In Photos: Sampa The Great @ GoMA, 16.09.2016
Sampa The Great plays a Friday night show for Cindy Sherman Up Late at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art.
SOTD #743 – Magana
Oh, you. You, the singer. You, who can reach through my headphones and command my whole attention. Sometimes the gut reaction is the only way to react: the swoon, the surrender, the fixation with this suave persona that swaggers with such ease. Through music I have learned the shape of desire – contoured and faceted, […]
SOTD #742 – Conformist
“Komputer Jenerated” is a super-short track at 2 minutes and 54 seconds but I want it to loop for hours on end. At the time of writing this piece and forming my thoughts and trying to think of ways to describe what I am hearing, the track has played over and over easily 15 times. […]
Holy Balm- Activity (Chapter Music)
Yeah. So some people dance the way my dad used to hose down the lawn at 4pm on a Sunday in January: with a total absence of worry, let alone uncertainty. Most of the time I spend in clubs is the opposite. Do I want to be here? Is it kicking in? Where is everybody? […]
NOTS – Cosmetic (Goner): The Impressionistic Approach
Nots says NO! to everything. We say YES! to Nots. ‘Entertain Me’ is a force of nature. It doesn’t care about you, or me, or any of the other two-thousand people on the beach. It’s right up there with Hookworms’ ‘Away/Towards’. The John Steel Singers’ ‘State of Unrest’. dEUS’ ‘Suds & Soda’, even! It’s a […]
“I Just Want To Stay Excited”: An Interview with the Goon Sax
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 […]
In Photos: BIGSOUND 2016, Thursday 8 September 2016 – Part 2
Kira Puru, I Heart Hiroshima, Rebel Yell, Clea, Sampa The Great, Totally Mild and Teeth & Tongue play the second night of BIGSOUND 2016.
In Photos: BIGSOUND 2016, Thursday 8 September 2016 – Part 1
Gregor, Inch, Fait, 100%, Braille Face, A.B.Original and Terrible Truths play shows in Brisbane on the second night of BIGSOUND 2016.
In Photos: BIGSOUND 2016, Wednesday 7 September 2016 – Part 2
Ainslie Wills, Tash Sultana, Simona Castricum, Habits, Alex Lahey and Rainbow Chan play on the first night of BIGSOUND 2016.
In Photos: BIGSOUND 2016, Wednesday 7 September 2016 – Part 1
Coda Conduct, Unity Floors, Moreton, Buoy, Mallrat, Thigh Master, Clairy Browne and Major Leagues play at shows at the first night of BIGSOUND 2016.
