Tag: "new record"

Leonard Cohen : The Darkness
0 Comments. 608 Views. Posted 1 Feb 2012 @ 7:03am.
Old smoky throat has a new album out on February 3 called Old Ideas, his first new record in eight years. The lead single is slinky and jazzy – maybe a little too jazzy, to be honest, but let’s forgive him his geriatric foibles and bathe in the still shiver-inducing romantic decay that he weaves with his words: “I caught the darkness / It was drinking from your cup / I said is this contagious... Read More
Donavon Frankenreiter
0 Comments. 1,098 Views. Posted 31 Jan 2012 @ 10:23am.
  Donavon Frankenreiter’s passion for music and surfing is undeniable. For much of the last decade he has travelled the world, playing music and surfing wherever and whenever he could; his love for both never wavering since he first discovered them as a child. Now he has packed his acoustic guitar and his surfboard and he’s getting ready to head down to Australia for a mammoth run of shows... Read More
Bush : The Sea Of Memories
0 Comments. 1,036 Views. Posted 18 Jan 2012 @ 11:03am.
  Many people may think that British act Bush is an early to mid '90s one hit wonder band, with their 1994 album Sixteen Stone and its massive worldwide smash hit single Glycerine their only real moment in the sun. Truth of the matter however, is that The Sea Of Memories is their fifth album, it's just that it comes after a decade long hiatus.     So how have the last ten years... Read More
Metalocalypse - December 21, 2011
0 Comments. 1,580 Views. Posted 21 Dec 2011 @ 9:10am.
RAWR! Last week, I had a really surreal experience. I spent the better part of Friday afternoon backstage with Opeth. I was supposed to be there to interview them about their gear, but got lost talking and smoking with Mikael Åkerfeldt under the red lights while techs cut the ends off guitar strings and Martin Axenrot's flares grew with each passing second. It dawned on me that, throughout my... Read More
Nick Lowe
0 Comments. 1,227 Views. Posted 29 Nov 2011 @ 9:13am.
He doesn't sound like a 61-year-old man, be it conversationally or musically. He's disarmingly modest and polite: even though Nick Lowe wrote (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding , to this day he isn't bothered a whit that it's credited to Elvis Costello. He was in the thick of punk and new wave, but never let himself be identified with either movement, even though he... Read More
Russian Circles
0 Comments. 1,796 Views. Posted 2 Sep 2011 @ 8:34am.
I still remember the days when the amount of decent international bands making the long trip down south to play in this country was pretty lame to say the least. And if any of them did come out to tour they were usually either really bad stadium rock bands or bloated pop stars. How things have changed huh. The constant stream of excellent and, especially as seems to be the case in much more... Read More
Florence & The Machine Announces New Album
0 Comments. 11,309 Views. Posted 25 Aug 2011 @ 4:34pm.
The angelic voice of Florence Welch is back in our lives, and we can't be happier. Following on from her multi-million selling, multi-award winning, global smash of a debut album ‘Lungs’, the as yet untitled album was recorded in the famous Studio 3 of Abbey Road Studios. We're talking the same studio that held the creations of the The Beatles' Revolver album, as well as Pink Floyd's Dark... Read More
Between The Wars
0 Comments. 1,332 Views. Posted 24 Aug 2011 @ 9:35am.
As an Australian of Irish descent, I get mixed feelings around Saint Patrick's day. On one hand, I can't wait to get outside and start drinking singing and head butting my cousins, on the other, I despair at how everyone in Melbourne suddenly claims Irish heritage as an excuse to get fuck-eyed. It's kind of insulting - they don't realise that's there's more to being Irish than Jimeoin,... Read More
Calling All Cars
0 Comments. 1,701 Views. Posted 18 Aug 2011 @ 9:29am.
It's been an absolute whirlwind for firebrand Melbourne rock act Calling All Cars. March 2010 saw them release their debut album Hold Hold Fireto critical acclaim and adulation from an ever growing fan base. Indeed, that fan base expanded exponentially when the band went on the road supporting the almighty behemoth AC/DC across Australia on their Black Ice Tour, playing in front of crowds of... Read More
Cut Off Your Hands
0 Comments. 1,106 Views. Posted 21 Jul 2011 @ 9:47am.
It's been a while since Cut Off Your Hands burst forth as one of New Zealand's biggest players on the international stage. The angular guitar hooks that defined their pre-LP work evolved into something more distinctly resolute for their full-length debut You & I (2008). Since You & I , the band has undergone some minor shuffling of the ranks - which bought up existentialist queries... Read More
Metalocalypse
0 Comments. 2,046 Views. Posted 20 Jul 2011 @ 2:34pm.
RAWR! So you're a huge US band and you've been tapped to do a cover story for a certain glossy music mag in Australia. You can't be fucked, because you're a huge US band and, pffft, Australia, right? Fuck Australia. Who cares, it's tiny and full of jailbirds with no money to buy merch when you tour anyway - correct? You dog your interview two times. The second time, you're even at a club and... Read More
Propagandhi
0 Comments. 1,262 Views. Posted 20 May 2011 @ 10:03am.
They may be one of punk’s most legendary bands, and still going strong after 25 years, but according to ever-outspoken Propagandhi frontman Chris Hannah, it’s a bit of a miracle, really. While the band’s earlier catalogue is considered to be packed with classics, incredibly, the singer claims songwriting and lyrics have always been a struggle for himself and the band. "At the moment we're trying... Read More
Cilla Jane
0 Comments. 2,140 Views. Posted 27 Apr 2011 @ 9:57am.
“Yes, it’s been a long time coming!” exclaims Melbourne based singer songwriter Cilla Jane when asked if she’s excited about the upcoming release of her sophomore record Until Morning Comes. “I’ve been sort of demoing it at home probably for the last twelve months and, yeah,” she muses, “I’m quite proud of it. I think my song writing has matured a lot… and I definitely put more of myself into the... Read More
Mike Noga
0 Comments. 1,983 Views. Posted 6 Apr 2011 @ 10:27am.
Mike Noga is sitting in a cafe in North Fitzroy picking at a tuna and avocado salad. “I really like this place because it’s not cool,” he says. Noga has just returned from a European tour supporting Band Of Horses, an experience that he found immensely satisfying. “When I was first asked I thought ‘Great! But how am I going to pay for it?’ But thanks to some favours, and frequent flyer points,... Read More
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