Features Breaking the Illusion: Hamburg and The Beatles’ Gritty Roots by Riley Fitzgerald We reflect on the Beatles’ Hamburg days and their ascension from middling amateurs to veteran rock ‘n’ rollers, well before the madness of Beatlemania hit. For…
Features Music Iconography, toxicology and dark ideology: 50 years of The Velvet Underground and Nico by Riley Fitzgerald The Velvet Underground and Nico embodied the ultimate album ideal: how the creative influence of five musicians could inform the next twenty years of music. The…
Features ‘The Piper at the Gates of Dawn’: Pink Floyd’s swansong of their madcap leader by Riley Fitzgerald A remarkable constellation of madcap sound, nothing like Pink Floyd’s The Piper at the Gates of Dawn had ever been heard before and nor would it…
Lists Music Two minutes is all you need: Here are the seven shortest songs ever to hit #1 by Riley Fitzgerald Forget the marathon songs we all know and love. Some of the shortest songs ever made still managed to hit number one on the charts. While…
Features Reflecting on ‘Lonerism’, Tame Impala’s crowning glory by Riley Fitzgerald While its predecessor crashed forth as a brilliant wash of psychedelia and powering riff rock, Lonerism was an explosion of emotion and escapist pop. With…
Enmore Audio Engineering The Sound: The Jesus and Mary Chain’s ‘Psychocandy’ by Riley Fitzgerald More than 30 years on from the release of The Jesus and Mary Chain’s Psychocandy, we delve into the recording choices which defined the Scottish…
Lists We’ve made a list of the 10 best music documentaries on Netflix by Riley Fitzgerald Ever feel just like being a couch potato and delving into the stories of your favourite musicians? Well, it’s your lucky day buddy. We’ve compiled…
Lists Check out these 8 music documentaries on YouTube, ready and waiting for your next big binge by Riley Fitzgerald When it comes to music documentaries on Youtube, it can be a bit of a mixed bag. So to help you mine the gold from…
Features The monster that is mental illness and its place in the music industry by Riley Fitzgerald As morbid as it might be, there’s no question that when it comes to celebrity figures’ Dionysian lifestyles, public meltdowns and untimely deaths intrigue us. Whether…
Interviews Concrete Surfers on BIGSOUND, TAFE and Kanye West by Riley Fitzgerald Concrete Surfers are Trent, Jovi, Sean and Jamie. Trent and Jovi grew up together and then met Sean at TAFE. Jamie? Well, he and Jovi…
Interviews These New South Wales on nipple tape, astrology and Iggy Pop by Riley Fitzgerald Various members of These New South Wales are sitting around a café table. It’s BIGSOUND and as we talk, they, well mostly leading man Jamie,…
Enmore Audio Features Engineering the Sound: The Breeders’ ‘Last Splash’ by Riley Fitzgerald From squalls of fuzz to running a sewing machine through a Marshall stack, we delve into The Breeders’ 1993 noise-pop pocket symphony, Last Splash and…
Interviews IVEY on Tia Gostelow, The Beatles and Musical Evolution by Riley Fitzgerald Millie is 19 and likes the Beatles, Lachie is about a year older and loves The 1975. Put them together with three other Gold Coast…
