Tag: "Blues"

Brothers Grim and The Blue Murders Announce Roll It In Tour
0 Comments. 228 Views. Posted 15 Apr 2013 @ 10:34am.
After smashing it on their Been A While tour, Brothers Grim and The Blue Murders return with their Roll It In EP  tour. Known for their combination of dusty blues and rock influenced by Chain, The Loved Ones, and Rose Tattoo, Brothers Grim and The Blue Murders have been making a name for themselves since 2010 with their powerful lives performances and pure swagger. Supporting the tour will... Read More
Xavier Rudd Spirit Bird Tour
0 Comments. 1,032 Views. Posted 21 May 2012 @ 11:03am.
One of the nation's foremost blues and roots voices has announced his most extensive tour yet, with Xavier Rudd heading off around the country to celebrate the release of his new album, Spirit Bird. Xavier has become one of our most internationally renowned performers, proving to be a worthy ambassodor for our country's rich culture.   Forming an intoxicating cyclone of noise with his... Read More
Various Artists : The Best Of Blues & Roots 2012
0 Comments. 1,284 Views. Posted 10 May 2012 @ 12:26pm.
Glancing down the track list of Best Of Blues And Roots 2012, you’ll see Lanie Lane, Josh Pyke, John Butler Trio, Donavon Frankenreiter, Ash Grunwald, Blue King Brown, The Jezabels, The Waifs, Gurrumul, Justin Townes Earle, Michael Franti and Spearhead and Tim Finn. I don’t think I even need to continue with this review – you get the idea, right? The CD is jam packed with blues and roots... Read More
Django Django : Django Django
0 Comments. 933 Views. Posted 12 Apr 2012 @ 1:33pm.
  Django Django, are good, very good, and their self titled debut deserves the hype it’s been getting. Since the Scottish band released the double A-side single Storm/Love’s Dart in 2009, many critics have been eagerly awaiting their long player, and now that it’s here they’ve fairly soiled themselves with joy.   Music critics have a tendency to go bananas for anything that makes them... Read More
Eugene McGuinness : Shotgun
0 Comments. 966 Views. Posted 11 Apr 2012 @ 1:54pm.
  Eugene McGuinness failed to capitalise on the warm reception of his eponymous 2008 album, and this new single seems unlikely to reignite people’s interest in the arch Brit arch pop artist. Lifted from the forthcoming album The Invitation To The Voyage, Shotgun relies on a sample of the Blues Brothers’ theme (actually the Peter Gunn Theme) for its character. Aside from that most... Read More
Damn Terran : Rebels
0 Comments. 925 Views. Posted 4 Apr 2012 @ 9:33am.
  Local belligerents Damn Terran toured with Children Collide and DZ Deathrays last year (they also played this mangy house party in Brunswick, which being 20 mere metres away from my house, gave me the opportunity to see the band without having to make anything resembling effort – win). Their opening salvo for 2012 is this clatter-punk single, a moody, pounding cycle of noise that rolls... Read More
Ainslie Wills : Fighting Kind
0 Comments. 1,223 Views. Posted 28 Mar 2012 @ 1:25pm.
A Northside neo-folk track filled with unexpected melodies, nomadic vocals and gentle guitar plucks. If I was at house party with Ainslie Wills, it'd be the only possibility in my lifetime that someone could pick up a guitar and bust out a tune without me attempting to glass their jugular. Nice. Read More
My Morning Jacket
0 Comments. 1,221 Views. Posted 22 Mar 2012 @ 5:51am.
  Bo Koster knows a thing or two about pain. Sure, as the keyboardist for My Morning Jacket, he likely endures lengths of physical torture after one of their all-encompassing live sets. But today, he’s encountered pain of a different variety. “I went to the dentist today,” says Koster, reached on the phone from his Louisville home. “The one side of my mouth is just beginning to become un-... Read More
Tété
0 Comments. 635 Views. Posted 2 Mar 2012 @ 9:21am.
  Tété, the Senegalese-born French troubadour answers his phone from his house in Paris at a time when he really shouldn’t be focused on speaking to journalists from the other side of the world: He’s at his Paris home with his girlfriend, on the evening of Valentine’s Day. Given that the day was already a distant memory when the call was made from Melbourne, this interviewer can be forgiven... Read More
Mark Lanegan : Blues Funeral
0 Comments. 1,096 Views. Posted 14 Feb 2012 @ 2:37pm.
  Mark Lanegan understands the blues. For the best part of his adult life Lanegan has stumbled through a gut-wrenching collage of drug addiction, emotional heartache and physical trauma. Lanegan has ridden a violent psychological rollercoaster, barely keeping to the rails while others have fallen to their demise.   So when Lanegan releases an album titled Blues Funeral, you know it’s... Read More
Q&A: Kelly Auty
0 Comments. 838 Views. Posted 8 Feb 2012 @ 1:09pm.
  So then, what do you ‘do’ in the band? I sing, I dance, I entertain the fans – that’s the performance bit. For every gig there is the booking, repertoire and rehearsals, promotion and so on. It’s a busy schedule and well worth the work when the lights go up and the music starts. Feels like herding cats sometimes but I wouldn’t want to spend my life any other way.   What do you think... 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
Vintage Trouble : The Bomb Shelter Sessions
1 Comments. 1,202 Views. Posted 2 Feb 2012 @ 6:45am.
I had high hopes for this record; talks of ‘juke joints’ and the ‘essence of the original soul movement’ got me quite excited. The dapper looking cats who make up Vintage Trouble certainly look like they could belt out some soulful sounding vintage rhythm ‘n’ blues but unfortunately what’s on offer on The Bomb Shelter Sessions is some standardised blues rock with a, dare I say it – ‘funky’ edge... Read More
Joe Robinson, Wednesday January 11, Bennetts Lane
0 Comments. 933 Views. Posted 31 Jan 2012 @ 3:49pm.
In 2008 a 16-year-old Joe Robinson took out Australia's Got Talent with his humble charm and impressive guitar playing, his victory clinched with a performance of the Tommy Emmanuel arrangement of Classical Gas. But rather than cashing in on his notoriety and youth with a rushed album of covers, Robinson relocated to Nashville, where he has spent the last few years refining his style and... Read More
Single Of The Week - Drake Feat. Rhianna : Take Care
0 Comments. 854 Views. Posted 25 Jan 2012 @ 3:45pm.
  A low key R&B track in the Usher mould, with booming bass and a watery, submerged synth line and not much else. This is a nice change of pace from the epic scale du jour of the Kanye-led commercial hip hop scene, and it features a really interesting break down – more minimalist drums and clever layers of vocal samples from an old blues singer. Rhianna’s performance is also muted and... Read More
Cat & Spoon : In My Pocket
0 Comments. 792 Views. Posted 25 Jan 2012 @ 3:36pm.
  That isn’t the voice I expected. The gentle ripples of acoustic guitar that launch In My Pocket are overly familiar - the light, lilting gestures that usually precede a kittenish female folk singer. Not in this case though. The voice that breathes over these romantic guitar notes is rough and masculine, closer to Tom Waits than Julia Stone. It’s a pleasing kind of dissonance, softened in... Read More
Delaney Davidson : Bad Luck Man
0 Comments. 1,024 Views. Posted 25 Jan 2012 @ 11:49am.
  Delaney Davidson lives the proverbial peripatetic lifestyle. Born in New Zealand, Davidson travels the world playing his guitar, imbibing the local culture and transposing his idiosyncratic observations into country garage tunes. If Davidson was American, he’d be prone to jingoistic hubris; as a New Zealander, Davidson’s narratives are dripping with pathos, irony and the odd splash of... Read More
Harmony, Saturday December 17, Phoenix Public House
0 Comments. 976 Views. Posted 17 Jan 2012 @ 3:26pm.
    I’ve walked past the Phoenix Public House a million and one times and never so much as had a beer in the cosy front bar, let alone seen a band in the venue. As I stepped in there, I found myself wondering how this could possibly be the case. I nervously propped myself against a questionably structured railing in the corner of the room and was completely smitten with the place. It... Read More
Alkan Zeybek & The Lessermen: Kid’s Medicine
0 Comments. 1,282 Views. Posted 9 Jan 2012 @ 9:08am.
  I can wholeheartedly vouch that Kid’s Medicine is a flailing-about type affair, preferably while a touch inebriated, but it’s just as steamily scathing when sober. I tried it with shitty cask wine and headphones and it worked pretty well, though this collection works even better live. As it should. As jarring as it is enticing, as loose as it is relentless, as familiar as it is... Read More
Blitzen Trapper: American Goldwing
0 Comments. 892 Views. Posted 6 Jan 2012 @ 10:49am.
  For me, the genre of Americana that developed in the 1970s is defined by three tracks from that era: Bob Dylan’s All The Tired Horses, Canned Heat’s On The Road Again, and the ultimate track from this genre, America’s Horse With No Name. All three of these tracks evoke the wide-open spaces of the United State’s Midwest and the culture of a wandering troubadour. On American Goldwing... Read More
Sun God Replica: Primitive Clockwork
0 Comments. 2,308 Views. Posted 22 Dec 2011 @ 1:29pm.
Take an already excellent genre, add a few new ingredients to shake things up a bit and you could be onto a winning formula. A classic, with a twist. Sun God Replica's debut album Primitive Clockwork is just that. ‘70s rock a la Black Sabbath/ Blue Cheer with harmonised pop choruses reminiscent of early ‘90s indie rock greats.   Opening track Vivisection (which is more like an intro than an... Read More
Grand Atlantic : Central Station Blues
0 Comments. 1,052 Views. Posted 14 Dec 2011 @ 9:32am.
Grand Atlantic channel Primal Scream in another feisty psychedelic rock track from Constellations. It's a big, booming single with a bit of 'yeah c'mon' in the chorus, a laddish snarl and a bongo part ripped straight off a The Stone Roses' album. Read More
C.W. Stoneking, Friday Dec 2, The Corner Hotel
0 Comments. 1,465 Views. Posted 13 Dec 2011 @ 2:41pm.
Drug-addled pygmies, clairvoyants, ventriloquist teachers, hoodoo doctors, hoodoo charms, sea lice, cemeteries, squatters on a dildo farm and predictions of death in an eight-sided room. A Canadian groom disappearing in downtown New Orleans only to be found busking in a lemon-yellow see-through dress while wearing no underwear. Thwarting off a fellow sailor with a banjo while shipwrecked on... Read More
The Demon Parade : All The Cool Kids
0 Comments. 1,389 Views. Posted 23 Nov 2011 @ 10:38am.
All The Cool Kids has a simple but hugely effective hook. Local psych rockers The Demon Parade have hit the perfect storm of swirling guitar distortion and laconic disaffection here, and tied it all together with one of those inexplicably awesome lines that is totally inane but/and so is the pure distilled essence of rock and roll: “All the cool kids will be at the show.” Single launch is at the... Read More
Shaun Kirk
0 Comments. 1,332 Views. Posted 22 Nov 2011 @ 10:14am.
It's been six years since Shaun Kirk first sang a note in front of a few people. In between, now and then, Shaun has been perfecting his boogie blues style at a myriad of live jam nights, he has released his award winning debut album Cruisin' and is now touring Australia for the launch of his first full-length album Thank You for Giving Me The Blues inclusive of a cameo... Read More
The Snowdroppers
0 Comments. 1,734 Views. Posted 22 Nov 2011 @ 9:50am.
A Snowdropper by definition is said to steal women's panties from clotheslines and masturbate into them. Now, I received no confessions about such acts from the band by the same name, however the Sydney four-piece did make reference to a mysterious "Chikito Incident", which may or may not have involved three women and deep fried cuisine. By then end of the interview I was no wiser. After pulling... Read More
Martyn, Africa Hitech and Arp101 Tour
0 Comments. 1,124 Views. Posted 4 Nov 2011 @ 1:45pm.
Alpha One to Control, red flash – The Operatives have put together another killer list of agents for Espionage, and this one is looking like serious business.  Heading the charge is Brainfeeder’s Martyn, whose debut album Great Lengths tore through the worlds of dubstep and house with its curious mix of influences and heavy lashings of bass. With a new album recently out alongside a killer... Read More
Vintage Trouble Swing To Melbourne
0 Comments. 1,351 Views. Posted 4 Nov 2011 @ 12:07pm.
Californian soul rock band Vintage Trouble will be treating Australian audiences to their exciting sound when they visit the east coast this summer. Vintage Troubleonly formed in 2010 but have already built a strong reputation following their performance on Later...With Jools Holland where they became the #6 most trending topic on Twitter that day.   The band used a three day recording... Read More
Jed Rowe Band Vs Jenny Biddle
0 Comments. 1,780 Views. Posted 3 Nov 2011 @ 7:56am.
JENNY BIDDLE INTERVIEWS JED ROWE:   You've just recorded a new album with guitar legend Jeff Lang, tell us about the process of recording with Jeff?   We went for a pretty live sound with an old school approach, recording directly to analogue tape in Jeff's studio rather than to computer, so the tactic was to work the songs out really well beforehand and then try to catch some... Read More
Stonefield : Yes Master
0 Comments. 1,549 Views. Posted 2 Nov 2011 @ 11:38am.
The lovely sisters Findlay (of the Macedon ranges) return with another seventies-inspired heavy rock single. Yes Master features more solid wailing from drummer/vocalist Amy, and chunky guitar riffs that slam against each other, but again, it's not a hit and it's not authentic. The girls, who started out playing Hendrix covers, have yet to find their own sound. Read More
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