Off! OFF!’s self-titled debut album is full of all the aggression and speed you’d expect from a band fronted by ex-Circle Jerks and Black Flag singer...
BIGSOUND Live: 2nd Night Wrap-Up Ten bands sounds like a lot for one evening right? Well, in the case of BIGSOUND Live’s second night of musical showcases, it’s a doable...
BIGSOUND 2012 Blog: Day 2 As a conference for Australia’s music industry, from the biggest in the pond to those making their first splash, BIGSOUND does an admirable job of...
BIGSOUND Live: 1st Night Wrap-Up Unless you’re in possession of a time machine, or have several musically astute clones of yourself – there’s no way one person can take in...
Jeremy Neale – BIGSOUND Live Showcase As 60+ acts ply their musical wares in half-hour showcases dotted all over Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley for BIGSOUND 2012, punters rushed between twelve separate venues...
The Go-Betweens It was a pretty messy break up on the eve of the 1990s that saw the Go-Betweens part ways, and when the band’s founding frontmen...
EMI Music Party Christening BIGSOUND’s outdoor QMusic stage, a spruced marquee set-up in a car park off the main streets of Fortitude Valley, the EMI Party featured a...
BIGSOUND 2012 Blog: Day 1 So this is it. “Australia’s answer to SXSW”, goes the catch-cry; but even that doesn’t quite sum up the scope density of what is fast...
Haptics Haptics, the debut LP from Melbourne ten-piece funk ensemble The Cactus Channel, is an exciting and soul-drenched paean to funk. Put another way, this sucker...
A Thing Called Divine Fits Divine Fits are the veritable ‘indie supergroup’ combined of Spoon frontman Britt Daniel, Dan Boeckner of Wolf Parade and Handsome Furs fame, along with keyboardist...
A Collection Of Rarities And Previously Unreleased Material After releasing his breakthrough album We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves last year, Minnesota musician (and Ariel Pink’s friend) John Maus has chosen...
Songs Of Patience It’s been three years since the release of Alberta Cross’ debut Broken Side Of Time and the journey to their second album hasn’t been without...
