Features Is 80s music boring? Computer says… yes by Adam Disney Hail, hail – what an age we live in! Times move swiftly, and even the prescient find themselves perpetually blindsided by the scientific community’s brisk and thorough progress in proving what…
Music Layered complexity and tight production Vera Blue dispels pop haters with graceful ease in lush new EP Fingertips by Adam Disney Boy, howdy. Even I can sense it here, and my stunningly malnourished music career should be evidence enough that I don’t exactly have a nose for the pop appeal. Nope;…
Music Like a beautiful, yet undercooked muffin, The Last Shadow Puppets are gooey and lukewarm on Everything You’ve Come To Expect by Adam Disney Hold on – is this calendar accurate? How is this possible? How could eight years have crawled by so fast? Were it not for the rigours of modern timekeeping, I…
Music Day Wave’s new EP Hard To Read ticks enough boxes to induce the Zen by Adam Disney Day Wave’s latest EP ‘Hard to Read’ is a gentle pulse of a record, one that shimmers slowly into frame, ticks over dreamily for some twenty minutes or so, and…
Music The best electronic band in Sydney? The Sticks are a top contender by Adam Disney It’s not that often that you see something really new. I’m not just talking about the sweet tang of chronological freshness here, mind you. I’m talking about a different feeling, something…
Features Are you a drummer? Here’s why you’re better than everyone in your band (and maybe everyone else) by Adam Disney Drummers. No, this isn’t the setup to some hacky gag – I’m here to celebrate those scruffy little devils. You see unlike some folks of lesser virtue, I have only the…
Music Pain from Deaf Wish leads the charge with an abstract pile-driving love letter by Adam Disney I’ve said it before and it bears repeating: I like a good nod of the ol’ head. Let me be clear – I’m not talking acts of affirmation or consent. No,…
Music Diving into Currents from Tame Impala by Adam Disney Kevin Parker is back with the synthesiser dominated third album. Swapping in his guitar may raise eyebrows, but Currents from Tame Impala is well worth your time. We may be…
Lists 6 must see acts at Big Pineapple Festival 2015 by Adam Disney Pop quiz, round one – where will you be come May 30th? If your answer was anything but “Why, the Big Pineapple Festival of course”, then I’m sorry to have…
Music Dolores Haze champions lo-fi garage rock by Adam Disney Call me a softie, but I get good vibes from the picture alone. Dolores Haze is a four-piece band from British Columbia that looks like every single neighbourhood band you’ve…
Music White Lodge release their most fun Punk Rock to date by Adam Disney Look at the artwork. Absorb it, let it seep into your pores, this is all you need to know. The deep slabs of sludgy cosmic punk housed within the two new…
Music Black Yaya's debut album is chock full of laid back pop-rock by Adam Disney Carefully crafted and ripe with promise, Black Yaya’s self-titled debut album is a warm throwback of a record, one that handily evokes a laid-back pop-rock past while instilling a keen…
Music Hunker down for Winterplan's chilling synths and moody beats by Adam Disney Icy. Icy. I can’t possible overstate it – this stuff is cold. I’m not sure how they did it, but Melbourne four-piece Winterplan has by some strange and potent voodoo…
