SOTD #732 – Cowtown
OK, writer. You want to excite the masses with some scrap of music? Read my lips, then. I know, my lips aren’t in front of your face, but use yr imagination for a change. 1. For starters, do NOT use the words “summer”, “summertime”, or other signifiers of such to persuade the reader to listen. […]
In Photos: Dispossessed + Thigh Master + Heavy Breather @ The Foundry, 10.07.2016
Sydney’s Dispossessed play a free show at The Foundry, with support from Thigh Master and Heavy Breather.
101 Albums You Should Die Before You Hear, Vol. 1 – A Biased Review
So. You remember that rejected 33 1/3 chapter that Everett True posted on here back in September? Well, shorty after that, he posted on the Facebooks that he had a new idea for a book, and he needed writers FAST! Within a day, those who replied were shepherded into a new group called Rejected Unknown […]
SOTD #731 – The Fireworks
Currently, I am not in love. Previous scribbles from moi would lead you to believe I covet certain men from certain distances for several months at a time – and that was true, in regards to the internal longing, the upheaval, the sense of lack. But now, as my life stagnates and the rest of […]
Tourist Dollars – Tourist Dollars EP (Deaf Ambitions)
Listening to Melbourne’s Tourist Dollars on their debut EP is like drifting into scenes of a slightly melancholic 1970s romance movie. They’ve got this nostalgic swagger to them, like a band performing to a mostly empty school hall covered with adornments from a local party supply store, with two star-crossed youths swaying beneath a softly […]
SOTD #729 – Quimper
Blast. There’s this pianist that I used to know the name of. Howard? No, Harold. Harold something. Active in the late 80s. Don’t give me that patronizing look. The fact that I don’t buy vinyl doesn’t make me any less of a music scholar. I imagine the folks who dedicate entire rooms to albums lose […]
SOTD #728 – Ani Glass
Have you ever seen the movie Rad? It’s a movie about a small town boy that makes good on his BMX bike while he is constantly kept down by a corporate BMX company which is worried that if he races he will win. Anyway, there is a scene about a quarter of the way through […]
Poliça + Jaala @ Melbourne Recital Centre, 31.05.2016
I spent the first few minutes of Polica’s set at the Melbourne Recital Centre wondering whether or not this whole ‘sitting down’ thing was going to work for a band that, as I understood them, thumped and grooved enough in a way that might warrant a little boogie. Sitting down seems so academic, so chin […]
SOTD #727 – Big Bill
Big Bill hail from Austin, Texas and sound like nothing else that has come out of the town that SXSW has devoured. Tons of guitar twang with just the right amount of bending and swagger, that somehow brings to mind the super cool non-solo solos of the Dead Milkmen and the peckin’ party stomp and […]
Eagulls – Ullages (Popfrenzy)
Don’t put faith in a new band. Few religions pass the scrutiny of reason, but identity and happiness can’t be entrusted to a handful of fallible human beings, let along twenty-somethings with a whole life of lessons ahead of them. Eagulls had me for a while, though – and probably you, too, if you’re reading […]
