Tag: "Punk rock"

Dig It Up! @ The Palace, Pony & Spleen
0 Comments. 914 Views. Posted 1 May 2012 @ 12:27pm.
  The fate of the Dardenelles campaign of 1915 was the product of blind optimism and breathtaking naivety. Hatched in the offices of Whitehall, the plan was a triumph of dysfunctional strategic planning. Neither the War Cabinet nor the commanding officers had ever experienced the imposing terrain of Gallipoli Peninsula; when the allied troops arrived, the poorly constructed military plan... Read More
The Go Set Album Launch
0 Comments. 767 Views. Posted 26 Apr 2012 @ 7:44am.
  The Go Set are all set to hit The Espy  to launch their new self-titled album. The new album is the band's fifth studio effort and was recorded with producer Paul McKercher. Likened to everything from early Midnight Oil, to The Pogues, and The Clash, The Go Set combine the traditional sounds of bagpipes, accordian and fiddle with punk rock guitars, and a mind blowing live show. Not... Read More
Core - April 25, 2012
0 Comments. 564 Views. Posted 26 Apr 2012 @ 6:02am.
Core- April 25 Dear Inexperienced Security Staffers Assigned to Various Venues When Bands of the Punk/Hardcore Persuasion Are Headlining, I hope this letter finds you well, and that it does not long distract you from lifting heavy things before your beaming reflection. I would like to suggest a couple points of basic etiquette that are expected from you at a show. Though a security expert I may... Read More
Fu Manchu
0 Comments. 877 Views. Posted 25 Apr 2012 @ 8:24am.
  In the 1970s Leonard Nimoy held audiences spellbound with his sombre, occasionally dire, narratives of natural events and unexplained supernatural phenomena in the television series In Search Of…. At age six I was convinced a swarm of killer bees would descend upon my parents’ house, hopefully just after witnessing the inevitable invasion of aliens from outer space.  At age 11,... Read More
Sub Atari Knives @ The Evelyn
0 Comments. 1,350 Views. Posted 24 Apr 2012 @ 12:51pm.
  Another ripping night of Melbourne alternative music. An extremely varied bill more suited to the open minded among us. Thankfully, there are a number of those in Melbourne, and a very solid crowd jammed into the classic surrounds of the mighty Evelyn this cool early autumn Melbourne evening.   Featuring two members of one of Melbourne’s best known alternative/heavy acts Sydonia, I... Read More
60 Seconds With... Store Bought Cool
0 Comments. 994 Views. Posted 24 Apr 2012 @ 12:15pm.
Five words that describe your genre:Rock’n’roll garage pop.   When and why did you start writing and playing music?Like a lot of people reading this, I can’t imagine not writing or playing music. To write is obviously to express, and rock music is one of the greatest methods of self-expression ever. Store Bought Cool have all been performers and players of music since teenage years, to stop... Read More
Bitter Sweet Kicks
0 Comments. 1,235 Views. Posted 19 Apr 2012 @ 10:00am.
  Bitter Sweet Kicks vocalist Jack Davies has mixed feelings about the band’s St Kilda background. On one hand, St Kilda is arguably the most important suburb in Melbourne’s punk rock heritage, home to the Seaview Ballroom in the late '70s and early '80s, and the Esplanade Hotel in the 1980s and 1990s. On the other hand, St Kilda of the modern era is a shadow of its former punk rock glory,... Read More
Core - April 18, 2012
0 Comments. 1,127 Views. Posted 18 Apr 2012 @ 6:28pm.
  Last weekend I stumbled upon a devastating ailment that threatens gig-goers nationwide. Every one of us is susceptible to it, and many of us can find it leaves us penniless and forlorn. Worse than the drunken text message, more menacing than the mashed ‘pash n dash’, slightly more crippling than the ‘underestimation-of-perpetual-state-of-poverty-when-shouting-strangers-rounds-of-jagers’…it... Read More
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard : Bloody Ripper
0 Comments. 819 Views. Posted 18 Apr 2012 @ 1:57pm.
  ‘All I wanna do is sink my teeth in you. You already told me to, you said that it’s alright.’ Powerful, powerful words from the 48-member garage punk collective that has lit a fire in the heart of many a Melbourne music fan. Bloody Ripper is short and sweet and noisey, a decent little tune, but it won’t quite illuminate the glory that is King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. You gotta see... Read More
Bleeding Knees Club
0 Comments. 1,037 Views. Posted 12 Apr 2012 @ 1:23pm.
  Outside the Liberty Social House, scores of young hipsters smoke their weight in rolled cigarettes, laughing entirely too hard at tasteless jokes. The underground club may be located deep in the heart of Melbourne’s business district, but on this evening, the alley has the distinct feel of a house party that’s just minutes away from imploding.   Descending down the stairs into a... 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
Mesa Cosa : Infernal Cakewalk
0 Comments. 1,313 Views. Posted 11 Apr 2012 @ 1:13pm.
This formidable debut is as picturesque as the moment you decided to shelf your first pill, swig the remaining dregs from last week's goon bag, tonsil slap your best friends younger sister and donkey punch your way into the mosh pit. So, in layman's terms, Infernal Cakewalk is one fuck-off debut! Mesa Cosa are six suburban rat bags thrown into a city of unknowns, living in (no doubt) dilapidated... Read More
Class Actress : Bienvenue
0 Comments. 610 Views. Posted 4 Apr 2012 @ 11:36am.
  Lifted from Class Actress’ debut album Rapprocher, Bienvenue is racing burst of synth pop, lightly balanced between sultriness and giddy glitch rainbows. Elizabeth Harper’s voice is a wisp of a thing, airy and forgettable. Read More
Core - April 4, 2012
0 Comments. 1,148 Views. Posted 4 Apr 2012 @ 8:09am.
So I went to the Dead To Me/Cobra Skulls show at Northcote Social Club last weekend. It was pretty much set to be the sweetest gig ever. Frankly I was pretty stoked that someone had brought the two bands out here despite there being relatively little buzz for either headlining band. I was especially chuffed to finally catch Cobra Skulls who I’ve been harbouring quite the crush on since their... Read More
Hunx : Hairdresser Blues
0 Comments. 879 Views. Posted 3 Apr 2012 @ 11:46am.
  In the press release for Hairdresser Blues, Seth Bogart (who plays under the Hunx pseudonym) states that on his first solo release, he wasn’t so concerned with entertaining people. Which is frightening, for two reasons.   First, considering Bogart’s onstage demeanour, it’s almost impossible that he can’t entertain. He treats the stage as his personal playground, beguiling the crowd... Read More
Silverstein : Short Songs
0 Comments. 775 Views. Posted 2 Apr 2012 @ 7:30am.
  Short songs huh? They sure as hell ain’t joking. There are 22 songs on this CD, and it totals just under 20 minutes in length. Obviously that means the average song length is under a minute. It whizzes past so quick it almost feels like it’s over before it’s even begun.   They have split the record into two ‘sets’, the first 11 tunes are original Silverstein songs. They’re pretty... Read More
New Found Glory
0 Comments. 717 Views. Posted 30 Mar 2012 @ 7:21am.
  Upon doing research for my upcoming interview with Florida pop punk veterans New Found Glory, the thing that struck me the most was discovering that the band has the same lineup now as when they first burst onto the scene way back in 1997. Considering the number of personnel changes that most bands have to endure during their existence, it certainly is an incredible feat and its one of... Read More
Jackson Firebird : Quang Dang
0 Comments. 815 Views. Posted 28 Mar 2012 @ 1:42pm.
The Mildura two-piece have served up a by-the-numbers garage rock number that's even dryer than the Murray River. Distorted vocals, stout rifts and a general lack of cohesion. Skip. Read More
Black Lips @ The Corner
0 Comments. 744 Views. Posted 27 Mar 2012 @ 12:35pm.
  The flash in the pan, triple j garage bands tend to produce a barely legal crowd, literally bouncing with enthusiasm. Their squealing and conversations purely made up of acronyms liable to wear the well-travelled gig goer down. Thankfully Black Lips enduring career has seen them amass a cult following that boasts people of varying age groups, sub cultures and musical tastes.   Solid... Read More
Adam Ant
0 Comments. 1,324 Views. Posted 23 Mar 2012 @ 8:28am.
  Before there was '80s pop star Adam Ant, there was a young and excited teenager by the name of Stuart Goddard playing bass in a largely forgotten London rock’n’roll band by the name of Bazooka Joe. In November 1975 Bazooka Joe found itself on the same bill as another fledgling outfit by the name of the Sex Pistols. “It was St Martin’s College, and they were supporting us – it was their... Read More
Alex Winston : King Con
0 Comments. 1,008 Views. Posted 20 Mar 2012 @ 10:14am.
  A few years ago, in a piece featured in Mojo Magazine, MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer opined that the spirit of Detroit lived on in hip hop artist Eminem. Eminem, Kramer asserted captured the sense of rebellion that epitomised working class Detroit, an attitude that lies latent in the classic Motown sounds of the early '60s, and roars as loud as a V8 Ford in the MC5 and Psychedelic Stooges.... Read More
Hoodoo Gurus' Dig It Up Expands
0 Comments. 1,162 Views. Posted 19 Mar 2012 @ 3:04pm.
  As if the Dig It Up! invitational announced by Hoodoo Gurus wasn't huge enough, the celebration has now been extended to take over four stages across three venues this coming Anzac Day. With the first announcement including The Sonics, seminal Australian outfit Died Pretty, US hard-rock outfit Red Kross, Japanese rock and rollers (and Tarantino favourites) The 5.6.7.8's,... Read More
Depression
0 Comments. 1,178 Views. Posted 16 Mar 2012 @ 8:41am.
  There was a time when punters could dance frenetically without fear of bouncers grabbing them by the collar and physically ejecting them from the premises. Known colloquially as slam dancing, it was often pervaded by a strong sense of community that seemed counter to its superficially violent style: you’d bounce off another punter, hit the ground, and ten people (usually guys) would reach... Read More
Harry Howard And The NDE : The Near Death Experience
0 Comments. 1,406 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
Clag : Pasted Youth
0 Comments. 1,275 Views. Posted 6 Mar 2012 @ 1:03pm.
  In the Brisbane of the 1970s, and even the '80s, bands like Clag were the subject of harassment, or worse, from the long, corrupt arm of the Bjelke-Peterson government. Loud, snotty, confrontational and occasionally puerile punk rock had no place in an orderly society defined by dysfunctional political hierarchy and economic privilege.   By the '90s, the period in which Clag existed... Read More
Endless Boogie
0 Comments. 1,285 Views. Posted 2 Mar 2012 @ 9:11am.
  Paul Major, guitarist and vocalist with New York band Endless Boogie, has never been to Australia.  Yet he feels like his upcoming Australian tour with Endless Boogie “will be like coming home”. As a young record collector in St Louis, Major came across classic Australian records released by the likes of Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, the Masters’ Apprentices, Lobby Loyde and the... Read More
The Smoking Hearts
0 Comments. 852 Views. Posted 29 Feb 2012 @ 1:22pm.
As far as rock'n'roll lore goes, the story of how The Smoking Hearts first came together isn’t exactly up with stories of the 'red snapper' calibre. Yet it’s a fairly juicy one, nonetheless. Shortly after the release of their debut full-length, Pride Of Nowhere, The Smoking Hearts were left high and dry by their original vocalist, Rodd Lethal, who left the band inexplicably via text message. But... Read More
Single Of The Week - Graham Coxon : What'll It Take
0 Comments. 770 Views. Posted 29 Feb 2012 @ 8:39am.
  I like Graham Coxon. When I was eighteen, he told me I my life was full of possibility. It was 1997, and we were having a drink in the bar of a shitty hotel in Adelaide and I was complaining about having a small life in a small town, my fear of being trapped in a small town forever, and he told me I shouldn’t assume anything about the future. He also said be careful what you wish for. And... Read More
Fireworks
0 Comments. 685 Views. Posted 28 Feb 2012 @ 3:13pm.
  The upcoming Soundwave jaunt will only be the second time American pop punk band Fireworks have graced our shores in their six years together as a band. Bassist Kyle O'Neill, calling in from a less than sunny and warm Chicago, has vey high expectations of our country, its weather in February and March and its hard rock-loving crowds. “I'm expecting it to be awesome,” he predicts, “when we... Read More
Bad Religion
0 Comments. 964 Views. Posted 28 Feb 2012 @ 12:32pm.
  Often credited for injecting social and political awareness into the veins of punk rock, and influencing a generation of bands to use punk’s intrinsic rebellious ethos to instigate change, Bad Religion maintain inspired just as they were 30 years ago by their fascination – and disillusionment – with human kind. “You can really break it down to one of the first songs that we ever wrote,... Read More
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