Features This one’s for the ladies: Chatting sexism, happy accidents and making it up as you go with The Ladies Network by Che-Marie Trigg Sometimes a happy accident can change a life — or the world. Post-it notes, penicillin and Coca Cola were all invented purely out of luck. Sydney-based collective The Ladies Network…
Lists 9 Femme Fatales who are killing it part 3 by Che-Marie Trigg There’s heaps of lists about girl who are in rock music. Sadly, many of these seem to be in lads magazines, with titles like ‘Sexiest Women in Rock’, women’s magazines, about the…
Music The Ocean Party’s Light Weight is a swell of flexible indie rock by Che-Marie Trigg Five albums in three years. It sounds like a recipe for disaster, but The Ocean Party have managed to pull it off. Their latest release Light Weight is a fully-formed album,…
Music ‘Heroin Chic’ is the game, and Ruth Carp and the Fish Heads play it well by Che-Marie Trigg Another day, another excellent Aussie psych-rock band. Ruth Carp and the Fish Heads (pause for a second to appreciate that name) have done it a bit differently, throwing what they deem a…
Music Flowertruck are 18 wheels of sunny pop on their debut EP Dirt by Che-Marie Trigg If Sydney’s Inner West is famous for anything, it’s producing a high calibre of musical talent. Having spawned a ridiculous number of kick-arse bands in its time, the hashtag #innerwestisbest is definitely…
Music Courtney Barnett meets Neutral Milk Hotel on Big Strong Brute’s Good Work EP by Che-Marie Trigg Big Strong Brute is the alter-ego of Brisbane-ite Paul Donoughue. And while he doesn’t look particularly big, strong or brute-ish, he’s managed to put together a solid five-track EP. It’s Big Strong…
Features The shameful nature of sexism in music and sexism the music industry by Che-Marie Trigg Once upon a time Mick Jagger told rock journalist Lisa Robinson, “There really is no reason to have women on tour, unless they’ve got a job to do. The only other reason…
Lists Tassie (our very own vagina), has birthed forth 6 awesome bands worthy of your attention by Che-Marie Trigg Ah the Apple Isle, home to a slew of pristine national parks, majestic mountains and vineyard upon vineyard of wineries. But it seems Tasmania hasn’t just been hiding the elusive Tasmanian Devil from…
Features Why the SoundCloud lawsuit is total bullshit by Che-Marie Trigg Hands up if you’re a musician and you have a multi-million dollar recording, promotional and touring budget? And keep your hands up if you have a record label behind you, a solid…
Features Our obsession with kid drummers by Che-Marie Trigg There’s something about a mini human playing a drum. It doesn’t matter whether they’re bashing away to Avenged Sevenfold, Offenbach or the Foo Fighters, people really seem to get their kicks watching…
Features Tinder is the new marketing tool for musicians by Che-Marie Trigg Picture this: you’re in a club, looking to find someone to take home, or maybe just ask out for coffee. You’re pretty sure you’re vibing with some hottie in the corner who’s…
Lists 7 Brisbane musos who are gunning it by Che-Marie Trigg When I was ten I went to Brisbane for a family holiday. It rained the whole time, I got stung by a wasp and got locked in an underground carpark for…
Music Wives is Canberra punk at its best by Che-Marie Trigg Think Canberra is mainly just home to jerk-off politicians, Questacon and heaps of roundabouts? Think again, for where there is politics, there will be punk and in case you didn’t…
