Tag: "acoustic guitar"

Ned Collette & Wirewalker : Il Futuro Fantastico
0 Comments. 595 Views. Posted 18 Apr 2012 @ 1:47pm.
  A preview of the second album by Ned Collette & Wirewalker, called 2. The single is a heady mix of squirreling electric guitar played in an acoustic Spanish style, deadpan vocal delivery and muted drums; a collection of sounds all struggling mightily to seem blasé, the energy dampened by Ned’s now-customary hipster gothic style. I dunno. It’s incredibly interesting but also kind of... Read More
60 Seconds With... Jenny Biddle
0 Comments. 629 Views. Posted 12 Apr 2012 @ 1:53pm.
  Define your genre in five words or less:  Missy Higgins meets The Waifs.   So, someone is walking past as you are playing, they then go get a beer and tell their friend about you... what do they say? "Man, that chick can play the guitar!"   Do you have any record releases to date? What are they? Where can I get them? My 2009 studio album called Chest Of Drawers, and my new... Read More
Sarah McLeod
0 Comments. 1,075 Views. Posted 9 Mar 2012 @ 9:36am.
  It's hard to believe, but Aussie rock act The Superjesus parted ways almost ten years ago. The various members have scattered to the four winds, and gone on to many different projects. Some high profile, some not so much. Lead singer Sarah McLeod has been exceptionally busy in the intervening time, as she explained to us recently from a rehearsal studio in Sydney. “I did one solo album... Read More
Angus Stone : Broken Brights
0 Comments. 1,525 Views. Posted 8 Feb 2012 @ 9:40am.
  The first single from Angus Stone’s new solo album is yet another milky, seductive indie pop tune. Amidst a slow spatter of drums and rich strums of acoustic guitar, his voice creeps like honey, hypnotic and melancholy, like a latter day Elliot Smith.   Read More
The Beautiful Girls
0 Comments. 1,299 Views. Posted 3 Feb 2012 @ 6:52am.
In the ten years that The Beautiful Girls have been delivering their fun-loving mixture of roots, reggae and rock, they’ve played in all sorts of venues. But there’s been one type of venue they haven’t played – until now, that is. With the Melbourne Zoo launching its 150th Anniversary Celebrations with a series of concerts featuring some of Australia’s best performers, Mat McHugh,... Read More
Tim McMillan Band
0 Comments. 2,335 Views. Posted 3 Feb 2012 @ 5:42am.
Australia is well known for breeding kickarse guitarists. Angus Young, Tommy Emmanuel, Brett Garsed….Tim McMillan is up there with the best of them. This dude combines the melodicism of Jeff Buckley with the eclecticism of Frank Zappa, the harmonic creativity of Devin Townsend and the technique of your Stanley Jordans and Chris Brodericks. McMillan is about to release his latest album, Angel... Read More
Donavon Frankenreiter
0 Comments. 1,105 Views. Posted 31 Jan 2012 @ 10:23am.
  Donavon Frankenreiter’s passion for music and surfing is undeniable. For much of the last decade he has travelled the world, playing music and surfing wherever and whenever he could; his love for both never wavering since he first discovered them as a child. Now he has packed his acoustic guitar and his surfboard and he’s getting ready to head down to Australia for a mammoth run of shows... Read More
Cat & Spoon : In My Pocket
0 Comments. 793 Views. Posted 25 Jan 2012 @ 3:36pm.
  That isn’t the voice I expected. The gentle ripples of acoustic guitar that launch In My Pocket are overly familiar - the light, lilting gestures that usually precede a kittenish female folk singer. Not in this case though. The voice that breathes over these romantic guitar notes is rough and masculine, closer to Tom Waits than Julia Stone. It’s a pleasing kind of dissonance, softened in... Read More
The Maple Trail: The Dinosaur Hunters
0 Comments. 782 Views. Posted 6 Jan 2012 @ 10:16am.
  The Maple Trail is the solo project of Sydney’s Aidan Roberts, whose lilting voice and sunny folk sounds play like a modern reworking of Cat Stevens or Simon and Garfunkel. With Beirut-style brass inflections, subtle interplay of acoustic guitars and clear, memorable images, The Dinosaur Hunters is the work of a very mature talent. The Maple Trail’s third album, Cable Mountain Warning,... Read More
Bonnie Prince Billy : New Tibet
0 Comments. 835 Views. Posted 23 Nov 2011 @ 10:21am.
Legendary sad man Will Oldham returns with his umpteenth album, Wolfrey Goes To Town, which is littered with spare, heartbreaking ballads just like this one. “As boys we fucked each other,” he begins, “As men, we lie and smile.” With the lightest rolling notes of acoustic guitar and high breathy support vocals from Angel Olsen, he ruminates on the pitched battles of long-term relationships, the... Read More
Real Estate : Days
0 Comments. 1,661 Views. Posted 15 Nov 2011 @ 12:05pm.
Days is the second album release for New Jersey trio Real Estate. Full of dreamy pop songs and simple light-hearted stories, Days, though beige in moments, is a comforting and unchallenging listen. Compared to guitarist Matthew Mondanile’s other project Ducktails, and bassist Alex Bleeker’s Freaks, Real Estate is far more polished, with a display of the three musicians’ ability to create simple... Read More
Chris Cornell - Wednesday October 19, The Palais
0 Comments. 1,205 Views. Posted 25 Oct 2011 @ 11:06am.
As Melbourne awaits the announcement of Soundgarden sideshows, suburban burnouts from across the suburbs congregated outside The Palais, sucking back a last Longbeach before they could finally get close to their grunge superhero.  To rapturous applause and high fives from the front row, Cornell began the show with a cover of Nick Lowe's (What's So Funny 'bout) Peace Love &... Read More
Grouplove : Never Trust A Happy Song
0 Comments. 1,554 Views. Posted 20 Oct 2011 @ 9:29am.
September saw the release of Los Angeles quintet Grouplove's debut album Never Trust A Happy Song. With odd up's of cringe-worthy lyrics and cute summer melodies, to the heart-wrenching and despairing downs, Grouplove's debut is not a great piece of work, but an endearing and engaging listen that captures your imagination. Beginning with one of those aforementioned downs is Itchin' On A... Read More
Single Of The Week [No.1] - Texture Like Sun : Bottle
0 Comments. 2,257 Views. Posted 12 Oct 2011 @ 2:04pm.
A brooding, snapping roots rock tune from local singer-songwriter Texture Like Sun (real name Mark Pearl). The track features a silky male vocal melody and superb production by Countbounce of TZU, with clever layers of acoustic guitar and banjo, whistling and a punchy rhythm section. Surprisingly good. There's a slick video that goes with this track and Pearl is a total crumpet, in case that's... Read More
Opeth: Heritage
0 Comments. 1,868 Views. Posted 27 Sep 2011 @ 12:53pm.
Opeth have always been known for their progressive death metal sound – complex riffage, growly death vocals and heavy, heavy guitars. So it comes as a huge surprise that although there are progressive riffs aplenty, both the death and the metal have been stripped from Opeth's sound on Heritage. In their place is – get this – 1970s style jazz-fusion. Seriously. But that's not a bad thing. Opeth... Read More
60 Seconds With... Language of The Birds
0 Comments. 1,316 Views. Posted 27 Sep 2011 @ 12:50pm.
So then, what’s the band name and what do you ‘do’ in the band?  Language Of The Birds. Rhi [vox and acoustic guitar]  James [vox acoustic guitar, electric guitar], Jim [drums], Cal [bass/double bass]. We're a folk rock band.   Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? Rhi: Midlake, Middle East, Swell Season. A... Read More
Laura Jean: A Fool Who’ll
0 Comments. 2,128 Views. Posted 15 Sep 2011 @ 11:33am.
Laura Jean’s third album, A fool who’ll, is a little like a Melbourne weather report; ‘dark clouds forming, sunny at times with rain easing’. Just like a day in our wonderful city, this experience is rich and enjoyable. Most notable to the sound of A fool who’ll is Laura Jean’s newly-utilised electric guitar which leads a variety of stringed instruments, horns, well-placed keys and accordion.... Read More
Gospel Dance: Gospel Dance
0 Comments. 2,070 Views. Posted 14 Sep 2011 @ 11:19am.
Gospel Dance is the new lateral venture into musical bricolage for Melbourne’s E-wah Lady. Whether she’s contributing to local label Peak Plasma Concentration Records, performing solo, being accompanied by The Open Road, blogging about all things anthropological or expressing herself through illustration; E-wah Lady will create something attention-grabbing, honest and unique. Gospel Dance is no... Read More
Ed Kuepper & Mark Dawson - Friday September 9, Northcote Social Club
0 Comments. 1,945 Views. Posted 13 Sep 2011 @ 3:05pm.
Ed Kuepper rejoined by his old drumming buddy for an evening of hits and memories was a proposition too good to miss. Large chunks of "Today Wonder" and a healthy selection of his back catalogue to satiate even the hungriest Kuepper fan. This feast was in no part due to the fact that the Kuepper duo played two sets. No support just wall to wall plundering of the repertoire that the punters all... Read More
The Nighwatchman : World Wide Rebel Songs
0 Comments. 1,118 Views. Posted 7 Sep 2011 @ 4:44am.
It's kind of a shame that the man most responsible for the monumental Rage Against The Machine would tarnish his musical reputation with this. The Nightwatchman just appears to be purely a vehicle for Tom Morello to spruik his personal political and world views, set against the backdrop of some a bit of insipid acoustic guitar-work. Maybe he should take a leaf out of Henry Rollins' book and go on... Read More
Trunk Review
0 Comments. 1,214 Views. Posted 9 Aug 2011 @ 11:41am.
The word 'trunk' may have various meanings and uses this day and age (especially when it's preceded by the words 'junk in the'), but for our purposes, we'll assume we're talking about the trendiest of CBD establishments this writer has had the pleasure to review. That being said, Trunk restaurant is a lot like that something extra special you didn't expect to find, buried deep within its own... Read More
Thousand Needles In Red
0 Comments. 1,994 Views. Posted 9 Aug 2011 @ 11:38am.
They say the true test of a song's quality is when you strip away the full band production to leave purely the tune, lyrics and melody. If the song still moves you in these circumstances, then it's probably a great song. That's exactly what the boys from Sydney- and Brisbane-based Thousand Needles in Red are about to find out about their songs. The normally loud, powerful band are leaving... Read More
Gurrumul : Gopuru
0 Comments. 1,732 Views. Posted 3 Aug 2011 @ 1:54pm.
Internationally acclaimed singer Gurrumul Yunupingu releases another single from the Gold-selling Rrakula. Gopuru features a soft bed of acoustic guitar and piano under gentle but rapturous layers of Gurrumul’s voice. A lovely and uplifting track that transcends po-faced world music standards and speaks directly to the heart. My heart, anyway.   Read More
Busby Marou : Biding My Time
0 Comments. 3,698 Views. Posted 31 May 2011 @ 12:16pm.
A sweet folk pop single from Rockhampton due Busby Marou (Thomas Busby and Jeremy Marou), who contributed a cover of Better Be Home Soon to He Will Have His Way last year. With skipping acoustic guitar lines, lovely harmonies and a simple, romantic chorus, Biding My Time is a lush and likeable tune. They sound a lot like Josh Pyke. Read More
Chris Cornell Solo Acoustic Tour
1 Comments. 3,248 Views. Posted 26 May 2011 @ 11:15am.
It's not Soundgarden, but it's something? Chris Cornell his bringing his Songbook tour to Australia in October this year after selling out across the USA.   If you've ever wanted to see Cornell wailing softly behind an acoustic guitar, now is the time. Songbook sees Cornell performing alone on stage, doing renditions of songs from his long and illustrious career, with a few... Read More
Mike Noga : Balladeer Hunter
0 Comments. 2,035 Views. Posted 28 Apr 2011 @ 11:03am.
Mike Noga, best known as the drummer for The Drones, when he found a lack of ‘soul’ in everything he heard on the radio, found he was exasperated with contemporary music. So, he wrote Balladeer Hunter, the follow up to his 2006 solo debut, Folk Songs. This is the kind of record, subsequently, Noga wants to be able to listen to in a couple of decades time and have its soul and passion still... Read More
J Masics : Several Shades Of Why
0 Comments. 1,834 Views. Posted 28 Apr 2011 @ 10:43am.
Dinosaur Jr’s mid-2000s reformation was probably as triumphant as they come, with the trio managing to pull off the sizable feat of releasing new material that holds up favourably to the group’s established canon (for the opposite end of the spectrum, see The Stooge’s god-awful The Weirdness). The success lies in the band’s aversion to tinkering with their tried and true signature formula, an... Read More
Rock The Bay at The Esplanade Hotel
0 Comments. 3,420 Views. Posted 8 Apr 2011 @ 10:58am.
  This was the third annual Rock The Bay and it did not disappoint. It continues to be the best showcase for the consistently stunning array of talent in the Australian alternative rock realm. The only difference between this and previous years was the presence brain-dead bogans and – surprise surprise – a couple of fights broke out. Luckily they happened outside and the police contained... Read More
Dallas Frasca
0 Comments. 1,268 Views. Posted 28 Jan 2011 @ 9:08am.
Ten artists/bands everyone should know about ….   “Jeff Lang, Liz Stringer, Mojo Juju, Betty Page, Baby Huey, Sharon Jones, Midnight Oil , Betty Davis, Patti La Belle and Xavier Rudd.”   Nine food items that you need to make a kickarse dinner party:   “Cucumber. Vegetarian Not-Dogs. Body chocolate. Carrot. Edible lube. Dates. Devils cabbage. Shrooms... Read More
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