Tag: "The Band"

Portugal. The Man : All Your Light (Times Like These) (RZA Remix)
0 Comments. 494 Views. Posted 2 May 2012 @ 2:34pm.
  Portugal get a little dark muscle courtesy of RZA; a crunching beat, some muttered rap and a Prince-worthy refrain, a sharp pitching chain-gang chorus. The band’s psychedelic swirl is all but erased in this remix, but their soulful melody comes into sharper focus. Sounds good.   Read More
One Direction @ Hisense Arena
12 Comments. 89,611 Views. Posted 1 May 2012 @ 12:37pm.
  For those unaware, One Direction are a teenage British boy band who are just the right combination of good looks and shitty pop music to seduce the hearts of young girls worldwide, and just young enough for Kony to kidnap. They released an album called Up All Night (which has dominated charts worldwide) and got away with it because of their young, clean image. It was considered “cute” and... Read More
Q&A: El Moth
0 Comments. 658 Views. Posted 1 May 2012 @ 11:16am.
So then, what’s the band name and what do you ‘do’ in the band? El Moth – a lot of inexplicable extra-curricular activities with a healthy dose of music on the side. What do you reckon people will say you sound like? Better than nails down a chalkboard, these guys are actually alright for a bunch of drunks (minus Leon, he's a good boy!) What do you love about making music? Music is incredibly... Read More
60 Seconds With... Earl
0 Comments. 476 Views. Posted 1 May 2012 @ 11:14am.
So then, what’s the band name and what do you ‘do’ in the band?The band is called earl and you've got all of us. Troy – guitars and all things tech. Tom – drums. Jackson – slappin' the bass, and myself, Mark – vocals and guitar. Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like?Pop-rock. No one has told us we sound like any particular band so... Read More
60 Seconds With... Michael McQuaid’s Red Hot Rhythmakers
0 Comments. 595 Views. Posted 1 May 2012 @ 11:11am.
So then, what’s the band name and what do you ‘do’ in the band? We’re called Michael McQuaid’s Red Hot Rhythmakers. I’m the bandleader, and I play trumpet and write music for the group.   What do you think people will say you sound like?We play really old-school big band jazz, the sort of stuff you would have heard in a Chicago speakeasy in the '20s or a Harlem ballroom in the '30s. We’ve... Read More
The Darkness
0 Comments. 1,194 Views. Posted 1 May 2012 @ 10:58am.
  Anyone who had the first edition of SingStar will be familiar with the hit song I Believe In A Thing Called Love performed by British glam rock band, The Darkness. Any bona fide fans of The Darkness will also know that they have been off the map for damn near six years now. Throw in some rock star drama including drug addictions, band break ups and rehab; it is clear to see the hiatus was... Read More
Metric Melbourne Sideshow
2 Comments. 2,436 Views. Posted 1 May 2012 @ 9:54am.
  Following on from yesterdays' cavalcade of Splendour sideshows, oft-lauded Canuck outfit Metric have joined in on the action in announcing a peripheral Melbourne date. The band's impending visit to our shores will come hot on the heels of the band's much-anticipated fifth studio record, Synthetica, which is due out mid-June.   Expect to har a sampling of that material, as well as... Read More
dEUS : Keep You Close
0 Comments. 534 Views. Posted 30 Apr 2012 @ 9:17am.
  The name literally means ‘God’. They are not yet so deified but are they bigger than Jesus? In Belgium at least they could well be. They are the biggest band in the land. So big in fact, that other pretenders to the throne such as Dead Man Ray or Zita Swoon feature past or present members of dEUS. On the eve of their first Australian tour, Keep You Close is timely. At least to Australian... Read More
The Tea Party Announce Australian Tour
0 Comments. 1,374 Views. Posted 30 Apr 2012 @ 9:56am.
After reforming in 2011, Canadian rock band The Tea Party have announced that they will be touring Australia in July. Though the trio disbanded temporarily in 2005, they had managed to tour Australia twelve times between 1994 and 2004 and release eight albums within their 15 years together. When the band reformed in April last year, they performed a string of Canadian shows and festivals, where... Read More
Vice Grip Pussies
0 Comments. 1,143 Views. Posted 26 Apr 2012 @ 6:49am.
  Melbourne band Vice Grip Pussies haven’t played the Cherry Rock festival before, but drummer Stacey Pommer is very familiar with both the event and the venue itself. “I’ve been to all of them, but I can’t really tell you much about any of them,” Pommer laughs. “I love the vibe at Cherry Rock, and I love watching Sixfthick playing in the laneway, and crawling up the walls.” Pommer... Read More
Sound Of Troy
0 Comments. 799 Views. Posted 25 Apr 2012 @ 10:13pm.
  In a very cosmic turn of events, it was a visit to a psychic some ten years or so earlier that informed singer Troy Lempriere that he would end up writing songs and performing in  Sound Of Troy with its creative brains trust, guitarist Sam Labruna, as he explained to us recently from his home in Melbourne.   “I'm not spiritual or anything, but I was actually told about Sam when... Read More
Fu Manchu
0 Comments. 877 Views. Posted 25 Apr 2012 @ 8:24am.
  In the 1970s Leonard Nimoy held audiences spellbound with his sombre, occasionally dire, narratives of natural events and unexplained supernatural phenomena in the television series In Search Of…. At age six I was convinced a swarm of killer bees would descend upon my parents’ house, hopefully just after witnessing the inevitable invasion of aliens from outer space.  At age 11,... Read More
Q&A: Mars Attacks
0 Comments. 484 Views. Posted 18 Apr 2012 @ 7:06pm.
Define your genre in five words or less: Rockabilly.   What’ve you got to sell CD-wise?  Our debut CD/LP ...Run For Your Life!, our second album Snatch It & Grab It, our third album Dirty Tricks, the concept album Circle of Love, our 2008 release FOLLOW ME!, and our latest release RECAPTURED!, which is a 26 track CD of new re-recordings of the sold out releases from 1999-2003.... Read More
Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving : Deaden The Fields
0 Comments. 776 Views. Posted 18 Apr 2012 @ 6:45pm.
Recipients of a Western Australian government grant, recorded locally but mastered in Sweden, allows the band to develop a contrary sound and engage the listener in sounds oblique enough to capture the imagination. With tracks rambling along to over ten minutes and sometimes 15 minutes in length, it is an achievement in this present age of digital quick fire play-delete almost ADD syndrome... Read More
Core - April 18, 2012
0 Comments. 1,127 Views. Posted 18 Apr 2012 @ 6:28pm.
  Last weekend I stumbled upon a devastating ailment that threatens gig-goers nationwide. Every one of us is susceptible to it, and many of us can find it leaves us penniless and forlorn. Worse than the drunken text message, more menacing than the mashed ‘pash n dash’, slightly more crippling than the ‘underestimation-of-perpetual-state-of-poverty-when-shouting-strangers-rounds-of-jagers’…it... Read More
Sheriff : Sheriff
0 Comments. 781 Views. Posted 18 Apr 2012 @ 3:19pm.
  If you’re looking for slick production, atmospheric soundscapes or catchy pop hooks, you best look elsewhere. If you dig fat, bawdy grooves, lots of exuberant hollering and music that’s generally free of spit and polish, then Sherriff are your bag.   This is the Melbourne three-piece’s debut EP, and it’s a raw and beer-soaked as it is fun. This band’s music sounds like it’s the... Read More
Single Of The Week: Dirty Projectors : Gun Has No Trigger
0 Comments. 549 Views. Posted 18 Apr 2012 @ 2:00pm.
  Taken from their forthcoming sophomore album, Gun Has No Trigger sees the Dirty Projectors folding an crooning soul rock melody – something Simply Red might have toyed with, back in the day – into an increasingly strident harmony by the band’s idiosyncratic female vocalists. Such a strange brew I had to hear it a few times before I realised it was genius.     Read More
DZ Deathrays
1 Comments. 1,419 Views. Posted 18 Apr 2012 @ 8:24am.
  Simon Ridley and Shane Parsons look uncomfortable, sitting in their record label’s office. They’re surrounded by CDs, touring posters and all manner of modern music memorabilia. Still, for the first few minutes of our conversation, the drummer and singer/guitarist of Brisbane duo DZ Deathrays are at once bored and fidgety. “It’s been a long day of interviews,” shrugs Ridley, passing me... Read More
My Morning Jacket @ The Palace
0 Comments. 690 Views. Posted 18 Apr 2012 @ 7:56am.
  At the 2008 Bonnaroo Music Festival My Morning Jacket performed what could well be defined as one of the most legendary festival sets of all time. The four-hour long star-studded jam was the culmination of the Kentucky outfit’s slow-burning reputation as one of the greatest live bands in the world. Australian audiences have since fantasised about experiencing such a performance – with the... Read More
60 Seconds With… N’Fa Jones
0 Comments. 615 Views. Posted 18 Apr 2012 @ 7:44am.
So then, what’s the band name and what do you ‘do’ in the band? The Band name is my name.. N'fa Jones.. I'm the songwriter, and MC   What do you reckon people will say you sound like? Hopefully "good, heavvvy, doooope"..   What do you love about making music? The fact that its invisible, and doesn't exist in physical form.. you vibe, clap hands, sing, record an idea that you either... Read More
60 Seconds With… San Salvador
0 Comments. 631 Views. Posted 18 Apr 2012 @ 7:42am.
  Define your genre in five words or less: Eeggae/dub/funk   Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? They’d say “Oh this band is pretty funky.. Kinda sound like The Black Seeds crossed with UB40, or something.”   What do you love about making music? It comes as a natural expression of creativity. When you do things... Read More
Loki
0 Comments. 621 Views. Posted 17 Apr 2012 @ 4:04pm.
  When Jonathon O’Neill, vocalist of Melbourne four-piece Loki answers the phone on a Friday night, he’s in the middle of reading a good book. While many through the city are gearing up to spend their hard-earned dollars on possible liver damage, O’Neill opts for My Heart Wanders by Pia Jane Bijkerk.   “It’s about a lady who’s traveled around and made homes around the world.... Read More
Bleeding Knees Club
0 Comments. 1,037 Views. Posted 12 Apr 2012 @ 1:23pm.
  Outside the Liberty Social House, scores of young hipsters smoke their weight in rolled cigarettes, laughing entirely too hard at tasteless jokes. The underground club may be located deep in the heart of Melbourne’s business district, but on this evening, the alley has the distinct feel of a house party that’s just minutes away from imploding.   Descending down the stairs into a... Read More
60 Seconds With... Spell House
0 Comments. 1,257 Views. Posted 12 Apr 2012 @ 12:19pm.
So then, what’s the band name and what do you ‘do’ in the band? Spell House (formerly known as Frames) are four guys creating bizarre sounds in a shed out the back of the drummer's house. Sometimes we begrudgingly recreate these noises in a live setting for people to listen.   What do you think people will say you sound like? People tend to come away with different interpretation of our... Read More
Core - April 11, 2012
0 Comments. 1,131 Views. Posted 12 Apr 2012 @ 11:25am.
I went away this Easter with a bunch of friends and proceeded to consume my bodyweight in rum and chocolate. As per our usual tradition we took it in turns to choose albums to submit one another to. This is usually tear-free considering we all share spectacular taste in music, but the fun and games came to a dramatic halt when one participant declared they had no preference in music… ever… in... Read More
The Medics
0 Comments. 1,432 Views. Posted 11 Apr 2012 @ 10:06am.
  Between appearances at some of Australia’s most reputable festivals, it was a big summer for The Medics. Though they originated from the far north of Queensland, the band has slowly established themselves as mainstays in the Brisbane scene. And after a summer spent gigging at Big Day Out, Laneway and Festival of the Sun, the band is ready to use the experiences they had over the summer for... Read More
Children Collide
0 Comments. 1,314 Views. Posted 11 Apr 2012 @ 9:30am.
  There’s not a whole lot of difference between the Children Collide that took to the stage on a lowly weeknight at Ding Dong Lounge back in the mid-2000s and the current alternative-radio-dominating iteration. Back then, the band – which consisted of lead singer Johnny Mackay, bassist Heath Crawley, and then-drummer (the band’s second) Steph Hughes – were gaining traction with the success... Read More
Stonefield
0 Comments. 837 Views. Posted 10 Apr 2012 @ 2:10pm.
  What started out as jamming in the family shed soon turned into something extraordinary for Stonefield. Coming from a tiny rural town just north of Melbourne, the four Findlay sisters – Amy, Hannah, Sarah and Holly, were just coming to the end of recording their first EP, Through The Clover, when their mum mentioned that they should apply for triple j’s Unearthed competition. Apprehensive... Read More
Blood Line
0 Comments. 1,053 Views. Posted 10 Apr 2012 @ 10:48am.
  Winning a band comp can certainly kick-start a career. It worked wonders for Silverchair, Grinspoon and Killing Heidi, and local metal/hardcore troupe Blood Line are hoping it will happen for them too. They recently took out first place in the prestigious Gunn Music Showcase at the Espy in St Kilda, and bigger and better shows and some serious notoriety are sure to ensue. Guitar player... Read More
Skylion
0 Comments. 544 Views. Posted 10 Apr 2012 @ 10:40am.
  Forming only a couple of years ago, this Melbourne based pop-rock four piece have literally dreamt up a very unique and different way of marketing their music and getting it out there to music loving punters across Australia and the rest of the world, as lead vocalist/guitarist/keysman Ryan Wodson explains.   “We were burning two of the tracks off our EP [for people], but we wanted... Read More
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