Music If you put boogie boards, golden sand and slip n’ slides in a blender you’d get Shadowboxing by Los Espinas by Victoria Mietchen With influences like Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and PJ Harvey with shades of Silversun Pick Ups, Longwave and even R.E.M., Los Espinas are the epitome of promising, fresh and exciting indie…
Music Punchy, solid and energized The Vibe EP from Motez is a banger for your Friday night shenanigans by Victoria Mietchen Motez ‘The Vibe’ is a multi-dimensional dance album that will fill that particular void in your music collection, bringing a deep, nourishing sigh. Loaded with ambience while being as unpredictable…
News PREMIERE: Ready your heart for a new lover with Slow Dancer’s sweet, sweet new offering Don’t Believe by Victoria Mietchen Simple as the sun, Slow Dancer shines a little light on Australian r’n’b. Allow your heart strings to get a little tangled in the melted chocolate vocals and original, low key,…
Live Crooning up a storm, Matt Corby brings it home in his one and only Sydney show by Victoria Mietchen The spotlight fills the dark center of stage and the silhouette of a young man. Matt Corby, cool as ever under pressure, begins clicking out the slow wave backbeat of…
News PREMIERE: Like a bit of unpredictability in your Monday afternoon? The Gypsy Scholars go exploring on Daydream Author by Victoria Mietchen Known for the exuberant life of their melodies and the vibrant sincerity in their colloquial storytelling, The Gypsy Scholars are back with a new single, Daydream Author. Far from the…
Music Like a Shaolin monk, Matt Corby is clam, focused and transcendental on Telluric by Victoria Mietchen A balmy voice wends out of the spiraling current as Belly Side Up opens Telluric – Matt Corby’s terrific and deeply charged debut full-length. There is a silence here that…
Live As close as you can get to sex without having it, The Snowdroppers tear up Oxford Art Factory by Victoria Mietchen It was a sweaty, sweaty Friday night when The Snowdroppers walked out on stage. “It’s been a sweltering couple of days hasn’t it” calls out Johnny Wishbone, pulling at his…
News PREMIERE: Greek punk lords Bazooka are blood-curdlingly vicious in their video for Useless Generation by Victoria Mietchen Dirty-raw irreverence with an air of frustrated volatility is the domain of loveable Greek psych-punk hooligans, Bazooka. Their musical personality harnesses energetic and immediately likeable melodies that flesh out angst…
Features After He left: excavating the crater that David Bowie’s departure has left on the world by Victoria Mietchen The last week has been a strange one. There has a palpable shift world wide, in the wake of the death of our Star Man, our Space Boy, Mr. Stardust…
Music Booze soaked and sex driven, The Snowdroppers are back in business by Victoria Mietchen While still staying true to their down-home, bluesy, Southern-rock inflected roots musically, Sydney’s The Snowdroppers have branched out with Business. On their new record they cover some indie-rock ground and along…
Music Departure Songs is a dense journey through atmospheric instrumental terrain by Victoria Mietchen [bandcamp width=100% height=42 album=3408776844 size=small bgcol=ffffff linkcol=0687f5] Departure Songs is a critical addition to Sydney’s post-metal, dark melodic scene. An album that is conceptual as much as it is an…
Music Bully’s debut Feels Like is a frantically charged thrash through 90s rock by Victoria Mietchen Feels Like is the superbly requisite title for the latest release by Nashville’s rock outfit Bully. Led by a frenetically charged presence with scraped-throat vocals, each track indulges in some…
Music You should get to know The Belligerents and their dancable indie rock by Victoria Mietchen The Belligerents have been doing Brisbane proud, going from one solid performance to another, each affording the band to display their technical evolution as well as their maturing song writing…
