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Splendour In The Grass @ Belongil Fields
0 Comments. 646 Views. Posted 2 Aug 2012 @ 10:51am.
When you rock up to the first morning of a three-day festival, the last thing you want is to do is get pelted with pea-sized hailstones. But after that minor meterological fakeout, Byron Bay turned on an exquisite weekend to welcome Splendour In The Grass back to its spiritual home.   Post-hail on Friday, we joined the moist masses at Alison Wonderland and Yacht Club DJs to dance ourselves... Read More
The Smashing Pumpkins Sideshow
2 Comments. 2,525 Views. Posted 3 May 2012 @ 5:20pm.
Following last Friday’s record sellout of this year’s Splendour in the Grass, The Smashing Pumpkins have announced their Melbourne sideshow. The Pumpkins will also be debuting a unique stage design in Australia created to reflect the visual themes to go along with the full presentation of their new album, Oceania – which is set for release this June 22.    Speaking of the new... Read More
Bluejuice : Company
0 Comments. 1,540 Views. Posted 23 Nov 2011 @ 8:38am.
Don't you just love it when bands take all of their favourite records and frisbee them at a sonic canvas - seeing which interesting ways they rush and flutter? It's like that listening to Bluejuice's third record Company. Evoking the feeling of all great '80s bands like Hall and Oates, Men At Work, Chic and many more, the loveable Sydney lads have improved immensely from their spirited,... Read More
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart: Belong
0 Comments. 2,390 Views. Posted 21 Jun 2011 @ 10:21am.
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart were one of the most talked about bands of 2009 – by year’s end, the Brooklyn indie-pop group’s self-titled debut album was situated in numerous ‘Best Albums of 2009’ lists. Their more zealous supporters went so far as to mark it as a defining album of the ‘noughties’. Comparisons were thrust about as passionately as the accolades... The Jesus And Mary Chain, My... Read More
Ill Nino
0 Comments. 1,045 Views. Posted 18 Feb 2011 @ 10:21am.
"We feel that we've given birth to a 300 pound gorilla!" So quips Ill Nino lead vocalist Christian Machado on their new album Dead New World. "I'm just glad to have the guitar players not living in my house any more!" he laughs.   Ill Nino are the sort of band that often get unfairly lumped into the dreaded 'Nu-Metal' category by those that are narrow-minded and... Read More
The Smashing Pumpkins
0 Comments. 1,562 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:20am.
Billy Corgan, it goes without saying, is regarded as something of an oddball. Similar to the saga that is The Life And Times of Axl Rose, Corgan’s life, his exploits, relationships and controlling personality, have burgeoned to such mythic proportions that the zeppelin of his persona almost overshadows his legacy. That blimp’s mooring, from which... Read More
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