Haven’t heard of Mayer Hawthorne? Well, he’s an LA based singer, producer, songwriter, arranger, audio engineer, DJ, rapper and multi instrumentalist. Yeah, alright show off, way to make the rest of us look lazy and… Read More
Claire are a five-piece band originating from Munich. Their music lands somewhere between synthpop, electronic pop, half-time beats, hip-hop and indie. Plenty of bases ticked there then. And if their catchy as all hell forthcoming… Read More
Recently we had the Classixx remix of The Preatures’ latest song on high rotation around Castle Something You Said. We liked their upbeat rework of the soulful track from the Sydney group. Well,… Read More
There’s a certain level of familiarity to the nsfw video for London-based band, Is Tropical’s, current single, Lovers Cave. My mental link is directed to the Skins trailer from years ago where the cast of lovely young… Read More
In the depths of (Australia’s admittedly less-than-bleak) midwinter, my thoughts naturally turn to that most joyous of summer rituals: the festival. Top pick this year is undoubtedly Listen Out, Fuzzy‘s new offering while… Read More
Lungs is the offshoot project from indie legends Guillemots. The duo is formed of interestingly-monikered guitarist MC Lord Magrão and vocalist Suzie Blake. Their music is dreamy, with foggy, atmospheric sounds layering Blake’s… Read More
Somethingyousaid.com is currently in Glasgow for a 90th birthday party (true story, rock’n’roll hey?), so we consider it only fitting that we feature one of the fine city’s most up-n-coming bands. Baby Strange… Read More
We make little secret of our adoration of Kirin J Callinan here at somethingyousaid.com. Already this year we’ve interviewed him, reviewed his live show and his debut album and featured his video clips.… Read More
A couple of years back, I reviewed Grouplove’s concert in Sydney. I actually headed along as a favour to a magazine editor, who needed someone to cover the gig last-minute. Knowing little about the… Read More
Following their super successful debut number, Hey Now, British three-piece London Grammar are back with their smooth new tune, Wasting My Young Years. The song is beautiful; it has quiet drive musically that is lifted… Read More
New Franz Ferdinand? For realzies? Yowsers! We’ve been admirers of the Scottish four-piece since way back when we saw them in Brighton during the Take Me Out era. Then there was that time… Read More
SIZARR are a group of childhood buddies that hail from a little German town called Landau. Sound-wise, SIZARR are an indie/electronic band with strong leading vocals, they could be likened to the more… Read More