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Live Review & Gallery: Thom Yorke at the Sydney Opera House 01.11.2024
Twelve Years Later: Thom Yorke Returns to Australia with Solo Mystique
Live Gallery: Nick Cave at the State Theatre, Sydney 30.04.2024
When the dark poet meets the bass oracle: Cave and Greenwood spin a web of sound, capturing Sydney audience.
Droppin’ Knowledge: New York MC Rouge Releases His Sonically Dense, Lyrically Rich Debut – War! – A Review & Conversation
Staten Island, New York emcee Rouge recently released his debut album, War!, a sonically dense collection of music, with crisp writing and a rich, full sound. On the album, Rouge grapples with the responsibilities of adulthood, the future of the planet, love, death, creativity, identity, and dreams, as well as the more mundane concerns of …
Track: Cloning – All Rise
‘All Rise’ is the very exciting and extremely fresh sound from Western Australia’s Cloning. Ostensibly classic indie rock with a touch of shoegaze, there is a whiff of trip hop percussive stuttering among the chiming guitars and synths. A crisp and layered production with a pounding, pulse-quickening chorus and the expressive, emotive vocals of singer/guitarist …
Track: HAVVK – 52
The new track from HAVVK, ’52’ is a luscious fusion of dream pop landscapes and anger – a strange but very satisfying mix that perfectly captures its political intent – the deep melancholy sadness following the societal schisms caused by the 2016 Brexit vote and the anger arising from the manner it was achieved. A …
Track: Jekyll – Marionette
Blackpool’s Jekyll are a band going places – something Backseat Mafia predicted back in 2014 when we reviewed one of their first singles ‘I Do What I Can’. Now, having signed with Fierce Panda Records and booked through International Talent Bookings (ITB) along with bands such as Editors and Kasabian, Jekyll have released a fantastic …
New Music: Idle Kyle – Twisted Attention (EP)
The brittle, delicate arpeggiated piano of ‘Grounded’, the first track off Philadelphia’s Idle Kyle‘s EP “Twisted Attention”, serves notice that there is something quite unique ahead. It is a track that flirts with jazz tropes – time signature changes, delicate and subtle layers that change direction and shuffles and grooves. Yet somewhat antithetically, the song …
Track: Scratch – Soak/Newer Things
Bridging the gap between Perth (Australia) and New York (USA) is no mean feat, but due to the wonders of modern recording technology it has been artfully done by duo Scratch. They have just released two songs that have been written and recorded across the great divide. ‘Soak’ – the standout track – manages to …
Features: Two Views, Radiohead & Super Furry Animals
3 May 2016 was a day that started out like many others. Then suddenly Radiohead released a new song after years of silence and then it wasn’t. Social Media lost it’s shit, heavy-weight broad sheet newspapers started work on articles about how the return of Radiohead was the return of ‘real’ music and how the …