written by Chris Familton Oh the pressure of being touted as the next best thing and one of the great hopes of 2011. Time will tell if Cloud Nothings (Dylan Baldi) will become as popular as many say he should be but in terms of the ‘is he any good?’ question the answer is yeah, the 19 year old kid from Cleveland who draws from … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Cloud Nothings | Cloud Nothings
Those whacked out ganja punks Wavves have a new video for the title track from their last album King Of The Beach featuring some impressive seaside bling… Continue reading VIDEO: Wavves | King Of The Beach
Melbourne’s Eagle And The Worm are playing this Friday’s Before Last Night thang with Sydney’s We Say Bamboulee and Brisbane’s Ball Park Music. It promises to be a tri-state indie pop love-fest so get on your boat shoes and slide on down to The Gaelic. Before you do that check out the chat we had with Eagle And The Worm’s Jarrad Brown – a man … Continue reading INTERVIEW: Before Last Night | Eagle & The Worm
Great 40 minute live concert interspersed with some interview footage with members of the band and their agent. Includes a great version of Alcohol from The Kinks’ 1971 album Muswell Hillbillies. Continue reading VIDEO: The Kinks live @ Rainbow Theater 1972
DOWNLOAD Here it is, the long overdue volume 7 in the Mixed Feelings mixtape series. This one swings from the dirty garage rock of Two Tears to a dub excursion by Prince Jammy, over to a recent soundtrack piece by The The and the latest single from The Strokes. Plenty more in between so check it out… Continue reading MIXTAPE: Mixed Feelings 07
Hot on the heels of their BXI collaboration with Ian Astbury, Japan’s brilliant Boris are set to release two albums on the same day – April 26th. Sargent House is a new label for Boris and they have the honour of releasing the new albums Heavy Rocks and Attention Please. They are also set to release a third New Album in Japan only which will feature new songs … Continue reading NEWS + MP3: Boris to release 3 new albums…
TV On The Radio have released the first track Will Do into the digital atmosphere. The song comes from their forthcoming album Nine Types Of Light which is coming out April 12th via Interscope. Sounding more straightforward without much of the surface noise and percussive urgency that permeated much of Dear, Science it will be interesting to see if this is representative of the new … Continue reading MP3: TV On The Radio | Will Do – new song!
written by Chris Familton There was a fair amount of anticipation about the return of Swervedriver to these shores – in terms of whether they would live up to the expectation of those who revered the albums but had never seen them live, mixed with a small dose of skepticism about reforming bands trading on past glories. Albums like Raise and Mezcal Head are held … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: Swervedriver @ Metro Theatre, Sydney 18/02/11
Guitarist, drummer, songwriter, ex-Bad Seed Mick Harvey is releasing a new solo album Sketches From The Book Of The Dead on April 29 via Mute/EMI. Harvey recently posted about the new album and his work on PJ Harvey’s latest Let England Shake… Having dragged myself away from the North Illawarra beaches and the Melbourne summer, I am in the Europe once more to begin presenting the show … Continue reading NEWS: Mick Harvey to release new album…
Wild Beasts are quick to follow up their 2009 brilliant album (and our fave of the year) Two Dancers with Smother. The record is due out May 9th via Domino was produced by Richard Formby (Spaceman 3, Mogwai). Tracklisting 01 Lion’s Share 02 Bed of Nails 03 Deeper 04 Loop the Loop 05 Plaything 06 Invisible 07 Albatross 08 Reach a Bit Further 09 Burning … Continue reading NEWS: Wild Beasts announce new album…
written by Chrs Familton In recent years there has been a plethora of new female singer songwriters like Joanna Newsom and Feist emerging to much acclaim. You can add the curious name Lia Ices to that list as she has created a magical, meandering and hypnotic 2nd album in Grown Unknown. Brooklyn-based Ices trades in pop-folk where subtle strains of soul, blues and jazz are … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Lia Ices | Grown Unknown
This week at Purple Sneakers’ Last Night the headlining live band is Otouto who are a Melbourne-based band made up of Hazel Brown on guitar and vocals, Kishore Ryan (Kid Sam, Seagull) on drums/pots and Martha Brown on vocals and keys. Their album Pip came out on Remote Contro/Inertia last year and caught a lot of people’s ears with their quirky pop. Before Friday night we threw a few questions the way … Continue reading INTERVIEW: Before Last Night | Otouto
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