written by Chris Familton After the success of their 2009 debut The Sunspot Letters, Leader Cheetah ran the risk of ‘going big’ by building up their recordings with excess guitars and grand themes. Similarly they could have gone down the Powderfinger avenue chasing mass appeal and in the process losing some of the subtle and special musical traits that they displayed on that first LP. … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Leader Cheetah | Lotus Skies
Oh Willy Dear!/Hootenanny @ Annandale, 25/08/11, a set on Flickr. Continue reading PHOTOS: Oh Willy Dear!/Hootenanny @ Annandale, 25/08/11
kind of what you’d expect – but still pretty good… Continue reading LISTEN: Bon Iver & James Blake debut The Fall Creek Boys Choir
Love the new video from Adalita for the song Perfection, shot by Adam Harding. The song comes from her self-titled solo album. Continue reading WATCH: Adalita | Perfection
written by Chris Familton Under the banner Sing Along 2011 this was a night that celebrated a bunch of musicians who for the most part began creating music in the 90s. Duncan Mitchell, one half of Grand Tango Fandango opened the night with a solo acoustic set of songs that fell somewhere amidst the sound of Paul Kelly and Evan Dando. They were high on … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: Sing Along 2011 @ Annandale Hotel, Sydney 16/07/11
written by Chris Familton Sydney seems to be in somewhat of a golden age of pop music of the indie kind at the moment. Every week new bands are constantly emerging blinking from the practice rooms clutching their hook laden bags of songs, cleverly crafted and full of inventive ideas. Wim are certainly part of that gang yet their approach is one grounded in a … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Wim | Wim
written by Chris Familton Sam Shinazzi opened the evening in three piece mode with Barry Adamson on guitar and Peabody’s Bruno Brayovic on bass. Playing mainly tracks from his recently released album When the Lights Come Up Shinazzi did justice to the recorded versions, even exceeding them in some cases like the wistful Movie of Your Life and the devotional Everything To Me. Brayovic provided … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: Tiny Ruins @ Notes, Sydney 22/07/11
Punches are New Zealand duo James Duncan (ex Dimmer, SJD) and Kelly Sherrod (ex Dimmer) who have recorded their new album long distance between NZ and Nashville where Sherrod now lives. The album Etheria is out 8th August via the fantastic Arch Hill Recordings label. The video was directed by TV presenter John Campbell. Continue reading WATCH: Punches | Give It Up
Mixed Feelings 10 :: Another Doubtful Sounds mixtape journey into our varied musical tastes. This instalment veers from surging Danish post punk to heart warming americana, digital r&b, Sydney garage rock and a slab of shoegaze… Continue reading DS MIXTAPE: Mixed Feelings 10
In no particular order here are some our favourite albums we’ve heard so far in 2011… J. Mascis | Several Shades of Why Bon Iver | Bon Iver Yuck | Yuck John Maus | We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves Robag Wruhme | Thora Vukk Eleanor Friedberger | Last Summer Gillian Welch | The Harrow & The Harvest Pure X | Pleasure The Horrors … Continue reading DS… BEST OF 2011 SO FAR
written by Chris Familton Melodie Nelson is the pseudonym of Sydney’s Lia Tsamoglou and her latest project after spending time with Moonmilk and Rand and Holland. The name is presumably taken from the Serge Gainsbourg album History de Melody Nelson and the mood of Meditations on the Sun is definitely an album rooted in past styles. Tsamoglou has concocted a shimmering sway of a record … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Melodie Nelson | Meditations on the Sun
Justin Vernon and pals have been doing the promo rounds this week on the back of the release of their 2nd and self-titled album Bon Iver. Check out Calgary and a bonus version of Skinny Love on The Colbert Report and Holocene on Jimmy Fallon… Continue reading WATCH: Bon Iver on Colbert and Jimmy Fallon…
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