
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.
Latest articles by Everett True

Motorhead's deluxe edition of Ace Of Spades is four hours and 11 minutes of beautiful madness
By Everett True published
As you’d expect, the 40th anniversary edition of Motorhead's Ace Of Spades is metallic KO. Metal overload. Over the top. Overkill.

Idles' Ultra Mono is stripped-back, brutal, and lacerating
By Everett True published
Forged during lockdown, Idles' Ultra Mono feels entirely appropriate for these times

Joy Division's Closer: foreboding, painful, and still wreathed in shadow
By Everett True published
Joy Division's Closer: as the NME commented with wry understatement: “[This album] cannot have been easy to record”

The Residents' Metal, Meat & Bone - tricky, bewildering, and irritating
By Everett True published
The eyeballs have it on The Residents' tribute to possibly imaginary bluesman Alvin ‘Dyin’ Dog’ Snow, Metal, Meat & Bone

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard's Chunky Shrapnel: demented wig-outs and noodle jams
By Everett True published
King-sized psychedelic delight on King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard live album Chunky Shrapnel

Ash's Teenage Wildlife: 25 years of teenage effervescence
By Everett True published
How long can three boys (and one woman) stay teenage? Quite a long time, it appears, if you're Ash

Jeff Lynne’s ELO: From Out Of Nowhere - frailty and manufactured perfection
By Everett True published
Mostly a sparkling continuation of Jeff Lynne’s return to form on From Out Of Nowhere

Soundgarden's Live From The Arts Den is a worthy, career-spanning memorial
By Everett True published
Soundgarden's Live From The Arts Den was recorded in Los Angeles in 2013

Chris Cornell: Chris Cornell - album review
By Everett True published
Chris Cornell. He had one hell of a voice. And some legacy

Therapy?: Cleave album review
By Everett True published
Therapy?'s Cairns, McKeegan and Cooper live to destroy another day

Go-Kart Mozart - Mozart’s Mini-Mart album review
By Everett True published
Driving most definitely on the left

Dream Wife - Dream Wife album review
By Everett True published
Part Icelandic, part British paired up in Brighton

Franz Ferdinand - Always Ascending album review
By Everett True published
Fifth album is a clever, polished pop gem

Hit So Hard by Patty Schemel - review
By Everett True published
Former Hole drummer’s “beautiful memoir” is an open book

The Residents - Meet The Residents / The Third Reich ’N Roll album review
By Everett True published
Not yet ratedThe best and worst of the San Francisco art-rockers reissued

King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard - Polygondwanaland album review
By Everett True published
Prolific psych squad favour quantity over quality

Pretenders Alone - Special Edition album review
By Everett True published
I’d sure as hell still go and see Chrissie Hynde play live

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell Deluxe Box album review
By Everett True published
The album that devoured the noughties. Cool, and clever

Sex Pistols 1977 – The Bollocks Diaries review
By Everett True published
It was a right old laugh

Nashville Pussy From Hell To Texas / Get Some! /Ten Years Of Pussy! album review
By Everett True published
Not yet ratedNot for the faint-hearted. Or to give gran at Christmas.

Ian Dury & The Blockheads -New Boots And Panties!! 40th Anniversary album review
By Everett True published
Even now it sounds naughty

Neil Young - Hitchhiker album review
By Everett True published
Young’s 38th studio album. Thirty-eighth!
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