Tag: "country rock"

The Kill Devil Hills: The Week In Pictures/The Bends
0 Comments. 771 Views. Posted 6 Jan 2012 @ 10:00am.
  The West Australian grime rock collective returns to Melbourne at the end of this month, carrying vinyl copies of this excellent double-A side single. The Week In Pictures has a loose, dark, stalking sound that owes a debt to Nick Cave; The Bends has a funereal gait and a maudlin country rock air that conjures up lonely drivers and vast empty skies. Read More
Incubus
0 Comments. 1,213 Views. Posted 5 Jan 2012 @ 8:40am.
Me and Mr Boyd, we got a thing going on. Yes, long before Jason Segal and Seth Rogen forced the word ‘bromance’ into the popular lexicon, I had a man-crush on Incubus singer Brandon Boyd – I fell for him hard. 1999’s Make Yourself and Morning View two years later were prescribed texts in my senior years, the former hinting at Incubus’s yearning to separate from the nu-metal pack with potent... Read More
Johnny Gibson : 3:45 To Norman
0 Comments. 1,090 Views. Posted 26 Oct 2011 @ 2:51pm.
Tassie-born singer-songwriter Johnny Gibson sounds awfully young, and writes lyrics like a high schooler, always putting the most simple and obvious foot forward. It’s not bad necessarily; it’s just simple and obvious, which suits his chugging country rock sound. He’s not a natural singer, nasal and straining, but his ineptness is kind of endearing. Read More
Leader Cheetah : Our Love
0 Comments. 1,728 Views. Posted 18 Aug 2011 @ 9:28am.
Leader Cheetah at their Neil Youngest, singing a hearty and anthemic ode to new love. The lyrics are simple and repetitive, flush with a stoic optimism, and the country rock melody catches in all the right places. Read More
Jebediah To Battle For November
0 Comments. 1,486 Views. Posted 15 Aug 2011 @ 6:34pm.
After the sell-out launch tour for their triumphant new record Kosciusko, venerable alternative rockers Jebediah have announced a select run of capital city dates. With their album Kosciusko being freshly certified gold, as well as smahing it on the main stage at this year's Splendour In The Grass, Jebediah will take their renowned live show around the country for their Battle For November Tour... Read More
Dead Parties
0 Comments. 2,439 Views. Posted 13 May 2011 @ 11:32am.
So then, what’s the band name and what do you ‘do’ in the band?  “Dead Parties and I play the guitar and sing.” Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? "We like to soak our guitars in pools of reverb and delay and we also like to shake a tambourine so you could call us, in your preferred order, indie, shoegaze, psych."   What... Read More
60 Seconds With Luke Godwin from Chelsea Drugstrore
0 Comments. 1,588 Views. Posted 9 Feb 2011 @ 9:29am.
So then, what's your name and what you 'do' in the band?   "Luke Godwin. Singer, songwriter and guitar."   W hat do you reckon people will say you sound like?   "Alternative country rock. Our influences include Ryan Adams, Neil Young, The 'Stones, The Byrds, Wilco and The Black Crowes to name a few."   What do you love about making music?... Read More
The Vandas
0 Comments. 3,210 Views. Posted 21 Jan 2011 @ 1:14pm.
It’s early on Friday afternoon, with the sun shining for the first time in recent memory. Gus Agars, and (a freshly shorn) Mikey Madden, drummer and guitarist respectively in The Vandas and I are sitting outside a coffee shop in Block Arcade discussing The Vandas, past, present and hopefully future. Towards the end of the interview I offer a gratuitous recollection: way back in... Read More
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