Tag: "Musical instrument"

60 Seconds With... THNKR
0 Comments. 961 Views. Posted 19 Mar 2012 @ 11:27am.
So then, what’s the band name and what do you ‘do’ in the band? The band is called THNKR. We are Sean and Jono, and we play vocals/guitar/keys and bass/vocals respectively.   Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? Maybe, a black Paul Simon mixed with some LCD Soundsystem.   What do you love about making music? It's a... Read More
60 Seconds With... The Kilniks
0 Comments. 1,199 Views. Posted 9 Mar 2012 @ 10:00am.
So then, what’s the band name and what do you ‘do’ in the band? We are The Kilniks and we play music! Consisting of Tom 'vocals' Benjamin, Liam 'lead guitar' Kelly, Nat 'keys' Taylor, Lewi 'bass' Baker and Alex 'drums' Roper.   What do you think people will say you sound like?A Kooks cover band or The Beach Boys.   What do you love about making music?It's fun playing music and that's... Read More
Harry Howard And The NDE : The Near Death Experience
0 Comments. 1,398 Views. Posted 8 Mar 2012 @ 9:35am.
  Harry Howard is by no means lurking in the shadow of his brother Rowland. If anything this album is testament to what a high caliber of musical stock the Howards are bred from. Both troubled and suffering a multitude of hardships, Harry has chosen a post-punk via '60s garage and psychedelia route to deliver his musical musings.   Recalling the stalwarts of the genre, The Modern... Read More
Q&A: Horse
0 Comments. 492 Views. Posted 23 Feb 2012 @ 7:51am.
  Name/Band: Horse.   Define your genre in five words or less: Unique, heartfelt, passionate, catchy,  essential.   How long have you been gigging and writing? Over 30 years ( i started when I was five).   What has been your favourite gig you’ve played to date? Me with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra at the Barrowland – best rock venue in Glasgow.   What inspires or... Read More
60 Seconds With... Sub Atari Knives
0 Comments. 892 Views. Posted 9 Feb 2012 @ 10:34am.
  So then, what’s the band name and what do you ‘do’ in the band? Sub Atari Knives. I am one third of a collective that combines organic drums, bass and vocals with electronic sounds. I do all of the above.   What do you reckon people will say you sound like? We have only done three shows to date but so far "new Prodigy" has come up a lot.   What do you love about making music?... Read More
Kimmo Pohjonen
0 Comments. 1,123 Views. Posted 8 Feb 2012 @ 12:52pm.
  Little known fact: aside from providing a traditional ambience to Finnish wrestling matches, accordion music was utilised as a cover for wrestler’s farts, Kimmo Pohjonen explains. The idiosyncratic artist hails from Finland and is renowned for his exploration and development of his much loved instrument – the accordion. Due to hit our shores this March for the WOMAD festival, Kimmo speaks... Read More
Amiina
0 Comments. 1,500 Views. Posted 17 Jan 2012 @ 10:54am.
  Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir of Amiina admits she does not really understand what ‘Icelandic music’ as a genre sounds like, but she seems to have a pretty chilled out metaphor for her group’s approach to musical innovation. As she says, “I think it was the fact that we all put our musicality together into one pot and stirred it and that something totally new came out, almost like a fifth... Read More
Grandmaster Flash Sideshow
0 Comments. 1,407 Views. Posted 30 Dec 2011 @ 12:56pm.
One of the elder statesmen of the hip hop scene, Grandmaster Flash is widely regarded as an innovator in the world of DJing. Credited with pioneering a myriad of techniques that continue to inspire thousands of DJs today, Grandmaster Flash was one of the first to make his own kind of music through mastering the potential of the turntables as a musical instrument in their own right. Similarly,... Read More
Kate Bush : 50 Words For Snow
0 Comments. 2,475 Views. Posted 14 Dec 2011 @ 8:31am.
Kate Bush is the only female artist to have had an album in the top five UK album charts during each of the last five decades. This impressive feat is testimony to the success of her eclectic musical style; however her tenth studio album 50 Words For Snow limits perhaps her greatest asset - her idiosyncratic voice.   The album consists of seven tracks, all of which range from seven to 15... Read More
Eddy Current Suppression Ring : So Many Things
0 Comments. 2,474 Views. Posted 13 Dec 2011 @ 2:57pm.
Eddy Current Suppression Ring are the greatest Australian band of the past decade. Is that the consensus? Did they end up cracking the mainstream? "They're playing Eddy Current at the football. You would like," read the text from my sister at quarter time at this year's first preliminary final. Have they in fact risen to the ranks of lowest common denominator, adrenaline/testosterone pumping... Read More
Jinja Safari : Locked By Land
0 Comments. 2,861 Views. Posted 13 Dec 2011 @ 2:51pm.
Sydney-based indie outfit Jinja Safari have been a favourite of Australian listeners since the release of their first self-titled EP in August of 2010. Named after the Ugandan town one half of the duo's (Marcus Azon) grandmother grew up in, their adventurous brand of dance-tinged indie rock is tinged by influences from the region, combining innovating rhythmic play with catchy melodies,... Read More
Danny Widdicombe : Find Someone
0 Comments. 1,524 Views. Posted 2 Dec 2011 @ 9:03am.
Queensland-based multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, songsmith and charismatic live performer Danny Widdicombe is an integral part of entertaining ARIA Award nominated roots combo The Wilson Pickers. He has also played guitar with luminaries such as Bernard Fanning, Karl Broadie and fellow Wilson Picker Andrew Morris, toured Oz as part of Tim Rogers' Temperance Union and released the solo albums... Read More
The Revenge Gets Unleashed On Melbourne
0 Comments. 927 Views. Posted 1 Dec 2011 @ 2:30pm.
House and disco stalwart Graeme Clark, the man behind The Revenge, began his love affair with the music scene as a young teenager, learning how to make a skewed, inventive blend of electronic beats with a few of Dad's old drum machines and a sampler. While studying sound production at university, him and a few mates began label Five20East in 1999 with brothers Scott & Ross Langley as an... Read More
Scissor Sisters
0 Comments. 2,480 Views. Posted 22 Nov 2011 @ 10:16am.
The best damn party band in the world, Scissor Sisters, are heading back to Oz for the Pyramid Rock Festival and Summadayze. It seems like yesterday (actually it was just over a year ago) that they were last here, memorably bringing out Kylie Minogue to perform her single All The Loverswith the band at Festival Hall. The Scissor Sisters have a great relationship with Australia, and they can'... Read More
Jason Midro
0 Comments. 1,980 Views. Posted 10 Nov 2011 @ 9:37am.
Jason Midro has unquestionably played a pivotal role in the dance music scene in Australia, and certainly in Melbourne. It was an innocent family piano in the home that conjured his interest at around the time he was just four. "My brother Mark had begun learning on it. I loved the sound and I would often sit there just playing notes and listening to them. My father also used to play a lot of... Read More
Daedelus
0 Comments. 791 Views. Posted 9 Nov 2011 @ 4:17pm.
It is one of the better known tales in the pantheon of Greek mythology: Daedalus, the great inventor, is imprisoned with his nephew Icarus in a tower on the island of Crete; the cruel King Minos wishing to prevent Daedalus's knowledge of his Labyrinth from spreading to the public. Fashioning wings from feathers, string and wax, Daedalus and Icarus take flight from the tower - alas, Icarus flies... Read More
60 Seconds With ... Myles Mayo
0 Comments. 1,026 Views. Posted 5 Oct 2011 @ 9:27am.
  So then, what's the band name and what do you 'do' in the band?   The band is called Myles Mayo and the Slippery Gypsies. I write the songs, sing and play the guitar.   What do you reckon people will say you sound like ?   They might say we sound like a band that plays music in the genre of pop/country/folk/rock. They might say we sing like the wind, and play like the... Read More
J.Nitrous
0 Comments. 753 Views. Posted 30 Sep 2011 @ 9:23am.
It’s been pretty nice going for Perth-cum-Melbourne DJ/producer J.Nitrous (James Burchett) whose debut EP Fighting Gravity last month climbed the Beatport Top 50 charts and earned him a support slot with his personal idol SPL at this weekend’s All City Bass night. And you can bet there’s plenty more where that came from. “Having my first solo EP come out last month was pretty amazing – but then... Read More
Peter and the Wolf at ACMI
0 Comments. 1,669 Views. Posted 22 Sep 2011 @ 11:26am.
Profokiev's classic childrens' tale gets an award-winning recreation at ACMI Melbourne. For the ultimate in classy school holidays entertainment, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image is combining forces with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra to present the film Peter and the Wolf. Profokiev's powerful score will be played live by the MSO at each screening, allowing audiences to peek into... Read More
Laura Jean: A Fool Who’ll
0 Comments. 2,122 Views. Posted 15 Sep 2011 @ 11:33am.
Laura Jean’s third album, A fool who’ll, is a little like a Melbourne weather report; ‘dark clouds forming, sunny at times with rain easing’. Just like a day in our wonderful city, this experience is rich and enjoyable. Most notable to the sound of A fool who’ll is Laura Jean’s newly-utilised electric guitar which leads a variety of stringed instruments, horns, well-placed keys and accordion.... Read More
London Elektricity: Yikes!
0 Comments. 1,184 Views. Posted 15 Sep 2011 @ 11:25am.
Tony Colman, ie London Elektricity and the founding father of Hospital Records back in 1996, knows a little about what goes into a successful Drum & Bass tune. Within Yikes!, he shows his ability to carve out sumptuous songs, not just dancefloor orientated tracks. In fact, the majority of this album steps away from the full frontal stadium sound, veering down a timeless route, fully... Read More
Gospel Dance: Gospel Dance
0 Comments. 2,063 Views. Posted 14 Sep 2011 @ 11:19am.
Gospel Dance is the new lateral venture into musical bricolage for Melbourne’s E-wah Lady. Whether she’s contributing to local label Peak Plasma Concentration Records, performing solo, being accompanied by The Open Road, blogging about all things anthropological or expressing herself through illustration; E-wah Lady will create something attention-grabbing, honest and unique. Gospel Dance is no... Read More
McKisko On Her Way
0 Comments. 1,157 Views. Posted 9 Sep 2011 @ 12:16pm.
With a voice packed-full of intensity, the incredibly talented McKisko (Helen Franzmann) will be launching her latest 7”, Good Grief, when she visits Melbourne in October. McKisko's music has been described as "avante-pop music", as she creates minimalist compositions featuring layered piano and guitar lines with a touch of percussion, enabling her unique voice to become the focal point of a... Read More
Dead Letter Circus, Wednesday August 24, The Hi-Fi
0 Comments. 1,453 Views. Posted 30 Aug 2011 @ 1:42pm.
It's certainly been a jam-packed year and a bit since Dead Letter Circus finally released their debut album. They've since descended upon every nook and cranny of our fine country on their own headline tours, supported Muse, Linkin Park, played the Big Day Out, added an extra band member and even found time to venture to the US and UK after scoring a US record deal. One might wonder what's left... Read More
60 Seconds With Nine Sons Of Dan
0 Comments. 1,760 Views. Posted 12 Aug 2011 @ 9:17am.
Hey. What's the go? Our band is called Nine Sons Of Dan. We're from the Gold Coast, my name is Flakey - I play drums and do the sequencing for the band.   What do you reckon people will say you sound like?   We have trouble finding common comparisons. Maybe people are too drunk when they see us. Our singer is from California, so mix that with maybe a bit of Gyroscope? And you have... Read More
Frontiers
0 Comments. 983 Views. Posted 8 Aug 2011 @ 9:06am.
You must be doing something right when the New York Times states that your instrument playing is "bold, technically resourceful and rhythmically incisive", or when the Cincinnati Enquirer describes you as "undoubtedly one of the most brilliant cellists of his generation."   For Berlin-based German cellist Alban Gerhardt, that's exactly the case.   His performances combine passion,... Read More
James Blake, July 26, Prince Bandroom
0 Comments. 1,789 Views. Posted 2 Aug 2011 @ 1:48pm.
If James Blake's album is good, his live show is astounding. The angel-faced British artist sold out two gigs at the Prince Bandroom on his debut Australian tour, and eager fans were rewarded with a performance that completely eclipsed the promise of his self-titled, Mercury Prize-nominated record.   Facing a twitching, claustrophobic crowd on the Tuesday night, Blake took the stage... Read More
Tom Vek : Leisure Seizure
0 Comments. 2,585 Views. Posted 29 Jul 2011 @ 10:25am.
Six years. It's a long time between albums to be sure, but especially long when that gulf happens to be between a debut and sophomore. A lot can happen in the ever-shifting musical landscape, and the one that canvassed Mr Vek's We Have Sound and its taste-making mix of electro and alternative rock structures, has changed drastically; but Leisure Seizure acts as if unaffected by the intervening... Read More
Ganga Giri : Good Voodoo
0 Comments. 2,397 Views. Posted 5 Jul 2011 @ 2:30pm.
Tracing all the way back to 1997 with his work as Manic Organic, Good Voodoo is the seventh studio release from Aussie Ganga Giri. A techno-tribal cavalcade of earthen instrumentation and worldly vision, speared directly at the dancefloor, Good Voodoo should get you moving whether you like to stomp around in fields or strut about in heels. It is quite impressive that the thumping tribal... Read More
David Brown
0 Comments. 1,549 Views. Posted 30 Jun 2011 @ 9:45am.
Mention 'art' to the average person, and it'll conjure images of oil paintings in the national gallery, or century-old sculptures. Not many think of sound art, a creative phenomenon that is growing in popularity in Australia. But what exactly is sound art? Electroacoustic artist David Brown defines it as "the systematic organisation and transformation of visual and sonic phenomena that may... Read More
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