Added on March 13, 2017
Darragh Murray
Brisbane , Grant McLennan , Teenage Fanclub , The Go-Betweens , The Goon Sax , The Triffid , White Men

For all my years of Teenage Fanclub appreciation, I’d never seen them live. I’d mentioned to my partner as we were in the Uber on the way to The Triffid in Brisbane that the likely clientele would resemble myself – mid to late 30s, males, slightly overweight, probably nerdy and white (oh, so WHITE). I […]
Added on October 19, 2016
Alexis Late
2016 , album review , Alexis Late , Bitch Prefect , Courtney Barnett , Craig Dermody , Dick Diver , Flight Of The Conchords , Flying Nun Records , paul kelly , Scott And Charlene's Wedding , The Clean , The Go-Betweens , Twerps

Ben O’Connor from Chapter Music, when describing Dick Diver, commented: “(they were) more about investigating ideas about Australian identity, rather than being a celebration of Australianness.” This is true of several bands from the roster of Brisbane-via-Melbourne label Bedroom Suck Records, bands that, like Dick Diver and Twerps on Chapter Music, have been described as […]
Added on September 17, 2016
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2016 , Abba , Blank Realm , Erykah Badu , Frankie Cosmos , Hayley Scott , interview , scraps , The B52s , The Go-Betweens , The Goon Sax , The Mosaics , The Pastels

By Hayley Scott. “I want people to think about me”, sings a wistful Louis Forster on the title track of The Goon Sax’s candidly self-deprecating LP, Up To Anything. The album deals in subjects that pertain to certain kind of world-weary adolescence that’s never cynical nor maudlin. Instead, it’s presented with a wide-eyed excitement that […]
Added on September 21, 2015
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2015 , Album Reviews , Beef Jerk , Bitch Prefect , Boomgates , Camperdown & Out , Courtney Barnett , Dick Diver , dolewave , Everett True , Glöss , Low Life , Lower Plenty , Mining Tax , Mitchell Judge , NUN , Orion , Pop Singles , Scott & Charlene's Wedding , Sean Prescott , Sex Tourists , The Go-Betweens , The Native Cats , The Ocean Party , Tim & the Boys , Total Control , Twerps , Velcro , Weak Boys , Yard Duty

By Mitchell Judge Early last year a handful of Australia’s greatest music critics published individual thinkpieces on the most recent dominant genre of local independent music: dolewave. Beginning with Sean Prescott’s review of the School of Radiant Living album on Crawlspace, this collection marked the first time that dolewave had been legitimised as a movement. […]
Added on September 8, 2015
Tiarney Miekus
Alpine , Australia , Blank Realm , Cured Pink , Kitchen\'s Floor , Ouch My Face , Simon Reynolds , The Church , The Go-Betweens , Tiarney Miekus

By Miss Tiarney Miekus Setting up Kitchen Floor’s Battle of Brisbane with Alpine’s Yuck would make for a lousy blind date. One is a party and one is a funeral, and I’m not convinced which is which. Yes, both are Australian releases (Alpine a few months ago, KF more recent), but they have little in […]
Added on April 16, 2015
Everett True
Dexys , Everett True , Pavement , Pixies , reformed bands , Sleater-Kinney , Suede , The Go-Betweens , The Sex Pistols , Wire

Here’s the line. It’s thin. Above it we find bands like Mission Of Burma, The Go-Betweens and Sleater-Kinney. (Wire are momentarily disqualified for not really splitting.) Below it, we find bands like The Sex Pistols, Pixies and Swervedriver. Like this. Got the idea? Good. Now we move on to a more extended pie chart. As Lucy Cage […]
Added on January 30, 2015
Everett True
Brisbane , Everett True , interview , Robert Forster , The Go-Betweens , The Guardian

It was a privilege to interview Robert. He’s a real gent. I’ve included a handful of notes I made at the start, some of which made it into the final Guardian article, albeit in expertly edited form. We start off discussing the sound of cicadas, the fact his wife can hear him down the phone […]
Added on January 16, 2015
Everett True
Brisbane , Collapse Board contributors , The Go-Betweens , Why like the Go-Betweens?

Ask a simple question… Too hard; the all too rare ability to combine talent, taste, style, and wide-ranging themes in a peerless body of work. 1. The work of lively minds. 2. A bridge between adolescence and adulthood (mine and theirs) which is open both ways… and if you stand in the middle, you can […]
Added on November 2, 2013
Everett True
Acetone , Eric B & Rakim , Len , Olivia Newton-John , Paul McCartney , pop music , sex , Sonic Youth , Tall Dwarfs , The 100 Greatest Songs of All Time , The Go-Betweens , The Sharades , The Tours , user-generated content

When will Collapse Board tackle the Top 100 Lisps List of All Time? I already vote in Morrissey and Daniel Johnston, so only 98 more to go.
Added on April 4, 2013
Ben Green
2013 , Al McKay , Al Montfort , album review , Ben Green , Calendar Days , Chapter Music , Dick Diver , Flying Nun , Love Positions , New Start Again , Ru Edwards , Steph Hughes , The Go-Betweens

They don’t describe forests, or even trees, but the feel of bark and the sound of leaves and then leave the rest for you.