“What's the matter? Your chicken taste like pork?”…
Ben Green's favourite music of 2013 so far - a mixtape…
The extra reading is well worth your time. I'm way more entertaining than I need to be, given the subject matter.…
I would never treat my guitar like I treat my boyfriends. It means more to me than that.…
In summation, he mused, I was comparable to the vacant, mannequin-esque women in Robert Palmer’s video for ‘Addicted To Love’.…
Some bands from my youth have fallen by the wayside, but not The Doors. I always return to them and each return pays back my youthful devotion. RIP Ray Manzarek.…
The top two percent of indie music history is remembered and the median is just disregarded. …
Another slow month, enlivened somewhat by the top two entries. At this…
Chrissy Amphlett, lead singer of Divinyls, died this past Sunday. She was 53. Most musicians are lucky if they ever release a record, much less make the charts, never mind change the world. Ms. Amphlett, who left home at 14, accomplished all three.…
It costs the same as 3 issues of Mojo, or 6 weeks’ worth of NME’s, and it’s a dozen times more likely to change your life.…
Why would we make this music that is The Terror - this bleak, disturbing, hopeless record...?? I don’t really want to know the answer that I think is coming: that WE were hopeless WE were disturbed (but we didn’t have a longing to NOT be disturbed) and, I think, accepting that some things are hopeless...or letting hope in one area die so that hope can start to live in another?? Maybe this is the beginning of the answer.…
It’s leather trousers worn by men in pubs. It’s an OAP still piling the remainder of his hair into his Teddy Boy quiff, which has over decades thinned to the point where it’s just a flimsy hint, a ghost of a style. …
We’re a bit late this year (the story of our life) but it’s time…
Unaddressed allegations of racism, misogyny, violent abuse and bad behaviour. There’s a problem with…
You break up with your ex. You like them, but they’ve pushed the limits…
Charlotte Sands viral hit “Dress”, a song about Harry Styles wearing a dress on…
Photo by Luz Gallardo Kid Congo Powers rose to prominence in the punk and…
Photo: Matthew Reeves Formed in 1977, the Psychedelic Furs melded punk energy with atmospheric…
Kid Congo Powers & The Pink Monkey Birds finish up their 2024 Australian tour…
Photos from Pandemonium at Eatons Hill Hotel in Brisbane, featuring Alice Cooper, The Psychedelic…
Codeine’s first ever Australian tour ends with a show at Brisbane’s Stranded, with support…
Once I was blind, now I can see Once I was blind but now…
BRIGHTON KOMEDIA: I have never felt very comfortable with my body. This feels like home.…
The opening song sounds like My Bloody Valentine. You may well be enthused by…
Photo: Sian Stacey The big music “news” in Australia in the last couple days…
Photo: Eleanor Petry Well, this is just great. On first listen it reminds me…
Photo by Anita Shao Something from the open browser tab collection that I’ve been…
