Tag: "A Little Bit"

Vice Grip Pussies
0 Comments. 1,146 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
Sarah Robertson
0 Comments. 753 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
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. 838 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
Stacey Pullen
0 Comments. 464 Views. Posted 2 Apr 2012 @ 7:42am.
  Detroit legend Stacey Pullen is on his way to Melbourne in April to play at Circoloco. The party is being put on by Melbourne's Darkbeat crew along with Dave Trimboli and The Proper Kollektive to celebrate their 9th birthday. They are bringing the Ibiza party brand, Circoloco, to Australia with four international headline artists: Tania Vulcano, Stacey Pullen, M.A.N.D.Y. [Patrick] and... Read More
Beat's MICF Coverage
0 Comments. 1,797 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. 1,412 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. 791 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. 925 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. 1,391 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. 1,237 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
System Of Venus Vs. Swidgen
0 Comments. 1,152 Views. Posted 2 Mar 2012 @ 9:57am.
System Of Venus question Swidgen   1. Which super power would you like to have and why? The power of Magnetism!!!! To control all things Metal.   2. If you had to create a '80s or '90s (choose your decade) compilation tape, what would the top five tracks be? Plastic Bomb POISON IDEA, Little Debbie SURGERY, Fuck 'Em All DWARVES, Another Night in Hell POWDER MONKEYS, Zombie THE FALL-... Read More
Men
0 Comments. 858 Views. Posted 24 Feb 2012 @ 6:48am.
  Whether it’s through her work with electroclash goddess Peaches, Dykes Can Dance or Le Tigre, as a social justice activist, or a filmmaker and artist – JD Samson remains the unapologetically inimitable voice of left-wing, queer-girl politics in the contemporary music industry. Since the natural conclusion of Le Tigre’s output after the release of This Island, Samson’s been busy... Read More
AC Slater
0 Comments. 677 Views. Posted 23 Feb 2012 @ 7:36am.
  West Virginia in the good old U.S of A isn’t exactly what you’d call electronic musical heartland. But Aaron Slater is trying to change all that. Indeed, music runs in his blood. He’s always been a fan with unusually eclectic taste, for keeping things different is his very modus operandi.   “It has really weaved around a little bit for me – music that is,” he says in retrospect from... Read More
Big Day Out, Sunday January 29, Flemington Racecourse
0 Comments. 1,484 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. 1,380 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. 1,075 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. 1,177 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
The Charge
0 Comments. 1,089 Views. Posted 12 Jan 2012 @ 8:55am.
The Charge are a tricky band to pin down. Sure, there are elements of grunge which reveal themselves quite readily - imagine an unholy Chimera featuring parts of Alice In Chains, Nirvana and Soundgarden, mixed with earlier and later sounds of Sabbath, Mastodon and QOTSA - but that doesn't tell the whole story. There's a uniqueness and directness to their compositions and delivery which definitely... Read More
360
0 Comments. 5,050 Views. Posted 11 Jan 2012 @ 7:43am.
It might sound corny as all hell to talk about vision boards and the law of attraction, but in Matt Colwell’s case it’s definitely not baloney. Also known as Aussie hip hop phenomenon 360, the rapper reckons his biggest challenge right now is thinking up new goals to accomplish in the New Year. A Top 5 ARIA-charting album? Check. Bringing in New Year’s Eve on stage at Falls Festival? Been there.... Read More
Simone's Top Ten International Singles of 2011
0 Comments. 2,078 Views. Posted 21 Dec 2011 @ 1:53pm.
1. YOUTH LAGOONCannonsA crunchy 808 beat and snowy synth notes; a high and distant lead vocal and overall sense of magic and sadness.  2. JEFF BRIDGESWhat A Little Bit Of Love Can DoI don’t why I like it so much, it’s just weirdly awesome. Makes me want to don cowboys boots have sex with an old man, and that is a rare condition.  3. FOSTER THE PEOPLEPumped Up KicksInner city violence... Read More
Spank Rock
0 Comments. 2,071 Views. Posted 18 Dec 2011 @ 2:13pm.
Though keeping busy over the past few years with a series of collaborations and extracurricular projects, it's still been half a decade since we last heard a fully-formed studio effort from Spank Rock. Since then debut album YoYoYoYoYo has gone on to influence a whole new generation of artists, as well as making its presence felt on recent mainstream releases. The man himself, Naeem... Read More
Talamasca
0 Comments. 3,274 Views. Posted 6 Dec 2011 @ 10:43am.
Cedric Dessulle - known to the French DJ community as Talamasca - oddly enough still remembers the very date he fell in love with the world of trance, except it wasn't really trance as a sound that captured his attention first; on February 7, 1992, it was the electric vibe of the first ever rave he attended, the incredible energy of the show that changed his taste and life forever from that date... Read More
Attack The Block
0 Comments. 1,621 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. 1,454 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. 1,688 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
Future of the Left
0 Comments. 2,586 Views. Posted 17 Nov 2011 @ 9:13am.
Hi. Welcome to the annual Beat article about the annual Future Of The Left Australian summer tour. As per usual, this year our guest is Mr Andrew Falkous, aka Falco, front mouth of the titular band. Okay, let's just backup a little here. The geographically Welsh Future Of The Left, née mclusky, are well known and loved in Australia for their idiosyncratic musical lacerations, and the... 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
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