In Photos: The Saints ’73-’78 + Chimers @ Princess Theatre, Brisbane, 24.11.2024

The Saints ’73-’78, featuring Ed Kuepper and Ivor Hay from the Saints’ original line-up, plus Mark Arm, Mick Harvey and Peter Oxley, play the second of three sold out show at the Princess Theatre in Brisbane, with support from Chimers.
In Photos: Mudhoney + Chimers + Gravel Samwidge @ The Zoo, 16.04.2023

Mudhoney play a sold out show at The Zoo in Brisbane, supported by Chimers and Gravel Samwidge.
NOTS – Cosmetic (Goner): The Analytic Approach

“No novelty”, shouts Natalie Hoffman, lead singer and guitarist of Memphis punk band Nots, on their sophomore record Cosmetic. It’s one of the last tracks on the record, but it’s the one to reference in case someone wants to point out that this gang of four is “an all-girl band”. Carrie Brownstein has often stressed […]
SOTD #712 – Hag Face

The very name should chill your bones. As your lips form the words, you should welcome the slight shudder that slips down your back. You should feel compelled to fear. You should embrace the fear. As you would with Satan, Voldemort, Napalm Death, or the Glow Cloud. O great conjurers, o great terrors of the […]
The people have spoken | The greatest band of the grunge era

Grunge began in 1990 when my previous girlfriend broke my heart by leaving me for some bloke she met on a railway station in Germany. Grunge finished in 1996 when I met the woman who would become my future wife. (In between I went out with a woman who – by being my grunge girlfriend – […]
In Photos: Mudhoney + feedtime + Gravel Samwidge @ The Zoo, 18.01.2014

Mudhoney play a Brisbane Big Day Out sideshow at The Zoo, with support from feedtime and Gravel Samwidge.
Deerhunter – Monomania (4AD)

I don’t like praising records for their focus and consistency — makes me feel like I’m in a corporate boardroom or something.
Book Review – The City is Ablaze! The Story of A Post Punk Popzine 1984 – 1994

It costs the same as 3 issues of Mojo, or 6 weeks’ worth of NME’s, and it’s a dozen times more likely to change your life.
Song of the day – 478: Coloured Balls
Dude. This is fucking nice. Brief, brutal and heavy as shit.
Song of the day – 431: Teeth (Rock Vs Cancer. Rock Wins.)
Bangs damn it, we would’a KILLED for music this focused, tightly coiled, back in 1990