Tag: "A Little Bit Longer"

Vice Grip Pussies
0 Comments. 1,135 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. 797 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
Sarah Robertson
0 Comments. 748 Views. Posted 18 Apr 2012 @ 6:54pm.
  She’s probably a relatively new name in the scheme of things, but Sarah Robertson is about to get her dues. A stunningly beautiful woman – who has given modeling a bit of a rest to focus on her music career - has just finished mixing a CD on the triple pack, Pump It Volume 5 compilation.     She explains, “Well, the disc basically came about when my manager and booking... Read More
Stonefield
0 Comments. 832 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
Beat's MICF Coverage
0 Comments. 1,796 Views. Posted 30 Mar 2012 @ 9:19am.
So, it's no secret that Melbournians love the Comedy Festival. Beat too. So we've gone all out this year to provide you with a heck of a lot of good stuff to help you wade through the massive amount of talent hitting our lil' ol' town. Beat's 2012 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Guide The mecca. Our coveted annual guide to the festival which is immortalised in print - but also available... Read More
Justin Townes Earle
0 Comments. 1,410 Views. Posted 27 Mar 2012 @ 10:37am.
  It seems like renowned country troubadour Justin Townes Earle cannot get enough of Australia, and the adoration is more than a little bit reciprocated. Last in the country for a boot-worthy (that’s a good thing, for the uninitiated) Golden Plains performance, Justin returns with Nothing’s Gonna Change The Way You Feel About Me Now – his refreshingly soulful new LP. Before... Read More
MUFF 2012
0 Comments. 786 Views. Posted 30 Mar 2012 @ 3:34pm.
For anyone that’s unsure, that’s the Melbourne Underground Film Festival. Yes, Australia’s most innovative, original, controversial, cheeky and fun film festival is back for another year, and applications are now open for any of you budding filmmakers to get your work in and quite possibly have it chosen to be shown at this year’s official MUFF event.  All you need to do? Be a little bit... Read More
Nick Skitz
0 Comments. 923 Views. Posted 19 Mar 2012 @ 12:08pm.
  You’d be hard pressed to identify an Aussie DJ who spends more time touring and pumping out mixes in the studio that Sydney’s favourite son, Nick Skitz. Indeed, this guy has toured virtually week-in, week-out for almost 15 years, and his multi-annual Skitz mixes keep the punters salivating for more. Not surprisingly either, given his loyal legion of fans won’t stand for anything less.... Read More
Xavier Rudd
0 Comments. 1,385 Views. Posted 15 Mar 2012 @ 2:18pm.
It's been quite a while since Xavier Rudd has released a solo album. His last release was 2010's Koonyum Sun, credited to Xavier Rudd and Izintaba, and before that his most recent solo record is 2008's Dark Shades Of Blue. Rudd recently returned to the studio to record a new batch of songs and an interesting theme to knit them together, the first taste of which is Follow The Sun, a... Read More
Bombs Away & DJ Kronic
0 Comments. 1,233 Views. Posted 14 Mar 2012 @ 6:56am.
  Perth party duo Bombs Away, made up of brothers Thomas Hart and Sketch, are currently on a promotional tour in America before relocating there for six months in June. (“We’re not abandoning Australia but we’re just getting the hell out of here during winter and then we’ll be back in summer”.) Having just mixed Wild Nights 2012alongside Adelaide DJ and (now) producer DJ Kronic, the... Read More
Big Day Out, Sunday January 29, Flemington Racecourse
0 Comments. 1,479 Views. Posted 7 Feb 2012 @ 9:52am.
  Ah, Big Day Out. We meet again. As I was just getting over our hot date from last year, you’ve come around to greet me for another year. And, as always, you delivered me with some humour, a stack of fun and that extra bit of skin colour. Thanks for that, by the way.   Big Day Out is one of those festivals that always keeps me entertained. If not for the weird and wonderful array of... Read More
Bonobo
0 Comments. 1,375 Views. Posted 6 Feb 2012 @ 4:26pm.
  Effortless, laidback cool is something that seems instinctive to London-born and New York-based Ninja Tune stalwart Simon Green, better known through his production alias Bonobo. With ten years worth of expansive, breezy electronica to his name that’s much-lauded by fellow musicians and music critics, it’s no wonder that news of his first live tour of Australia was met with enough... Read More
Chairlift
0 Comments. 1,074 Views. Posted 26 Jan 2012 @ 6:25am.
Chairlift’s Patrick Wimberly shifts restlessly, preoccupied with a very important milestone: the impending release of the band’s sophomore album,Something. He inadvertently reflects the anticipation of fans both here and abroad. “It’s really exciting. It makes me nervous, actually, really nervous,” he admits. “We’ve been sheltered for the last two years. We spent a lot of time working on this... Read More
The Barons Of Tang
0 Comments. 1,171 Views. Posted 17 Jan 2012 @ 10:23am.
  Local gypsy-punk seven-piece band The Barons Of Tang are a force to be reckoned with. With two EPs under their belt, they’ve been gracing stages all over the world, spreading their mix of jazz, folk, punk and the kitchen sink to audiences in North America and Europe to infinity and beyond! Listening to the raw and visceral chaos that is their 2010 EP Knots And Tangles, one is ushered into... Read More
Attack The Block
0 Comments. 1,619 Views. Posted 30 Nov 2011 @ 10:26am.
Joe Cornish's alien invasion flick Attack The Block has one of the more memorable openings of a movie in recent memory. Its young protagonists are members of a South London street gang, and when we see them for the first time, they're mugging a young woman for her wallet and jewellery. It doesn't engender a great deal of sympathy, but writer-director Joe Cornish didn't intend it to.... Read More
WBYK
0 Comments. 1,450 Views. Posted 28 Nov 2011 @ 8:35am.
"WBYK began in 2006 making screen printed band posters. It was something we both worked on at night after we finished our day jobs. Now it is our day job. We have other things we do at night now." Sonny Day and Biddy Maroney are living the dream. So many people wish that their hobby could be a self-sustaining career move, but so few realise that dream. The Newtown, Sydney based duo started out in... Read More
Adventures In Sound
0 Comments. 895 Views. Posted 23 Nov 2011 @ 9:02am.
What happens when the past means the present and east meets west? From Friday November 18 - Friday December 16, Multicultural Arts Victoria in association with The Arts Centre will presents Visible Sessions - the improvisational nature of experimental music from many parts of the world. This event will ideally lend itself to the concept of bringing in new and different sounds from around our... Read More
Boom! Bap! Pow!
0 Comments. 1,687 Views. Posted 23 Nov 2011 @ 8:43am.
Novak Bull, a lady named for '60s screen siren Kim Novak, is extremely upbeat about yet another seemingly arduous return to east from her Perth home. On the way out the door to her other gig as a social worker, the frontwoman of the thrillingly titled Boom! Bap! Pow! band gushes, "We just can't keep away from Sydney. We're all uber excited to be heading east again. How could you possibly not be... Read More
The National
0 Comments. 1,871 Views. Posted 9 Nov 2011 @ 8:11am.
“Sorry, just give me 30 seconds, I’m just going to go and fill my wine glass and then we can go from there.” From the very start of our conversation, The National’s frontman is the picture of pure class, offering his wry apology in a gentle cadence – one which sits a register or two higher than the celebrated baritone of his singing voice. Matt Berninger has plenty of reasons to raise a toast to... Read More
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
0 Comments. 1,260 Views. Posted 3 Nov 2011 @ 8:37am.
Given the multitude of side projects that the various members of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are involved in, they've kind of re-emerged without warning, with their third album in six years,Hysterical (what on God's hot earth possessed them to go with that title) and an impending visit to the Antipodes. There was a point where Hysterical might not have eventuated at all. Up until six... Read More
Vultures Of Venus
0 Comments. 1,502 Views. Posted 28 Oct 2011 @ 8:24am.
According to shock-rock impresario Rob Zombie, Mars is in desperate need of women. Yet the Red Planet, in Hoodoo Gurus' opinion, needs guitars. Women and guitars - surely these are two things that every planet needs. I'm assuming Mars' comely neighbour Venus, has these items in spades, judging by the music of local space-synth-glam rockers Vultures of Venus. Infused with a heady mixture... Read More
Seeker Lover Keeper
0 Comments. 1,951 Views. Posted 27 Oct 2011 @ 8:50am.
I had never seen Sally Seltmann live before last year's Meredith. It was the last day of the festival and many had already packed up their tents and left, having had enough of the typical torrential rain that had bombarded much of the weekend. We stood at the stage in our ponchos, drizzle sprinkling on our hoods, next to a few fallen over bins which were now being pounded on by some coming-downer... Read More
Graveyard Train
0 Comments. 2,527 Views. Posted 26 Oct 2011 @ 8:16am.
While arranging an interview with exponentially-rising horror-country outfit Graveyard Train, I start to envision a leisurely dusk stroll through the fitting surrounds of Melbourne General Cemetery - an effort to complement the band's often macabre body of work, all the while discussing their imminent Halloween spectacular. As it turned out, today was hot - so hot that I'd probably start to envy... Read More
The Drones - Thursday October 13, The Corner
0 Comments. 1,170 Views. Posted 25 Oct 2011 @ 11:14am.
Why has our mere year-long depravation of Drones felt like an eternity? We've been gifted a run of more than consolatory solo projects in the meantime, but the Australian music landscape just wasn't the same without The Drones. Thankfully the tour celebrating the launch of new live DVD A Thousand Mistakes looks like the beginning of a more absolute return of the group as a collective... Read More
Bachelorette
0 Comments. 985 Views. Posted 18 Oct 2011 @ 10:51am.
Christchurch-based songstress Annabel Alpers, better known to fans of her dreamy elecronica-infused "computer folk" by her stage name Bachelorette, is wandering around the streets of Brooklyn as I'm chatting with her over the phone. Police sirens, children at play, and an ice cream truck's musical tones (it is summer over there, after all) can be heard in the background. She's stateside for some... Read More
Big Scary
0 Comments. 1,790 Views. Posted 4 Oct 2011 @ 10:14am.
The golden shortbread cookies that Jo Syme has placed on the table in front of us appear even more enticing in the shimmering glow of this sun-drenched spring morning. With cups of tea in hand, she joins Tom Iansek and I with an enthused recommendation of the aforementioned cookies. Seated around a wooden table in their manager's backyard, discussing Big Scary's debut album,Vacation (one of... Read More
Marco V
0 Comments. 454 Views. Posted 28 Sep 2011 @ 11:16am.
“I did it once before and that was really good, so I am excited to go back.” At first Dutch superstar DJ Marco V (the V stands for his surname Verkuylen as opposed to something weird or wonderful) seems to be pretty straight talking. With our phone call having been delayed by my lengthy heart-to-heart with his fellow Godskitchen headliner John Askew, it is hard to tell whether Verkuylen is... Read More
Blunt Instrument
0 Comments. 1,327 Views. Posted 22 Sep 2011 @ 9:57am.
Technology can be a wondrous thing when it works. However, it can also quite easily be one of life's biggest hindrances. Having tried to reach Blunt Instrument's Luke Latimer, to be met by a rather formal but very well recorded answer phone message, I try his colleague Rocco Mico's number, to be met by a thankful “we've been expecting your call. Luke is with me, let me just put you on speaker.”... Read More
Panic! At The Disco
0 Comments. 1,239 Views. Posted 21 Sep 2011 @ 9:32am.
In the moments before I speak with Spencer Smith, drummer and percussionist for Las Vegas pop-punkers Panic! At The Disco (PATD), The Ballad Of Mona Lisa, the first single off their third and most recent LP Vices & Virtues, is blaring from my computer. A riotous and frenetically boisterous mix of jazz, zydeco and pop-punk, the track reminds me of their 2005 debut A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out.... Read More
Tensnake
0 Comments. 1,106 Views. Posted 14 Sep 2011 @ 11:36am.
Hamburg's Tensnake is one of the biggest names in cutting edge disco and house music anywhere in the world. Music heads from all walks of life revered his huge summer track, Coma Cat. And right now, everyone from the house cats on Resident Advisor to the indie fans on Pitchfork, people are standing up and taking notice. His remixes for Azari & III, Hercules & Love Affair and Aloe Blacc... Read More
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