News Jacob Collier will return to Australian shores as Brisbane Festival’s first 2019 headliner by Molly Lasker The team behind Brisbane Festival have today announced the headline act for perhaps their biggest festival to date. Lucky punters will be treated to a performance by the prodigious Jacob…
News Neil Tennant dissects Pet Shop Boys’ powerfully influential lyrics in his new anthology by Molly Lasker Often understated but profoundly influential, the music of Pet Shop Boys offers a strangely brooding and buoyantly melodic dissection of the cultural climate of Britain in the latter half of…
News PREMIERE: Keonico’s skilfully curated Be Someone Else will appeal to fans of every genre by Molly Lasker Lachlan Stevens, who produces under the moniker Keonico, is a musical people-pleaser. Following the downfall of his previous collaborative project, the four-member DJ group DEFRAxION, Keonico starting making music by…
News PREMIERE: The sunburnt punk sounds of This Time Only ring through on Marco Ave by Molly Lasker Sydney moshers This Time Only have crafted their own brand of sunburnt suburban emo-punk that is quintessentially Australian. Aggressive vocals and assertive guitar riffs aside, the band’s music is audaciously…
News PREMIERE: Loose Loose challenge genre classification with their debut EP Sanguine by Molly Lasker The borders of classification mean nothing to American septet Loose Loose. Their sounds weave effortlessly between genres; experimental, eccentric and idiosyncratic, the band have today released their debut EP. Sanguine sees…
News PREMIERE: Yeti Ghetto pack a punch with their debut single Real Feels by Molly Lasker It was the chaos of a North-West London sharehouse that sparked Scott Luderman’s urge to channel his frustrations into an outlet. The musician turned to his laptop, and after a…
Interviews Talking vada-vada, ’90s jungle and shooting clay plates with The Garden by Molly Lasker Californian experimental duo The Garden don’t have time to muck around. Having formed in 2011, the band have been touring relentlessly since 2013. Twins Wyatt and Fletcher Shears, who make…
Music Immerse yourself in the cultural melting pot of Klara Zubonja’s Eye To Eye by Molly Lasker The sounds of Melbourne’s Klara Zubonja are distinctly her own. Her graceful approach to otherworldly alt-pop stems from a melting pot of influences; the traditional sounds of European folk are…
News APRA AMCOS help bridge the gender gap by announcing a series of workshops for women by Molly Lasker APRA AMCOS are doing their part to combat the gender inequality that continues to plague the music industry by running a bunch of inner-city workshops designed to teach women and…
Music LISTEN: Aldous Harding – The Barrel by Molly Lasker Singer-songwriter Aldous Harding is another Flying Nun success story. Having garnered attention in her native New Zealand, she flew the proverbial coup and is now making waves worldwide. Yesterday, she…
News Vinyl Fifty years after its release, Lennon and Ono’s The Wedding Album is being reissued by Molly Lasker Marking 50 years since their iconic wedding in Gibraltar, Yoko Ono has announced the reissue of her 1969 collaborative album with John Lennon – aptly titled The Wedding Album. Due for release…
News Groovin The Moo in Canberra will see pill testing trials again this year by Molly Lasker In the wake of the massive success that was seen at last year’s event, Canberra’s leg of the annual Groovin the Moo tour will again play host to a pill testing…
News Vinyl Streaming music may not be as environmentally friendly as you think by Molly Lasker If you thought that the intangibility of streamed music would be much better for our weary planet than buying physical copies of CDs, cassettes and records, you could be wrong….
