Tag: "High school"

San Cisco
0 Comments. 746 Views. Posted 19 Apr 2012 @ 10:02am.
  Call them “awkward” as much as you like, but the simple truth is that San Cisco know how to work their magic – and they’ve proven that. Entering triple j’s Unearthed Competition because “it’s just something that you do now”, the Fremantle foursome have gone from strength to strength since uploading their song on the program. Speaking to the band’s drummer, and only female member, Scarlett... Read More
Dave Bloustien – The Social Contract (Redux)
0 Comments. 422 Views. Posted 26 Apr 2012 @ 3:15pm.
In 2007 Dave Bloustien successfully proved in court that he was funny, so it comes to no surprise that he can convince a bunch crowd in St Ali’s in South Melbourne of the same thing. The Social Contract is a reprise of Bloustien’s award-winning show from 2009, with a few new bits for good measure. Bloustien tells the story of a court case that stemmed from a performance on a high... Read More
Prince Tour To Be Announced Tomorrow?
0 Comments. 1,040 Views. Posted 11 Apr 2012 @ 4:18pm.
In what appears to be the least cryptic statement of the year, it appears the announcement of an Australian Prince tour is imminent. Chugg Entertainment (also promoters of the upcoming Radiohead tour among many others) have just updated to Facebook to state:   "Hmmmm. Just checked the weather report. It's predicting purple rain for tomorrow..."   If you don't follow this, go back to... Read More
Mystery Jets : Someone Purer
0 Comments. 711 Views. Posted 28 Mar 2012 @ 5:58am.
  When I was 18 my friend made me buy a $50 ticket with him to go and see Mystery Jets at The Hi-Fi so he could try and score with some girl he met on last.fm. Similarly to their latest release, the evening ended in disappointment for all. The type of insipid indie-rock you'd expect to hear from a Croydon high school three-piece who think they're alternative because they bought a reissue of... Read More
Katy Perry : The One That Got Away
1 Comments. 952 Views. Posted 8 Feb 2012 @ 9:45am.
  “Summer after high school when we first met / We’d make out in your Mustang to Radiohead.” Way to crud up Radiohead, fuckstick.   Read More
Drop Out Orchestra Come to Melbourne
0 Comments. 860 Views. Posted 30 Jan 2012 @ 7:49am.
Swedish collective Drop Out Orchestra are really hard to write about, as I discovered today.  They’re shy – shunning media appearances and avoiding social media like the plague, preferring to let their music speak for themselves. Literally. There’s almost nothing online to explain who they are, aside from their jamming cuts of funky disco and infamous remixes of, well, pretty much everybody... Read More
Snakadaktal
0 Comments. 6,190 Views. Posted 29 Nov 2011 @ 9:09am.
Triple j unearthed winners and latest signing to I Oh You records, Snakadaktal seem almost too good to be true. The teenaged band are a perfect synthesis of the best lo-fi pop produced in the last decade. All strange, laid back but urgent arrangements with catchy melodies and thoughtful lyrics, they're at times reminiscent of the retreating wave of French pop vocalists in the tradition of air and... Read More
Toro Y Moi And Washed Out Double Headline Show
0 Comments. 2,688 Views. Posted 23 Nov 2011 @ 10:13am.
Two of the blissful stalwarts of the 2012 Laneway instalment have announced a joint sideshow. After a slew of sideshows were dropped last week, fans have been waiting with eager anticipation to see both Toro Y Moi and Washed Out in a more intimate setting. The two, who've been friends since early high school in South Carolina, share many common influences and aural aesthetics, and will... Read More
Live In The Studio Gets Glee'd
0 Comments. 946 Views. Posted 3 Nov 2011 @ 2:44pm.
Attention all you Gleeks out there!  It’s time for you to warm up your vocal chords, practice your jazz hands and head to ACMI’s Studio 1 for this month’s Live In The Studio­ ­- a battle royale of high school proportions, celebrating the hit TV show Glee.   Watch notable guests and self-described Gleeks Mel Campbell and Tim Hunter go head-to-head in a debate on all... 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
Laneway Festival Honours Dean Turner
0 Comments. 1,629 Views. Posted 30 Sep 2011 @ 10:24am.
St. Jerome's Laneway Festival organisers in Melbourne have announced that former Magic Dirt bass player and much loved local legend – Dean Turner – will have a new Melbourne stage dedicated to him following his passing in 2009. "We are super excited to be back in Footscray for the third year in a row to celebrate our world-class event. This year we are especially honored to be naming a stage... Read More
ACMI Presents Teens Gone Wild
0 Comments. 1,384 Views. Posted 4 Oct 2011 @ 10:46am.
It’s time to get bad ass. As part of its First Look program, ACMI is presenting three films about rebellion with the classic tale of teens gone wild. High School Confidential starts the program off – a film that was banned in several countries upon its release for its exploitative depiction of drugs and drag racing. The following two films are are documentaries on the masters of American... Read More
Silent Disco
2 Comments. 3,461 Views. Posted 4 Aug 2011 @ 9:56am.
Bodies sway in time with an inaudible rhythm. Mouths move in synch with lyrics we must lip-read to decipher. Sounds normally obscured by blaring club speakers now echo across the packed room - the scuffle of feet, the dull thud of hips bumping or the occasional click of over-enthusiastic fingers. This scene is not an after-party for the Annual Mime Convention. This is a silent disco, that... Read More
Snowtown: Reviewed In Limerick
0 Comments. 3,944 Views. Posted 9 Jun 2011 @ 12:54pm.
Snowtown’s not for the faint-hearted, “Bodies In Barrels” and how it all started, But where credit's due, Is the director's debut, Going places that should be uncharted. Rating: 4/5 Check out more at www.thelimerickreview.com There has been some memorable shower deaths in movie history, like the chainsaw scene in DePalma’s Scarface or the string-assisted stabbing in Hitchcock’s Psycho. But... Read More
Katrina Burgoyne : White Flag
0 Comments. 2,411 Views. Posted 1 Jun 2011 @ 3:46pm.
When Katrina Burgoyne returned to her century-old family home at Gunnedah after a stint in Brisbane she found an extra resident: a ghost. Instead of haunting her, Ghost became the entrée song for her debut disc produced by guitarist fiancé Michael Muchow. Burgoyne, aided by a $12,000 APRA development grant, had spent a month in Nashville where she swung from the writing ropes. So it's no... Read More
Blast From The Past: New Album From Incubus
0 Comments. 1,311 Views. Posted 27 Apr 2011 @ 12:16pm.
Bet you didn't see this one coming: Incubus are back with a new album. It had to happen some time... if not now, when? Actually, that's the name of the album: If Not Now, When? marks Incubus' sixth studio album and it will hit our shelves on July 15.   Their lead single Adolescents goes back to Incubus' rock roots and Brandon Boyd describes the album as an "unabashed, romantic,... Read More
Tom Ballard - Since 1989
0 Comments. 3,026 Views. Posted 8 Apr 2011 @ 10:47am.
Tom Ballard is younger than most people. He believes age is just a number, just like AIDS is a series of letters. He’s the epitome of Gen Y: a gay, vegetarian atheist with ‘indie cred’, and he’s running for prime minister in two thousand and unlikely. He’s not a man yet, despite turning twenty one last year. He can’t make soup, and he ate yoghurt off a plate last week because he couldn’t be... Read More
Seekae
0 Comments. 3,531 Views. Posted 31 Mar 2011 @ 3:01pm.
After building upon their primitive chiptune-heavy infancy, Sydney three-piece Seekae emerged with their debut album The Sound Of Trees Falling On People, then going on to cement a reputation as a killer live act. The outfit now look set to establish themselves as one of the nation’s premier electronic artists with the release of LP number two, +Dome. “It’s actually pronounced ‘plus dome’,”... Read More
Rich Brophy performs An Idiot’s Wisdom
0 Comments. 1,201 Views. Posted 30 Mar 2011 @ 4:41pm.
  As the Melbourne International Comedy Festival draws closer Rich Brophy is in Sydney, contemplating the inevitable ups and downs of the impending festival experience. Lows include the obvious exhaustion that abounds with “24 nights of begging for laughter”, but the highlights of the relaxed and friendly festival atmosphere majorly outweigh any lows. “The best bit is having beers with the... Read More
Suzie Stapleton
0 Comments. 2,241 Views. Posted 23 Mar 2011 @ 8:24am.
Before she packed her bags to move to Melbourne to pursue her musical fortunes, Suzie Stapleton spent time in Sydney 's dance scene. Looking back on it, Stapleton is sanguine. "I spent my late teens totally into the dance scene in Sydney," she says. "I left school and started writing for street press about the dance scene." Stapleton had played a bit of guitar at... Read More
The Like
0 Comments. 2,070 Views. Posted 12 Feb 2011 @ 11:01pm.
Elizabeth 'Z' Berg has an almost improbably perfect rock and roll back story - Los Angeles born and bred, the child of a former Geffen Records executive, she and her best friend Tennessee Thomas have played in bands since their high school days, and currently form the core of glamorous girl group The Like, who hobnob with Phoenix and Mark Ronson and make gorgeous '60s-inspired videos... Read More
Tijuana Cartel
0 Comments. 2,425 Views. Posted 28 Jan 2011 @ 9:08am.
Name/Band:   “Tijuana Cartel.”   Define your genre in five words or less:   “Electronic, fat beats, flamenco guitar, noodles.”   S omeone is walking past as you guys are playing, they then go get a beer and tell their friend about you... what do they say?   “’That's the most amount of nudity and pyrotechnics I've seen since the... Read More
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