Brandon John

Editor of Tone Deaf until 2017, Brandon then wrote gaming and music news for The Brag Media. He now leaves the writing to the next wave of journos, but you'll still find him in the shadows of his favourite Melbourne venues.

The accountant who supported The Rolling Stones: The unlikely story of Paul Janeway

Paul Janeway, the voice of the frankly brilliant soul outfit St Paul and the Broken Bones, joins us from his home in Birmingham, Alabama to...

Tupac’s killers have been named by Suge Knight, who claims he was the real target

It’s been possibly the biggest mystery in music, and the most famous death in a genre plagued by violence: who killed Tupac Shakur? The iconic...

Does protest music still have the power to change the world?

Music has always been seen as a transformative force in the world, capable of changing everything from moods to attitudes on its way to impacting...

Groovin The Moo announces the set times for all locations

Groovin The Moo have been teasing us with more and more lineup additions each and every week it seems, having added a final 60 acts...

Smith Street Band sitting on the cement in front of a tin wall

The Smith Street Band’s ‘More Scared Of You Than You Are Of Me’ is a stunning achievement

The Smith Street Band know how you feel. After all, a battered, bruised sense of understanding has been the key to their sound since their...

Premiere: Knock back a ‘VB’ with one of our favourite Melbourne bands, DIET.

We’ve been on board with Melbourne outfit DIET. for a while of now, as they released a string of impressive tracks like the hook-driven earworm...

‘DJ Albo’ Anthony Albanese has made us an indie rock mixtape for Record Store Day

The crate-digging, record-spinning former Deputy Prime Minister and Federal member for Grayndler, Anthony ‘DJ Albo’ Albanese, has just been announced as the final ambassador for...

Ice-T and Body Count are touring Australia for the first time in over 20 years

It’s been over two decades since Ice-T’s rap/metal concoction Body Count have played on Australian turf, but with their new record Bloodlust out today, the...

Blink-182 just dropped their most miserable track yet

Sure, Blink-182 have released some pretty downcast tracks from time to time (and some of their recent output has been miserable in a different sense)...

Perth rockers Tired Lion unleash the huge, Luke Boerdam-produced jam ‘Cinderella Dracula’

We already had high hopes for Tired Lion‘s upcoming debut album, but with the news that Violent Soho frontman Luke Boerdam was stepping into the...

Nick Murphy (fka Chet Faker) is recruiting fans for his new project

Nick Murphy (as in, the man once known as Chet Fa- pfft, you know that by now) is in need of some help for his...

Bob Dylan is finally accepting his Nobel Prize, but he’s not making it easy

After a long period spent completely ignoring his Nobel Prize honour, followed by an eventual public acknowledgment that, yes, he’d heard the news that he’d...

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