Tag Archive: music

Too Old To Be New, Too New To Be Classic

Red Bull Music Academy and cleverly-named, Brooklyn-based production company m ss ng p eces have created a collection of interesting short films that capture super-fresh and iconic music stories and characters. In the… Read More

Rock ‘n Roll Through It All

Out of Sydney’s backwater comes the newest album release from garage-punk rockers Bang! Bang! Rock ‘n Roll. Entitled RAD, the LP has been debuted following a spate of anticipatory EP’s, lineup changes, set-backs… Read More

Embrace Kirin J Callinan’s nakedness

In the moderately nsfw video for EMBRACISM, Kirin J Callinan yells: “A man can meet another man in a bar. On the sportsfield. At his place of work. Or in his own apartment. OR ON… Read More

Is Tropical try to find a light bulb

Is Tropical are a three-piece hailing from London. Formed in 2009, they’ve already garnered an impressive following, and touring with Klaxons, The Big Pink and Egyptian Hiphop has sealed their place on the… Read More

Bloods bring it Back to you

We’ve been following Sydney three-piece garage punks Bloods since they started. Sometimes quite literally, as our DJ performances and their live shows have occasionally taken place at the same events. Therefore, we’re always… Read More

YYYs’ Mosquito is some weird shit

When Yeah Yeah Yeahs unleashed their previous video, we absolutely devoured it. Lily Cole gettin down-n-dirty to the repeated vocal hook of “Sacrilege”. Exhilarating stuff. So we were mega-excited to learn that their new clip… Read More

Charli XCX is immediately gratifying

When Charli Aitchison cries in an exasperated sigh, “Give me the poison, I love the poison, hooked on the poison,” she’s doing exactly what the toxic Britney did pre-balding/making horrific will.i.am dance atrocities… Read More

The Jones Rival Party Old School

Sydney goodtimes band The Jones Rival have dropped their newest single Jumpin’ Frog. And though only the second release from the rocking and rolling five-piece, it proves they know how to craft a… Read More

Savages leave us speechless

Savages, Savages, Savages… say it three times quickly and it comes close to encapsulating the bands sound, pointy, jagged, claustrophobic and sexy. Silence Yourself, the Londoners’ first album, is, without any doubt at… Read More

The Money Go Round Extend Summer

To quote Game Of Thrones (something I do with alarming regularity) “Winter is coming”. However, The Money Go Round apparently didn’t receive the memo; instead releasing their newest track Endless Sun. The Sydney… Read More

All aboard the Reggae Boat Party

Londoners, get ready to party starboardside with Trojan Sound System this August! Famous for putting on the best funk’n’soul boat parties, of which I attended two last year alone, Soundcrash and CapitalMusicEvents now… Read More

Ariel is ready to make noise again

Marcus Thaine has a chat with Ariel about Dampvamp, art and her new band, Firesaint:  Sydney’s Lauren Ariel Sexton-Shaw, otherwise known by the mononym Ariel, exudes a kind of creative magnetism that is hard… Read More