Category Archive: music

Album review: Canterbury, Dark Days

This month sees the release of Canterbury’s third album, Dark Days. Throughout their career the band have matured, they have stripped back to reveal themselves with this album and have ditched the youthful… Read More

Music Review: Warpaint’s New Album

Carol Bowditch reviews the latest album from LA-based Warpaint, and compares it favourably to certain buzzbands from their part of the world: Walking through London last week I was bombarded with a poster… Read More

Free Downloads: Future Classic x RBMC

Certainly one of somethingyousaid.com’s favourite Australian music festivals, Laneway, is just around the corner for all you lovely things in major cities around the island. It’s such a wonderful festival due to its… Read More

Treefort Music Fest looks great

Many modern festivals hardly justify their name/reputation/price. To us, lazily shoving a stage in a stadium and charging eight gazillion dollars for a beer do not a festival make. We firmly believe festivals… Read More

Review: East India Youth, Total Strife Forever

Tom Spooner reviews the much-anticipated debut solo longplayer from London-based East India Youth: When the Quietus start a record label with the sole purpose of putting out your first EP, you can feel… Read More

Live Review: Deafheaven in Sydney

Deafheaven were most certainly my personal favourite band of 2013. Not only because they pretty much devoured the world with their second, perfectly-executed LP, Sunbather, but also because they led me down an… Read More

Music: MØ, Don’t Wanna Dance

You’re probably already well acquainted with MØ,  the Danish babe that rocks a plaited ponytail better than any regular adult human-being could ever dream to. We’re particularly smitten, you may refer back to our interview… Read More

Live Review: MONA FOMA, part one

Somethingyousaid.com’s Chloe Mayne checks out MONA FOMA, an annual festival based in Tasmania: I’m going to hazard a guess and say that you’ve all heard of MoMA , the elegant New York governess of… Read More

Album Review: Mogwai, Rave Tapes

Sophie Metcalfe reviews the newest longplayer from legendary Scottish post-rockers Mogwai with extreme trepidation. Will it reach her high expectations?  When I was given the task to review ‘Rave Tapes’, I knew it wouldn’t… Read More

Event Review: Sydney SMACs back

Last week in the confines of Redfern’s Carriageworks we witnessed our beloved FBi Radio announcing the winners of Sydney’s Music Arts and Culture awards (SMAC). For the sixth year running it was a… Read More

Chlöe Howl is steak and kidney pop

Starting the New Year with nominations for both BBC Sound of 2014 and the Brits Critics Choice Awards, Somethingyousaid.com favourite Chlöe Howl is set to be a household name this year. Kirstie Newman tells… Read More

Top 5 artists to see at Soundwave

If you haven’t heard, upcoming Australian festival Soundwave has extended its already-impressive lineup to include eight more bands. If you’re already a ticket holder or are on the edge about buying one, you can… Read More