Music Viet Cong – Static Wall by Alex Gordon Long before Christopher Owens and Chet White formed Girls, there was a band called Women – as their name suggests,…
Music Bugs – Home, Alone by Alex Gordon As advanced recording and music production technology becomes easier to access (anyone with an internet connection, a recent model computer…
Music Interview: Straight Arrows by Alex Gordon You might have heard Straight Arrows are dropping a new LP – Rising on June 13th. Wait, what? You didn’t…
Music Tape/Off – Chipper by Gavin Butler In the time of chimpanzees Beck was a monkey. His words, not mine. What he probably means is that in a…
Music Rat Columns by Lucille Sadek It’s almost Winter in Australia, and to me, that can only mean two things: Rat season and Rat Columns. When I…
Music GOVS – Australian Summer by Jen Ng Solo lo-fi project of Josiah Birrell, aka GOVS, justifies the perfect mesh of indie, pop and synth, tempered to the likes of…
Live Music Salad Boys Australian Tour by Alex Gordon “You don’t make friends with salad”, or so the old adage goes. Salad Boys are a group of New Zealanders who, if the…
Music Tearjerker – You Can by Alex Gordon So this week’s zine has been a mix of jjjcore, electro-indie (isn’t that dead yet?), some floaty, shroomy psychedelia, dolewave…
Music Bare Grillz do Melbourne by Alex Gordon Melbourne is where dolewave started. The suburban tin roofed twang of Chapter Records signees, vinyl sleeves oiled with eucalyptus and…
Live Music Black Wire Benefit Show @ The Red Rattler by Alex Gordon A few weeks ago I went to Black Wire Records for the first time (I was never an angsty teenage punk…
Live Music Mesa Cosa @ The Reverence Hotel by Alex Gordon Mesa Cosa are a punk band from Melbourne who first came to our attention from their awesome video for ‘Sydney’….