Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
0 Comments. 1,281 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

Seeker Lover Keeper
0 Comments. 2,009 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

The Drones - Thursday October 13, The Corner
0 Comments. 1,203 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

Jeff Lang
0 Comments. 1,308 Views. Posted 14 Oct 2011 @ 8:23am.
Jeff Lang's latest, Carried In Mind, is a perfect microcosm of everything that makes him so cool. Plaintive vocals, moody acoustic instrumentation, supercharged amplified slide guitar, and of course lyrical depth. Together the songs seem to approach the topic of life-changing events/feelings from different angles, from anxiety-ridden, stomping numbers like Running By The Rock to... Read More

Marco V
0 Comments. 465 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

Panic! At The Disco
0 Comments. 1,276 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

Bigsound
0 Comments. 1,313 Views. Posted 7 Sep 2011 @ 6:55am.
“From the moment you get up in the morning,” says Graham ‘Asho’ Ashton, talking about the very morning this magazine was delivered to Melbourne, “across about eight blocks in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley, from 9am to 4am, all the freaky people are on the street. Straight away it’s clear that something different is going on; there are thousands of creative souls walking the streets. Everywhere... Read More

Digitalism
0 Comments. 2,381 Views. Posted 26 Aug 2011 @ 9:35am.
"It's summer here, so it's quite nice," says the bubbly Jens Moelle of dance-pop duo Digitalism. His voice almost borders on sounding like a European backpacker character played by some jokester like Chris Lilley. He is at the time speaking from the warm confines of his hometown of Hamburg, Germany, as opposed to the cold witches' teat we're forcibly suckling at here in Melbourne. "Not my... Read More

Phinesse, Solo Rebirth: Breaking New Grounds
0 Comments. 1,148 Views. Posted 16 Aug 2011 @ 12:00pm.
"I think I'm kind of a competitive person. When they wrote a good song, I wanted to write a better song." David Devine aka Phinesse is clearly buzzing as I speak to him early on a Monday morning. With the weekend already in the past, Devine is looking forward to the week and ahead and is busy readying himself for his appearance at Winterbeatz. With the line-up including former collaborator 50... Read More

Live Performance Sector Booms
0 Comments. 2,003 Views. Posted 1 Aug 2011 @ 4:32pm.
2010 proved to be a record year for the live performance sector, thanks in great deal to visits from touring giants AC/DC, The Eagles, Bon Jovi and U2. The annual Ticket Attendance And Revenue Survey 2010, released by Live Performance Australia, shows that the industry generated $1.3 billion in revenue, making 2010 a record year for the sector.   Music events grew by 50.1 per cent for... Read More

Noah and the Whale
0 Comments. 2,168 Views. Posted 19 Jul 2011 @ 1:36pm.
Charlie Fink phones in from a lonely highway, somewhere in Utah, where the Noah And The Whale tour bus has broken down. This is after a spot of trouble on the Canadian border, where his rag tag bunch of English popsters were bailed up and accused of something or other, causing our interview to be delayed for several hours. Cursed tour, we wonder? "Brilliant tour so far, but a cursed day,"... Read More

Roger Shah
0 Comments. 981 Views. Posted 13 Jul 2011 @ 4:09pm.
"Sleep is probably overrated!" declares an exhausted Roger Shah. The German superstar DJ, whom you may know by one of his many other names - Sunlounger, Purple Mood, Savannah, Black Pearl, High Noon at Salinas - to name just a few, is not about to start complaining about his privileged position. He may well have only just woken up, partly due to a dysfunctional body clock and partly due to the... Read More

WU LYF
0 Comments. 1,849 Views. Posted 27 Jun 2011 @ 9:56am.
When it comes to acronym-emblazoned semi-mysterious youthful musical collectives, it seems that this year’s Sydney Vivid Festival was spoilt for choice. Though not experiencing the intense level of discourse that a certain LA rap crew has endured, Britons WU LYF have still managed to garner palpable levels of buzz leading up to the release to their debut LP Go Tell Fire To The Mountain... Read More

My Friend The Chocolate Cake
0 Comments. 2,217 Views. Posted 20 Jun 2011 @ 5:49pm.
For Melbourne musician David Bridie, wearing many different musical hats has never stymied his ability to serve up the goods which ever title he happens to be recording under. Not Drowning Waving – his former full-time band – flourished through influences Bridie gathered living between Melbourne and Papua New Guinea. But its his more accessible, decidedly localised albums made with My Friend The... Read More