Added on January 31, 2014
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2014 , Adalita , Bruce Springsteen , Cass McCombs , Chvrches , Friday Afternoon Playlist , Justin Edwards , Kirin J Callinan , Laneway , Neil Kulkarni , Savages , The Cramps , The Scientists
If everything has gone to plan, I’ll be at the Brisbane leg of this year’s Laneway festival by the time you read this. This year’s line-up is another strong one and I’ll be looking to catch a number of acts we’ve written about on Collapse Board, both favourably and less so – Lorde, Savages, Warpaint, […]
Added on December 29, 2011
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Andrew Stafford , Cosmic Psychos , Dave Graney And The Coral Snakes , Do Re Mi , Mental as anything , Regurgitator , Severed Heads , The Cruel Sea , The Divinyls , The Great Australian Songbook , The Laughing Clowns , The Scientists
Rock music doesn’t get much more moving than this.
Added on October 25, 2010
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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 June 14, 2009
Everett True
Britpop , Dunedin , Melbourne , Sonic Youth , Spacemen 3 , The Bobby McGee's , The Cannanes , The Drones , The Scientists
Occasionally, I wonder if I stopped off in the wrong city. It’d be nice to travel down to Northcote or Collingwood of an evening and be able to catch a sprawling set of often instrumental music from Beaches: music that touches on much of what I enjoy (Krautrock, 60s garage, beach parties, Sonic Youth, 1980 […]
