News PREMIERE: Kav Temperley leaves alt-rock in the past and jumps on board the funk train with new single, Dancin’ by Amy Henderson We’ve all done it. Sat up real straight, furrowed the brow, spaced out the gaze and delivered a moving and inspired rendition of Black Fingernails, Red Wine or at least…
News PREMIERE: Waza releases a stark dystopian-style video for Bad Teeth, complete with jelly and a scribbled on Kim K by Amy Henderson Like every self respecting postmodern dystopian creative piece, the music video for Waza’s new single, Bad Teeth, opens with flames consuming the contemptible propaganda of the proverbial oppressive regime. The flames dance about doing the…
Live The Paper Kites melted hearts and soothed weary souls during their Midnight Tour by Amy Henderson Most of us share a desire for calming things; bubbles baths, wine upon wine, upon wine, Sunday afternoons, gazing dreamily into the sunset. My, oh my, how the sunset does its…
Music Layered and ambient with not a neon sign in sight, Ben Wright Smith delivers acoustic music with maturity and flair by Amy Henderson Cruisier than an albatross mid flight circumnavigating the globe are the oozing melodies and crooning ways of Ben Wright Smith. As is fitting with a muso who’s name is as crisp as…
Lists 5 weirdest things that happened to The Love Junkies while touring the US by Amy Henderson Aussie lads The Love Junkies tumbled around the US in a tour that can be described as loose, van-centric and damn unsafe. But, boys will be boys and under the…
Music Remember that time that Katy Perry backed up P.O.D.? by Amy Henderson Yes it happened. It was nearly 10 years ago but the mega pop star of today crooned her way through the setlist of P.O.D. complete with edgy noughties hair cut…
News No more bloody traffic, new bus will drive above it all by Amy Henderson Damn traffic gets the better of all of us. Even the god-man Mr. K West has had to sit in traffic for a mo or two. But no bloody more…
Music Middle Kids deliver debut single Edge of Town bringing us all to our knees by Amy Henderson Sometimes a song comes along that’s so crisp, crackling shudders in its festive tray. The opening guitar riff, off the debut single for Middle Kids, for some inexplicable reason, is…
News President Obama does Finland a solid, shouts out their heavy metal scene by Amy Henderson We all knew Prez Obama was a man of impeccable taste, but here to consolidate that belief is utter proof that the most powerful man in the world knows his…
News DD Dumbo rises from the deep and drops new track ‘Satan’ by Amy Henderson Enigmatic characters. We love ’em. Their genius bristling and meandering behind alternative lifestyles and opaque schedules. D D Dumbo (Oliver Perry), why, he’s a muso that’s done the now you…
News PREMIERE: More powerful than openly sobbing, the new vid for Driveway from William van der Vliet achingly moves through unsaid subtleties by Amy Henderson William van der Vliet has created a dark, complex and unavoidably raw track and the video could not match it more viscerally. It’s a mellow, smoother than cotton seeped in fabric…
News PREMIERE: Have a good old rage binge with The Con & The Liar on Drummers & Lovers by Amy Henderson As arresting as a montage of an adolescent male ripping apart an innocent crème de la crème cushion hailing from the temple of Scandinavia, the whole scene is cathartic. What…
News Cat gets filthy happy gorging on birthday cake, do likewise by Amy Henderson Ah cats. They’re bloody lunatics. They divide the nation. You love ’em or you hate ’em. But, once in a blue moon, once in a swish of a feline’s whiskers…