There’s really only one unwritten rule for music reviewers: never gush. Well, strap yourselves in, because I’m about to break that rule and break it hard. James Bay and his band picked me up and shook me completely out of my critique’s headspace. Rather than being there for the expressed purpose of reviewing the show,…
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David Hobson is one of Australia’s most celebrated and accomplished opera singers, but he’s definitely not a rigid elitist, as is the popular stereotype for that genre of music. I had a chat to him recently about his experience with the 2015 Bravo! Cruise of the Performing Arts, which he’ll be part of again next…
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Dragon are rock royalty in this country, and I recently got to chat to Todd Hunter from the group about their upcoming Countdown Years tour around the country. We talk about the shows, their memories of Molly and Countdown, longevity in the industry and more… This tour is all about the Countdown Years, which is…
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I’m ashamed to admit that prior to this show I hadn’t heard much about Gang Of Youths. Neither, it would seem, had most of the crowd. Ageing rockers sporting 90s Soundgarden tour t-shirts seemed disinterested at best when their frontman Dave Le’aupepe first graced the stage. I say graced intentionally because with long flowing locks,…
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I know what you’re thinking – that sounds like a really morbid name for an album. Honestly, I agree with you. Thankfully, the music contained within is anything but morbid. It is soothing and easy. Daniel Lee Kendall aka Daniel Forsyth has been off the radar for a few years. What a way to return….
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Ahead of his Lagwagon and solo tour dates later this year in Australia, I chatted to one of punk rock’s godfathers – Joey Cape – about what to expect from his solo act, what he feels is really wrong with the world today and how long he feels like he can keep being the embodiment of…
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As Phil Jamieson gears up for the HiFi Days event in a couple of weeks, I took some time to talk to him about what it’s like to play solo, his very impressive history of collaborations and the meaning behind some of the more cryptic Grinspoon songs. For all of us terribly lazy Phil Jamieson…
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Blake Mills is enigmatic. Crossing genre boundaries with grace and confidence, his sound is extraordinarily difficult to pigeon hole. Yet, it seems that’s the way he likes it. In the course of twelve songs, the full gamut of guitar based music is covered. From country to blues to folk to rock and back again twice….
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Following his third release as Tim Omaji, it would seem that the Australia performer has finally broken free of the Timomatic shackles and begun to define who he really is as an artist. I caught up with him to talk about the new single, working with some of the world’s best producers, and what we can expect…
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Ahead of Halestorm‘s debut Australian tour dates, Josh caught up with the dynamic vocalist of the rock band, Lzzy Hale. Producing music in a genre still heavily dominated by male voices, Hale has made a name for herself and her killer talent as frontwoman and musician brilliantly. Halestorm themselves, Grammy winners and relentless tour nuts,…
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US artist Son Little, known to his friends as Aaron Livingston, is blurring the lines between genres on his new self-titled debut album. The intersection of Blues, RnB, Country and Soul is kept busy through the fifteen tracks on this record. I took some time to chat with Aaron about the album, song writing and how to…
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Pennywise will never be accused of reinventing the wheel; and when you’ve been producing durable punk rock albums for 27 years like they have, you don’t generally backslide. You stick to the formula – and that’s exactly what they’ve done with their latest offering Yesterdays. This album smacks of songs that were born of an…
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It’s April 2011 and I’m on holiday in Sydney. I’m roaming the streets with a Starbucks latte in hand and my digital SLR camera around my neck. I’m feeling sufficiently hip. Then, as I turn the corner onto Pitt Street, the mall directly behind me, my gait is arrested by the sounds of something majestic…
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