Album Review: Max Gowan – Big People
Incoming sensation Max Gowan makes the most of his 18 years of experience on this Earth with his debut longplayer, Big People. His songs shine at the seams with an inexpressible youthfulness, and… Read More
The Four Quarters is absentmindedly nerdy
Somethingyousaid’s Kaya Strehler gets her booze/vinyl/gaming on… I was recently lured into this event with the words ‘arcade games’ and ‘beer’ which pose as word-porn for myself. I’m simple minded, what can I… Read More
Interview: Patrick James gets shit done
This June, Australian songwriter Patrick James will be playing in Sydney and Melbourne to preview songs from his upcoming debut album, including launching brand new single “California Song”. Ruth Hodge had a chat with him: I… Read More
Review: The Weather Station, Loyalty
Toronto-based artist Tamara Lindeman’s third longplayer has just landed. Melissa Barrass checks it out: ‘Loyalty’ kept putting me in and out of sleep. This is not a bad thing at all. It wasn’t from… Read More
The Great Escape – Day Two
With Day One safely navigated, somethingyousaid.com’s Harriet Cheney made her way back for a second helping: My second day of at The Great Escape began at 1pm so I could pack in as much… Read More
The Fin Collection presents ELEVEN
Heads up Sydneysiders, here’s something you might wanna take a look at. A new group exhibition is opening this week. ‘ELEVEN’, presented by The Fin Collection and supported by Sun Studios, features eleven… Read More
Getting to Know Chanel Stewart
Up-n-coming, Australia-based model Chanel Stewart is definitely someone to keep on your radar and we’re sure you can expect big things from her in the future. We were eager to find out more about Chanel, so here… Read More
Review: Hot Dub Time Machine live in Sydney
Annastasia Robertson got her groove well-and-truly on at The Metro Theatre last Saturday: The venue was packed to the rafters for the final Sydney leg of the Hot Dub Time Machine tour. I wasn’t sure what… Read More
Photos: Klo in Sydney by Phil Erbacher
Having already turned heads across the Australian music scene, Melbourne-based cousins Simon Lam and Chloe Kaul have since generated considerable buzz worldwide and are in the midst of a triumphant European Tour. The duo, known… Read More
Album Review: Surfer Blood – 1000 Palms
Florida’s Surfer Blood rode to our shores with debut Astro Coast in 2010, praised for their Weezer-meets-Morrissey indie-pop. Signed by a major label to release 2013’s Pythons, only for each party to dump… Read More
The Great Escape 2015 – Day One
Harriet Cheney headed down to Brighton for the tenth-anniversary edition of three-day festival, The Great Escape: It was the tenth birthday year of The Great Escape (TGE) and so Europe’s leading festival for… Read More
Album review: Nosaj Thing – Fated
The popularity of the electronically-produced low-fi music genre has given rise to experiments with samples and mixes. Fated is a showcase of the ability of low-fi to create emotion through its arrangement of… Read More