Added on March 14, 2019
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2019 , Alicia Scott , Banoffee , Beach House , Clea , Deafheaven , Farmer & The Owl , Flint Eastwood , Flyying Colours , Hockey Dad , In Photos , MacCabe Park , No Mono , Obseen , Party Dozen , Snail Mail , Stella Donnelly , TEES , The Pinheads , These New South Whales , Totty , Wollongong
Photos by Alicia Scott Photos from Farmer & The Owl at MacCabe Park in Wollongong featuring Beach House, Hockey Dad, Deafheaven, Snail Mail, Stella Donnelly, These New South Whales, Totty, TEES, The Pinheads, Party Dozen, Obseen, No Mono, Flint Eastwood, Clea, Banoffee and Flyying Colours.
Added on March 4, 2019
Riley Fitzgerald
2019 , Alex Scally , Beach House , Brisbane , Riley Fitzgerald , The Tivoli , Victoria Legrand
Beach House’s Music Is About Escape
I like Beach House. The older records hold up, they seem to have the strength of resisting time. At their best moments Beach House transcend, pushing aside labels and cliché they touch upon white-hot moments of feeling and the spaces between. And just to go back on that earlier point, Beach House have been around […]
Added on December 29, 2015
Lee Adcock
2015 , Alexis Petridis , Beach House , Courtney Barnett , Hannah Golightly , John Grant , Justin Edwards , Kurt Cobain , Laura Snapes , Lee Adcock , Mark Kozelek , Nirvana , Slaves , sufjan stevens , Sun Kil Moon , Viet Cong , worst of
The name “Viet Cong” So this year, we watched as a band named after an off-hand racist comment rose on the charts. They’ll no doubt crop up on bunches of more positive lists this month, even after colleges like Oberlin barred them from playing. Sang Nguyen, a writer at Impose and also a second-generation Vietnamese-American, […]
Added on September 9, 2015
Scott Creney
Beach House , Bourbonese Qualk , Chelsea Wolfe , Deafwish , Deradoorian , Destroyer , Dr Dre , Goldberg , Palehound , Pere Ubu , Royal Headache , Singers & Players , The Weeknd , Willis Earl Beal
Future music fans will look back on this era and wonder what our fucking problem was. By then all the derivative filler & trustfund-funded garbage clogging up our ears will have disappeared and only the great stuff will be left. There’s so much of it, an embarrassment of riches compared to, say, 1995, or […]
Added on December 6, 2012
Mike Turner
Alabama Shakes , Animal Collective , Ariel Pink , Bats For Lashes , Beach Fossils , Beach House , best of 2012 , Captured Tracks , Clinic , Cold Pumas , Deerhoof , DIIV , Dirty Projectors , Dum Dum Girls , Grimes , Grizzly Bear , Jack White , Japandroids , La La Vasquez , Laetitia Sadier , mac demarco , Micachu and the Shapes , Mike Turner , Minutemen , Mumford & Sons , Naomi Punk , New Order , Of Montreal , Passion Pit , Pixies , Shins , Tame Impala , Tears For Fears , The Bastards of Fate , The School , Twin Shadow , Wild Nothing , Windowspeak , Yo La Tengo
Dum Dum Girls had a massive year — the Coke Zero of the indie world. You know, same taste as the original formula but not as filling.
Added on July 15, 2012
Lucy
Beach House , Berangere Maximin , best of 2012 , BoA , Chairlift , Death Grips , Dirty Projectors , Here We Go Magic , Human Don’t Be Angry , Japandroids , Lucy Cage , M.I.A. , metric , Miike Snow (ft Lykke Li) , Plan B , Poliça , Riz MC (ft Plan B & Aruba Red) , Santigold , Shrag , Soko , Spoek Mathambo , The Shins , THEESatisfaction , US Girls
Sparky, desperate, rough-edged, delirium-fuelled, defiant, shouty boy pop. There’s a place for it, you know.
Added on May 19, 2012
Scott Creney
Beach House , Bloom , fentanyl , Scott Creney , Sub Pop
After five listens, I’m still not sure this music even exists. It’s that ephemeral, a shimmery mirage that’s every bit as substantial, every bit as nourishing, and every bit as empty, as the image suggests.
Added on January 25, 2012
Wallace Wylie
Abel Tesfaye , Beach House , Britpop , Cocteau Twins , Earl Sweatshirt , Jarvis Cocker , Kate Bush , Matthew Dear , Michael Jackson , Odd Future , Pitchfork , Portishead , Pulp , Siouxsie And The Banshees , The Weeknd , Tyler The Creator , Wallace Wylie
Sex, drugs, more sex, more drugs, each song details another night of Bacchanalian excess with no redemption in sight. Are you ready to party?
Added on January 24, 2012
Scott Creney
Aaliyah , Balam Acab , Beach House , Beavis , Burial , Corey Feldman , Juggalos , Roberto Bolano , Siouxsie & The Banshees , Skrillex , The Weeknd , The Wire , Usher , Wander/Wonder , William S. Burroughs
It’s the difference between internet porn and actual sex, between Beavis and Bolaño, amusement and art.