Added on October 25, 2010
Everett True
Black Diamonds , Devil's Children , Do The Pop , Eddy Current Suppression Ring , Everett True's Australian Garage Rock Primer , Hits , Lipstick Killers , Matrimony , Missing Links , Nuggets , Pebbles , Peter Tilbrook , Pretty Ugly , Purple Hearts , Radio Birdman , Something Awful , Sunnyboys , Tales from the Aus Underground , The Birds , The Eastern Dark , The Easybeats , The Elois , The Saints , The Scientists , Tim Pittman , Tumbleweed , Ugly Things , Venom P Stinger , Wild About You , Wild Colonials , You Am I
There’s a good argument to be had for grunge beginning in Australia with The Scientists in 1979. Ask Kurt Cobain. Oh wait. You can’t.
Added on September 1, 2010
Everett True
Armedalite Rifles , Black Diamonds , C86 , Can , Captain Beefheart , David Thomas , Frank Black , Gang Of Four , Kurt Cobain , Lenny Kaye , New Age Steppers , Pere Ubu , Sarandon , shambling , Teenage Fanclub , The Deadnotes , The Feelies , twee pop , Wild Colonials
So some guy reads my piece on Australian garage bands and decides to contact me on Facebook, asking if I’d like to hear a CD of his band. I say, direct me to your music first, so he does. I give it a listen. I like it. It’s all spark and fire: rhythms like Captain […]