Category Archive: music

Album Review: James Vincent McMorrow

Somethingyousaid.com’s Joe Haddow finds a longplayer to warm the cold British evenings: If the wind is howling against the walls and the rain is spattering against the window panes, then “Post Tropical” may… Read More

Premiere: Western Front, Town to Town

If you’re looking for inspirational creatives, then may we introduce indigenous singer songwriter Graham Akhurst, who is the driving force behind Brisbane-based band Western Front. Graham, you see, wrote the bulk of his band’s songs,… Read More

Our contributors’ favourite albums of 2013

We’ve already brought you all of somethingyousaid.com’s collective End of Year lists, but we’ve had a few requests to post all of our contributors’ individual favourite albums of 2013. So here are the… Read More

Interview: The Jezabels are on The Brink

In the lead-up to the imminent release of The Jezebels’ new album, The Brink, somethingyousaid.com’s Jess Matthews caught up with Heather Shannon, the lady behind the keys of the band: The first single… Read More

Live Review: Falls Festival, Marion Bay

Musical mayhem tangled paths with a stretch of unsuspecting countryside as over ten thousand punters converged upon the picturesque Marion Bay for the Tasmanian leg of the Falls Music and Arts Festival. It… Read More

Live Review: Dream Delay in Sydney

Penelope Roth ventures to Sydney’s The Standard to catch Dream Delay for Somethingyousaid.com: “Gotta love it when a band comes out and plays their first song like it’s their last!” If I had to sum up… Read More

Music Playlist: Utrecht’s Stillwave

Utrecht – home of the Le Guess Who? festival somethingyousaid.com visited last month – left a lasting impression on us. So, to discover more about the music scene within this buzzing small city, we… Read More

Live Review: Field Day in Sydney

Somethingyousaid’s Colin Delaney overcame his hangover just in time to head to Field Day: I woke on New Year’s Day feeling sceptically fine, managed to make breakfast for the rest of the household… Read More

Video: Poeticat, Centre of the Concrete Square

The genre-defying output from this outfit hailing from London, Lisbon and Basildon is sure worth a few moments of your time. Sample their weird hip-hop/industrial lo-fi electronica, which has just the right amount… Read More

Review: Major Napier, Please Stay

Somethingyousaid.com’s Marcus Thaine submerges himself in the latest release from Major Napier: When it came to deciding my favourite album of the year, I thought of the relentless experimentation of Kirin J Callinan,… Read More

End of year review: Our showbiz chums

As well as finding out what’s been exciting somethingyousaid.com’s contributors this year, we thought we’d also ask a handful of our showbiz buddies what they’ve been digging. So we called on model, dancer… Read More

Something You Said’s best songs of 2013

Having already brought you the year’s best longplayers and films, now it’s time for somethingyousaid.com’s Top 20 Songs of 2013, as voted for by our team of contributors. Here are the tracks that… Read More