Bradford Cox and Deerhunter return with a brand new track – ‘Snakeskin’ – ahead of their new LP Fading Frontier which will be released on October 16th via 4AD/Remote Control. I’m loving the upbeat groove of this first single, fun and dark at the same time. Fading Frontier 1. All The Same 2. Living My Life 3. Breaker 4. Duplex Planet 5. Take Care 6. Leather … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Deerhunter – Snakeskin
Melbourne band Gold Class have a debut album called It’s You coming out via Spunk in AU/NZ and Felte in US/EU on September 4th. They’ve just released the clip for the first single ‘Life As A Gun’, a dark tension-laden track that channels Protomartyr, Interpol, Joy Division and the Sturm und Drang approach of numerous other post-punk progenitors. TRACK LISTING 01. Furlong 02. Life As A Gun 03. … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Gold Class – Life As A Gun
Here’s the first taste of Kurt Vile’s new album b’lieve i’m goin down, due out September 25th. Pretty Pimpin takes a nice upbeat rhythm and peppers it with Beck-styled vocals and an almost country finger picked guitar melody. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Kurt Vile – Pretty Pimpin
Matthew Mondanile (Real Estate) solo career as Ducktails gets better and better with each new release. From hypnagogic woozy lo-fi beginnings to the excellent refined indie pop of The Flower Lane Mondanile seems to be on a quest to refine his sound to sparkling effervescent melancholic pop songs. On the evidence here, from his upcoming St Catherine LP (July 28th), he’s getting closer and closer. Here … Continue reading VIDEO: Ducktails – Surreal Exposure
Refused are back with a new album, their first since The Shape Of Punk To Come back in 1998. There they harnessed the punk of Fugazi, the metal of Slayer and the incendiary funk of Rage Against The Machine. Thankfully they’ve retained the clinical brutality in their music without watering it down for the masses in the year 2015. Here’s a perfect example of that in … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Refused – Dawkins Christ
Sydney’s The Snowdroppers have waited a while to finally release their new single ‘Love Letters’. The song comes from their new album Business, due out September 4th via FOUR | FOUR. Described as “four on the floor Motown-meets-punk-rock” the song is definitely a bigger, brighter, pop-fuelled sound for the band. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: The Snowdroppers – Love Letters
2014 was the year that Courtney Barnett, the unassuming Melbourne resident, went overground in a big way. With multiple international jaunts, appearances on radio and TV shows such as The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and many of the top international music festivals. All of that was on the back of two killer singles (‘Avant Gardener’, ‘History Eraser’) and the subsequent The Double EP: A … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
Sam Shinazzi released his new album Forever & For Now earlier this year and now he’s got a brand new clip for ‘Bones’, one of our personal favourites from the record. It’s a song that shimmers with a forlorn weariness and still bears a sense of subtle ebullience and optimism. Continue reading VIDEO: Sam Shinazzi – Bones
Fresh from a successful visit to SXSW Peter Bibby has announced a run of national dates through May. He’s also recently released the clip for ‘Goodbye Johnny’, one of the many highlights of last year’s Butcher/Hairstylist/Beautician LP which is now available in a limited run of vinyl at shows and via Spinning Top. PETER BIBBY NATIONAL TOUR Thurs 14th May // Newtown Social Club – Sydney With The … Continue reading NEWS: Peter Bibby announces Australian tour
The Black Ryder seemed to disappear into a hazy abyss of anonymity a few years ago. The reality was a relationship dissolution between Aimee Nash and Scott Von Ryper and a relocation to Los Angeles. Surprisingly and thankfully for fans of their debut LP Buy The Ticket, Take The Ride they realised and valued the musical chemistry that still existed and continued to write and plot … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: The Black Ryder – Let Me Be Your Light
Carrying on the audio visual brilliance of videos and tracks from Donny Benét’s excellent 2014 LP Weekend At Donny’s is the new clip for the track ‘The Edge’, featuring the Dave Gahan meets Andrew Eldritch vocals of local legend Kirin J. Callinan. And to think this pair was passed over to represent Australia at Eurovision. The event needs and the audience surely craves the duo’s shadowy … Continue reading VIDEO: Donny Benét feat. Kirin J. Callinan – The Edge
Few bands know when to call it quits, the good ones calling time when they are still a potent musical entity, still at the top of their game. Sleater-Kinney never put a foot wrong in the first decade of their existence, churning out eight excellent albums that were immediately recognisable as the work of Corin Tucker, Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss. In 2005 they stepped … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Sleater-Kinney – No Cities To Love
Doubtful Sounds 