In Words: Cibo Matto + Richard In Your Mind + Ben Ely @ The Zoo, 29.10.2014
Most musicians are mired in their muck. And we love that. But some people – I guess I call them artists – seem to float above it all, with the lightest touch. Ben Ely is a musician and it comes naturally, like breathing. This is his first show with a new drummer and he’s glad to be […]
Live Review: Wire, Per Purpose, Multiple Man @ The Zoo, Brisbane, 19.02.14
The doors are closed when I arrive. This is because the gig is on the other side of town. I’ve wrongly assumed Wire would play at The Hi Fi, a larger, air-conditioned venue that’s hosted a series of older/reformed bands lately. Instead they are playing The Zoo, a smaller, hotter venue that tends a little […]
Album Review: Blank Realm – Grassed Inn (Fire/Bedroom Suck)
That narrative in the music press (the music press love a narrative) in which Blank Realm emerge four-legged from the murky deep and wriggle their gills in the fresh air of rock n roll? It’s true, to an extent. I told it myself a few years back, on an unread, long-dead blog. “Blank Realm invented […]
Deerhunter + Blank Realm @ The Zoo, Brisbane 09.12.13
“We gotta go to school today, gotta learn THAT! STUPID! SHIT!/Soon as I can get a car to drive then I’m gonna be DONE WITH IT!”
Bitch Prefect – Bird Nerds (Bedroom Suck)
In the uncertainty and shit-talk of 2013, Bitch Prefect might just shine a little light.
In Words: Bardo Pond + Dream Time + Pale Earth @ The Zoo, Brisbane 02.08.13
Bardo Pond shouldn’t have faces because their music doesn’t sound like it comes from people.
Reviewed In Words | You Am I @ The Tivoli, 26/27.06.13
Ah, Tim. How many performers, in the straight-up ‘rock band’ world or indeed elsewhere, self-censor as little as Tim Rogers?
Ben Green’s Favourite Music of 2013 So Far – A Mixtape
Ben Green’s favourite music of 2013 so far – a mixtape
Chain & The Gang – In Cool Blood (K Records)
What’s cool? Chain & The Gang’s new album, In Cool Blood, might help us to answer this question.
The Collapse Board Interview | You Am I
Collapse Board’s Ben Green speaks to You Am I’s Andy Kent about the band’s past and its claim on the present.
