17 April 2015
Blasting through my laptop speakers with ‘Nina Fell In Love’ is the opening track to The Controllers new EP Animals. With a healthy mix of heavy drums and bass that makes me smile at this punk rock sound the band has been working hard on these past couple of years. Animals follows up from their debut EP which spawned the single ‘Regression’ which is their most commercially successful song.
17 April 2015
“We were completely in love with what we were doing. We found it so fascinating and exciting that we wanted as many people as we could to hear this thing. I can’t remember ever thinking, ‘Fuck if this doesn’t do well then how do we feel about it or what does this mean as a band?’ At the time who gave a fuck because no one knew the band then anyway,” singer Ian Kenny speaks of the moment Themata was released.
17 April 2015
Jay Z has recently bought out the music streaming service Tidal for $56 million US, probably a months work for the musician. Though there’s tough competition in the streaming biz and with only 17,000 subscribers, compared to Spotify’s 60 million, Jay Z has enlisted the likes of Beyonce, Kanye, Daft Punk, Rihanna, Calvin Harris…
17 April 2015
Much like their name suggests, Monkey Safari and heading over to Geelong to give us one helluva time. Also owners of a club themselves, they sure know a thing or two about how to create the perfect club atmosphere. We had a chat to Lars on what to expect from the night and their experience in the club scene.
16 April 2015
Benny Walker is back with his new album Through The Forest. Following on from his sophomore release Sinners and Saints, this album starts out a lot more broodier and darker than his previous releases. Opening with the title track, there is a lot more of a punchier sound to this album.
16 April 2015
The McClymonts are back out on tour once again in support of their fourth studio album Here’s To You and I. This time out on the road though, things are different as Brooke is looking after her first child Tiggy. Although Tiggy is holding interview proceedings up a little bit as we chat about the band, a smile adorns Brooke’s face as she chats about this upcoming run of dates.
16 April 2015
At first glance you mightn’t notice just how much detail went into creating 10sqM. But take a closer look and you’ll see that the copper detail in the artworks by local artist Little Quarters match the Duckfat pendants hanging above, the mandala painted by Natalia Berlizova has real coffee colouring part of the artwork and a mural in the laneway by street artist Glummo was specially made for the cafe.
16 April 2015
Troy Cassar-Daley is Australian music royalty and he has just released his new album Freedom Ride. On this eleventh release, the country troubadour has teamed up with some of the best in the business and showcases some of the best songs of his career. It’s been a long way from growing up in Surrey Hills to recording an album in Nashville and on Freedom Ride, and the album features more than just Troy’s stories, as he relates.
16 April 2015
Last time they were here English rockers You Me at Six promised to come back for a round of headline shows. Not only have they kept their word, they’ve gone one better by signing on to be part of this year’s Groovin the Moo. “We couldn’t wait to come back – we can’t stay away,” admitted bassist Matt Barnes. “When these shows were suggested we said, ‘Do you even have to ask? Just book the bloody shows!’” he joked.
16 April 2015
Folk music is all about telling a story through song, and it’s storytelling that Jordie Lane does best. Talking to him, I was struck by an excitement in his voice that had me hanging – even hearing about his morning coffee turned into a tale of him entering the shop and leaving as the next YouTube sensation (don’t ask).
16 April 2015
Amber Lawrence may be establishing herself as one of Australia’s most successful country artists, but that doesn’t mean she’s forgotten what – or who – helped get her there. Hot on the heels of becoming the first female in history to win both the Golden Guitar and CMC ‘Female Artist of the year’ award in the same year, Amber is now an ambassador for Record Store Day Australia.
16 April 2015
Every now and then on a family trip, it’s natural for someone to get left behind. And it’s reassuring to see that even as a band on tour, this same factor can – and did – come into play when singer Lilibeth Hall was left behind. “That was maybe a couple of years ago and we had a gig around Kings Cross and baby Lil got left behind, somehow the head count wasn’t quite accurate,” Lilibeth adds with a laugh.
16 April 2015
As a kid Meg Mac was one of those children who was lugged into a van with her four brothers and sisters to take on the annual 12-hour family road trip. “Every summer we would drive from Sydney to Queensland,” she says. “Back then there was only cassette players, so my dad used to put movies on cassettes – the entire audio of a movie onto cassette – and he’d just play those for us and we’d have to imagine the movie in our heads.”
16 April 2015
It seems Tame Impala are pretty intent on holding the details to their forthcoming album close to their chest. So until the official date is set, all we can do is suck all the worth from the limited information we’ve been given. The album cover and title has been announced, Currents is what we’ll be waiting for and they’ve just released another single ‘Cause I’m A Man’.
16 April 2015
Can I just say how glad I am San Cisco came out with another release. There was only so much more I could squeeze out from ‘Awkward’. It’s a bit of a full on start, but ‘Run’ is just the catchy number you’ve all been waiting for. The repetitiveness of the lyrics make it the perfect thing to sing along and don’t even try to lie about not tapping your feet along to this one – I’m pretty sure it’s impossible not to.
16 April 2015
The end of Future surely is a sign for the end of the world right? Or maybe just the end of the touring festival? Either way, Future Music Festival has officially announced that the event will discontinue due to declining ticket sales over the past two years. But fear not, there will be an “exciting new festival concept” to take its place.
13 April 2015
There’s a lot of people out there trying to make the garage-punk-rock genre work for them, but there are few who get it quite as right as Geelong band The Living Eyes do. Living Large is the sophomore release from the four-piece and if there’s anything we know about sophomores it’s when shit gets serious.
13 April 2015
In the cutesy, and incredibly catchy, pop song ‘Sidelined’ spirited Melbourne singer/songwriter Shelley Segal tackles the issue of body image and how we’re so focused on how people look.
13 April 2015
Taking on the role of one of the world’s most famous musicians in history is no easy task, but that’s exactly what Daniel Thompson does when he steps on stage as a Johnny Cash tribute artist. After performing in Johnny Cash The Concert for the past five years, Thompson has decided to change things up a little and shine a light on a different side of the legend and his music with In Solitary.
12 April 2015
“I used to see Tony Abbott a lot around Parliament house and one time when I was working, there as a young journo and he’d be doing laps around the building. He ran past the coffee shop part of the building as I was coming out with a hot tray of coffees and he nearly collided into me and coffee nearly went everywhere…
11 April 2015
Chances are Liam Daly’s music is unlike anything you’ve heard in a long while. Spanning around 10 minutes for each track, they unfold on themselves and are filled with layer upon layer of sound. We had a chat to the musician about why he creates what he does.
10 April 2015
Miss Quincy is part rocker, part cook and part explorer, but she’s coming Down Under for a purely music related venture – though as she tells us there are plans to cuddle a koala or two. We had a chat to the dirty blues and rock n’ roll musician about her trip to Australia.
9 April 2015
Every now and then on a family trip, it’s natural for someone to get left behind. And it’s interesting to see that even as a band on tour, this same factor can – and did – come into play when singer Lilibeth Hall was left behind.
8 April 2015
Deep down there’s a child inside all of us, some are just more willing to embrace it than others. Ellyn Stern is one such person and her career as a voice actress and children’s book writer serve as the perfect way for her to keep her young heart intact.
