett True meets Lydia Lunch

Interview by Everett True, Plan B, February 2005

"I ALWAYS BRING my prophylactic along on touragainst other people's germs — the mic cover. If you smell mics, you know why. They're raunchy. When ...

M. Ward: M Ward: Have Love Will Travel

Interview by Everett True, Plan B, April 2005

A visit to soulful songwriter M Ward's Portland home: Schumann, Sonic Youth and "musical silence". ...

Nirvana: The Betrayal Of Olympia

Retrospective and Interview by Everett True, Plan B, May 2005

How the home of K Records, Sub Pop, Riot Grrrl and the punk rock librarians gave rise to Nirvana, and became subsumed into the myth ...

Orange Juice: The Glasgow School

Review by Everett True, Plan B, June 2005

"They say there's a thousand like you/Maybe that's true/I fell for you and nobody else" — 'Falling and Laughing' ...

Sleater-Kinney: The Power Of Three

Interview by Everett True, Plan B, June 2005

Seven albums in, trailblazing Olympia trio Sleater-Kinney still feel like punk rock ruffians. ...

Sonic Youth: Radical Adults

Retrospective and Interview by Everett True, Plan B, August 2005

SO THURSTON MOORE'S leaning over the front of the stage, lanky, his instrument howling with distortion; one moment he's sawing at the edge of an ...

Supergrass: Road To Rouen

Review by Everett True, Plan B, August 2005

NICE TITLE. (It references the fourth Ramones album, where Tommy added both acoustic guitar and solos, a pin-perfect mixture of the NYC band's minimal and ...

Patti Smith: Dome, Brighton

Live Review by Everett True, Plan B, October 2005

HOW COOL IS this intoxication? She struts onstage dressed like a goddamn old-fashioned rock'n'roll star in her man's jacket and dirty boots. She pirouettes a ...

Franz Ferdinand: T.V.O.D.: In the green room with Franz Ferdinand

Interview by Everett True, Plan B, October 2005

FOR SHEER ENNUI and inertia, waiting in a Channel 4 green room for a band to finish 40-mmute take for a TV show so you ...

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 ...

Young Marble Giants: The Big And The Small

Interview by Everett True, Plan B, February 2006

A rare audience with early Rough Trade enigmas, Young Marble Giants ...

Kate Nash: Hugs and Kisses 24: The Kate Nash Interview!

Interview by Everett True, The Village Voice, 18 December 2007

LISTEN. I CONDUCTED THIS INTERVIEW — what — almost two months ago, same night as a Kate Nash show in Brighton. ...

Howe Gelb, Giant Sand: Howe Gelb: Enter Sandman

Interview by Everett True, The Guardian, 5 November 2008

"GIANT SAND is a mood," remarks singer Howe Gelb on the back of my promo copy of the new Giant Sand album, proVISIONS — what ...

Bikini Kill, Huggy Bear: The 10 Myths of Riot Grrrl

Comment by Everett True, The Guardian, 14 September 2009

YOU READ a lot of stuff about Riot Grrrl, most of which isn't true. Things such as ...  ...

The Slits: Trapped Animal

Review by Everett True, bbc.co.uk, October 2009

This is as good as can be expected – and fortunately, that is pretty good. ...

Hole: Nobody's Daughter

Review by Everett True, BUST, 26 April 2010

HEY. GLAD YOU could make it. Thought we might want to establish a few rules before I get down to the actual reviewing. ...

Dylan LeBlanc: Paupers Field

Review by Everett True, bbc.co.uk, 23 August 2010

Louisiana singer taps into Gram Parsons and Neil Young on a smooth debut LP. ...

Kurt Cobain, Nirvana: Ten Myths About Grunge, Nirvana and Kurt Cobain

Guide by Everett True, The Guardian, 24 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 ...

The Magnolia Electric Co., Songs: Ohia: Jason Molina, 1973-2013

Obituary by Everett True, The Guardian, 19 March 2013

US singer-songwriter who combined rock with alt-country as Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co. ...

Deerhunter: The Zoo, Brisbane

Live Review by Everett True, The Guardian, 10 December 2013

YOU KNOW THAT THX AD, designed to showcase the depth and complexity of sound at the start of DVDs — the volume distorting and taking ...

Pond (Australia): Pond: Man It Feels Like Space Again

Review by Everett True, The Guardian, 22 January 2015

A FEW MONTHS AGO, I praised the ongoing psych-pop revival currently happening in Australia — bands in all the major metropolises (and numerous small towns) ...

The Go-Betweens: Robert Forster: I wouldn't be able to make sense of Madonna or Drake

Interview by Everett True, The Guardian, 22 January 2015

As a new Go-Betweens box set is released, Brisbane's great purveyor of awkward pop talks about turning critic and which of his songs Ed Sheeran ...

Daniel Johns: Aerial Love

Review by Everett True, The Guardian, 12 March 2015

UPON THE JANUARY RELEASE of song 'Aerial Love', Daniel Johns's first new music in eight years, I read the reviews and couldn't quite believe them. ...

Charli XCX, TKay Maidza: Charli XCX/Tkay Maidza: The Met, Brisbane

Live Review by Everett True, The Guardian, 8 May 2015

"I'VE BEEN IN Brisbane three days," Charli XCX laughs, "and I've eaten five hotdogs, so thanks for that!" ...

Daniel Johns: "Making a big heavy rock record would have been pathetic"

Interview by Everett True, The Guardian, 25 May 2015

The former Silverchair frontman meets his former detractor to talk new album Talk, R&B rebellion and being the Daniel Radcliffe of Australian rock. ...

John Lennon's Rock'N'Roll

Book Excerpt by Everett True, '101 Albums You Should Die Before You Hear', 2016

TO THIS DAY, I am not sure why I was so attracted to Lennon as a surly teen. He was egotistical, sexist verging on misogynist, ...

David Bowie and the 7 stages of grief

Comment by Everett True, Music That I Like, 12 January 2016

THIS IS HOW it unfolded for me. ...

The Melvins: An appreciation of the Melvins

Comment by Everett True, Music That I Like, 10 February 2016

NOTE: This was originally written for a Russian publication as a review of the Melvins' 2014 album Hold It In. I was trying to write ...

Ed Sheeran is shit

Comment by Everett True, Music That I Like, March 2017

ED SHEERAN is shit. Do not believe the crowd. ...

Chris Cornell: R.I.P. Chris Cornell. I am so proud to have known you

Comment by Everett True, Music That I Like, 25 May 2017

THIS IS AN anecdote I did not share in the Classic Rock piece I just wrote on Soundgarden. I felt it was a little too off-target, ...

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