The Mountain Goats – Transcendental Youth
It’s difficult to be objective about your heroes, so when I was first asked to review The Mountain Goats’ latest album I was a bit worried about how to approach it. How do… Read More
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Lee Ranaldo live in Sydney
I have seen Sonic Youth several times now. The first when I was fourteen and before the gig I necked a bottle of cheap, putrid, fizzy wine outside the venue with a friend.… Read More
Karen Walker AW13 lookbook
Here at Something You Said, we spend a lot of time indoors, cooped up in our “thinking caves”, reading squillions of press releases and listening to tunes from bands that only a… Read More
Tame Impala – Lonerism Review
Elfy Scott reviews the new album by Tame Impala (with a little help from her mate Paulie): Cruising around my workplace earlier this year, in the daily afternoon lull, caught in the trance… Read More
Last Dinosaurs at The Metro, Sydney
Arriving late to The Metro Theatre for the Last Dinosaurs headline show, the first thing I noticed was the swarms of teenagers milling in the foyer, edging away from the barrier surrounding the… Read More
Marillion – Sounds That Can’t Be Made
There are few things that get Gary Page as excited as a new Marillion album. Here’s his review of their latest offering: If you asked me at school about the British rock band… Read More
Melbourne Parklife: Rain, Rizzle, Robyn
Ebe Cassidy braved the rain for SYS in order to check out the host of fine acts at Parklife, as it made its merry way to Melbourne: The weather was so appallingly bad,… Read More
Winter People – A Year At Sea
Listening to Winter People’s debut album, A Year At Sea, is like packing up your life and taking off for a journey into the wilderness. It’s on this journey, that you discover beauty,… Read More
Boy – Mutual Friends
Boy – Mutual Friends A quick history lesson. Swiss-born singer Valeska Steiner moved to Germany, where in 2005 she met Sonja Glass, who grew up there playing the cello in classical orchestras as… Read More
Poliça album review
Poliça was born from the indie/RnB gang, Gayngs. The latest project from producer Ryan Olson teams him up with soulful singer Channy Leaneagh and the electro sounds and vocals of Mike Noyce from Bon Iver.… Read More
Collarbones – Die Young
For an album whose central themes revolve around nostalgia and adolescent love, there couldn’t be a more forward-thinking sound to Collarbones’ sophomore effort, Die Young. At least for me, this genre of male-driven… Read More
Berlin Festival Day 2
Jemma concludes her Berlin Festival experience by discovering her new favourite band: As day two rolled in, I had the customary brain mush functionality and was preoccupied with trying to remember how and when… Read More