LIVE REVIEW: Jamie Hutchings @ The Newsagency, Sydney

Jamie Hutchings, Sophie Hutchings The Newsagency, Sydney April 27th 2018 It was a family affair at the Sydney album launch for Jamie Hutchings new solo album Bedsit. Sophie Hutchings, an acclaimed musician in her own right, opened the evening with a mesmerising set of solo piano. She’s released three full length albums on the local Preservation label and on stage she translated her hypnotic, subtle … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: Jamie Hutchings @ The Newsagency, Sydney

Doubtful SoundsMay 4, 2018May 7, 2018Leave a comment

Guitar Rock, New Music, Post-Punk, Video

NEW MUSIC: East Brunswick All Girls Choir – Essendon 1986

It’s great to read today that East Brunswick All Girls Choir are back with a new album called Teddywaddy, set for release on June 29th, 2018. Their last album Seven Drummers came out back in 2014 and was a real favourite at DS. Check out the first single, ‘Essendon 1986’, a tumbling, dissonant, howling stagger and clang of a song. “The song is about the … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: East Brunswick All Girls Choir – Essendon 1986

Doubtful SoundsMay 4, 2018May 4, 2018Leave a comment

Guitar Rock, Live Reviews, Psych

LIVE REVIEW: John Garcia @ Factory Theatre, Sydney

John Garcia, Peter Black @ Factory Theatre, Sydney Australia, April 21st, 2018 I doubt whether many alternative rock fans in the early 90s would have envisaged that the singers of Kyuss and The Hard-Ons would be doing a small-sized solo acoustic show in the year 2018. Noise and electricity have always been crucial elements of John Garcia and Blackie’s calling card sounds so it was both a … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: John Garcia @ Factory Theatre, Sydney

Doubtful SoundsMay 2, 2018May 4, 2018Leave a comment

Album Covers, Indie Pop, Indie Rock, New Music, News, Post-Punk, Stream

NEWS: The Goon Sax Announce New LP ‘We’re Not Talking’

Brisbane trio The Goon Sax are back with the followup to their acclaimed debut album Up To Anything. We’re Not Talking is due out on September 14th on Chapter Music via Secretly Canadian/Inertia Music. Here’s the first single, ‘She Knows’, a song that still possesses that urgent acoustic strum but now framed by a bigger, warmer sound and more effects. If the first album was the … Continue reading NEWS: The Goon Sax Announce New LP ‘We’re Not Talking’

Doubtful SoundsMay 2, 2018May 4, 2018Leave a comment

Indie Rock, New Music, Post-Rock / Instrumental, Psych, Video

NEW MUSIC: Roadhouses – Black Lights

Sydney slowcore dream rock trio Roadhouses have released their second single from their forthcoming self-titled debut LP. Pre-order Roadhouses ‘Black Lights’ is an atmospheric piece of late-night, wistful psychedelia with Cec Condon’s drumming recalling Portishead and Yvonne Moxham delivering a beautifully melancholic vocal. Sweet sadness never sounded so good. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Roadhouses – Black Lights

Doubtful SoundsApril 24, 2018May 2, 2018Leave a comment

Americana / Alt-Country, Guitar Rock, Live Photos, Live Reviews, Metal/Hard Rock

LIVE REVIEW: Cosmic Psychos @ Bald Faced Stag

Cosmic Psychos, Birdcloud, The Chats @ Bald Faced Stag, Sydney, April 6th 2018 Who said rock n roll is dead? The top echelon may be uninspiring but down at ground level guitar rock is still brimming with passion, humour and free-spirited energy A sold out venue and mosh-pit ready crowd greeted young upstarts The Chats. Joining the Cosmic Psychos tour from the Sunshine Coast they were like … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: Cosmic Psychos @ Bald Faced Stag

Doubtful SoundsApril 13, 2018May 2, 2018Leave a comment

Indie Rock, New Music, News, Post-Punk, Video

NEW MUSIC: Harmony – Fatal Flaw

Melbourne band Harmony have been hibernating for the past few years but now they’ve re-emerged and they’re sounding quite sublime on this first new single ‘Fatal Flaw’, their first since 2014’s sprawling and dramatic Carpetbombing LP. They’ve also got their first headline show in over two years, launching ‘Fatal Flaw’ at Howler on Friday April 13, with Cable Ties, Bitumen and The Blinds. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Harmony – Fatal Flaw

Doubtful SoundsApril 3, 2018April 11, 2018Leave a comment

Audio Stream, News, Post-Punk, Reissue

REISSUE NEWS: Nocturnal Projections (2018)

Nocturnal Projections were one of the finest post-punk bands in New Zealand in the early 1980s and now Dais Records have worked with them to reissue all of their recorded work across two releases. “Complete Studio Recordings” comprises the band’s three original highly sought-after vinyl releases on one record fully remastered. Formed in Stratford, near New Plymouth, New Zealand in 1981, Nocturnal Projections was the … Continue reading REISSUE NEWS: Nocturnal Projections (2018)

Doubtful SoundsApril 3, 2018May 27, 2018Leave a comment

Garage Rock, Guitar Rock, Indie Rock, Live Photos, Live Reviews, Post-Punk

LIVE REVIEW: Protomartyr @ Oxford Art Factory, Sydney

Protomartyr, Mere Women, Angie @ Oxford At Factory, Sydney Australia. February 16th, 2018 The best gigs are the ones where the creative quality and intensity builds evenly, seemingly at a symbiotic pace with the gathering audience. Angie set the scene with a low key and hypnotic opening set. This was another iteration of her solo incarnation, now fleshed out with drummer and acoustic guitarist. Previously … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: Protomartyr @ Oxford Art Factory, Sydney

Doubtful SoundsMarch 19, 2018March 19, 2018Leave a comment

Album Covers, Album Reviews, Audio Stream, Folk, New Release, Post-Rock / Instrumental, Stream

ALBUM REVIEW: Jamie Hutchings – Bedsit

It’s been seven years since the last solo album from Jamie Hutchings. In the interim he’s busied himself with 2 noisy rock records with Infinity Broke and the wonderful Down The Unmarked Road, the result of his collaboration with Peter Fenton of Crow. Now he returns to the solitude of the self with the intimate, graceful and poetic Bedsit. This is a sparser and more … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Jamie Hutchings – Bedsit

Doubtful SoundsMarch 15, 2018March 19, 2018Leave a comment

Album Covers, Album Reviews, Audio Stream, Indie Rock, New Release, Post-Punk, Stream

ALBUM REVIEW: The Breeders – All Nerve

Some bands hit the pop culture sweet spot just at the right time, igniting and reflecting the spirit of a generation before burning out and fading away. Others hang around, soldiering on with diminishing returns, a loyal fanbase in tow, cushioning their middle-aged bank accounts. There are also those acts who have that moment in the spotlight, vacate the pedestal but then re-emerge years down … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: The Breeders – All Nerve

Doubtful SoundsMarch 13, 2018March 13, 2018Leave a comment

Album Covers, Album Reviews, Electronica, Funk, Soul, Stream

ALBUM REVIEW: Joan As Police Woman – Damned Devotion

Joan Wasser is now six albums deep into her solo career and she continues to refine and explore her polymorphous sound that takes in soul, jazz and pop music. If her last album, The Classic, felt like a slight misstep, Damned Devotion is a return to what Wasser does best – blending mood and atmosphere with classic soul, contemporary R&B and modern technology. There’s an exhilarating … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Joan As Police Woman – Damned Devotion

Doubtful SoundsMarch 8, 2018March 13, 2018Leave a comment