Category Archive: music

Great Escape 2014: Aussie Sound Gallery

Arriving in Brighton on Thursday morning, it was easy to understand why England has a well-earned reputation for being eternally grey/wet/windswept, as disgusting horizontal rain greeted revellers stepping off the train for The… Read More →

Premiere: Busy Kingdom, Stranger Than Fiction

Here’s another video premiere for your delectation. Australia-based melodic rock group Busy Kingdom have just unleashed the clip for their new single ‘Stranger Than Fiction’. Check it out above, exclusive to Something You Said.… Read More →

Saskwatch, Nose Dive – Album review

With a collection of songs that sound like they could be performed on Sesame Street, Melbourne-based band Saskwatch have gotten a whole lot cuter with their latest full-length release. The album’s first single, Born… Read More →

Listen: Kimbra makes 90’s Music

I’ve been championing sartorially magnificent, lung-busting, Australia-based New Zealander Kimbra since I first laid ears upon her debut album, Vows. Since then I’ve played that record to death. So it’s exciting that she’s back with some… Read More →

Jim Bob talks Carter USM and Frank Derrick

Jim Bob tells Bobby Townsend about his new novel, The Extra Ordinary Life of Frank Derrick, and Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine’s farewell gigs: Hi Jim. So, earlier this year, you announced Carter USM’s final ever… Read More →

Giant Drag, Band Car EP review

The Giant Drag story grows ever more curious. Their acclaimed debut LP “Hearts & Unicorns” came out nine years ago. Since then, the American duo became a one piece in the form of Annie Hardy, who also found herself… Read More →

Catacombe, Quidam – album review

Amy Wright reviews the latest offering from Portuguese fourpiece, Catacombe: When hearing music that’s powerful and masterfully constructed – yet completely absent of lyrics – it is only natural to search through all… Read More →

Perfect Pussy, Say Yes to Love – review

The musical inferno that is Perfect Pussy found its roots in a somewhat curious manner, when ex-Shoppers frontwoman Meredith Graves was approached by a film director to perform the part of a local punk… Read More →

Gruff Rhys, American Interior – review

Gary Page reviews, American Interior, the upcoming solo longplayer from the lead-singer/principal songwriter of one of Britain’s finest bands, Super Furry Animals: I’m not going to lie to you, Gruff Rhys has been a… Read More →

Spirit Valley – Music Interview

Oliver Heath has a chat with Dave and Chris from Sydney band Spirit Valley ahead of their free gig this weekend. They talk about baddass drumming, how they came to play some shows with Metric and about… Read More →

Getting to know Secret Colours

We take some positively distracting time with Chicago’s psych-poppers, Secret Colours, ahead of their Austin Psych Festival performance and the release of their Positive Distraction II EP.  Secret Colours are… An entity that… Read More →

Bluesfest 2014, live review

Liana Gow-Killingbeck checked out legendary festival, Bluesfest: Bluesfest 2014, what a delicious way to spend Easter! I was lucky enough to trot down to Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm (just a smidge north of Byron… Read More →