The Great Escape 2014 – Live Review

Brighton’s Great Escape has long since been one of Europe’s leading festivals for showcasing hot new music. This year’s event offered over 400 of the world’s most exciting up and coming acts performing in venues all around… Read More

Winter is Coming: Dark Mofo 2014

It’s been five years since the first annual music and arts festival MONA FOMA started happening in Tasmania. Curated by Brian Ritchie (bass player for the Violent Femmes), the festival has been pretty… Read More

Spookyland – This Silly Fucking Thing

If you have recently broken up with your significant other (you’re better than them, babe), your cat/dog/hamster/Tamagotchi recently died, someone yelled “twat” at you while you were driving, or you simply didn’t have… Read More

Interview: Wrong Place Records

Wrong Place Records is a new and exciting creature poised to grace the plains of the Tasmanian musical community. A small, independent record label intended to showcase some of the best in local… Read More

No Good: double pass giveaway!

The good people at No Good are throwing their inaugural quarterly festival after their super successful monthly parties. The lineup is shit-hot, with our favourites on the Sydney scene, Rainbow Chan, Levins, Reckless… Read More

Getting to Know The Tambourine Girls

Carol Bowditch speaks with The Tambourine Girls’ Simon Relf ahead of the upcoming Australian tour with Dustin Tebbutt. The name The Tambourine Girls came from two girls who used to take care of me when… Read More

Start The Riot: Ollie Henderson Interview

Recently, you may have noticed fashionable young folk sporting political slogans across their chests. Welcome to Start The Riot, the brainchild of Australian model/artist Olivia Henderson. We found out a bit more…  To the… Read More

Great Escape 2014: Kaiser Chiefs live

Following the previous day’s rainfest, Friday’s Great Escape saw Brighton drenched in glorious sunshine. And while the walk to the Concorde II was still ridiculously windswept, it was certainly hangover exorcising. Also, the pot of gold… Read More

Getting to Know Wild Smiles

Winchester-based Wild Smiles tell us about their future prospects, about not appearing on Celebrity Big Brother and about living with their parents:  Wild Smiles started out recording in my shed. I put a couple… Read More

The Blue Angel Lounge – Interview

Chloe Mayne speaks to The Blue Angel Lounge keyboardist Theo Berwe about the creation of the new record, calamitous live shows and the growing redundancy of psychedelia: Said in no light terms, The… Read More

Opinion: The Whole Food Contradiction

  Katherine Helps has a tongue-in-cheek rant… An Open Letter to Self-Satisfied Yogis Everywhere,  Dear Enlightened One, I see you. In that blouse that you bought from Free People at an exorbitant price regardless… Read More

Help Fanny Lumsden make her album

When we spoke to Fanny Lumsden & the Thrillseekers a while back, they described themselves as a folk-a-hillbilly outfit that’ll give you a toe-tapping, gun-slinging live show both as sweet as homemade jam and raucous as… Read More