Lists 5 things we learned about getting loose from Lunatics on Pogosticks’ MDMAtes by Iain McKelvey Melbourne good time connoisseurs Lunatics On Pogosticks are renowned merrymakers and seem to be fond of a misadventure or two. In voyeuristic fashion they have blessed us with MDMAtes which doubles as a…
Lists 5 ways to make sure your Secret Garden costume is a winner by Iain McKelvey So you’ve just bought a ticket to Secret Garden and along with the confirmation email the festival sends you a friendly heads up that they will be playing dress-ups and the theme will…
Lists It’s been an EPIC year in Australian music. Here are our 20 favourite album covers from 2015 by Iain McKelvey What a year! As we stare down the barrel of 2015, we’ve made time to reflect on the best of what we’ve seen and heard throughout the last 12 months, like…
Music The Doors meets Fleetwood Mac? Give us Dos Enos any day of the week by Iain McKelvey For all those people who believe it is just a vast no man’s land south of Sydney until the bustling metropolis of Melbourne emerges from the sun scorched land on the horizon, it’s…
Music Battles are the kings of experimental rock on La Di Da Di by Iain McKelvey The term and genre of experimental rock is a broad and very deep rabbit hole that one can choose to fall down if they so desire to have their mind…
News PREMIERE: Crazy enough to call the circle pit your home? Then you belong in Saint Henry’s Lunatic Asylum by Iain McKelvey Saint Henry was an 11th Century Duke of Bavaria and Roman Emperor known for his humility, spirit of justice and a well known zeal for discipline. While the holy individual might not…
Music Warning: Short circuiting your fuse box from over playing Rolling Blackouts’ Talk Tight is a high possibility by Iain McKelvey Rolling Blackouts have made quite an impression in Melbourne and beyond since debuting as a band in 2014 with a refreshingly infectious take on lo fi, punk / pop. Claiming their…
News PREMIERE: Around the world in 80 days with Sweet Mix Kids in The Whole World by Iain McKelvey Sandon James & Chris Scott, or as the general music loving public know them, Sweet Mix Kids, have been steadily playing a hefty array of festivals (Coachella, Rhythm and Vines, Wanderlust) and…
Music No monkeying around for I Know Leopard on the warm explosion of colour that is Another Life by Iain McKelvey Local Sydney band I Know Leopard threw a couple of ripples into the world with their debut EP Illumina, those ripples intensified to become an endless wave. If there was…
News PREMIERE: No huff or puff needed, Hannah Cameron’s Blow My House Down will bowl you over by Iain McKelvey The folk genre gets a bad wrap, as soon as an artist decided to unload introspective lyrics on us while an acoustic guitar gently strums in the background it gets tagged with…
Music Take a lesson in exploration and intimacy with Dustin Tebbutt’s Home EP by Iain McKelvey Dustin Tebbutt hit us hard with the release of The Breach EP two years ago, a breathtaking and sublime statement that resulted from a two year hibernation in Sweden. It perked a lot…
Music The High Learys prove once again that Perth is an incredible hive for new music on Letters to Alice by Iain McKelvey Perth is undeniably a fertile breeding ground for unhinged musical exploration. A rich land with a warm ocean responsible for acts like Karnivool, Jebediah, The Sleepy Jackson, The Panics, The Drones, Little…
Music No secret here, Le Pie is amazing on And He Said Honey, You Look So Fine by Iain McKelvey There’s something to be said about musicians cutting their teeth in whatever grimy punk scene is relevant to whatever city they may currently reside in. Not only do we see it as…
