Kurt Cobain came from a small town. Aberdeen was nowhere, a place where a mixed-up kid like Kurt could never aspire to anything more than…
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Michael Collins isn’t trying to be original. He isn’t trying to be innovative either. He’s just a guy from the Californian underground trying to turn…
Barney Hoskyns has compiled a book about Radiohead, titled Present Tense: A Radiohead Compendium. In its opening pages he praises the band, but not so…
Jim Reid never saw Syd Barrett and punk as opposed. Neither, he thinks, did Johnny Rotten. Throw the Sex Pistols in with Barrett-era Pink Floyd…
There’s A Meaning Here, But The Meaning Doesn’t Mean A Thing A Psychedelic History Lesson
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Finding the Ramones in New York City I tried to find the Ramones in Manhattan, but all I ended up doing was fixating on city…
Lennon Against McCartney
Paul wanted to take the skiffle band professional. John wasn’t so sure. Paul pointed out it could get them girls. Nice clothes…
I first met Jade McInannly and Tim Harvey at a bar side table in Brisbane. It was 2017 and Jade Imagine had just recently released…
You could peg Gabriella Cohen as a singer-songwriter but just as easily you could cast her as a frontperson in a rock ‘n’ roll band….
What Does Disco’s Demolition Tell Us About Music’s Current State? The demise of disco in the late 1970s was as dramatic as it was culturally…
You know, it’s funny. There have been a lot of great albums released by Brisbane acts this year, but Digital Mountain may very well be…
The Church’s Steve Kilbey lays down the law on psychedelia, being a classicist and R.E.M comparisons
This article appears in print in Happy Mag Issue 9. Grab your copy here.
Sometime in the 1980s, a young Steve Kilbey was strolling down…
Dead heroes, King Gizzard and the problem with the music industry: a chat with Amyl and The Sniffers
Bassist Gus Romer may be Amyl and the Sniffers’ latest recruit but when it comes to summing up what this outfit is all about no…
