Record Kicks is an independent record label and music publisher based in Milan specialising in vintage black sounds. Founded in 2003, they now celebrate their 10th birthday and over 100 releases with “Record… Read More
Were there an award for the Most-Difficult-Of-Difficult-Second-Albums, then Giant Drag’s Annie Hardy would win it, hands down. Hardy has been trying to give birth to the sophomore Giant Drag long-player for a very… Read More
Psychedelic has become an overused and misinterpreted term in modern music and it seems anyone that makes music which is vaguely ‘druggy’ is labelled as psychedelic, as journalists struggle to find any other… Read More
Oliver Heath attends a listening session in Sydney to review the eagerly-anticipated long-player from the legendary David Bowie, his first in a decade: I’m on my way to a Bowie listening ‘party’. I find the… Read More
Ah great, another hype band from good ol’ Blighty. Palma Violets are the latest NME darlings which, these days, is something of a poisoned chalice. Anyone lifted shoulder-high by the magazine is immediately… Read More
Somethingyousaid gave a listen to Sydney four-piece Virgo Rising’s extended-player. Here’s the lowdown: Virgo Rising are the type of artists that come along once in a while and shake shit up a bit.… Read More
There is a tendency in Australian folk music to enter the room apologetically and without fuss. Singing about scorned ex-lovers with a quiet hesitation and then before their breath becomes a roar, vanish… Read More
Sydney’s Spirit Valley exist within some strange, twisted limbo of the Australian music scene. To anyone who’s encountered them, they are undeniably, earth-shatteringly fantastic. Broadly speaking however, no one seems to have really… Read More
Solange is cool. True story. Solange is like the cooler younger sister you never had. Unless you are Beyonce. Whilst her famous sibling is a useful reference when working out why the name… Read More
If you turn to Chapter 1992 of the big indie music history book, you’ll read about grunge, you’ll read about Rage Against The Machine, about R.E.M. and an angry breakthrough band called Manic… Read More
In exciting news for people who like the name Marcus, Marcus Thaine checks out the EP from Marcus Whale, aka Scissor Lock: It took me a while to realise what the cover of… Read More
A fairly new band, started by former Mint Chick Ruben Nielson, the trio is completed by Jake Portrait on bass and Greg Rogove on drums. What looked at first to be a somewhat… Read More