Melbourne’s Eagle And The Worm are playing this Friday’s Before Last Night thang with Sydney’s We Say Bamboulee and Brisbane’s Ball Park Music. It promises to be a tri-state indie pop love-fest so get on your boat shoes and slide on down to The Gaelic. Before you do that check out the chat we had with Eagle And The Worm’s Jarrad Brown – a man … Continue reading INTERVIEW: Before Last Night | Eagle & The Worm
written by Chris Familton Stepping out of the shadows of Radiohead has been a major event and a long time coming for Philip Selway. He has been the solid backbone of the English quartet for 25 years so the release of his debut Familial at this point comes as a pleasant surprise. Also surprising is the lack of focus on traditional drumming – instead Selway … Continue reading INTERVIEW: Philip Selway
Wavves’ Nathan Williams crashed and burned at last year’s Primavera Festival, or so it was reported in the indie blogosphere of which he was the latest lo-fi darling. Watching the footage it isn’t as grand a meltdown as many suggested and in hindsight it was probably what Williams needed; to shake off some excess baggage, recruit Jay Reatard’s rhythm section and record his finest album … Continue reading INTERVIEW: Wavves
written by Chris Familton In this day and age of web publishing and the availability of online tools for anyone to become a ‘music journalist’ it is becoming increasingly hard to find creative, constructive and well thought out music criticism. Sure we have the Pitchfork, The Quietus, Mess & Noise, FasterLouder etc who all generally provide well measured appraisal of music but for every quality … Continue reading INTERVIEW: Michael Azzerad
written by Chris Familton Two years ago Queensland’s Drawn From Bees killed off their former incarnation (Glasshouse) and after some time apart reconvened and decided to approach their music from a new and ultimately more satisfying direction. Their new album Fear Not The Footsteps Of The Departed rounds out a themed series of EPs and offers a fully realised insight into their melodically adventurous songwriting. … Continue reading INTERVIEW: DRAWN FROM BEES…
written by Chris Familton Spoon have been one of the most consistent bands over the last decade with each release slowly growing their audience and receiving greater acclaim from critics. Ahead of their tour of Australia, Spoon’s multi-instrumentalist Eric Harvey called in to chat about their latest album Transference – how it was written, recorded and where it fits into Spoon. Transference comes as Spoon … Continue reading INTERVIEW: SPOON
This is the full transcription of the interview with Martin Phillipps that appeared in The Brag and Beat magazines… How long has it been since you last played in Australia? It’s been at least 15 years, quite a while. I can’t remember if we played there on the Sunburnt tour – I don’t think so. It’s certainly a while back. I chatted to David Kilgour … Continue reading INTERVIEW: Martin Phillipps of The Chills
written by Chris Familton Wilco are one of those rare bands these days that are content to work a gentle arc into their career. There is no massive media blitz with their releases or tours, just a solid workmanlike approach to writing, recording and touring. The impression is also of a band with little inner turmoil now that the line-up has solidified over the last … Continue reading INTERVIEW: WILCO
It is likely that many people will stereotype The Cult with the image of mid 80s rock pose bombast, all denim and leather, long hair and Marshall stacks that saturated the video channels of the time. That was the era of Electric, an album that took them to the masses and was the point at which their sound changed dramatically from the dark and swirling … Continue reading INTERVIEW: THE CULT
written by Chris Familton The Black Ryder have been riding a wave of momentum since the release of their debut album Buy The Ticket, Take The Ride late last year. It has seen them receiving plaudits from mainstream and underground media alongside some coveted support slots with international acts like The Raveonettes and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Recently they signed to US label Mexican Summer … Continue reading INTERVIEW: THE BLACK RYDER
written by Chris Familton Children of famous musicians from the 60s and 70s have been making their names in the industry for many years now. The most successful like Sean Lennon, Jakob Dylan, Justin Townes Earle and recently Charlotte Gainsbourg have all chosen to accept and embrace the legacy of their parent in one way or another. At 38, Harper Simon (son of Paul) is … Continue reading INTERVIEW: HARPER SIMON
written by Chris Familton The Soft Pack are currently riding the buzz band wave that has been generated around them for the last few months and they have responded to the hype in the best possible way by releasing an album that stands as one of the highlights of 2010 so far. To back up the release and justify the blog space they have inhabited, … Continue reading INTERVIEW: THE SOFT PACK
Doubtful Sounds 