Tag: "Thought"

Black Cobra
0 Comments. 776 Views. Posted 24 Apr 2012 @ 10:44am.
  For some bands, a record is simply an entree into a live experience; for others, a live event can never capture the complexity of a studio output.  In Black Cobra guitarist Jason Landrian’s mind, to truly appreciate the band it’s important to experience and appreciate both their live and recorded product. “I think if you just see the band live, that's okay, but you're missing out on... Read More
San Cisco
0 Comments. 748 Views. Posted 19 Apr 2012 @ 10:02am.
  Call them “awkward” as much as you like, but the simple truth is that San Cisco know how to work their magic – and they’ve proven that. Entering triple j’s Unearthed Competition because “it’s just something that you do now”, the Fremantle foursome have gone from strength to strength since uploading their song on the program. Speaking to the band’s drummer, and only female member, Scarlett... Read More
Zomboy
0 Comments. 778 Views. Posted 12 Apr 2012 @ 10:22am.
  Speaking from his hotel in Turin at The Big Snow – a snowboarding festival where he is playing – Zomboy explains that he is working on new music and looking out onto one of the most amazing views he’s ever experienced. “In fact, let me take a picture so you can see,” he says. Before I know it, there is a picturesque snow covered chateau with beautiful tinges of green and brown in my inbox... Read More
Chet Faker
0 Comments. 11,953 Views. Posted 5 Apr 2012 @ 5:01pm.
It was happenstance, and a latent passion for Chet Baker’s twisted, tortured and emotive brand of jazz that led Melbourne musician Nick Murphy to adopt the name Chet Faker as the nom de plume for his electronic-beat-pop outfit. While Murphy is adamant that Chet Faker is largely Nick Murphy under a convenient pseudonym, he does concede that it’s reasonable to assume Chet Faker is an alternative... Read More
Sarah Kendall - Persona
0 Comments. 471 Views. Posted 18 Apr 2012 @ 1:15pm.
Sarah Kendall just had the worst flight from London to Melbourne. You know when you get on a plane and see a mum with a toddler who's out of control, she asks? And everyone's thinking, don’t sit next to me? The audience murmurs in sympathy, thinking how awful it must have been to sit through a 24-hour flight next to someone else's toddler.   But there’s a twist: “Yeah, I'm that mum.”... Read More
Tornts
0 Comments. 576 Views. Posted 22 Mar 2012 @ 5:56am.
  It might have taken five albums to build up his profile to this level, but check out his latest work on YouTube to understand why it all takes time. A video like Traumatic Cinema can seemingly change your outlook and point of view towards Aussie hip hop in three fleeting minutes. One of the darkest and most creative clips you’ll see in some time, Traumatic Cinema describes the life of a... Read More
Johnette Napolitano
0 Comments. 1,592 Views. Posted 24 Feb 2012 @ 6:37am.
  There were a number of signature looks and sounds of the early ‘90s. Sure, there was flannel and grunge, but in my mind there were also girls that looked like Winona Ryder and the sound of Concrete Blonde. This may just be due to a tangle of associations, given Winona was inHeathers with Christian Slater, who was in Pump Up The Volume which featured Concrete Blonde covering... Read More
Hudson Mohawke
0 Comments. 995 Views. Posted 23 Feb 2012 @ 8:52am.
  Mention Scotland in front of anybody who proclaims to be a dance music enthusiast, and you’re likely to have Danny Boyle’s cult-classic film remake of Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting mentioned at some point. The story of a rag-tag bunch of junkies caught in the shackles of heroin addiction, its soundtrack (featuring the likes of Leftfield, New Order and Underworld with their breakout tune... Read More
Any Questions For Ben?
0 Comments. 1,723 Views. Posted 15 Feb 2012 @ 12:57pm.
  “I think that years go by quicker as you get older,” tells writer and director of Any Questions For Ben? Rob Sitch, the first feature film from the Working Dog team (The Castle, The Dish) in over a decade. When asked why it has taken so long for them to create a new feature, Sitch, who co-wrote the film with his usual collaborators Santo Cilauro and Tom Gleisner, explains that other things... Read More
Monkey's Pirate
0 Comments. 876 Views. Posted 19 Jan 2012 @ 11:48am.
What’s your name then? Oh. And the name of your band… The band's name is Monkey’s Pirate and our names are Jolley and Nathaniel. However, our sea fairing names be Captain KrackSpanna and the Pleasure Carrot. Nathaniel has an uncomfortably red beard and Pleasure Carrot is the least offence of his nicknames.   And what do you do? Roots. Our sound is an eclectic mix of sea shanties, urban... Read More
Dillinger Escape Plan
0 Comments. 1,085 Views. Posted 13 Jan 2012 @ 9:14am.
With experience comes confidence and no longer being “the new guy” in the band, Greg Puciato isn’t talking himself out of doing “weird” or “crazy shit” ten years since joining Dillinger Escape Plan. It’s a right the band has earned ever since the beautiful chaos of Miss Machine and they certainly up the ante on latest effort Option Paralysis, as the singer explains.  “We’re... 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
Regurgitator
0 Comments. 2,388 Views. Posted 13 Dec 2011 @ 1:10pm.
Ben Ely, bassist and vocalist of Brisbane-based experimental rock trio Regurgitator, likes to have fun. Full of original ideas and armed with a razor-sharp sense of humour, this is a band that refuses to limit itself in its pursuit of iconoclastic music-making, resulting, over the last 17 years, in seven unique albums that just cannot be pigeonholed. With Quan Yeomans (lead vocalist/guitarIist... Read More
Spicks And Speck-tacular: The Finale
0 Comments. 2,847 Views. Posted 8 Dec 2011 @ 8:16am.
"La-la-la-la, ah-aaah." It's gotten to the stage over the past seven years that The Dissociatives' vocal refrain on the theme of much-loved variety show Spicks And Specks has been embedded into the Australian psyche far more prominently than The Bee Gees' original. But the infectious theme will be disappearing from our airwaves forever (except for reruns, of course) as Adam, Myf and... Read More
Nick Lowe
0 Comments. 1,232 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
WBYK
0 Comments. 1,453 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
Prince Rama
0 Comments. 1,040 Views. Posted 24 Nov 2011 @ 8:15am.
Change is a funny thing. Sometimes change occurs without design and happens gradually. Yet sometimes, a change occurs that's so drastic, it can only be the result of one contributing factor. For Taraka Larson, art school provided the inspiration for the radical alteration not only in the style of music she wrote, but also her outlook on life. Before attending art school Larson didn't the... Read More
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
0 Comments. 1,775 Views. Posted 24 Nov 2011 @ 8:15am.
In the cover image of Unknown Mortal Orchestra's debut long player stands a dilapidated and eerily alien building - all undulating, tarnished metal and aimless spires, set amidst a desolate and unremarkable landscape. It's a structure that was erected on Petrova Gora, a mountain in Croatia, by a communist government to commemorate partisans killed in the area during WWII. Despite its other-... Read More
Valentiine
0 Comments. 1,491 Views. Posted 17 Nov 2011 @ 8:48am.
Although many more ladies have formed or joined bands in the last ten years or so, rock music still has somewhat of a 'boys club' feel to it. The majority of modern rock bands are still all-male, or at least male dominated. It's still fairly rare to see female members in rock bands and to find all-female bands playing hard rock is even more of an oddity. There are, of course, a few bands... Read More
Saskwatch
0 Comments. 1,520 Views. Posted 7 Nov 2011 @ 8:29am.
If you're yet to experience the sensation that is the swirling hurricane of unmitigated soul put forth by Saskwatch, then you've only got yourself to blame. The Melbourne-based nine-piece have been a consistent force to be reckoned with since their inception - so much so that it's gotten to the point where it's rare to find a calendar week devoid of a set from these fine purveyors of soul. This... Read More
60 Seconds With Impossible Odds
0 Comments. 989 Views. Posted 4 Nov 2011 @ 9:03am.
So then, what's the band name and what do you 'do' in the band? We're called Impossible Odds and I write and perform as an MC…. Rival MC   What do you reckon people will say you sound like?   In terms of my voice, I've been compared to "Henry Rollin's cepthiphopier" and also as "having the subtlety of Kev Carmody".     What do you love about making music?   The... Read More
Laura Jean
0 Comments. 1,166 Views. Posted 3 Nov 2011 @ 7:56am.
Make no mistake about it, Laura Jean is a proud Australian. But she understands that as great as her country may be, it's not without faults. Her opinion is no more evident than on Australia , one of the more poignant tracks from her latest full-length, A Fool Who'll . It's a defiant track for the normally reserved folk chanteuse, but Jean insists it was necessary for her to speak her mind. "I... Read More
Q&A: Apache Medicine Man
0 Comments. 690 Views. Posted 28 Oct 2011 @ 8:24am.
We hear you're taking time out of the studio to play Alcatraz At The GH tomorrow night. Have you seen the new look Greyhound since it's transformation? Apparently it's the shiz. We haven't had the privilege of seeing it first-hand yet but we've seen a few online pics and it looks like it might get pretty loose in there.   You recently made the Melbourne finals of the National Campus... Read More
Seeker Lover Keeper
0 Comments. 1,953 Views. Posted 27 Oct 2011 @ 8:50am.
I had never seen Sally Seltmann live before last year's Meredith. It was the last day of the festival and many had already packed up their tents and left, having had enough of the typical torrential rain that had bombarded much of the weekend. We stood at the stage in our ponchos, drizzle sprinkling on our hoods, next to a few fallen over bins which were now being pounded on by some coming-downer... Read More
Robert Haley: Mind Reader
0 Comments. 2,711 Views. Posted 20 Oct 2011 @ 10:09am.
A consequence of the Internet Age is the widespread availability of filmed performances on video sharing sites such as YouTube – from stand up comedy to mentalism. Heading into Mind Reader, a mentalist show by Robert Haley who doesn’t profess to be actually psychic but rather employs suggestion and sophisticated observation, I had seen plenty of videos online of other acclaimed mentalists such as... Read More
Orphans
0 Comments. 1,441 Views. Posted 11 Oct 2011 @ 9:04am.
When the stakes are high - what would you do for your family? This is the question UK playwright Dennis Kelly explores in the Victorian premiere of the psychological thriller Orphans . Presented by Red Stitch Theatre, lead character Danny - played by actor Philip Hayden - takes the audience on an emotionally-charged journey that makes us think twice about how far we would go to keep our... Read More
Big Scary
0 Comments. 1,793 Views. Posted 4 Oct 2011 @ 10:14am.
The golden shortbread cookies that Jo Syme has placed on the table in front of us appear even more enticing in the shimmering glow of this sun-drenched spring morning. With cups of tea in hand, she joins Tom Iansek and I with an enthused recommendation of the aforementioned cookies. Seated around a wooden table in their manager's backyard, discussing Big Scary's debut album,Vacation (one of... Read More
Hellogoodbye
0 Comments. 1,519 Views. Posted 16 Sep 2011 @ 10:12am.
As Hellogoodbye prepare to touch down for Soundwave Counter-Revolution, the Californian power-pop quintet draw nearer to an important milestone. With two acclaimed studio-albums and a bunch of EPs to satiate fans across a stellar career, Hellogoodbye have reasons aplenty to celebrate ten years together. In some ways, according to front man Forrest Kline, the band have come full circle. “We haven... Read More
Winterpark
0 Comments. 1,132 Views. Posted 14 Sep 2011 @ 10:49am.
A year and a half is a long time between shows for any band. For Winterpark; the studio project of Matt Ridgway, it’s been a reality yet all is about to change with the album launch for latest record Sunday Morning just around the corner. Considering the amount of time that’s past, I suggest Ridgway must be super excited about the upcoming show. “I guess so” he laughs. “Yeah it’s good to have... Read More
Q&A: Tully On Tully
0 Comments. 2,062 Views. Posted 14 Sep 2011 @ 10:28am.
What’s your name then? Oh. And the name of your band… Natalie Foster – Tully On Tully   And what do you do? I write songs and then sing them.   Why did you start doing that? To let out a little of my crazy and explore my thoughts and my surroundings.   Do you think you’re good at doing that? Of all the things I do, this is what I enjoy the most and am really passionate about.... Read More
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