Category Archive: music

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

Vancouver Sleep Clinic live in Sydney

Brisbane-based Vancouver Sleep Clinic have been one of the ‘bands-to-watch in 2014’, which I have witnessed popping up in internet feeds, after a positive reception in Triple J’s Unearthed competition last year. It’s… Read More

Hanson: It feels great to have survived

We talk to (28-year-old!) drummer Zac Hanson: Life is pretty weird. For example, the other day I interviewed Zac Hanson. In the mid-1990s, this information about my future self would have been enough for… Read More

First Aid Kit, Stay Gold – album review

Swedish sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg have been consistently winning hearts with their beautiful, country-influenced folk music and their shiny, swooshing hair since they appeared on Youtube doing Fleet Foxes covers back in… Read More

Getting to Know Rabbit Island

Lo-fi Perth-based artist Amber Fresh recently released “65% Hits”, a double-album of intimate home recordings, under her moniker of Rabbit Island. We asked her to tell us a little more about herself: Rabbit Island… Read More

Liars are instinctual and immediate

Chloe Mayne interviews Liars vocalist and guitarist, Angus Andrew: What’s the band been up to during the couple of months since the album release? We’ve played a few festivals, shot some videos, just finished a run… Read More

Gary Page releases charity album

Somethingyousaid.com contributor Gary Page has just released an album and is donating proceeds to charity. We got him to tell us more: Having written quite a few reviews over the last few years,… Read More

Interview: Cobane reaches his target

Cobane is part of The Colony – one of the UK’s foremost hip-hop crews. The MC has just released his new album “Target Reached” and caught up with somethingyousaid.com’s 25ThC for a chat:… Read More

Interview: Josh Pyke is a lone wolf

Sydney-based singer/songwriter Josh Pyke talks to Sophie Metcalfe about his upcoming tour, about ultimate highway mixtapes and about nerding it up: Hi Josh, thanks for taking the time to answer a few questions… Read More

Paris International Fest of Psychedelic music

Parisian streets will be steeped in both audial and visual iridescence this July as the inaugural Paris International Festival of Psychedelic Music hangs its streamers from the sidewalks. The youngest in a flourishing… Read More

Howling Bells talk film inspiration

We’ve just heard “Heartstrings”, the upcoming LP from Europe-based Australians Howling Bells, and can confidently announce that it’s absolutely magnificent. Indeed, this fourth offering might just be their finest album to date. There is… Read More