#musicreader

I am bad at updating Tumblr.

There's been two #1 singles and thus two Number Ones columns I've written since the last I thing I linked to on Tumblr (my Number Ones column on 'Blank Space'):

Mark Ronson feat Bruno Mars - 'Uptown Funk' (it was hard to avoid cataloguing the influences on the track, but also I wanted to show what was very 2015 about the song) 

and 

Omi - 'Cheerleader' (which I discussed in terms of it not really following the trends of #1s in Australia, and what pop is)

I also did an end of 2014 thing for TheVine where I went over Australia's top 20 highest selling singles according to ARIA, which features my thoughts on a bunch of songs I hadn't otherwise discussed, from 'Chandelier' to 'Stolen Dance' to 'Fancy' to 'Problem'.

I wrote three Science Readers, where I link to interesting new science writing:

Science Reader - Jurassic World, electric eels, torture confident idiots, more

Science Reader - Biggest Animals, Foetus Brains, Schwarznegger Raptors, String Theory, more

Science Reader - Feathers, Brain Tapeworm, The G-Spot, Cheese, Starfish, more

And a Music Reader column, featuring stuff on Jimmy Page, Sleater Kinney, Mark Ronson, Megan Washington, George Michael and more.

The thinkpiece storm around Lana Del Rey; 50 Cent as life coach; Led Zeppelin are the beginning of modern rock; the campiness of black metal; Jonathan Richman's retreat from protopunk; how wimpy should oldies radio stations get?; what it's like to be Mr Muthafuckin' eXquire; Bjork on nature.