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In August last year, prolific songwriter Frank Turner released his eighth studio album No Man’s Land. The album was recorded alongside an all-female cast of musicians, with songs focused on the stories of inspirational women who have largely been overlooked by history. Turner is currently touring Europe in support of Dropkick Murphys and this April […]
Since exploding out of obscurity with viral video sensation ‘Smoko’ in 2017, Sunny Coast pub-punkers, The Chats, have been busy making quite a ruckus. Having been hand-chosen as an opener by the god of punk himself, Iggy Pop, and earned the unabashed fandom of icons like Dave Grohl and Josh Homme (and bizarrely, Miguel), the band […]
Cold Chisel. Two words that’ll inspire a reverential smile from most Australians and a spontaneous outburst into song from others. National icons, music legends, pub rock poets, all fitting descriptors for a group of mates that emerged from tumultuous Adelaide origins, to become both the soundtrack to and the narrator of the Australian cultural experience. […]
Shaggy (real name Orville Burrell) could be the most enduringly important artist to emerge from the ’90s – his reggae-fusion now a global movement and spawning yet other dancehall hybrids. The Kingston, Jamaica deejay/MC/singer – who, having relocated to New York in his teens, served as a US Marine in the Gulf War – broke […]
As a kid in the mid-’90s with a nascent interest in music, I started to explore my parents’ CD collection. Money was tight and so all entries held symbolic weight. There was The Beatles’ Abbey Road, The B-52’s self-titled LP and a curious amount of k.d. lang. There was also an album bearing a collaged […]
Many of us can link a certain album to pivotal moments in our lives. Whether it’s the first record you bought with your own money, the chord you first learnt to play on guitar, the song that soundtracked your first kiss, the album that got you those awkward and painful pubescent years or the one […]
Genre-melting riff busters Ocean Grove have taken some time out from their current regional Aussie tour with The Amity Affliction to slap us about the eyeballs with a brand new music video for their fresh Brit-pop vibin’ earworm, ‘SUNNY’. The video is peak Ocean Grove, perfectly complementing the sublimely chaotic energy of the song itself, […]
After a successful premiere instalment in 2019, Queensland’s Holy Green festival moves to a new home this year. The Eatons Hill Hotel’s capacious outdoor parklands will host a lineup of local and international acts on the January public holiday weekend. The lineup covers a range of indie wunderkinds and pop crossover performers. UK pop rockers […]
Melbourne-based indie-pop band MOBS are kicking off 2020 with the release of a colourful new jam dubbed, ‘I’ll be Back’. The four-piece’s freshie is packing a nostalgic pop flavour with warm synths and an infectious finger-clicking beat, not to mention lyrically it draws inspiration from the iconic 80’s action movie classic The Terminator. “This is […]
10 years ago, David Owen Blackley was a 24-year-old metalhead grinding away full time as an assistant manager at the local Video Ezy in his hometown of Capalaba, about 20 kilometres south-east of Brisbane. Today, he’s a world-class music videographer who regularly tours all over the globe working with the kind of bands that once […]
