In Photos: Mercury Rev + Primitive Motion + Faint Spells @ The Zoo, 11.12.2015

The Zoo, Brisbane’s best venue, celebrates its 23rd birthday with a Meredith sideshow from Mercury Rev, supported by Primitive Motion and Faint Spells.
The Best of Australia in 2015

Above: Deafcult at the Crowbar. Photo taken by Justin Edwards. Every press outlet outside of Australia will try and tell you folk (I’m from Georgia in the US of A, remember) that Tame Impala carried your torch this year in the indie charts. But who needs those fuckers, eh? I imagine they course through your […]
Bedroom Suck sucks

By Heath Sledger Go Away and Leave it all Behind : 2014/15 is a new (free) sampler from Brisbane-incepted indie label Bedroom Suck Records. The name invokes the will to get out there in the night and have a good time seeing bands or mates’ bands instead of staying in. Commendable enough, but the songs […]
In Words: Bedroom Suck Records 5th Birthday Party @ Black Bear Lodge, 19.10.2014

Time may be getting faster every year but it’s crazy to look at how much Bedroom Sucks Records have achieved in the last five years, their first five years. As the man said, they’ve put out some of the best music in Australia in that time and keep going from strength to strength. By comparison, […]
In Photos: Bedroom Suck Records’ 5th Birthday Party @ Black Bear Lodge, 19.10.2014

Bedroom Suck Records celebrates their fifth birthday with a show at Black Bear Lodge, featuring Terrible Truths, Peter Escott, Superstar, Primitive Motion, Cannon and Thigh Master.
Superstar + Primitive Motion + Cannon @ Black Bear Lodge, Brisbane 20.10.14

I see Cannon play. This is part of the Bedroom Suck five-year anniversary. What’s not to like? Buncha loud-mouthed disreputable local types playing a buncha loud-mouthed disreputable shouty punk songs. With a female drummer who kicks ass. Bangs alive, but I’d be driven to distraction if this was all I saw live… but I’d still […]
Bedroom Suck doesn’t | five years on

Music that doesn’t suck. There’s a Bedroom Suck compilation out: BSR5. It’s there to celebrate five years since the label was started by two discontents living in the steamy undergrowth of Brisbane, 27 tracks featuring… well, I’m guessing it features some fucking great Australian music. (I ain’t heard it, you understand.) Not much of a guess […]
In Photos: Bitch Prefect + Cured Pink + Primitive Motion @ Black Bear Lodge, 29.11.2013

Bitch Prefect launch their ‘Bird Nerds’ album in Brisbane with a show at Black Bear Lodge. Support from Cured Pink and Primitive Motion
Hangar 03: Primitive Motion + Faspeedelay + Ghost Notes @ The Waiting Room, Brisbane 09.03.13
A night of playing with sound and song, experimental but structured and beautiful