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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Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 16 May 1992
HE'D HAD his day almost the moment he appeared, hadn't he? ...
The Auteurs, Gene, Sleeper: The Auteurs, Sleeper, Gene: Zap Club, Brighton
Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 24 September 1994
LUKE OF NATURE ...
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. ...
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 ...
Overview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 18 March 1989
RIGHT NOW, MUDHONEY ARE THE STANDARD BEARERS FOR SEATTLE'S NEW GENERATION OF THRASH METAL MERCHANTS, BUT THERE IS A LEGION OF OTHER BANDS READY AND ...
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, ...
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) ...
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 ...
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 ... ...
Bleach (UK): Bleach: The Cube, London
Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 20 October 1990
SWEET AND SCOUR ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 12 September 1998
TOKE THAT AND PARTY! ...
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!" ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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!" ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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? ...
Dinosaur Jr., Lunachicks: Dinosaur Jr, Lunachicks: Powerhaus, London
Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 6 May 1989
APATHY IN THE UK ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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… ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 — ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 15 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, 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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
Hole, Veruca Salt: Mississippi Nights, St Louis, MO
Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 19 November 1994
SWEET'N'SOUR ...
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 ...
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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') ...
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... ...
Review by Everett True, bbc.co.uk, 23 August 2010
Louisiana singer taps into Gram Parsons and Neil Young on a smooth debut LP. ...
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 ...
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 13 April 1991
THEY'RE NOT doing themselves any favours, putting out another cover version. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Kylie Minogue: Docklands Arena, London
Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 5 May 1990
KYLIE UNLIKELY ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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: 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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' ...
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 ...
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 ...
Pet Shop Boys: Winter Gardens, Blackpool
Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 8 June 1991
TENNANT'S EXTRA ...
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 ...
Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 17 May 1997
GLASGOW KISS ...
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) ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Pussy Galore: Dial M For Motherf***er (Product Inc)
Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 13 May 1989
PARTY LINE ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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… ...
Comment by Everett True, Music That I Like, March 2017
ED SHEERAN is shit. Do not believe the crowd. ...
Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 12 January 1991
HOOK, LINE AND STINKER ...
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, ...
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 ...
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. ...
Review by Everett True, bbc.co.uk, October 2009
This is as good as can be expected – and fortunately, that is pretty good. ...
Smashing Pumpkins: The Metro, Chicago
Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 4 September 1993
GRUNGE LITE? ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Review by Everett True, Plan B, June 2004
IT'S SONIC YOUTH. It comforts. It cajoles. It caresses. It's classic rock. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Triffids: Dominion, London
Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 10 September 1988
THE NEW VENERATION ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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". ...
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 ...
Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 30 January 1993
NOTES FROM the underground... ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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