Pond As drummer-come-keyboardist for Tame Impala, Jay Watson’s 2012 would have been a raging success even if Lonerism only did as well as the band’s debut....
Police Charge 55 After Sniffer Dogs Nab Punters At Queensland Music Festival Drug busts at Australian festivals have become commonplace this season, with last year’s Stereosonic, Strawberry Fields, Splendour in the Grass and Creamfields all yielding large numbers of drug related offences; and...
Nuggets: Antipodean Interpolations Of The First Psychedelic Era Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era is one of the great artefacts of rock and roll. Probably the most revered compilation in music...
10 Years On: Interpol – Turn On The Bright Lights There are two inescapable truths about Interpol. The first is that they are from New York City, and that’s important. The second is that they...
The Flaming Lips Help Rework Landmark King Crimson Album Earlier this year The Flaming Lips released one of their most eclectic works yet, Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends. An entirely collaborative album, featuring works...
Paul McCartney Narrowly Avoids Helicopter Crash It’s been a big week for Paul McCartney. Most notably, the former Beatle (and richest singer in the world) and his wife, Nancy Shevall, were within...
Banks For all of the supposed mystery surrounding Paul Banks, he’s a pretty straightforward guy. Perhaps it’s the tidy, relentlessly grey-scale textures of Interpol, or the...
Kevin Parker Of Tame Impala As Kevin Parker slowly strolls in to the Universal offices in South Melbourne, he spots a poster for Lonerism hanging politely in a crowd of...
AIR General Manager Nick O’Byrne Held by the Australian Independent Record Labels Association, better known as AIR, the 2012 Jagermeister Independent Music Awards are just around the corner. Celebrating the...
Beams Matthew Dear’s previous LP, 2010’s seductively dystopian Black City, saw the Texas-born DJ/multi-instrumentalist/singer/producer/label-head (*phew*) step out from behind the computer screen to front-of-stage. With a...
Moon Eater Sydney punks Chicks Who Love Guns return with Moon Eater, their third EP in as many years. It’s a short, sharp concise blitzkrieg of syncopated...
Tee Pee EP As King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard are set to release their debut album, Ocean Grove offshoot The Murlocs are set to release their brashly...
