Sui Zhen – Two Seas album review
We’ve been besotted by Sui Zhen for a while now, with her tinkling voice and her twisty, lovely lyrics. Jess O’Callaghan gives her debut LP a listen: Upon listening to Sui Zhen’s debut… Read More
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The Cribs – In the Belly of the Brazen Bull
Liana Gow-Killingbeck reviews the latest offering from The Cribs: I’d been waiting for quite a while to get my paws on some fresh material by the English trio (and brothers), The Cribs. I’m… Read More
Slugga Tee EP
From the Millennium Jazz stable comes Slugga Tee and his solo EP, Passages From The Puddle, Something You Said’s 25ThC gives his verdict: Slugga Tee built up his name with an abundance of features… Read More
The Drawing Circus
Alice Parsons got her sketchpad out at The Drawing Circus recently. Read all about it: Rapunzel let down your hair, Briar Rose awaken, Rumplestiltskin dust off your breeches, sharpen your pencils and let… Read More
TFVK review
Jess O’Callaghan checked out Melbourne’s The Fearless Vampire Killers, as they played a gig in their home city. Fiona Wilde supplied the photos, taken at their recent Sydney show: “We cleared back the tables.… Read More
Dirty Three – Toward The Low Sun
Neil Martin gives his opinion on the long-awaited record from Dirty Three: Toward The Low Sun is Dirty Three’s first album since 2005 and the band have reconvened after a busy few years… Read More
Steve Smyth in London
Sometimes you just know that you have witnessed something seminal. The Slaughtered Lamb pub, tucked away in the labyrinthal back streets of Central London, offered up one such occasion on a cold, dark… Read More
Mark Lanegan Band – Blues Funeral
Sophie Metcalfe makes her reviewing debut, and does it really rather brilliantly: It’s strange to feel nostalgia from an album that you’re only greeting for the first time, but it struck head-on from… Read More
Single Twin review
Having interviewed Single Twin last week, Jess O’Callaghan took in his gig on Sunday and found a familiar-looking support act. Photos by Vinisha Mulani: The entire evening was bewildering. Brilliant, but bewildering.… Read More
Howler – America Give Up
Andy James gives a listen to the debut album from the latest NME darlings, Howler: It’s hard not to feel a little sympathy for Howler – the Minneapolis five-piece had barely tuned their… Read More
Sydney Laneway Fest
Heidi Pett and Bobby Townsend headed to Sydney’s Laneway Festival and did their best not to melt in the sun. Here’s Heidi’s review and Bobby’s photos: Sydney’s Laneway on Sunday had all the… Read More
Laneway Festival Melbs
Something You Said snapper Vinisha Mulani talks us through her experience in the photography pit at Melbourne’s Laneway Festival: St Jerome’s Laneway Festival, Melbourne – also known as The Hipsters’ Annual Mass Migration… Read More