Neil Martin listens to the sophomore longplayer from an acclaimed American singer-songwriter: Daughn Gibson’s 2012 debut, All Hell, was a swampy gothic backwoods country album comprised in the main of samples of old… 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
Somethingyousaid.com’s Joe Haddow devotes some serious time to the second longplayer from The Civil Wars: There are few bands that I make time to sit down, with headphones, and listen to the whole… Read More
Science and technology revolutionise our lives but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. – Arthur M. Schiesinger. Wow. Intense! That quote appears at the end of the Midnight Juggernauts latest filmclip for… Read More
Somethingyousaid.com’s Tammy Potakh wraps her ears around the latest longplayer from Sigur Ros: My friend introduced me to these guys two years ago and my first reaction was laughter. Not because I thought… Read More
The first longplayer from Jagwar Ma has been much anticipated. From popular previous releases The Throw, Man I Need and especially 2011’s Come And Save Me, Jono Ma and Gabriel Winterfield had a… Read More
Jazz, the last refuge of the pretentious and self-important. The place old hipsters go to die, a land of odd time-signatures, modal scales and other elaborate music theory stuff designed to make the… Read More
Following-up the explosive “Dye It Blonde” was never going to be easy for Chicago’s Smith Westerns. Their sophomore album had the power to bring them to the forefront of indie consciousness. It set… Read More
Joe Haddow reviews Yes, It’s True, the eagerly-anticipated longplayer from The Polyphonic Spree: It’s a nice feeling when a band you thought were dead suddenly surface with a new record. This exact feeling has just… Read More
Leading up to the release of his first long-player, Embracism, and a few Australian tour dates, somethingyousaid.com has a conversation with Kirin J Callinan about music, the world and on-stage looks. So… Read More
THE BEST ALBUM NEVER MADE? – by g. william rex We all have “defining” moments of varying intensity in our lives. One of mine occurred thirty-three years ago. I had just finished law… Read More