The B-52’s @ The Classic Center, Athens, Ga, 09.02.12
It just makes you want to smash up a mic stand. It just makes you want to dive into the drum kit. It just makes you want to scream and whoop and holler and call up the dead.
Eleanor Friedberger @ The Famous Spiegeltent, Sydney, 29.01.12
‘Lost At Sea’ is better. The guitar is no longer wielded like an apology. From here it’s going to be all right (as in everything is right not merely alright).
Laneway Festival @ RNA Showground, Brisbane, 28.01.12
I hate music festivals because I love music, and I mean properly love music. Real love is unhealthy, obsessive, consuming. I am outside Music’s house in defiance of a restraining order. I am frightening off Music’s new boyfriend. I am holding Music’s pets to ransom until Music agrees to return my calls.
Throwing Muses @ De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill 01.11.11
The evolved Throwing Muses is a mighty force indeed, worthy of the name and the legacy
Dentata @ Royal Phoenix, Montreal, 24.09.11
They are total foxes, and they know it – which makes it even sweeter
Endless, Nameless. How Nirvana would have done it?
Why would you smash a guitar if you’re not a guitar player? It’s meaningless.
Songs @ Tone, Sydney, 08.09.11
The wang bar on Max’s big fucking orange Gretsch got a good going over.
Amanda Palmer @ The Concorde 2, Brighton, UK 01.09.11
Amanda Fucking Palmer. This isn’t a gig, it’s a communion.
Times New Viking @ Tone, Sydney, 25.08.11
The crowd watched attentively, on the precipice of joyous and spontaneous engagement.
tUnE-yArDs @ The Haunt, Brighton 21.06.11
Perhaps Merrill Garbus is the anti-Zooey Deschanel? I fucking hope so.
Chad VanGaalen @ Il Motore, Montreal 23.06.11
If you’re going to tell me his songs came out of nowhere and were never influenced by other bands, we’ll have to do some kung fu
Guitar Wolf + Cheap Time @ Cabaret Mile End, Montréal, 16.05.11
I’m no music nerd, but I know enough to know In The Red isn’t a dog’s breakfast of musical styles.
Tyler, The Creator @ The Zoo, Brisbane, 05.06.11
The Zoo may be the finest venue in all of Australia. It’s called The Zoo for a reason, and not just because there’s shit all over the floor and someone just gave birth to a litter of baby elephants.
The Fag Machine + I Am Austin @ Focus Wales Festival, 28.05.11
If The Fag Machine were a band to listen to and jump up and down to, then I Am Austin are a band to dance and make love to.
Women Should Be In Charge: Flame Proof Moth @ ICA, London, 20.05.11
Proper blues music is simple, heartfelt songs about real and universal experiences — blokes and lasses singing about the letter they just received, the bottle of whisky they just downed and gave them a sore head, or the lover who just left them.
IN WORDS: Boomgates + Super Wild Horses + Per Purpose @ Woodland 07.05.11
My internal douchebage disappears and are replaced by feelings of guilt, confusion and remorse as Super Wild Horses glide through their set.
Cults vs Warpaint @ the Great Escape Festival 2011, Brighton, UK, 12.05.11
The music and the dancing is infectious. and the crowd sway and dance as Cults work the room into a blissful frenzy.
Metronomy + Django Django @ La Cigale, Paris, 04.05.11
The sound of a theatre full of enthused Parisians is no mean feat, and Metronomy certainly seem to have instilled a sense of ‘Rule Britannia’ in this sweat-sodden throng as they heartedly cry out in a full crowd sing-along.
Stature::Statue + Velociraptor + Dune Rats + Horse Fight + Tape/Off @ The Zoo, 28.04.11
Tonight, for me, is about Dune Rats.
Gruff Rhys + Matt Tow @ Excelsior Hotel, Sydney, 03.05.11
Without the strange adjuncts Rhys has a nice collection of folky tunes. With them he has a nutball bag of charming oddities.
