New Music: Noire – Those Days

Somethingyousaid.com’s Carol Bowditch checks out Sydney-based outfit NOIRE: With pretty female vocals that flirt with lines like, “I woke up with you on my mind/But yes, I guess I woke up and changed my mind,” NOIRE… Read More

First look – Paper Planes Trailer

Not-unlike like MIA, there’s an upcoming Australian feature from writer/director Robert Connolly which flies like paper and gets high like planes. The trailer for it has just launched. Check it out above, it looks awesome.… Read More

Andy Bull live in Sydney – Photos

Sydney-based singer/songwriter Andy Bull is in the midst of his “Sea of Approval” tour of Australia, which includes a host of sold-out shows across the country. We wanted to check out his alt-pop magic… Read More

Busdriver, Perfect Hair – Album Review

  Elaina Ransford reviews the tenth studio LP from Busdriver, which follows his highly-acclaimed 2012 release, Beaus$Eros: Perfect Hair (a fantastic and apt title) is a bass-heavy, heavily 90’s influenced album that is, at… Read More

Only Lovers Left Alive, the beauty of being

Only a side-effect, but already quite some achievement: With his latest movie, Jim Jarmusch saved the genre of vampire movies from hyped over-produced teen-kitsch… Only Lovers Left Alive is much more a road-movie than… Read More

Fifty Shades of Dave, by Oliver Heath

I’d decided to write an article about the growing prevalence of bondage. Fifty Shades of Grey was so mainstream it might as well have been Fifty Shades of Beige. I noticed an advertisement online for a… Read More

We Are The Best! – Film Review

In We Are The Best!, Swedish director/screenwriter Lukas Moodysson’s delivers a must-see for anybody who is thirteen, anybody who has ever been thirteen and anybody for whom music has had a profound affect on their… Read More

The trouble with Locke is…

Melissa Oey reviews the new flick from Steven Knight: Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy) is an Everyman whose carefully constructed picket fence existence becomes threatened by a singular and supposedly uncharacteristic incident in his past.… Read More

Interview: Loveariel Paints Walls in Bali

Sydney-based artist and musician Ariel Lauren Sexton-Shaw, perhaps better know to you as Loveariel, recently headed to Bali where she adorned walls with huge, stunning murals. We asked her more about it: Hey Ariel.… Read More

Help us win a Pedestrian award!

This time last year, somethingyousaid.com was nominated for a 2013 Pedestrian Blogster Award. It was flattering but we presumed we were merely making up the numbers. Our Editor Bobby was overseas for the ceremony, so… Read More

Daddy Gadman – No Human/Mic Shy

  Good things come to those who wait. Its been a year since Rongorock’s last release, the very catchy and critically-acclaimed Oyster Card by Mark Professor. In that time labelhead and producer Wrongtom has… Read More

University: Tips for Freshers

Heading into her final year at University, somethingyousaid.com’s Kirstie Newman feels adequately qualified to deliver some useful tips for freshers. Here goes… Get involved with as much as you can handle. Join societies you wouldn’t… Read More