Music Beach Slang – Cheap Thrills On A Dead End Street by Gavin Butler Beach House, Beach Fossils, Ghost Beach, Dirty Beaches, The Beach Boys. Like bears and crystal, the ‘B’ word tends to get a pretty good look-in…
Music Many Things – What We Are by Gavin Butler When it comes to the bittersweet, there’s nothing quite like nostalgia. Painfully pleasant, pleasantly painful; a sweet reflection on what’s been before and a bitter…
Music Augie March – Havens Dumb by Gavin Butler “If love is a bolt from the blue then what is a bolt but a glorified screw that doesn’t hold nothing together?” There are two…
Music Owl John – Self Titled Album by Gavin Butler I just bought tickets to see Wil Wagner because The Smith Street Band aren’t touring right now. A while back I went to a Conor…
Music Richard In Your Mind – Hammered by Gavin Butler As far as simple pleasures go, getting “hammered in the daytime” is right up there with table tennis and masturbation. My use of the ‘m’ word…
Music Spookyland – The Rock And Roll Weakling EP by Gavin Butler Him the damn good carpenter, the damn good sorcerer, the damn good songwriter: the silly fucking thing about Marcus Gordon and his Spookyland troupe are just…
Music The Vines – Out The Loop by Gavin Butler When I was fifteen I saw Craig Nicholls lose his shit. It was at the short-lived and criminally underrated Great Escape festival: the vibes were lax,…
Music Graveyard Train – Takes One To Know One by Gavin Butler “I thought it was a Modest Mouse song that I hadn’t heard before”. That was my mate Tom’s short and sweet bio for some band…
Music Julia Holter – Don't Make Me Over (Dionne Warwick Cover) by Gavin Butler Despite her being the second most-charted female vocalist of all time I, confessedly, had never heard of Dionne Warwick. She seems to belong to a…
Music Julia Holter – Don’t Make Me Over (Dionne Warwick Cover) by Gavin Butler Despite her being the second most-charted female vocalist of all time I, confessedly, had never heard of Dionne Warwick. She seems to belong to a…
Music Interview: Twin Beasts by Gavin Butler Melbournian outlaws Twin Beasts create the kind of throaty, debaucherous blues-rock that makes a man wanna lock up his daughters, swagger into town and get cracked on…
Music Tin Sparrow – Echo In The Dark by Gavin Butler There’s a clothing store in Bathurst called The Tin Goose. I know this because I’ve been there. I once tried on a pair of very…
Music Tape/Off – Chipper by Gavin Butler In the time of chimpanzees Beck was a monkey. His words, not mine. What he probably means is that in a time when everyone else seemed…
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