Tag Archive: james booker

What would you spend last $1.20 on?

If you’re anything like us, your occupation is hardly the most lucrative. So we were wondering, what would you spend your last $1.20/£1.20 on? We asked our contributors that very question. Here’s what they… Read More

Music: SHAKY HANDZ EP- Sick Later

The new recording from Sydney-based band Shaky Handz sounds like that feeling you get when you go skating after eating a shit-tonne of Hungry Jacks, it churns and turns in your stomach until you sweat… Read More

Buzz Kull interview for VISIONS

James Booker chats with Marc Dwyer from Sydney band Buzz Kull ahead of the VISIONS party at The Standard Bowl (which is happening tonight, Sydneysiders). So are you psyched for your show at VISIONS tonight, mang? Yeah… Read More

Interview: Brisbane band Salvadarlings

We caught up with songstress Ashley Goodall of dreamy, psychedelic Brisbane-based six-piece Salvadarlings for a quick but enlightening chat ahead of their debut Sydney performance this Thursday: Tell us about where and how you… Read More

SOHN, Tremors – album review

SOHN is a British producer from South London who moved to Vienna in 2010 to focus on crafting his “electronic soul” sound. Probs a good move given the city’s predisposition for electronic music.… Read More

Saskwatch, Nose Dive – Album review

With a collection of songs that sound like they could be performed on Sesame Street, Melbourne-based band Saskwatch have gotten a whole lot cuter with their latest full-length release. The album’s first single, Born… Read More

Sticky Fingers live in Sydney – review

Laying down jams tighter than a tiger in spandex, rocking cricket shorts, sunglasses inside and shirts completely unbuttoned; Sticky Fingers are more legit than the word itself. James Jamhound Booker checked them out live… Read More

Things that shouldn’t be awesome but are

Last week, we told you the things that shouldn’t annoy us but absolutely do. To counterbalance this and to illustrate that our contributors aren’t merely a bunch of miseries/moaners/haters, here’s a collection of… Read More

Doc Holliday Takes The Shotgun interview

Sydney-based bassist and all round lege, James Booker (who recently interviewed Brooks Neilsen of The Growlers for us), talks about his band, Doc Holliday Takes the Shotgun, and their plans for 2014. I would describe… Read More

Luca Brasi, By a Thread – album review

With the release of their new album, By A Thread, Luca Brasi sound like The Hard Ons’ optimistic nephew. Melodic punk bands like these guys have been a-dime-a-dozen for the last decade-or-so, with only… Read More

The Growlers – Live Review & Interview

Before playing the last show of their Australian tour, The Growlers’ Überchiller/bass player Anthony Braun Perry talked to James Booker about how two broken knees and the fondest of brotherly love is the source of his… Read More

Interview: The Growlers are psyched

Getting a girl to pose nude on an hour’s notice, completing a nine-track EP in three weeks, advocating old school machoism and essentially running an orphanage from his home; soulful singer and frontman… Read More