Listen up, East-Coasters! There’s a band heading your way in December that you’d be silly not to catch. Mosman Alder, a 6 piece from Brisbane, are making their way along the coast to perform tracks from their recent debut album, Humdrum Star. Performances up their sleeves (all 12 of them) include sets at this year’s BIGSOUND, […]
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Kingswood have been on my radar since they snagged a slot in Splendour in the Grass in 2012. They’ve spent the past 12 months gigging around the country; whether it be intimate local gigs, huge support slots or electrifying festival sets, earning new fans and a strong reputation at every turn. Kicking off the night […]
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What do you look for in a New York punk rock band? A dirt-under-the-nails grit-rock aesthetic? Rambling feedback-drenched guitar odysseys that stretch well past the point of aural comfort? Whip-sharp lyrics that poke the sardonic stick at everything from success to the tanking job market, Parquet Courts have got it all in spades. They’ve picked up the squalid brand of rock’n’roll that the Velvet Underground dragged out of […]
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Friday’s double bill featured two pop-loving Brisbane acts, The John Steel Singers, and all-round local cool dude, Jeremy Neale. These boys are on their East coast “Boys Gone Wild Tour” which kicked off the night before and still has two shows left in Melbourne this coming weekend. The two acts are sharing the headline spot […]
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The Drones are the steadiest ship in Australian rock. With six stellar LPs under their belt and more critical acclaim than any other Aussie band in recent memory, the Perth mob has built a legion of fanatic followers, plenty of whom carried the great torch of Drones fandom to the Brisbane Hi-fi. And weren’t they […]
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