Yuksek
“I try to share my time with other people’s music” No one really knows what YUKSEK, also known as Pierre-Alexandre Busson, means when he says “Now I try to walk and talk, I need the extraball, it’s purely physical” in the song Extraball, but no one seems to mind. Mostly because Yuksek has an amazing … Read more
Skipping All Through the Night
“This [indie] approach requires you to have some control of your own destiny and helps you discover what you can and can’t do.” In the inner suburbs of Melbourne stands a neon sign of a girl with a skipping rope. If this girl, fondly known as Little Audrey, could speak, oh the history she could … Read more
Special Dozen
I haven’t heard anything from Adelaide band Special Patrol in aaaages! They caught my attention (and the attention of many) with the song Changing Emily. They’ve toured with the likes of Ben Kweller, The Mountain Goats and Turin Breaks, and had plenty of air play around the nation. They’re set to release a new album, … Read more
Weekend Winddown
Image taken from here The Middle East – The Darkest Side It’s nice to come across beautiful songs via international blogs and find out they’re Australian. Soft guitar strumming, heartfelt music and lyrics, female backed vocals… I have been missing Angus and Julia Stone so this is a warm welcome. A couple of their other … Read more
True Blood Doesn’t Bite, Doesn’t Suck
When Clare drove away from her funeral home, bawling her eyes out to Sia’s Breathe Me as a montage of every character’s death revealed “Everything. Everyone. Everywhere. Ends” in the final episode of Six Feet Under, you probably weren’t thinking “Wow, I wonder what Alan Ball (creator/writer) will make us feel depressed about next?” Well … Read more
Not a squawk but a howl
Ahh The Paper Scissors… It is refreshing to see you still don’t take yourselves too seriously. Especially compared to bands like Empire of the Sun (whose video clips seem laugh-at-wank funny yet boring at the same time). For those unfamiliar, this New South Wales band are probably best known for their bird cawing groove We … Read more
Black Bertie
Peter Rosewarne Gone is the softly-softly folkstress who first released Headway in 2004. BERTIE BLACKMAN stepped away from folk to rock in 2006, and this time has gone dark with her latest heavily electronic album, Secrets and Lies. “I wrote a lot about dreams and nightmares I’ve been having,” Bertie reveals. “There are bits in … Read more
Hancock Basement
Peter Rosewarne How does any band start? Perhaps it begins with a group of youths mellowing in the lounge room, listening to Pink Floyd and feeling a “connection,” deciding it would be their music that would really change the world. It wouldn’t matter that they were drunk or possibly high, it would “feel” important. Hancock … Read more
