Search Results for: best of 2013

Live review: Cosmic Psychos in Melbourne

“The Psychos made me do it,” says somethingyousaid.com’s Tristan ‘Gorba’ Giblin:  You know a show’s been solid when you pop a fresh hole in the crotch of your spandex, tear the buttons off… Read More

Preview: Listen Out is back for 2015

Listen up Australia! The ever-excellent Listen Out festival is coming, and since the full line-up announcement in June we’ve been counting down the days until we can don our festival best and get… Read More

Interview: Si Symatic from Cut & Paste

Following on from his recent interview with Ritchie Ruftone, somethingyousaid.com’s 25ThC spoke with Si Symatic from Cut and Paste Records about scratching, skip-less scratch records and 7″ record bags: Who is involved in… 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

Getting to Know Bryan McPherson

Los-Angeles based, Boston-bred folk-punk troubadour Bryan McPherson is about to release his third album. We asked him to tell us about himself. Here he is, in his own words: My name is Bryan… Read More

King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard – Quarters

Quarters, King Gizzard’s second album within the space of a year, is a marked departure from their previous release, the eclectic I’m In Your Mind Fuzz. For a start, the appropriately-named Quarters features only… Read More

Laneway 2015 – Sydney review & photos

Boasting a seriously impressive line-up, St Jerome’s Laneway Festival headed to Sydney on Sunday. Reviewer Ruth Hodge and photographer Philip Erbacher captured everything in words and pictures: If you were wanting to go… Read More

Interview: The Bamboos can’t wait for Twlight

Melbourne-based soul/funk eight-piece, The Bamboos, are hitting up Sydney’s Twilight at Taronga series this month. We grabbed a few words with Lance Ferguson from the band to find out more: Hi Lance! Were you classically… Read More

Interview: Wet have eyes on the prize

Brooklyn-based trio Wet are supporting London Grammar across Australia (while performing some select sideshows) this March. Elaina Ransford catches up with them in the US as they prepare for their tour… Wet first came on my radar as… Read More

Interview: Getting To Know Heart Beach

Hobart’s self-described oceanic-pop sweethearts Heart Beach are making waves. Formed in 2013, they’ve put out a ceaseless string of impressive singles and played shows across Australia and New Zealand, including a spot at… Read More

Something You Said’s Books of 2014

When considering somethingyousaid.com’s Top Ten Books of 2014, we felt privileged to have in our ranks a genuine expert. As well as writing for this very site, Joe Haddow is also the producer of the BBC Radio… Read More

Phosphorescent live in Sydney – Review

Despite six albums for the Alabama native-turned-Brooklynite, this would be Matt Houck and his band Phosphorescent’s first headlining show in Sydney. The alt-country act previously played the short-lived but excellent Harvest Festival in… Read More