News PREMIERE: Clamber the heights of Jinja Safari’s Kilimanjaro in all its aural glory by Nick Hartman It’s a strange way of thinking to me that people casually climb other countries’ mountains just because they’re famous, like those rich Westerners who hire…
Music Forget cold cereal dudes, what you need is As Warm As Toast from Twelve Point Buck by Nick Hartman [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/230614483″ params=”color=000000&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true” width=”100%” height=”20″ iframe=”true” /] There are so many bands right now (be thankful that wasn’t written as “rn”) that play super-distorted, plodding…
News Hard hitting and riff laden, Polish Club bring it on their debut EP by Nick Hartman [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/219461027″ params=”color=000000&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true” width=”100%” height=”20″ iframe=”true” /] Shorter than ever, Polish Club serve an emaciated kielbasa of soulfulness, ol’ school, and raw punk on their new…
Music Bend the knee to The Black Queen, sovereign of synth-pop by Nick Hartman Greg Puciato is a very interesting man. He’s made his way into the music industry fronting mathcore marvels Dillinger Escape plan, with a stage presence akin…
Music Lontalius is like Chet Faker’s long lost Kiwi brother by Nick Hartman [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/225126827″ params=”color=000000&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true” width=”100%” height=”20″ iframe=”true” /] There’s a few things out there that are actually depressing, making clouds out of sunny skies. Melbournians would love…
Music Have a sweet tooth? Burning Sugar from Silicon might just be the fix you need by Nick Hartman [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/199975851″ params=”color=000000&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true” width=”100%” height=”20″ iframe=”true” /] Zan Rowe keeps pumping out the classics. She always plays some Queens of the Stone Age, which is always…
Lists Forget stupid sexy Flanders. Here are 5 Simpsons characters to inspire your next band by Nick Hartman Since Rip It Up, an Adelaide-based (!) music street press mag-cum-website, broke the story of the Ned Flanders-themed hardcore band Okilly Dokilly, it’s almost as…
Music 173 minutes from Kamasi Washington. And who said jazz wasn’t epic? by Nick Hartman [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/199843476″ params=”color=000000&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true” width=”100%” height=”20″ iframe=”true” /] It makes sense that at 34 Kamasi Washington has many ideas backed up after years of blowing into his…
Music The beast that is metalcore has had a shot in the arm thanks to Northlane on Node by Nick Hartman [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/177218512″ params=”color=000000&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true” width=”100%” height=”20″ iframe=”true” /] People like to say “Don’t judge a book by its cover”, and that’s a pretty solid piece of…
News PREMIERE: Ride the Meat Wave to the Cosmic Zoo by Nick Hartman Meat Wave is a brilliant name. It’s so evocative; I’m imagining a towering tsunami, shadowing the sleepy, small town beneath it. But this is no regular…
News PREMIERE: Little Horn explode onto the rock scene with Stranger Eons by Nick Hartman He might be twenty years dead, but Kurt Cobain is still working his very fertile loins. Sydney-siders Little Horn are the next band to emerge from…
Lists 5 sets of wheels for 5 of our favourite Aussie acts by Nick Hartman Every band needs a way to get around. There comes a point in a young musician’s life when slugging it in your mum’s Tarago doesn’t…
News PREMIERE: Melt into the psych rock of My Life in Pieces from The Demon Parade by Nick Hartman A misguided if well-intentioned young man once implored us to “Put your hands up for Detroit”. It would have been wise for that fellow to have…