Lists Giant eyeballs, clocks and more. Threads in this game are a big deal. Here are 5 bands who take costume choice to the extreme by Nick Hartman As the music industry changes in the face of the digital revolution, live performances are beginning to become more important to an artist’s income. Therefore, good gigging is a vital…
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 sherpas to pull them up…
Music Forget cold cereal dudes, what you need is As Warm As Toast from Twelve Point Buck by Nick Hartman There are so many bands right now (be thankful that wasn’t written as “rn”) that play super-distorted, plodding songs. There are almost as many of them as there are comic…
News Hard hitting and riff laden, Polish Club bring it on their debut EP by Nick Hartman Shorter than ever, Polish Club serve an emaciated kielbasa of soulfulness, ol’ school, and raw punk on their new EP also called Polish Club. Polish Club fleshes out the glimpses of…
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 to a nuclear blast trapped in…
Music Lontalius is like Chet Faker’s long lost Kiwi brother by Nick Hartman There’s a few things out there that are actually depressing, making clouds out of sunny skies. Melbournians would love to tell you that happens to them every day, but that’s just because…
Music Have a sweet tooth? Burning Sugar from Silicon might just be the fix you need by Nick Hartman Zan Rowe keeps pumping out the classics. She always plays some Queens of the Stone Age, which is always welcome, and she also likes to spin us some Jon Hopkins. The…
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 if a creative packet of…
Music 173 minutes from Kamasi Washington. And who said jazz wasn’t epic? by Nick Hartman It makes sense that at 34 Kamasi Washington has many ideas backed up after years of blowing into his saxophone at gigs, sessions and recordings, beyond the spotlight. He must have somehow…
Music The beast that is metalcore has had a shot in the arm thanks to Northlane on Node by Nick Hartman People like to say “Don’t judge a book by its cover”, and that’s a pretty solid piece of advice to go by. However in music the opposite idea is actually quite…
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 tsunami, instead of the foreboding deep…
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 the steamy Amazonian marshes somewhat southwest…
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 cut it anymore. Your act needs…
