Living with Shake Shake Go
Victoria Gottschalk attempts to suppress her inner fangirl: When two members of the band supporting James Blunt on the UK leg of his tour move into your downstairs bedroom, there’s a certain type of… Read More
Category Archive: music
Passenger, Whispers – Album review
Listening to Whispers, the new longplayer from Brighton-born chart topper Passenger, I could forgive my partner for asking if this was the new James Blunt album. The two have a very similar style. Although Blunty… Read More
Teeth & Tongue live in Sydney – Photos
Melbourne-based singer/songwriter Jess Cornelius, otherwise known as Teeth & Tongue, brought her full band to Sydney’s Goodgod this week as part of her current Australian tour. Performing tracks from latest album Grids in all… Read More
Coldplay film their new clip in Newtown
Coldplay don’t often feature especially heavily here at somethingyousaid.com. Don’t get us wrong, we’re don’t subscribe to the notion that you have to hate on Coldplay. Indeed, their early records are great and… Read More
Jen Cloher’s Stone Age Brain
Do you feel like some foot stomping, hip shaking, raucous swagger? Yes? Well that’s good, because Melbourne artist Jen Cloher has just dropped an ace new single which is exactly that. Stone Age Brain is an unapologetic romp… Read More
Contrast, Less Than Zero – EP review
Kaya Strehler reviews the newest offering from Australian four-piece, Contrast. It’s got something to do with desserts, apparently: Melbourne-based Contrast have followed up the release of their single, Pipe Dreams, with an EP that… 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
Getting to Know Milky Chance
Germany-based Milky Chance have garnered over 38 million hits on Youtube with their blend of singer-songwriter folk, which has elements of reggae and electronica. They’re a band you clearly need on your radar, so we… Read More
Friends from Rio Project 2014 – review
The world is currently going Brazil crazy, what with the football World Cup and the Olympics following two years later. Consequently, there will be a lot of people jumping on the Brazilian bandwagon… Read More
Getting to Know Kamikaze
Switzerland-based outfit Kamikaze deliver a fine, multi-faced harmony in songs that will get you feeling hot and heavy. We asked them to tell more about themselves: Kamikaze formed when we met at 2am in… Read More
Collarbones X Synergy Percussion: Review
I began my annual love affair with VIVID, Sydney’s cultural calendar epicentre of light/music/idea events with a celebration of The Avalanches (which was really fucking brilliant, by the way). But, as the three-week… Read More
Sharon Van Etten, Are We There – Review
Released two years after her breakthrough album, ‘Tramp’, ‘Are We There’ is the record we’ve been waiting for. Haunting and filled with harmonies, Sharon Van Etten created the record with producer and kindred sprit Stewart… Read More