Don’t think too hard, just enjoy this new video and song from Perth’s finest rock band Pond. Their new record Man It Feels Like Space Again comes out on January 27. Here’s what the super-stoney cover looks like: …and here’s how they describe their Genre on Facebook: GENRE: Musicband of course. Bruce Springsteen if he […]
Brighter Later is Melbourne singer-songwriter, radio producer, novelist and producer Jaye Kranz’ name for her collaborative musical self. Kranz might change up the line-up on occasion, but this is clearly a very personal and singular project. She just posted an incredibly lovely song from the second Brighter Later LP that’s due in the Spring. “Brace” is the perfect […]
Viet Cong hails from Calgary, and features ex-members of Women. They wrote their debut LP during a 50 date tour with all four members traveling in one car, and it sounds that way. The first single “Continental Shelf” is a combination of tight-knit and tightly-wound. It’s intense and claustrophobic and builds in unexpected and exhilarating […]
Simple Minds were more than a trendy new wave band. Their songs were lush and nuanced with lyrics vague enough so that they could apply to any situation, as long as it involved yearning. As an aspirational teen, “Promised You A Miracle” could easily be about my dream boyfriend or a completed term paper or soccer […]
I am grateful for guys like King Tuff who rock hard but don’t take themselves too seriously. Dude isn’t trying to change the world, he just wants you to know that he loves vinyl and rock music and drugs. He seems to have a hit-and-miss love for the ladies, but that kind of rocks in […]
I’m not sure you can call Kodiak Deathbeds a supergroup, since it only has two people in it. But in this case, they’re two of the most versatile and talented musicians around. Derek Fudesco is an excellent guitarist who went from playing filthy, big chord rock anthems in Murder City Devils to post-punk squalls in Pretty […]
The Juan MacLean has been around for nearly a decade, yet partners John MacLean and Nancy Whang manage to create music that feels altogether now whenever it comes out. John was one of the founders of Six Finger Satellite, a futuristic electronic band that couldn’t have been more ahead of its time in the early 90’s. Their […]
When I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness released their debut album Fear Is On Our Side in 2006, I assumed that they made anguished eyeliner rock in the vein of My Chemical Romance or Thirty Seconds to Mars. And some of those goth elements are there, but as my mother the shrink would say (if she were […]
In case you missed it, Guided by Voices broke up again last week. Here’s what they posted on their Facebook page: Guided By Voices has come to an end. With 4 years of great shows and six killer albums, it was a hell of a comeback run. The remaining shows in the next two months […]
Philip Selway plays drums and provides backing vocals for Radiohead. He’s also just about to release his second gorgeous and atmospheric solo record. It’s called Weatherhouse and it’s out October 7th. “Coming Up For Air” is the first single – the melancholy tone and whispery vocals hooked me on the first listen. I’m not sure what’s going […]