
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

George Harrison's lovely Living In The Material World, revisited
By Everett True published
Gem-studded yet often overlooked album from ex-Beatle George Harrison, now with added extras

The Super Deluxe Edition of Talking Heads' 77 is unsettling and damn near indispensable
By Everett True published
Art rock icons’ explosive "tightly wound" punk-era debut, now with juicy extras

Peter Perrett returns with what might just be his best-ever album
By Everett True published
Only Ones singer Peter Perrett follows 2017's I Wanna Go With Dignity with an album of helpless romance and everyday reality

Mark Lanegan rarely sounded as soulful as he did on Bubblegum
By Everett True published
A wonderful treat as the late Mark Lanegan's sixth solo album Bubblegum is expanded to mark its 20th anniversary

Every Electric Light Orchestra album ranked, from worst to best
By Paul Elliott published
Jeff Lynne's vision for ELO was more ambitious than most of his peers – but which of his grand ideas hit home the hardest?

Buffalo Tom maintain their haunted, bluesy groove on Jump Rope
By Everett True published
Album number 10, and still loving mid-America rock

"We made a living off being stupid. I don't know if there's a legacy to be taken from that": there will never, ever be another band like the Butthole Surfers. And maybe that's for the best
By Everett True published
The myths, madness, magic and mayhem of Butthole Surfers, the world's most dangerous, lucky-to-be-alive art-rock weirdos

"A record full of sprawling guitar solos, textual acoustics and steady drums": J Mascis finds new ways to express himself on What Do We Do Now
By Everett True published
What Do We Do Now is beautiful, as we've come to expect from the Dinosaur Jr mainman

"The overall effect is hypnotic, mesmeric – a musical montage that has no start or end point": Neil Young's Before And After
By Everett True published
Before And After finds Neil Young turning acoustic re-recordings of some of his past songs into a single music montage

"The listener can hear distinct traces of what's to come in this dense magical melee": Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother (Special Edition)
By Everett True published
One of Pink Floyd's least favourite Pink Floyd albums now comes with rare Japanese extras

David Bowie's Aladdin Sane: still better than 99% of all other pre-'77 rock
By Everett True published
Aladdin Sane's fiftieth birthday celebrated via the medium of half-speed master and picture disc reissues

35 years on, Mudhoney are as feral and incisive and sarcastic as ever
By Everett True published
Plastic Eternity is the 11th studio album for Sub Pop’s flagship band Mudhoney

Lemmy told us that Girlschool rocked and Lemmy was right
By Everett True published
This five-disc collection of Girlschool recordings is a fascinating evisceration of a trailblazing rock band

Neil Young's Harvest: 50 years on, flawlessly imperfect from beginning to end
By Everett True published
If you’re a Neil Young fan, you’ll want this: an expanded, 50th anniversary edition of the classic Harvest

Hawkwind continue to wig out furiously on new live album We Are Looking In On You
By Everett True published
There’s no release on Hawkwind's We Are Looking In On You, no letting up on the celestial gas pedal

Paul McCartney: 50 years, three McCartney albums, one box set
By Everett True published
Welcoming into the world a boxed trio of eponymous solo albums from that cheery fella who was in The Beatles

The story behind Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana
By Everett True published
From the game-changing Nevermind album, we take a look at Smells Like Teen Spirit, the incendiary single (and video) that catapulted Nirvana from virtual unknowns to superstardom

Nirvana's Nevermind: still incendiary after all these years
By Everett True published
Nirvana's game-changing Nevermind, now available in a range of wallet-busting formats

The Replacements are reliably raucous on 100-track expansion of debut album
By Everett True published
The deluxe edition of The Replacements' debut album Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash is, if not ‘the’, certainly ‘a’ motherlode

George Harrison's solo creative peak expanded but still charming
By Everett True published
All Things Must Pass shows former Beatle George Harrison really hitting his creative stride

Motorhead's No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith: one of the greatest live albums ever, now even greater
By Everett True published
Out now: Motorhead's No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith finds itself seriously expanded for its 40th anniversary, but there's no reduction in the levels of destruction

Dinosaur Jr's Sweep It Into Space is rampant, windswept, and classic
By Everett True published
Pioneering alt-rockers Dinosaur Jr revive their classic line-up for Sweep It Into Space, and it's like they've never been away

Chris Cornell a melancholy, bittersweet listening experience on No One Sings Like You Anymore
By Everett True published
Chris Cornell's No One Sings Like You Anymore is a collection of covers from the late, great singer
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