Stealing Sheep – Not Real (Heavenly Recordings)
By David Callahan Stealing Sheep exist in a self-determined parallel universe, where all the physical and creative resources they possess are marshalled into a curious diorama, resembling our world but still not quite of it. It’s a bit like arriving home and getting the feeling that your furniture has been inexplicably slightly rearranged, but not […]
Joanna Gruesome – Peanut Butter (Fortuna POP!)
By Stephanie Phillips Despite what many a cantankerous punk will tell you it really doesn’t take too much to start a DIY band. It’s easy enough to find like minded, rough and ready members with a similar disliking for authority; it’s easy to put a middle finger up to the concept of the music business […]
Peaches @ Max Watt’s, Melbourne 01.05.15
By Alexandra Duguid My feminist awakening was a slow burn. It probably started around the age of 15. Small things would happen to spur this along, usually musical discoveries. One of these discoveries was Ms. Merrill Nisker, more commonly referred to as Peaches. I discovered her when I was 16, with the release of her […]
The Fireworks – Switch Me On (Shelflife)
By David Callahan Switch Me On by The Fireworks A major factor in keeping indiepop – genuinely underground guitar pop, as opposed to major label ‘indie’ – alive through the years and generations has been the fact that it is impossible to play convincingly without a hefty injection of energy and naïve enthusiasm, and that […]
4 tracks with the Versace stamp of approval for April
By Eighties-Print Versace Low Life – Dream Machine Speaking of Versace – Rihanna straight up sported the hottest look of the past decade this week in Versace’s crucial Fall/Winter ’15 collection. Speaking of Rihanna – one of Sydney’s most crucial musical releases in 2014 was the dejected and callous Dogging by Lowlife which featured an ode […]
KANYE WEST | THE CASES FOR AND AGAINST
By David Stubbs FOR: Every couple of thousand years or so, a man is born whose sheer artistic brilliance replenishes the continents, girdles the earth and shines upon us quite literally with the force of a second sun. They say Jesus Christ may have been such a man but there is some doubt about that. […]
Body-slamming through the tears | Four tracks with the Versace stamp of approval
By Eighties-Print Versace Four tracks with the Versace stamp of approval I think you should hear. b00bjob – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc_MxrYkTDo With a rap landscape that’s truly reached its quota in terms of braggadocio (no disrespect but DAMN, if I’m driven to reflect on my bank account balance or sex moves one more time…) b00bjob’s ‘https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc_MxrYkTDo’ plays out […]
An Antidote to Boredom 1 | “A young, Aussie, Cetaphil-wearing Kim Gordon prancing around with a microphone”
By Alice Rezende In a stampede of self-confidence and frenzied admiration, I told a writer on Collapse Board that I was going to link him some “awesome bands!!!” that he could write about or store in his memory-pocket for future “this band sounds like this band” obligatory euphemisms. Next thing I knew, he titled this article […]
My buddies call me Ben. We all can’t WAIT for the new Mumford And Sons album
By Neil Kulkarni What kind of music am I into? Well… good music! Proper music, y’know? Not the chart stuff so much. I have lots of favourite songs by all kinds of bands and artists but basically I like songs from the heart. Songs about holding on through the tough times. Songs about letting things go […]
