Clever – Hangin Egg (Tropical Cancer Rort)
This record bursts into existence, there’s simply no other way to describe it. The band plays with intensity. Like punk. But as with any kind of idealism you could throw around the P-word in this day and age the group sounds ragged, weathered and torn. ‘No Cold Solo in Red Hill’ tells you this before […]
In Photos: Tiny Ruins + Ryan Downey + Hazel Mei @ Black Bear Lodge, 10.05.2019
Tiny Ruins play a headline show at Brisbane’s Black Bear Lodge in support of their Olympic Girls album, with support from Ryan Downey and Hazel Mei.
The Collapse Board Interview: The Goon Sax
Ages ago I talked to Goon Sax about their excellent second album, We’re Not Talking. It was all ready to publish but being the week of the album’s release there was a glut of interview so I decided to hold off until their official launch shows a few weeks later. Then I was working interstate […]
In Photos: Aurora + Austen @ Triffid, 06.05.2019
Aurora plays a Groovin The Moo sideshow at Brisbane’s Triffid, with support from Austen.
In Photos: Groovin The Moo @ Maitland Showground, 27.04.2019
Photos by Alicia Scott Photos from Groovin The Moo 2019 at the Maitland Showground, featuring A$AP Twelvyy, Angie McMahon, Aurora, Billie Eilish, Coolio, Crooked Colours, DMA’S, Fisher, Flosstradamus, G Flip, Haiku Hands, Hermitude, Hilltop Hoods, Holy Holy, Jack River, MØ, Nick Murphy, Thelma Plum and Trophy Eyes
In Photos: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever + Major Leagues + Pool Shop @ Triffid, 24.04.2019
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever play a headline show at Brisbane’s Triffid, with support from Major Leagues and Pool Shop.
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever @ The Triffid, Brisbane, 24.04.2019
In an imagined universe where The Go-Betweens’ ‘Apology Accepted’ was a hit single or The Velvet Underground ran all the way to the top of the charts the week it was released, a band like Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever would be king. It’s not that I want to peg them as cult just yet – you could […]
