Music
News: The 1975 – Being Funny in a Foreign Language Album out October, UK +Irish Dates for January 2023.
Being Funny In A Foreign Language, the band’s fifth studio album was recorded at Real World Studios in Wiltshire, United Kingdom and Electric Lady Studios in New York.The Album will will be released on 14th October via Dirty Hit and is available to pre-order now at the1975.com. The band will embark on a tour in …
Album Review: Full Flower Moon Band Go Full Throttle on ‘Diesel Forever’
Full Flower Moon Band Take No Prisoners on New Album ‘Diesel Forever’
Track: Sturt Avenue miss their ‘Best Friend’ – an achingly raw and beautiful paean to change and loss.
Sturt Avenue‘s ‘Best Friend’ provides an achingly beautiful tribute to the past and the indelible connections one has to certain people. The shimmering acoustic sound is augmented by the delicate harmonies and deep sense of yearning in the vocals. The band says of the track: ‘Best Friend’ is a breakup song written and recorded at …
EP: Composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Cam Butler (Ron S Peno and the Superstitions) unveils ‘Solar’: a collection of radiant instrumentals that speak with eloquence and vitality.
Cam Butler is a seasoned and experienced multi instrumentalist and producer who is also the co-writer of songs with the legendary Ron S Peno (Died Pretty) in the fabulous Ron S Peno and the Superstitions which he co-founded. Their album ‘Do The Understanding’ was one of my albums of the year last year. In addition, …
Album Review: The forecast is far from ‘Partly Cloudy’ for FLOWERTRUCK’s irrepressible and sparkling second album.
We’ve long been fans of Sydney/Illawarra band FLOWERTRUCK who have perfected an antipodean-flavoured brand of indie pop that has a genetic link to an amalgam of The Go-Betweens and The Apartments on one side of the ditch, and the Dunedin sound epitomised by Flying Nun roster of The Bats and The Chills on the other side. Blinding …
News: The legendary swamp maestros Scientists embark on Australian tour to promote first album in 34 years ‘Negativity’.
Following release of their first album in 34 years last year, the legendary Scientists have just announced that they are touring Australia in early 2023. Formed in Perth in 1978, the punk pop hooks of ‘Frantic Romantic’ and ‘Last Night’ saw them moving to Sydney with a darker, primitive concoction similar to that of The …
Track: Gold Coast’s Radolescent provide a much needed jolt to the system with ‘Tough’ and provide us with a list of their influences and tour dates.
Radolescent‘s ‘Tough’ is a glorious jangle fest with a rock hard spine and anthemic rumble replete with a self-deprecatory glint in the eye. It’s as big and expansive as the beautifully shot video accompanying the track filmed somewhere in a rural and pastoral heaven filled with sunshine and giant agricultural machinery. The band says of …
News: Philippa Nihill (Underground Lovers/GB3) and Lisa Gibbs (GB3/ USER) are The Same Same, exploring interpretations of Brian Eno in debut EP ‘Before And After Eno’ – have a listen to the first track off the EP ‘By This River’.
The Same Same consist of two giants in the indie music scene in Australia: multi instrumentalists Philippa Nihill from the Underground Lovers/GB3 and Lisa Gibbs from USER/GB3, and their weapons of choice are keys, synths and vocals wielded with haunting finesse and subtlety. The Same Same have just announced the release of an album of …
Live Review: Leeds Festival Friday plus Gallery
Descending on Bramham Park (just off the A1) again this year are hoards of music fans ready for a weekend of live music and good vibes. It’s clear that some revellers are celebrating recent GCSE and A-Level results and are using this as a celebration of all the hard work they have done over the …
News: Tally Spear returns with brand new single ‘Death Anxiety’
Alt/pop artist Tally Spear has returned with her brand new commanding single, Death Anxiety. The thumping, urgent chorus showcases Tally’s soaring vocals, and is complemented by the pulsing melody. Listen to Death Anxiety here, and watch the video co-directed and edited by Tally herself below. Recorded in a bedroom in Peckham, Tally has explained of the track, “The human element of songwriting and music is what matters …