Punk commandos: Channel 3 & jakson reviewed
February 2, 2021
jakson – hey jeff come to bendigo i just want to chat i totally won’t punch you in the head i promise // guillotine
If you’ve had enough of songwriters stretching their compositional muscles, dreaming up pretty arrangements, and trying to sell them to…
International pop explorers: OKAMOTO'S & TUVABAND reviewed
February 1, 2021
TUVABAND – Growning Pains
Scandinavian pop seems to excel at doing two interesting, diametrically different things. On the one hand, few if anyone, are able to beat the Northerners when it comes to catchy melodies. From the 70s onwards disco, power-pop and indie…
Charisma on demand: James Kelly and Kite new releases
January 31, 2021
Kite – Jonny Boy
If we were in the business of judging whole countries based on the legacy of their pop groups we’d naturally assume that South Korea was a place where everybody sports rainbow-coloured clothing and where groups of 6-7 young men, or women…
Expensive hipsterdom: Western Threads & Kopper reviewed
January 31, 2021
Kopper – Luminescent Womb
Kopper sounds like the smart, mysterious student who joins school late and does everything right in order to earn the attention of their classmates. These sort of people inevitably end up wearing fancy beards, drinking fancy coffee and…
Free-range and indie flavoured: DOMS & Ocie Elliott reviewed
January 31, 2021
Ocie Elliott – Slow Tide
Aerosmith may be all about their “don’t bore us, get to the chorus” strategy and KISS will be busy playing their huge catalogue of hits on stadiums just as soon as the world opens up again.
Folk artists though, if…
Effortless: MYLO BYBEE Music and Sapphire Blues reviewed
January 30, 2021
Sapphire Blues – Daydream
Daydream is quite an interesting mix of sounds. On the one hand, this song by Sapphire Blues features an elegant, late 80s vibe to it that is reminiscent of the jazzy jagged chords of groups like Aztec Camera and Prefab Sprout. Not many…
Kids do follow: Cal Rifkin and Hush Empire
January 30, 2021
Hush Empire – Eyes Closed
If the Arctic Monkeys’ plethora of chart success of their album AM taught modern bands anything is how to camouflage their indie-rock sounds. Next to a convincing electro-groove and with the right set of vocals, even the fuzziest of…
Fits: Period Bomb and The Shivas reviewed
January 29, 2021
The Shivas – Goo Goo Muck
At the heart of it, The Cramps, one of America’s finest and strangest rock n’ roll bands, were a shock rock group with a love of all things 50s. Inspired in equal parts by Iggy Pop, B-Movies and the sense of confrontation that…
Never out of style: Firetail and Commodore Charlie review
January 29, 2021
Commodore Charlie – Glass Party
Well, rock music and drugs failed to save the hippies or change the world in any meaningful way. Mostly it just left drug-addled casualties waking the world. The more extreme forms of rock promised some form of revolution, but they…