Category Archive: music

Golden Plains Festival – Live Review

Vinisha Mulani ventured to one of Australia’s best-loved festivals: Well, it’s a touch depressing being home right now, to be honest. Things got loose. The sun shone. Invisible skipping ropes were skipped. New… Read More

John Grant live at De La Warr Pavillion

Gary Page checked out American singer-songwriter, John Grant in Bexhill: Last summer I witnessed John Grant play live in a Brighton church and while it was a strangely surreal venue for the artist… Read More

Panama Festival live review

The inaugural Panama Festival in Golconda, Tasmania was a gentle creature; a transparent, slightly iridescent forest-dweller that quietly hung streamers from branches and arranged candles for an intimate dinner party in the woods.… Read More

Premiere: Earthquake Weather, Nobody Knows

Today, we’re delighted to be premiering the latest single from Adelaide indie rock band, Earthquake Weather. Having garnered lots of critical acclaim with their first single  ‘This December’, the boys are back with this fine… Read More

Glass Animals – Music Interview

Somethingyousaid.com’s Carol Bowditch had a chat to Dave Bayley from Oxfordshire-based quartet, Glass Animals ahead of their debut visit to Australia. My Aunty has a cabinet displaying her sparkly collection of glass animals, what… Read More

Black Market Karma – Interview & Review

South East London’s favourite psychedelic darlings, Black Market Karma have recently released their fifth (yes, fifth) studio album – and gosh-darn, it’s a goodun’. Titled Upside Out Inside Down, it’s a swirling, hemisphere-spanning… Read More

Liam Finn, Snug as Fuck – Music video

Presumably we no longer need to prefix an article about New Zealand musician Liam Finn by informing you that he’s the offspring of musical legends Sharon and Neil Finn. So we won’t. Instead, we’ll simply… Read More

Nathan Power, Mixtape and Interview

We had a conversation with Nathan Power (also known as NPOWA) about Marvin Gaye’s ‘What’s Going On’, Fourtet and the ever-growing Australian electronic music scene. Oh, and he made us a mixtape too, which… Read More

Gold Panda live at Oxford Art Factory

Arriving 25 minutes into the set due to some seriously epic fails courtesy of CityRail (fuck, and we thought SouthernRail took the cake for incompetence…) Carol Bowditch pranced into Gold Panda’s set at… Read More

Lykke Li, Love Me Like I’m Not Made of Stone

Having only heard snippets of Li over the past few years, collaborating with David Lynch on a haunting track and hearing her Magician-reworked number, I Follow Rivers featured in several French films including Blue is… Read More

Holiday Sidewinder, Carousel

We go way back with Holiday Sidewinder. We first chanced upon her in 2006, wearing a cat mask and sashaying around a stage as the sassy, mesmerising frontwoman of Sydney-based five-piece Bridezilla. She totally… Read More

Tom E. Lewis: Can’t Change Your Name

I first listened to the new release from Tom E. Lewis while I was carelessly flicking through emails. There was a wholesome, soulful, incredibly engaging vocal which made me pay attention to the… Read More