Articles by Michael White
Finisterre
Finisterre
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
More than 12 years deep into a career that initially suggested it wasn't meant to last longer than 12 minutes, Saint Etienne remain star-cr...
Radiohead's Big Yawn
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Of course, the very act of using a public forum to express doubts about Kid A, Radiohead's hotly anticipated, exhaustively scrutinised four...
Go-Betweens Come Together
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
"In rock'n'roll terms, the Go-Betweens always take the checkered flag," said Robert Forster, shortly after the break-up of the group he led...
Under Cover: Album Art in a CD Age
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
If you weren't specifically looking for it, or didn't examine it closely, you likely wouldn't realize that Sampler 2: Art, Pop and Contempo...
Pavement
Back In Slack
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Stephen Malkmus, who for ten years was the primary focal point of Pavement, has seemingly never been aggressive in any regard except for se...
The Flaming Lips
Dancing in the Dark: The Flaming Lips vs. Indifference
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
We music critics thrive upon our sense of indignation. Despite individually contributing little more to popular culture than an isolated op...
Here's Where The Strings Come In
Soft Pop and the New Melodic Explorers
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
"White-bread, saccharine, fake flower-power schmaltz... conveying the daffy zing of toothpaste ads."So reads The Rolling Stone Album Guide'...
Pop
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
In the real world (the one outside of music magazines), none of the following permutations of pop music exist. It's all just pop, and it's...
