Girlpool – Before The World Was Big (Wichita Recordings)
How is a girl supposed to “mature”, anyway? Or, for that matter, how does a band “mature” after rocketing to fame with a tape about sex and female desire? Girlpool did that rare thing that not all bands do (*coughJoannaGruesomecough*) – they figured out what the press wanted them to be, and thus became something […]
Frog – Kind of Blah (Audio Antihero)
Oh, god. Help me, words. Help me convey what a blessing Frog is. The moment the guitars trickle in on “All Dogs to Heaven”, I am transported. The warm twang that rings throughout the LP sounds woody, tangible, distinctly not modern. I think about “Ventura Highway”, and I try to remember when that sandy southwestern […]
In Photos: Gang Of Youths + Ecca Vandal + The Furrs @ Woolly Mammoth, 16.05.2015
Gang of Youths play a sold out show at Brisbane’s Woolly Mammoth, with support from Ecca Vandal and The Furrs.
In Photos: Charli XCX + Tkay Maidza @ The Met, 07.05.2015
Charli XCX and support act Tkay Maidza combine for a serious contender for ‘Show of the Year’.
In Photos: Peaches + Monster Zoku Onsomb + MKO @ Max Watt’s, 06.05.2015
Peaches plays one of the shows of the year at Brisbane’s Max Watt’s, with support from Monster Zoku Onsomb and MKO.
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 […]
In Photos: HITS + Horrortones @ Triffid, 03.05.2015
HITS celebrate their 10th anniversary at the Sunday Rock ‘n Roll BBQ, with support from The Horrortones, playing their last show after eight years.
Speedy Ortiz – Foil Deer (Stop Start)
Around about this time last year, the internet was busy picking pixels out of Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg’s Ban Bossy campaign: those of us empowered by the sentiment and those of us who consider it all mere semantics. So whilst Speedy Ortiz frontwoman and guitarist, Sadie Dupuis drove round Connecticut last summer, guitar flung across […]
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 […]
The Nightingales – Mind Over Matter (Louder Than War)
“For goodness sake, there’s been a chunk of time”, calls out Nightingales maestro Robert Lloyd seconds into the jittering opener of the same name. But in reality, there really hasn’t been at all. 2012 saw the Midlands troupe document a stream of live greats into Cooking Vinyl released No Love Lost, whilst 2014’s For Fuck’s […]
