The Worst in Music of 2015
The name “Viet Cong” So this year, we watched as a band named after an off-hand racist comment rose on the charts. They’ll no doubt crop up on bunches of more positive lists this month, even after colleges like Oberlin barred them from playing. Sang Nguyen, a writer at Impose and also a second-generation Vietnamese-American, […]
SOTD #712 – Hag Face
The very name should chill your bones. As your lips form the words, you should welcome the slight shudder that slips down your back. You should feel compelled to fear. You should embrace the fear. As you would with Satan, Voldemort, Napalm Death, or the Glow Cloud. O great conjurers, o great terrors of the […]
In Photos: Bully + Rolling Blackouts + Tempura Nights @ Woolly Mammoth, 12.12.2015
Bully play a Meredith sideshow in Brisbane at Woolly Mammoth, with support from Rolling Blackouts and Tempura Nights.
In Photos: Mercury Rev + Primitive Motion + Faint Spells @ The Zoo, 11.12.2015
The Zoo, Brisbane’s best venue, celebrates its 23rd birthday with a Meredith sideshow from Mercury Rev, supported by Primitive Motion and Faint Spells.
The Best of Australia in 2015
Above: Deafcult at the Crowbar. Photo taken by Justin Edwards. Every press outlet outside of Australia will try and tell you folk (I’m from Georgia in the US of A, remember) that Tame Impala carried your torch this year in the indie charts. But who needs those fuckers, eh? I imagine they course through your […]
In Photos: Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats + Smoke @ Crowbar, 10.12.2015
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats play a Meredith sideshow in Brisbane at Crowbar, with support from Smoke.
In Photos: Moon Duo + Dreamtime + Grinding Eyes @ The Zoo, 09.12.2015
Moon Duo play a Meredith sideshow in Brisbane at The Zoo, with support from Dreamtime and Grinding Eyes.
In Photos: Goat + King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard + ORB @ Triffid, 08.12.2015
Swedish psychedelic band, Goat, play a Meredith Music Festival sideshow at Triffid, with support from King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and Orb.
Hannah Golightly meets ILL, pt. 2: Ari Up, homophobia at home, and definitely no mandolins
Photo by Greta Buitkute. From left to right: Whitney, Hannah, Harri, Fiona. Missed part 1? Backtrack here. Transcribed by Lee Adcock. The original plan was to interview ILL for ten minutes. But where’s the fun in that when there are four like-minded people gathering together to discuss the things that matter to them musically one […]
In Photos: Thurston Moore Band @ Woolly Mammoth, 07.12.2015
Thurston Moore brings his band, featuring ex-Sonic Youth colleague Steve Shelley, My Bloody Valentine bassist Debbie Googe and guitarist James Sedwards, to Brisbane’s Woolly Mammoth to play a Meredith Festival sideshow.
