A Thousand Mistakes will be released on Sept 12. Over 4.5 hours of The Drones to take home on DVD, including an intimate live session of rarely played songs, a full live show from one of Melbourne’s The East Brunswick Club and a bonus disc featuring rare live footage filmed 2005-2010, in Germany, France and Australia. Continue reading WATCH: The trailer to The Drones DVD – A Thousand Mistakes…
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
The Paper Scissors launched their album In Loving Memory last night at the Oxford Art Factory and played a great set… Photos will be up soon, in the meantime here is footage of the brilliant single Lung Sum. Continue reading WATCH: The Paper Scissors | Lung Sum @ OAF, Sydney (17/06/11)
Finally Sydney psych shoegazers The Laurels get round to releasing their debut EP after playing a ton of gigs over the last few years. Definitely one of the best live bands on the Sydney scene they deserve to get a lot more attention from the release of Mesozoic on July 8th. Continue reading LISTEN: The Laurels | Black Cathedral
THEORY OF EVOLUTION Heading down under to play Splendour in the Grass Wild Beasts bring with them a new album Smother that is already garnering critical acclaim for its further refinement of their literate and nuanced art pop. Hayden Thorpe talks Chris Familton through the changes. The UK quartet from the Lakes District have upped the ante with each of their previous two albums, peeling … Continue reading INTERVIEW: Wild Beasts
written by Chris Familton It wasn’t long after Jack Ladder began touring his last album Love Is Gone that he began a transition to the sound that pervades his latest full length Hurtsville. That sound is one that embraces big open spaces with soaring effects-laden guitars and a sparse and more textural rhythmic approach. Ladder (Tim Rogers) has shorn his music of the bluesy soul … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Jack Ladder | Hurtsville
written by Chris Familton Album number four finds Chad VanGaalen concocting his most complete full length set of songs and eschewing much of the willful disorientation and quirkiness that characterised some of his earlier releases. VanGaalen also moved into a professional studio to record these songs which has resulted in a lush aural embrace of sound to get lost in. Diaper Island still manages to … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Chad VanGaalen | Diaper Island
written by Chris Familton Perth’s Young Revelry have been gaining attention of late, particularly on the back of their stellar single You And I which was the strongest song of their short opening set. They inhabit a post punk space that allows for a caustic smears of guitar to flail over a watertight rhythm section. As a three piece they delivered a big sound to … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: Jebediah @ Factory Theatre, Sydney (27/05/11)
Setlist: The Cure, ‘Reflections,’ Vivid Live Festival, Sydney Opera House, 5/31/11 1st Set: Three Imaginary Boys 1. “10:15 Saturday Night” 2. “Accuracy” 3. “Grinding Halt” 4. “Another Day” 5. “Object” 6. “Subway Song” 7. “Foxy Lady” 8. “Meathook” 9. “So What” 10. “Fire In Cairo” 11. “It’s Not You” 12. “Three Imaginary Boys” 2nd Set: Seventeen Seconds (w/ Roger O’Donnell) 13. “A Reflection” 14. “Play for Today” 15. … Continue reading Setlist & video from The Cure’s 4 hour Opera House show…
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