With Massive Attack’s “Collected,” we needed to find a symbol that encapsulated or conveyed the emotions and ideals of the band. With it being a “Best of,” a more obvious route would have been to utilise their trademark flame in some way. So instead we thought, a nicer way to ...
Brisbane John Doyle lookalike Robert Forster played a gorgeous set in Sydney in August, mostly from his latest record The Evangelist. As usual 'Surfing Magazines' got a once over too. He's been in the states ever since, reprising his Velvet Underground covers set as well as touring the new ...
It's spring, but it feels like summer. It was winter when Richard Macfarlane hit me with this meme. The months have raced. List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be ...
Illegal Gunshot - Ragga Twins Like An Arrow - Baobinga & ID Ti Tree Bush Mix - Big Low Sandshoe - Peret Mako Wayfaring Stranger - Jamie Woon The Escape - Early Day Miners Out the Window With the Window - Tunng Remember Love - Noze The Devil's Crayon - Wild Beasts The Bizness - Killaqueenz Requiem In A-Flat Reprise ...
Can't say I'm a Pearl Jam fan. But when Robert McDonald posted about the band recently, I felt moved to comment (here, given his blog does not allow comments). McDonald saw Pearl Jam, who he described as, "a tight, well-practiced band that was mostly just having fun playing, coupled with ...
What can't hip hop do? Here's Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize winner and all round amazing novelist of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, talking to Virginia Trioli. VIRGINIA TRIOLI: Is it true you wrote some of this listening to rap music? JUNOT DIAZ: Embarrassingly, I wrote it all listening to hip-hop. VIRGINIA TRIOLI: ...
Watching Jamie Lidell on stage it's all too easy to see his thing as one gigantic piss-take. The crazy outfits, the big soul numbers. He was dressed in Joseph's Technicolour Dreamcoat the first time I saw him, in early 2004 at the Sydney Festival bar. He's got ...
Thanks to Shannon O'Neill for putting me on to former Severed Head Tom Ellard's hilarious blog. In the coming week I am booked in for surgery, it’s a minor procedure and the specialist says that I will only be in the ward one night at most. This is a ...
The Guardian's music section is on fire at the moment. For one, you've got this fascinating piece on late 70s race relations in the UK, and the growth of the Rock Against Racism movement (with bands such as Aswad, Steel Pulse, the Ruts, the Slits and the Buzzcocks). It was 5 ...
I'm crossing my fingers very tightly I'll get however many boxes of Cyclics back from the printers before the launch on Thursday night. I'm quietly confident. Pretty post rock (Underlapper) and classic '90s electronic sounds (Robert Luke). Check. Glitchy/dusty techno/IDM (Aluf). Check. And new demos and ...
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