Tom Waits is normally one to focus more on the music than the video but here he and director Jesse Dyland have gone and done a budget black and white clip for Satisified from the recently released and well received Bad As Me. Continue reading WATCH: Tom Waits | Satisfied
The Jim Jones Revue were one of the highlights of this year’s Big Day Out (alongside Grinderman) and the good news is they are back to welcome in the new year with some shows. They’ve had a massive year touring their album Burning Your House Down and have recently been in the studio working on the next record as well as recently being nominated for … Continue reading NEWS: The Jim Jones Revue 2012 Australian Tour…
Beastwars have their debut album out polluting young minds and are touring New Zealand to rabid audiences at the moment. The record stands as one of the great metal albums to come out of the shaky isles in quite a long time and we managed to catch frontman Matt Hyde for a few minutes between gigs for the inaugural interview in our new section Questions … Continue reading Questions & Answers: Beastwars
Amazingly the news is true that The Stone Roses have announced their reunion at a cheeky and light hearted press conference. They have committed to a world tour starting at Heaton Park, Manchester June 29-30th 2012. Watch the full press conference below… “We’ll ride this until the wheels come off, like we did last time.” Continue reading NEWS: The Stone Roses reunite for world tour and new album…
written by Chris Familton Psychedelic guitar rock has been going through yet another goldrush of late with albums by Kurt Vile, Wooden Shjips and the tripped-out sounds of Sun Araw all getting a lot of attention. You can add to that list Pure X (previously Pure Ecstasy) and their debut album Pleasure. Their approach is to take heavy lidded narcotic guitars and marry them with … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Pure X | Pleasure
written by Chris Familton San Francisco psych lords Wooden Shjips have had a great run of releases so far with no misfires among the albums, EPs and compilations they have issued since forming back in 2006. West is the band’s fifth album and finds them shifting into a cleaner, more concise musical space. Sure all their trademark signifiers like the droning organ, krautrock drumming, ambivalent … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Wooden Shjips | West
written by Chris Familton Melbourne’s Fabulous Diamonds set the mood of the evening with a set composed around drone and hypnotic repetition. Featuring just drums and keyboards the duo were in no rush to get anywhere in particular with songs that slowly evolved from metronomic drum patterns into gently pulsing waves of analog synths, grinding organ, sparsely decorated with vocals from drummer Nisa Venerosa. When … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: Moon Duo @ OAF, Sydney 30/09/11
INTERSTELLAR OVERDRIVE RIPLEY JOHNSON IS A BUSY MAN, RECENTLY RELEASING NEW NEW ALBUMS WITH WOODEN SHJIPS AND MOON DUO. HE TAKES THE TIME TO EXPLAIN TO CHRIS FAMILTON WHERE THE LATTER FITS INTO THE WORLD OF DRONING PSYCHEDELIC ROCK. Establishing yourself outside a band where you have gained a loyal following can be a tough task. There are the perils of not being as good … Continue reading INTERVIEW: Moon Duo
Deep Sea Arcade have been slowly building their garage/psych indie sound for a while now and are starting to make some international inroads with positive press in the UK. The lads have an album Outlands in the can which will see the light of day next year via Ivy League Records. Check out the video for their new single Girls and catch them November 11th … Continue reading WATCH: Deep Sea Arcade | Girls [NEW]
Following last year’s Lose Yourself single Melbourne’s Iowa have just released their new single Complete Control which you can download for free from their Bandcamp page. This time round they harness the surging, sonic sway of bands like Swervedriver with impressive results… DS RECOMMENDS! Continue reading FREE DOWNLOAD: Iowa’s new single Complete Control
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/6806280] Continue reading WATCH: cool old footage of Big Star set to Thirteen…
The Jesus and Mary Chain’s seminal 1985 debut is a classic of that decade (or any other) with its amalgamation of The Velvet Underground, narcotic drones and hazy pop sensibilities,. Rightfully so it now gets the makeover with a ton of extras. Here’s the lowdown with the trailer at the bottom… THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN — PSYCHOCANDY — Expanded Edition. 2 CD + DVD in … Continue reading WATCH: The trailer for the reissue of JAMC’s Psychocandy…
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