Music What the fuck is Kevin Parker on about? The Good Sports prove psych is alive and kicking in Oz by Nick Stillman It was only a week or two ago that Mr. Kevin Parker claimed that Australia had no psych scene; a bold statement that was (a) a little confusing (b) slightly…
Features News Tame Impala turns 10: celebrating the cornerstone of Australian psych by Joe Khan The words psychedelic rock can’t get thrown around these days without warranting a thought of Tame Impala. Helmed by Kevin Parker, Tame Impala’s unique take on fuzzy, ’60s psychedelia appointed…
Music Lap up the tinsel-tinged psych vibes of Moses Gunn Collective on Mercy Mountain by Cara Oliveri Brissy psych rock five-piece Moses Gunn Collective have let loose a monster debut album. Transporting us to a cosmic psychotropic fantasy land, Mercy Mountain offers everything from dreamy chillers to soulful rockers….
Music ‘Heroin Chic’ is the game, and Ruth Carp and the Fish Heads play it well by Che-Marie Trigg Another day, another excellent Aussie psych-rock band. Ruth Carp and the Fish Heads (pause for a second to appreciate that name) have done it a bit differently, throwing what they deem a…
News PREMIERE: Dive into the sprawling psych-rock sounds of TUG’s new album You’re Not Exceptional, Man by Happy A couple of months back, when Melbourne outfit TUG dropped their single Colours Of The Season, we were immediately immersed in their sauntering psych-rock sounds. The track was an epic,…
Live Music News October at Greaser Bar: nightly post-punk, alt-rock, garage, and psych, plus the Garage Party on Oct 18 by Tammy Moir Greaser Bar is stacked, catch post-punk, alt-rock, garage, and psych across every night in October Whether you’re chasing raw energy or something a little more experimental, there’s plenty to dive…
Music News Greaser Bar’s July Inferno: A Month-Long Riot of Rock, Punk & Metal by Alex Cooper Brisbane’s sweatiest venue unleashes a monstrous lineup—get ready for wall-to-wall chaos, blistering riffs, and mosh pits that’ll leave you breathless. Brisbane’s legendary Greaser Bar is transforming July into a full-throttle sonic…
Features News Tame Impala – ‘Currents’: Why It Mattered by Emily Elvish Currents boasts a significant legacy: it challenged the authority of guitar within rock and took disco-psych into the mainstream. If one of music’s most brilliant minds completely dismantled their creative…
Music Has your brain melted into a puddle from too much psych rock? You can thank Buried Feather by Sam Dawes Live music is a commodity that is squandered daily by the man and his government. All too common and ever-augmenting nanny state laws are rising in the consciousness of discerning…
Music Psych rock and the apocalypse: Sunglass Moustache shatter all expectations on ‘Peaches’ by Emily Elvish Denial, control, legacy, reality, and peaches. Sunglass Moustache reach dystopian heights of nuance in their debut LP; melding an album, artistic backstory, and 35-minute music video into a harrowing parable about the misunderstood…
Music Introducing SWIMM, the psych-pop standouts carrying an underground LA charm by Jayden Collins Meet SWIMM, the psych-pop standouts who run their own festival and put on DIY shows from their LA warehouse home. SWIMM’s brand of blurry psych pop/indie rock is a serene,…
Music Vanilla Gorilla open up a new world of psych madness on ‘Dreamer’ by Happy Vanilla Gorilla craft the kind of tunes you can fall into. The prolific Northern NSW outfit have spent the past number of years developing an ocean of sounds — it’s…
Music PREMIERE: Lord Dodongo’s final singles are journeys of spine-tingling psych revelry by Sarah Gillard Northern Beaches five-piece Lord Dodongo really know how to take you on a musical journey, with tracks that effortlessly blend clashing genres, weird time signatures, freakout noise, and occultist lyrics,…
