Does the Australian Music Industry Turn a Blind Eye to Dune Rats?
I won’t deny that the first time I saw Dune Rats, I thought they were the best new Brisbane band I’d seen in ages. Based on what I’d seen at this show in April 2011, when the band were one of the four supporting bands at Stature:Statues’s debut album launch show and also last ever […]
Does Shannon Noll Hate Women?
“Shame the prick! Shame that motherfucker right there!” Shannon Noll bursts into a tirade at his Duck Creek concert. He’s angry. With good cause. One of the crowd, a heckler, has hurled something at him onstage. “Whoever that was come up here!” The crowd quickly identifies the assailant. A “fuckhead in a tie.” Shannon continues […]
SOLIDARITY TIME – Word Up for Joanna Gruesome
Today, kids, we are going to stand up and applaud. So Drowned in Sound interviewed Alanna McArdle lately. It’s an innocuous, friendly chat really, with ordinary journo-to-band questions about songwriting, live performances vs. recording, “the volatile state of guitar music” (which both interviewer and interviewee agreed was a load of BS), the huge corporate sham […]
Collapse Board on Odd Future
Odd Future is not a feminist issue. Odd Future is a societal issue.
Odd Future and sexism etc
Many men still feel that endless misogynistic ‘jokes’ are ultimately harmless and that everyone should just get a sense of humour.
