More More Pond Each and every musician hopes to improve over time. Part of it is wanting to stay relevant, of course. Part of it is knowing that...
More More Eagulls The minute you mention playing in a band, it’ll either prompt the question, “Do you have anything online?” or the simple statement, “I’ll look it...
More More Little Dragon When Erik Bodin calls, I have just finished herding peacocks off the roof and bottle-feeding a belligerent lamb. I thought my evening was tipped to...
Features Features Yon Yonson: It’s Natural INDIE ALBUM OF THE WEEK Yon Yonson are clever guys. Like, scary clever. There are so many ideas bursting through this album, both musically and...
Features Features Cold Snap: World War 3 If you took Korn, Lamb Of God, DevilDriver and a pinch of Meshuggah and put them into some sort of German-made metaphorical music blender, then...
Features Features Fences: Lesser Oceans After four years,Lesser Oceansmarks the return of Seattle band Fences, the project of frontman Christopher Mansfield. While their self-titled debut album had some cute indie/alt-country...
Features Features Panda Bear: Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper Eight years after he redefined a genre withPerson Pitch, Panda Bear has releasedPanda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper, an album that shows that in eight...
Features Features The Grates: Dream Team The Grates have accomplished a lot in their three-year musical absence. A marriage, a pregnancy and a cafe opening later, the band has come back...
Features Features 1200 Techniques: Time Has Come In 2001, 1200 Techniques were at the forefront of the burgeoning Australian hip hop scene. Specialising in funky guitar riffs and live drum beats, their...
Features Features Belle And Sebastian: Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance ALBUM OF THE WEEK Belle and Sebastian’s career can be split into two eras – lo-fi twee and hi-fi twee. The second era now has...
More More Off The Record Carmelo Bianchetti, known to many as DJ HMC, is in this column’s opinion the greatest electronic artist Australia has ever produced.From humble beginnings in Adelaide...
More More 2014 The Year That Was Whichever way you look at it, 2014 was an eventful year. The memories from music and pop culture will last a lifetime – although we’ve...
