Added on February 10, 2016
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2016 , Battles , Brisbane , Chvches , Flume , Grimes , hudson mohawke , In Photos , Laneway , Purity Ring , RNA Showgrounds , vince staples , Violent Soho
Photos from Laneway 2016 at the RNA Showgrounds in Brisbane of Battles, Violent Soho, Vince Staples, Grimes, Hudson Mohawke, Chvches, Flume and Purity Ring.
Added on October 5, 2015
Scott Creney
Battles , billy synth , Blank Realm , Chvrches , empress of , Julia Holter , Kurt Vile , Lana Del Rey , Micachu , Miley Cyrus , mykki blanco , New Order , ought , US Girls
I’ve been a little sleep-deprived & out of focus lately and the news is a horror show filled w/lying sociopaths and so much abundant sadness that it makes the cloying relationship troubles of a band like Chvrches sound, at best, cloistered & obtuse. If anger is an energy then I guess passivity is a type […]
Added on August 27, 2012
Princess Stomper
AIR , Battles , Beach Boys , Dan Deacon , Necessary , Princess Stomper , Steve Reich , sufjan stevens
The Guardian reckons he’s singing his outrage at US foreign policy, but it all sounds like cotton wool and bunnies from where I am.
Added on August 8, 2012
Princess Stomper
Amebix , Battles , Call of Cthulhu , Eric Plourde , Front Line Assembly , Glasser , Grimes , Karda Estra , Knifeworld , Kozyndan , La Mar Enfortuna , Levitation , Loop , Lykke Li , Mark Rothko , MC Escher , Metallica , Necessary , Nine Inch Nails , Princess Stomper , Rammstein , Salvador Dali , She & Him , Steve Reich , Tashaki Miyaki , The Beatles , The Shins , Thinking Plague , Tool , Zdzislaw Beksinski
The thunking riffs are suitably portentous, but the amusing video would have tickled Beksinski’s reportedly excellent sense of humour.
Added on December 8, 2011
Princess Stomper
Battles , best of 2011 , dEUS , Foetus , Gang Gang Dance , Jeremy Soule , JG Thirlwell , Nicola Roberts , No Mas Bodas , Oh Land , Princess Stomper , Radiohead , Skyrim , Sophie Ellis-Bextor , Thurston Moore
Just knowing that there’s music this good out there makes me feel thankful, relieved, and a little bit spoiled
Added on September 26, 2011
Princess Stomper
16 Volt , Abe Vigoda , Battles , Chemlab , Chris Razor , clank , Coal Chamber , Faith No More , genre , Glasser , Gusto Extermination Fluid , H3llb3nt , Marnie Stern , Motor , Nice Nice , No Mas Bodas , Ohgr , Princess Stomper , Ruby , Skinny Puppy , Slipknot , Three Trapped Tigers , tUnE-yArDs
Clank. It’s retro-futuristic. The way music is supposed to sound in the 21st Century.
Added on August 29, 2011
Chris Razor
Battles , Chris Razor , congotronic , Don Caballero , Gloss Drop , ian williams , konono , Music criticism , Route One Or Die , Slint , Storm & Stress , Three Trapped Tigers
Rock – freed from ‘meaning’ – is at last allowed to be its own grinning, eclectic, wayward self.
Added on August 15, 2011
Princess Stomper
album review , Battles , Buke and Gass , criticism , Danielle Dax , Flesh , Nicola Roberts , No Mas Bodas , Pram , Princess Stomper , Siouxsie Sioux , sufjan stevens , The Creatures , The Monsoon Bassoon
I want to see something besides bunnies next time. Can you manage a squirrel?
Added on July 21, 2011
Princess Stomper
Battles , best of 2011 , Gang Gang Dance , Lucy Cage , Martin Atkins , Music criticism , Princes Stomper , Princess Stomper , Radiohead , Sophie Ellis-Bextor , Weird Al Yankovic , Wierd Al Yankovic , William D Drake
I love it when Radiohead write proper, hummable pop songs.
Added on July 1, 2011
Princess Stomper
album review , Battles , Cardiacs , Chemical Brothers , Gary Numan , Kazu Makino , LittleBigPlanet , Matias Aguayo , Paul Simon , Pink Floyd , Yamantaka Eye
Bloody hell, this is good. I didn’t know Battles got this good.
