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Song of the day – 232: Regurgitator

Confession time. I’d always had this bunch lumped in with Powderfinger because their name has… um… five syllables in it. And is just one word. And they’re Australian. and they’re male. From around the same region, and era. And… er. Not very good reasons, are they? http://soundcloud.com/regurgitrax Bugger it. I like this new EP of […]

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Song of the day – 230: Die! Die! Die!

The drumming! Have I mentioned the drumming?

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Song of the day – 226: The John Steel Singers

I never make my mind up before hearing something, but I wasn’t really expecting to like this. Too perky, thought I vaguely. Too Triple J, thought I vaguely.

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A couple of observations about the ARIA Awards 2010

Congratulations to Temper Trap, winners of Most Popular Australian Single. A single so popular that it’s won the award two whole years after it was released

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It’s just another shitty music award. Who gives a crap?

Folk are getting hot under the collar about the recent Jagermeister-sponsored AIR (Australian Independent Music) awards. Particularly the awarding of the “best independent album” category to Cloud Control for Bliss Release, an album distributed by Universal Music. And also particularly at the fact the host of the “independent” music awards was one of Nova 969 […]

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notes from an email to an organiser of Sound Summit…

…I’m happy for you to come up with the questions, thanks Chris. The dialogue between myself and Shaun Prescott over the Washington review is interesting, gratuitous personal insults aside. He thinks it’s pointless to focus on the mediocrity that always exists (and I can understand that attitude because it means less space is actually given over […]

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Song of the day – 167: Smudge

Effortless brilliance. The song is called ‘Superhero’, the city is Sydney and the era is early 90s, slacker generation. Here’s what I had to say about the recent Smudge compilation for Mess And Noise. I’ve since been advised that Smudge have never broken up, have gigged sporadically for several years and might well be recording […]

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more on Washington

I wrote a review of the new Washington album for The Vine. You can find it here. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— Washington I Believe You Liar (Universal Music) Australia. You worry me sometimes. I’ve seen this album hailed as 2010’s saviour of pop. (This is what happens when you allow fucking radio presenters to moonlight as music critics, […]

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Song of the day – 154: Winston Echo

Winston Echo. He makes Daniel Johnston sound like Daniel Johnston. He makes Clive Pig sound like Clive Pig. He makes Lesbo Pig sound like Lesbo Pig. (See what I did there?) He makes Ivor Cutler sound indubitably like Ivor Cutler. And so on. He doesn’t like folk making jokes along the lines of “Is there […]

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Song of the day – 152: Black Diamonds

It would be ridiculous not to list one of the many incredible bands I unearthed in my research for my new Something Awful column. It’s called Everett True’s Australian Garage Rock Primer, and many of the recommendations came directly from a thread on the Mess And Noise message board, so props to all involved. And […]