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Album Of The Week: Gorillaz – Plastic Beach

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

As if you haven’t heard enough from us about Gorillaz lately, but we can’t contain our excitement about the latest release from one of the world’s most incredible music collaborations. Tomorrow, Friday March 5 brings the release of the third album from Gorillaz, ‘Plastic Beach’.

‘Plastic Beach’ is not as gloomy as lead single ‘Stylo’ and [...]

Midlake ‘The Courage Of Others’

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Midlake make music about forests and porridge, suitable for rainy days and bouts of melancholia. They also like to dress up in garments fit for some sort of medieval sect (if their record covers are anything to go by). Jason Lee is the former pro-skater who pops up in such cult films as ‘Mallrats’, ‘Clerks [...]

Album Of The Week: Delphic – Acolyte

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Delphic are another band under the burden of the hype which swells up at the beginning of the Blog New Year, but we predict they’ll be one of the lucky few to get through it. After speaking to the band for this month’s issue of Groupie (out this week) they revealed that they knew that [...]

Album Of The Week: Massive Attack – Heligoland

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Massive Attack is a rare example of a band that has taken on living legend status. A pioneering proponent of trip-hop, the entity that is Massive Attack boasts an intimidating body of work, which is bolstered by a dizzying (and eclectic!) string of collaborators, including David Bowie, Madonna, The Dandy Warhols and Sinead O’Connor.

Although established [...]

Album Of The Week: Echo & The Bunnymen

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

It’s been a long long time since Echo & The Bunnymen’s eleventh album was first talked about, and was even touted for release last year. ‘The Fountain’, which was only released in Australia in the last week, is the latest installment from the post-punk veterans, and comes just as the band prepares to take the [...]

Album Of The Week: Ministry of Sound Annual 2010

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

This week’s feature album is the brand new Ministry of Sound Annual 2010 mixed by Australian clubbing LEGENDS Goodwill, John Course and Aston Shuffle who are currently touring the country and causing mayhem promoting the release on the Annual tour.

This year the compilation includes 3 discs, and also some cool new technology where [...]

Washington Teaches Us How To Tame Lions

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Washington is the name given to the musical endeavours of one Megan Washington, a Melbourne-based lass, and How To Tame Lions is the name given to her latest EP. Although disappointingly light on instructions for how one might actually going about taming any potentially hostile lions that one encounters, the EP nonetheless has other uses. [...]

Flight of the Conchords Reconfirm That They Are Freaky

Monday, October 26th, 2009

I Told You I Was Freaky, the sophomore offering from Flight of the Conchords, promises to secure their reputation as New Zealand’s fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo… a hotly contested title, to be sure.

Dizzee Rascal “Tongue ‘N’ Cheek” Review

Friday, September 25th, 2009

So a few weeks ago we got to hear a sampler of Dizzee’s Tongue ‘N’ Cheek album, which, given we work in a big converted theatre with our lovely friends from Rysen and Contagious, made a good ole racket which we’re sure assisted their productivity!

But after the three big singles which everyone’s been talking about, [...]

The Scare “Ooze Voodoo”

Friday, July 10th, 2009

“Vomited on the backs of white shirted friends”… are the first scuzzed out lyrics escaping Kiss Reid’s mouth, on opener Could Be Bad. It’s the second single lifted from The Scare’s forthcoming record Ooze Voodoo.

When I saw these guys a couple of months back it was in a jam-packed little warehouse in Surry Hills and [...]