Tag Archive: review

Yeah Yeah Yeahs are crowd pleasers

She stands at the lip of the stage, marking the spot where, she tells us, ten years ago she fell headfirst to the floor. It’s why the band had started with the cha-pa-pa… Read More

In Pursuit Of The Great White Whale

If you spend more time in dusty old record shops and on eBay than you should in the hope of finding long lost LPs, you’re not alone.

Bridezilla at Oxford Art Factory, Sydney

“VALE, BRIDEZILLA” by Jack Colwell. And so, the masses gathered to mark the end of an era. Familiar faces that had made up the members of the Bridezilla family since the band formed… Read More

1992: The Love Album goes deluxe

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

The year’s most plain bonkers movie

Neil Martin has a look at John Dies at The End. It takes him on quite the ride: This has got cult classic written all over it. Cult horror movie director Don Coscarelli (Phantasm,… Read More

Start the Virgens once more

Back in June of last year, Karen O took her psycho opera, Stop The Virgens, to Sydney. Alongside members of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Dead Weather was a chorus of Sydney’s… Read More

The Hives at The Metro, Sydney

Elfy Scott got sweaty, dazzled and, well, a bit aroused when The Hives put on a show in Sydney last week: The 7th of January 2013 not only presented Sydneysiders with a blistering,… Read More

Falls Festival had us at hello

I had never been to Tasmania. I love SBTRKT. Falls in Marion Bay had me at ‘hello’. Regaled by an aggressively drunk Wigan slash Adelaide native (we knew this, from her constant refrain… Read More

Unknown Mortal Orchestra: II

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

Dinner by Heston Blumenthal

I was born around Christmas time and when I was in my youth it was brilliant, as once a year I would receive double presents or one big present. As I got older… Read More

Beach House at The Enmore, Sydney

Beach House have certainly had a big year. From humble beginnings back in 2006 with Apple Orchard being featured on a Pitchfork best of mixtape, they have come full circle in 2013 with… Read More

Woods charm with Bend Beyond

Elfy Scott gives her thoughts on the new album from Woods: Bend Beyond is the fifth studio release by the Brooklyn indie folk band, Woods, and provides half an hour of decidedly charming… Read More