Added on May 10, 2011
VictoriaBirch
Excelsior Hotel , Gruff Rhys , Matt Tow , Phil Collins , Super Furry Animals , Sydney , The Brian Jonestown Massacre , The Lovetones , Victoria Birch
Without the strange adjuncts Rhys has a nice collection of folky tunes. With them he has a nutball bag of charming oddities.
Added on April 6, 2011
Matt O'Neill
93 Million Miles , Africa HiTech , Global Communication , Harmonic 313 , Mark Pritchard , Matt O'Neill , Out in the Streets , Steve Reich , Steve Spacek , Sydney , The Jedi Knights , Tom Middleton , Warp Records
entranced, volatile, enraged, elevated, attenuated, aggressive, aroused
Added on February 11, 2011
collapseboard
Axxonn , Breathing Shrine , Canberra , Crash The Curb , Devonport , Dukes Of Hazzard , Duo , Hobart , Kash , New Weird Australia , Oceans , Spheres , Sydney , Tasmania , Tom Hall
I’m happy to terrify others grandmothers but wasn’t so sure about terrifying my own.
Added on February 3, 2011
Everett True
AMP , Australian Music Prize , Cloud Control , Dan Kelly , Dom Alessio , Eddy Current Suppression Ring , Gareth Liddiard , hip-hop , Lisa Mitchell , Melbourne , Mess And Noise , music industry , Pikelet , red bull , richard in your mind , Sally Seltmann , Sydney , Tame Impala , The Holidays
Is the Australian music industry – ‘alternative’ or not – racist at its heart
Added on February 2, 2011
Everett True
AMP , Australian Music Prize , Brisbane , Cloud Control , Dan Kelly , Dom Alessio , Eddy Current Suppression Ring , Gareth Liddiard , kyü , Lisa Mitchell , Melbourne , Mess And Noise , music industry , My Disco , Noel Mengen , Pikelet , red bull , richard in your mind , Richard Kingsmill , Sally Seltmann , Steve Bell , Sydney , Tame Impala , The Drones , The Holidays , Washington
I got the impression the AMP was supposed to cover ALL forms of music, not just indie. Isn’t Australia known for its hip-hop? Its hardcore?
Added on December 1, 2010
Everett True
Brisbane , Broadcast , Charles Cross , France Morgan , free tickets , giveaway , Heavier Than Heaven , Kurt Cobain , Melbourne , Nirvana , Perth , Pikelet , Plan B Magazine , Popfrenzy , Seekae , Sydney , Warp
The way free giveaways usually work is this. You get to sign up to some dumb mailing list that you spend the next six months desperately trying to unsubscribe from You get to answer some dumb question relating to the band and/or record label and/or website, thereby giving the spurious illusion that there is some […]
Added on November 30, 2010
Everett True
Agent Ribbons , Carmel , Lanie Lane , Sydney , Tennessee Ernie Ford
The blues, but done fresh and done with humour
Added on September 4, 2010
Everett True
Evan Dando , Half A Cow , Mess And Noise , Nic Dalton , Smudge , Sydney , The Descendants , The Lemonheads , The Replacements , Tom Morgan
Effortless brilliance. The song is called ‘Superhero’, the city is Sydney and the era is early 90s, slacker generation. Here’s what I had to say about the recent Smudge compilation for Mess And Noise. I’ve since been advised that Smudge have never broken up, have gigged sporadically for several years and might well be recording […]
