There have been a bunch of new local bands that have appeared on my radar this year, many of them hailing from Melbourne. Dick Diver, The Twerps and Iowa in particular stand out and the latter now have a video to go with their recently released single Complete Control. Continue reading WATCH: Iowa | Complete Control
I came across this full live set from Ride today on You Tube – fantastic stuff from one of the greatest bands. Continue reading WATCH: Ride : live @ Brixton Academy, 1992 (full set)
Sydney’s Made In Japan create clean and sparkling indie pop with a strong thread of post rock and shoegaze influences running through it. They have a debut album Sights and Sounds due out in the new year but in the meantime check out the clip for the title track directed by Angelo Kehagias. You can catch them live over the next few week: Nov 12 … Continue reading WATCH: Made In Japan | Sights and Sounds
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 sex symbol of late night cool Donny Benet is back with a video for his single Sophisticated Lover casting a glance back to the heyday of TV in Miami Vice and Knight Rider… TOUR DATES SYDNEY Friday December 2– FBI Social, w/ Erik Omen & SunSun (Disco Club)MELBOURNE Saturday December 3 – Buffalo Club, w/ Montero & Free Choice Duo PERTH Friday December 16 – … Continue reading WATCH: Donny Benet | Sophisticated Lover
From their stellar albymn New Start Again comes the lo-fi and down to earth video for Dick Diver’s Through The D. Love the shuffling jangle of this track. We’ll have a review of the album up shortly… Continue reading WATCH: Dick Diver | Through The D
Witch Hats are one of those Australian bands that operate in the grey zone between the invisible underground and the marketing hype of the Triple J world. Possessing a post punk/90s indie guitar mood they follow the broken glass strewn path trod and beaten by their next of kin like The Scientists, Birthday Party, Jesus Lizard and more recently the drama pop of The Veils. Following … Continue reading LISTEN: to the new Witch Hats LP Pleasure Syndrome…
Great to see some metal of the finest kind on Jools Holland recently. This is taken from Mastodon’s new album The Hunter. Continue reading WATCH: Mastodon | Black Tongue (Live on Later with Jools Holland)
New Zealand’s monolithic metal creatures Beastwars have had a massive year with a ton of packed out shows and the release of their debut album which is up there with the best heavy/metal records of 2011. Here is their first official video for the song Lake of Fire directed by Hamish Waterhouse. You can catch the band touring NZ through October and November, dates on their … Continue reading WATCH: Beastwars | Lake of Fire
Check out the new video for the title track from Those Darlins’ stellar album released earlier this year… Continue reading WATCH: Those Darlins | Screws Get Loose
Belgium’s indie art-rockers dEUS have been together for 20 years and are celebrating with the release of their 6th album Keep You Close. Check out the first single Constant Now… Continue reading WATCH: dEUS | Constant Now
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]
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