Everett True (born Jeremy Andrew Thackray on 21 April 1961) is an English music journalist and musician.

[8] In 1998, True returned to Seattle, where he worked for a year as music editor for The Stranger,[9] before heading for Australia, where he freelanced at Melbourne broadsheet, The Age.

12 and counted down, claiming that "we have set out to replace the decaying music press in Britain, so by issue zero we will either have achieved our objectives or given up trying".

Up until the start of 2009, he wrote a weekly column for VillageVoice.com,[11] and The Guardian – with the latter, entering into conflict with Australia's music street press.

[12] There was also a fair amount of controversy over some unguarded remarks True made on Twitter with regard to the usage of Kurt Cobain's image in Guitar Hero 5.

[17] True also fronts two Brisbane bands: The Deadnotes and The Thin Kids,[18] the latter of which caused some controversy when they picked up a plum support to Kate Nash midway through 2010.

[20] His most recent project is Rejected Unknown, a media/publishing company set up in response to the 33⅓ series of music books; it takes its name from the album by Daniel Johnston.

The first book came out in 2016, and is entitled 101 Albums You Should Die Before You Hear, a critique of the sacred cows of the rock music canon.

[21] This was followed in 2017 by his biography The Electrical Storm: Grunge, my Part In Its Downfall,[22] and in 2018 by the short story collection Ed Sheeran Is Shit.