WATCH: EMA | Satellites (2014)
EMA (Erika M. Anderson) has a new album The Future’s Void coming out in Australia on April 4th (7th USA) and if this first single is anything to go by she’s headed in much more of an electronic direction. Satellites is full of bursts of static, distorted synths and vocal hooks that could easily pass as something from the visceral end of a Depeche Mode’s … Continue reading WATCH: EMA | Satellites (2014)
TRACK OF THE WEEK: The City Lights | (She’s Got) My Name and My Number
The City Lights have followed up their excellent 2012 LP I Just Got To Believe with a brand new single, a AA side 7″ in fact. They’ve hooked up with The Exile Co. to release the 300 copy pressing which includes The City Lights’ (She’s Got) My Name and My Number and The Exile Co.’s Fay Ray. (She’s Got) My Name and My Number is … Continue reading TRACK OF THE WEEK: The City Lights | (She’s Got) My Name and My Number
ALBUM REVIEW: Surf City | We Knew It Was Not Going To Be Like This
Three years after their debut album, Surf City return with another batch of songs that maintain the dense, opulent melodies and archetypal kiwi indie sonics but now built around a more confident compositional core. From the outset the band fall straight back into the deep end of their hooky, slacker vocal delivery with oohs and doo doos aplenty. Their songs are deceptively simple, based around … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Surf City | We Knew It Was Not Going To Be Like This
WATCH: Damon Albarn | Everyday Robots
Damon Albarn only just announced the details of his first solo record a few date ago and now he’s ushered the video for the title track out into the virtual world. Everyday Robots is a synthetic, melancholic track with shades of trip hop that sounds utterly Albarn, the logical combination of his work in Blur and numerous other musical projects. Everyday Robots is out on … Continue reading WATCH: Damon Albarn | Everyday Robots
NEW MUSIC: Black Lips | Boys In the Wood
Here’s Boys in the Wood, the first taste of the new Black Lips LP Underneath The Rainbow coming out on February 18th on VICE Records. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Black Lips | Boys In the Wood
LIVE REVIEW: Earthless, The Shrine, Elysium Eternal @ The Hi-Fi, Sydney (04/01/14)
Japanese trio Elysium Eternal played to a sparsely populated Hi-Fi but they didn’t let that deter them from pulling out their raw and organic psych rock sound and stage moves. Now into their third decade their music hasn’t evolved greatly since the early 90s. Still essentially classic rock with stoner and doom elements thrown into the mix. They allowed dynamics to shape the songs rather … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: Earthless, The Shrine, Elysium Eternal @ The Hi-Fi, Sydney (04/01/14)
NEW MUSIC: East Brunswick All Girls Choir | Dirty Bird
From their debut LP Seven Drummers (cos that’s how many they’ve had) due out in April here’s East Brunswick All Girls Choir’s recently released single Dirty Bird. A song that rips and roars like the demented offspring of The Drones and The Veils. The band are also running a Pozible campaign to raise funds to get their album (recorded with engineer Casey Rice (Dirty Three, Tortoise)) pressed … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: East Brunswick All Girls Choir | Dirty Bird
ALBUM REVIEW: The Ape | The Ape
Tex Perkins sure knows how to draw a gang of musicians together for each new band and project he convenes. From Beasts of Bourbon to The Cruel Sea, Tex, Don and Charlie to TNT, Perkins has always surrounded by some of the best players on the Australian rock scene and here, as The Ape, he’s joined forces with Raul Sanchez (Magic Dirt), Pat Bourke (Dallas … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: The Ape | The Ape
ALBUM REVIEW: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Live From KCRW
This is Cave and cohorts fourth live album, capturing them at in interesting junction in their career with Grinderman running its course, Push The Sky Away being the first album to not include founding member Mick Harvey and unlike some of its more varied predecessors it is for the most part considered and restrained in its delivery. Live from KCRW continues that mood, even when … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Live From KCRW
WATCH: Dallas Crane | I’m Sorry Darling
It’s great to have Dallas Crane back on the scene. They’ve had one of the best live sounds over the last 15 years and now more than ever they are sorely needed to breathe some life back into the stagnant swamp of Australian rock. Here’s the video for their comeback single I’m Sorry Darling. Continue reading WATCH: Dallas Crane | I’m Sorry Darling
LISTEN: Sun Kil Moon | Richard Ramirez Died Of Natural Causes
Mark Kozelek returns with a new LP Benji early next month after a busy year in 2013 where he released 3 albums – a solo covers LP and releases in collaboration with Desertshore and Jimmy La Valle respectively. Continue reading LISTEN: Sun Kil Moon | Richard Ramirez Died Of Natural Causes
LIVE REVIEW: METZ @ Goodgod Small Club, Sydney (05/12/13)
Batpiss kicked things off with a blistering set of punk rock riffs and barked/screamed vocals with rhythmic deviations and a melodic interplay between the guitar and bass elevating them above generic thrashers. One song dropped the BPM considerably, for part of it at least, with the resultant dark and doomy groove sounding like Earth and a sign that the band can match their live intensity … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: METZ @ Goodgod Small Club, Sydney (05/12/13)
Doubtful Sounds 