Tag: "Rock music"

Arctic Monkeys : Electricity
0 Comments. 595 Views. Posted 2 May 2012 @ 2:43pm.
  Even heavier than its precursor, Electricity is the B-side to R U Mine?,released to support Record Store Day. This one is a mess of distortion, the vocals buried beneath the slapping would-be Dave Grohl drums and the rolling QOTSA guitar line. Doesn’t sound like it was much of a song to start with, but the production makes it one big forgettable stew of sound. Read More
Neil Young & Crazy Horse : Oh Susannah
0 Comments. 769 Views. Posted 2 May 2012 @ 2:24pm.
  Young’s first album in nine years is a collection of folk rock tunes – traditional songs reworked in a Yard Birds fashion, judging by the single. In this bizarre version of Oh Suzanna, you can just make out the line, "I come from Alabama with a banjo on my knee," but it bears no resemblance to the twanging hillbilly bluegrass of the original. I’m not sure it’s improved, neither. There’s a... Read More
Lisa Mitchell : Spiritus
0 Comments. 887 Views. Posted 2 May 2012 @ 11:54am.
  Lisa is back with steel drum laden pop song in which her little voice peels and soars ambitiously. The notes tremble and dance in a gently epic way, reflecting the knock-it-to-the-bleachers swooping pop style of producer Dann Hume (Evermore). It’s an interesting step forward for Mitchell but, ironically, Spiritus lacks real spirit. There is something very white and very girlish about it,... Read More
The Staffords : Hollow To The Core
0 Comments. 565 Views. Posted 2 May 2012 @ 11:31am.
  Chris Cheney produced the single by this emerging Melbourne three-piece, a straight-faced country rock number that would sit comfortably in a Billy Ray Cyrus set list. It rocks, it rolls, it boot scoots, it speaks of wanton women and broken men, and hits familiar notes in a very familiar order. Absolutely pleasant but also completely bland. Read More
Wilding : I’ll Love You Until Monday Morning
0 Comments. 638 Views. Posted 2 May 2012 @ 11:25am.
Melbourne artist Justin Wilding Stokes has a debut album, Bird’s Bread, due out this week. The lead single has a breezy and a bouncing oom-pah beat, an homage to Sgt Pepper that wafts into a clattering reverie echoing A Day In The Life and half a dozen early songs by Blur. I’ll Love You.. is lively and pretty but not striking – the melody plods in a fairly predictably way. If anything here is... Read More
60 Seconds With... Earl
0 Comments. 471 Views. Posted 1 May 2012 @ 11:14am.
So then, what’s the band name and what do you ‘do’ in the band?The band is called earl and you've got all of us. Troy – guitars and all things tech. Tom – drums. Jackson – slappin' the bass, and myself, Mark – vocals and guitar. Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like?Pop-rock. No one has told us we sound like any particular band so... Read More
60 Seconds With... The Staffords
1 Comments. 667 Views. Posted 1 May 2012 @ 11:05am.
Define your genre in five words or less: Punchy punky power pop.   Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? Corey: We get the obvious comparisons, like Elvis Costello or The Kinks, but we occasionally get something out of the blue. Phoebe: Fleetwood Mac was an odd one. Mike: Yeah, Chris (Cheney, who produced their debut)... Read More
Lapalux and oOoOO Double Bill
0 Comments. 765 Views. Posted 29 Apr 2012 @ 4:41pm.
Alias of twenty-two year old Essex beats fiend Stuart Howard, Lapalux is a name to keep your eyes on. Responsible for some seriously stellar releases on Pictures and his new home, Flying Lotus-owned Brainfeeder alongside stellar reworks for Bonobo, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, and Crystal Fighters, Howard's unique brand of twisted sampling skills and soulful, warm beats is proving... Read More
The Go Set Album Launch
0 Comments. 762 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
60 Seconds With... The Khyber Belt
0 Comments. 774 Views. Posted 26 Apr 2012 @ 6:25am.
Define your genre in five words or less: Old-School New-Age Space Rock (hyphens make two words one yeah?)   1. Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? The Sun.   2. What do you love about making music? Before you walk into the room, there’s anticipation and empty space. After you’re done, there’s a living, breathing... Read More
Miike Snow : The Wave
0 Comments. 645 Views. Posted 25 Apr 2012 @ 7:13pm.
  Released off the back of last week’s Splendour lineup announcement, The Wave is a lovely cut from Happy To You, the second album by this idiosyncratic Swedish soul pop collective. A joyful, feather light blend of piano notes and skittering drums bubbling into vibrant electro pop, from a band that lifts the roof off a live set. Bring on July.   Read More
Fu Manchu
0 Comments. 873 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. 1,344 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
Lost & Found @ Revolver
0 Comments. 1,401 Views. Posted 24 Apr 2012 @ 12:48pm.
  Revolver on Chapel St means different things to different people. Colonel Tan’s Thai menu attracts a trendy, mid-week crowd, keen on curries, retro decor and funky tracks from days gone by. Original Banksys dot the walls, dating back to when only ‘cool people’ knew of the antagonist and his emerging form of graffiti. Shepard Fairey’s iconic Obey images paste the hallways to where The... Read More
60 Seconds With... Store Bought Cool
0 Comments. 990 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
Johnny Gibson : Endless Search For Gold
0 Comments. 1,182 Views. Posted 24 Apr 2012 @ 10:39am.
  Every now and then a drummer steps out from beyond the cloak of their drumkit and reveals themselves as both songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Johnny Gibson, drummer for a host of Melbourne staples; including The Currency, Streams Of Whiskey and Swedish Magazines has done just that, presenting to the world his first solo album, Endless Search For Gold.Opener Back Roads is... Read More
Bitter Sweet Kicks
0 Comments. 1,219 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. 1,123 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
Single Of The Week: Dirty Projectors : Gun Has No Trigger
0 Comments. 543 Views. Posted 18 Apr 2012 @ 2:00pm.
  Taken from their forthcoming sophomore album, Gun Has No Trigger sees the Dirty Projectors folding an crooning soul rock melody – something Simply Red might have toyed with, back in the day – into an increasingly strident harmony by the band’s idiosyncratic female vocalists. Such a strange brew I had to hear it a few times before I realised it was genius.     Read More
Lights : Banner
0 Comments. 592 Views. Posted 18 Apr 2012 @ 1:44pm.
  The third single from Siberia, the second album by Canadian electro artist Lights (aka Valerie Anne Poxleitner), strikes an epic chord somewhere between Kanye-style stadium pop and arch synth rock. This tune is steady and simple as a tsunami. Lights supports The Jezebels at Festival Hall on 1 June.     Read More
Liars : No. 1 Against The Rush
0 Comments. 465 Views. Posted 18 Apr 2012 @ 1:23pm.
  Brooklyn electro rock stalwarts the Liars have a sixth album in the post. The first single is rich and moody, warm ricochets of glitch filling out the gaps in a dark, evocative vocal melody that sways between Joy Division and The National. Beautiful.     Read More
Daniel Rossen : Silent Hour/Golden Mile
0 Comments. 947 Views. Posted 13 Apr 2012 @ 10:36am.
  While the collective musical world awaits the follow-up to Grizzly Bear’s Veckatimest with baited breath, their members have instead spent the downtime working on various other projects. The latest of which is this tidy little EP from guitarist/vocalist Daniel Rossen.   It’d be natural to assume that Silent Hour/Golden Mile is merely an extension of his dayjob with one of indie rock’... Read More
Ball Park Music
0 Comments. 1,094 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
Prince Welcome 2 Australia 2012 Tour
3 Comments. 4,610 Views. Posted 12 Apr 2012 @ 8:45am.
After a not-so-cryptic hint yesterday, one of the greatest entertainers of our era has finally announced his return to Australia. His name is Prince, and he is set to bring a 360 degree arena spectacular to Australia this May (that's correct, only a month away).   Arguably the definitive pop artist of the past three decades, Prince has steadfastly played by his own rules - continuing to... Read More
Single Of The Week: Father John Misty : Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings
1 Comments. 990 Views. Posted 11 Apr 2012 @ 3:11pm.
  Ex-Fleet Foxes drummer J Tillman has emerged from the chrysalis all hot and snarky and hypnotic, kicking off his retooled solo career under the moniker Father John Misty. Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings is the second single released from his forthcoming album Fear Fun (out April 27) and it has been on super high rotation on all my iDevices since I saw him play some very odd but oddly... Read More
François & The Atlas Mountains : City Kiss
0 Comments. 489 Views. Posted 11 Apr 2012 @ 3:05pm.
  Domino’s newish French pop signing delivers another dreamy mid-tempo indie pop number. Some swirling synth strings and a bit a French muttering provide what little there is to notice in this song. It’s all a bit gloopy and tedious.   Read More
Spiritualized : Hey Jane
0 Comments. 507 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
Patti Smith : April Fool
0 Comments. 1,086 Views. Posted 11 Apr 2012 @ 1:45pm.
  This mild-mannered indie rock tune leads off Patti’s first collection of new material in nearly a decade. Featuring Television’s Tom Verlaine on lead guitar, April Fool is unexpectedly seductive, with subtle and warm instrumentation bubbling around her still-harsh and distinctive voice. ‘Come on your rusted bike,’ she sings, ‘Come, we’ll break all the rules/We’ll ride like riders ride/... Read More
Blitzen Trapper @ Prince Bandroom
0 Comments. 635 Views. Posted 10 Apr 2012 @ 1:37pm.
  After an appearance earlier in the day at Pure Pop Records where they, um, sat down and had a beer, my expectations were high for Portland's Blitzen Trapper. On record they sound exactly like your favourite country rock records from the '70s that you've never even heard, overrun with sweet harmonies and melodic left-turns, and at The Prince in front of a criminally undersold crowd, they... Read More
Fiona O’Loughlin – The Divine Miss O
0 Comments. 512 Views. Posted 27 Apr 2012 @ 2:04pm.
Fiona O’Loughlin is having far too much fun on the stand-up comedy circuit to give it all up for PTA meetings and ladies lunches. Instead she has hit the stage with an all-new show –The Divine Miss O, proving to women of all ages that it’s okay to ditch the wrinkle cream and simply embrace the hilarity of life (And your gay icon status!) O’Loughlin’s show is full of surprises. For instance, did... Read More
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