Eternal Soundcheck is one year old
Wow what a cool night, thanks to everyone who came and enjoyed this. Definitely a highlight of my year. KNEE CHIN Over the course of this year Knee Chin have come from being a loose houseshow band into an incredibly great weirdo pop band that can take on the world. Brisbane’s finest. GERALD KEANEY & THE GERALD […]
more on Washington
I wrote a review of the new Washington album for The Vine. You can find it here. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— Washington I Believe You Liar (Universal Music) Australia. You worry me sometimes. I’ve seen this album hailed as 2010’s saviour of pop. (This is what happens when you allow fucking radio presenters to moonlight as music critics, […]
Song of the day (Australia) – 149: The Birthday Party
No explanation required here, I hope. The interview that follows the video is lifted from Careless Talk Costs Lives #6 – which came out in January 2003 (split cover with Erase Errata because we figured Nick to be a little too well-known to command the cover just by himself). I think the order of it […]
Song of the day – 121: Byron Lee And The Dragonaires
I’ll be honest with you. This is the music that, nine times out of 10, we greet the new day with (this, and also, to a lesser extent, The Specials). It’s straightforward enough. We have a five-year-old, and a one-year-old. So we don’t need music that competes with them, which takes out all my old […]
Song of the day – 85: Holly Golightly And The Brokeoffs
C’mon. It’s always time to be excited when there’s a new Holly Golightly album in the offing. This one doesn’t disappoint. Not whatsoever. Hey, here’s an interview I conducted with the lady for Plan B #22. This is the raging moon. High above the New Forest where wild horses roam, illuminating the narrow roads of […]
Hole 2.0 – Nobody’s Daughter (the live-to-air review)
Hey. Glad you could make it. Thought we might want to establish a few rules before I get down to the actual reviewing. This is a trial run for the format. So – duh – it might not work, as a format. The idea is that this live-to-air review takes it cue from the live […]
Song of the day – 45: The Slits
Well, duh. I finally purchased the reissue of The Slits’ first album Cut – with a little hesitation, truth be told, as I already own various versions of it several times – and Powers alive, if the eight-track demos on the bonus CD don’t sound even better than the original. (As Jack Endino wryly remarks on […]
Joanna Newsom live @ The Tivoli, 16.01.10
Joanna Newsom played a few weeks back in Brisbane. On occasion, she bordered on the magical: her voice slightly more reminiscent of Kate Bush then I recall it being before: the song about the daddy long-legs being particularly charming and lengthy (I might have dreamed the subject matter): the drummer in particular bringing his instrument […]
