Added on May 24, 2016
Caspar Jacobs
2016 , album review , Anohni , Arcade Fire , Beyonce , Big Joanie , Chance the Rapper , Courtney Barnett , Frankie Cosmos , Kurt Vile , Local Natives , Mumford & Sons , Pavement , Pitchfork , Red Hot Organization , Skating Polly , Stephen Malkmus , The Flaming Lips , The Goon Sax , The Grateful Dead , The National , the tuts , The War On Drugs , U2 , Wilco

Disclaimer: I’ve probably never heard a Grateful Dead song in my life. At least not knowingly. This is an unfortunate position for me to be in, considering I am reviewing an album containing 59 covers of songs by the Grateful Dead. Just so you know. In 2009, the Red Hot Organization, fighting AIDS through pop […]
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 February 5, 2014
Sophie
2014 , Brisbane , Chvrches , Festival , frightened rabbit , haim , Kurt Vile , Laneway , Lorde , Savages , Sophie Blackhall-Cain , The Jezabels , Unknown Mortal Orchestra , Vance Joy

Words: Sophie Blackhall-Cain Photos: Reuben Beer For the first time in recent memory, Laneway’s line up this year failed to grab me. Megastars Lorde and HAIM made the relatively low ticket price seem worth it, but I was dubious as to whether each of the acts could pull off strong performances. So it was with […]