Tag: "Power pop"

Ball Park Music
0 Comments. 1,107 Views. Posted 12 Apr 2012 @ 1:43pm.
  Brisbane indie-pop troupe Ball Park Music are set to bring their reputable live show back to Melbourne. The 180° Tour, the band’s most ambitious yet, has frontman Sam Cromack in a spin. “The tour’s been a massive step up from where we were previously: bigger venues, more ticket sales and it’s just been quite surreal for us to watch it all unfold.”   The group’s growing popularity... Read More
Spiritualized : Hey Jane
0 Comments. 509 Views. Posted 11 Apr 2012 @ 2:28pm.
  Hey Jane is a chugging eight-minute track from the seventh album by UK space pop collective Spiritualized. After the first very radio-friendly three minutes – a peppy garage rock ramble – the song becomes more spacious, lighter and somehow more joyful. Layers of guitar and vocal build confidently until singer Jason Spaceman returns like a distorted, warbling choirmaster, leading the song... Read More
DeAnne Smith - Livin' the Sweet Life
0 Comments. 957 Views. Posted 4 Apr 2012 @ 5:01pm.
DeAnne Smith pitched her entertaining show Livin’ the Sweet Life last Saturday night to a full house at Trades Hall.  Canadian and slightly left of centre, her stand up, in particular her story telling, is engaging and funny, with a lot of surprising and dirty thoughts coming out of her self-described adorable mouth. The title of the show, Livin' the Sweet Life, refers, by the narrowest of... Read More
Velociraptor : Cynthia
0 Comments. 1,153 Views. Posted 8 Feb 2012 @ 9:26am.
  Awesome melodic garage rock from Brisbane’s Velociraptor, heavy on the screaming harmonies and jangling R&B guitars, more Mersey Beat than Black Lips. This wicked fun single has one of those odd, stupid and memorable lyrics: “I tell her she should read the book / She says, ‘Why? I’ve seen the film.’” It’s funny, in a Norwegian Wood kind of way.   Read More
The Shins : Simple Song
0 Comments. 728 Views. Posted 18 Jan 2012 @ 2:49pm.
The long-awaited follow up to Wincing The Night Away is due out in March, an album called Port Of Morrow. Simple Song is an electrifying preview, channeling '80s New Wave accents and the odd Beach Boys-flavoured melody into a fearless, day-glo pop tune that acts as a joyful battle cry from these sorely missed indie soldiers. Read More
Celadore : The Bright And Blue
0 Comments. 2,341 Views. Posted 20 Dec 2011 @ 12:34pm.
Back with their second EP since the quietly celebrated debut Distance Is a Gun, Melbourne three-piece Celadore offer up another slice of melodic pop-rock mastery with The Bright and Blue.   While the opening bars of Bakery may bear the markings of many distinctly average pop-punk outfits that have come before, by the end of the track its clear there's a little more going on... Read More
Single Of The Week No. 2 - Howler : Back Of Your Neck
0 Comments. 1,028 Views. Posted 14 Dec 2011 @ 9:46am.
This clattering fusion of west coast sunshine and jangling garage rock has got me smiling from ear to ear. The debut single from Howler, taken from their forthcoming debut album, is melodic, agitated indie rock somewhere between The Drums and Black Lips. A mangy, effortless backyard party tune to get you through summer. Read More
Huxton Creepers - Saturday October 8, Corner Hotel.
2 Comments. 2,339 Views. Posted 11 Oct 2011 @ 10:06am.
Historical narratives of Australian rock'n'roll are prone to constructing a distinction between Melbourne and Sydney scenes. With its blend of art school punk and brooding garage blues, the 1980s Melbourne music scene is said to contrast with the turbo-charged post-Birdman rock music coming out of Sydney at the same time. Like all trite sociological analyses, such commentary isn't worth the... Read More
Good Charlotte To Perform Weezer's Blue Album For The JD Set
0 Comments. 3,544 Views. Posted 20 Oct 2011 @ 2:13pm.
One of the greatest alternative rock albums of the '90s is set to be given the live recreation treatment, with US punks Good Charlotte set to headline the next instalment of The JD Set with a run-through of Weezer's seminal debut record. With Aussie Weezer fans having all but given up hope on Rivers and co. arriving on our shores anytime soon (the band reportedly turned down a $2m+ offer to... Read More
Fifi Mondello : It’s True
2 Comments. 2,561 Views. Posted 18 Aug 2011 @ 9:28am.
Perth's Fifi Mondello models herself after Diana Ross but sounds like a wedding singer. Taken from her debut mini-album, It's True is a sixties-inspired bubblegum pop song with forgettable lyrics, a retread melody and tinny production values. Fifi's voice lacks the gravitas of those sixties belles - no agony, no ecstasy, no hysteria, just the airy twittering of a half-talent wannabe. Read More
Grand Atlantic : Poison To The Vine
0 Comments. 2,578 Views. Posted 7 Jun 2011 @ 11:36am.
Brisbane’s Grand Atlantic have a third album on the way and a new single to prove it. Their late-nineties power pop sound takes a dramatic dive on Poison To The Vine, into dark and thunderous territory. With a fuzzed-out rhythm guitar, a swirling, spiralling lead and a chorus that crashes in like a wave, this track is a confident step forward (into far more interesting territory).  ... Read More
The Swedish Magazines : Wino Havoc
0 Comments. 2,792 Views. Posted 14 Apr 2011 @ 1:27pm.
Listening to the Swedish Magazines’ new album, Wino Havoc, is the proverbial step back in time, on multiple levels. Released almost three years after it was recorded in the basement of a Northcote share house, it’s a timely reminder that before Van Walker evolved into one of Melbourne’s finest singer-songwriters, and Cal became the gun-for-hire de rigueur of any local band needing a hirsute dose... Read More
Paul Collins : King Of Power Pop!
0 Comments. 2,083 Views. Posted 23 Mar 2011 @ 1:08pm.
Paul Collins knows a thing or two about power pop. Drummer with cult power pop legends The Nerves (who gave the world Blondie's subsequent cover Hanging On The Telephone) and splinter group The Breakaways, and founding member and guitarist of The Beat, Collins has been ahead of the curve, at the forefront and in the trenches of the best and brightest power pop of the last 35 years.... Read More
Two Hours Traffic : Territory
0 Comments. 1,092 Views. Posted 3 Feb 2011 @ 2:24pm.
Once upon a time – before the advent of traffic management devices and the onset of the suburban sprawl – two hours’ traffic would have been a leisurely 45 minute drive. With the car unsurpassed in transport dominance, and the roads clogged full of punters mired in a never-ending journey, traffic moves at glacial pace – and indirectly proportion to aggregate level of... Read More
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