Forces, 'Idolise' 7 inch
So their name can be non-Google-friendly, but this Melbourne-based synth outfit have just released a devastatingly good record. Alex on the vocals/production... read more...
Pond, 'Beard Wives Denim'
Background chatter and room noise glide through this LP. read more...
An interview with Real Estate
Real Estate have been on a one-way, stratospheric trajectory, deservedly receiving praise from both critics and punters for their languid, rock-pop sound. Dom... read more...
An interview with Ariel Pink (in two parts)
Ariel Pink, a mysterious figure on the brink. Read on to find out about a bunch of things in the works. But be warned – what lies below is not history’s... read more...
An Interview with Bonnie Prince Billy
As ‘Bonnie Prince Billy’, Oldham is coming to see us again. With a national tour including shows at the Sydney Opera House and in a cave in Margaret... read more...
An interview with Balam Acab
About six months ago I received a mix from a friend living in the States. To be honest I wasn’t a fan. She’d included way too much of her friends’... read more...
An Interview with Neon Indian
Made from glistening, kool-aid synthesizers and crunchy guitar, Palomo’s first album sounded like it’d been inspired by the soundtrack to a late ’80s... read more...
An Interview with MEN
JD Samson, as much known for her moustache as her role in Kathleen Hanna’s Le Tigre, is taking the Riot Grrl politics of Second Wave Feminism out of... read more...
Taco Leg, 'Printed Gold' 7"
It’s odd (though maybe not) that a Perth band seems to have more supporters on the east coast of the United States than they do in Australia. Such... read more...
Calvin Keys, 'Shawn-Neeq'
So you say you’re not a fan of ‘jazz’. Listen to this album and I promise it will make your day better! Recorded in 1971 for the influential... read more...
Celebrity-Non-Chef, Chazwick Bundick (Toro Y Moi)
Long time collaborators Toro Y Moi and Washed Out are touring together. We should have asked them all kinds of questions but then Chaz sent us his recipe... read more...
A Mixtape by The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart make indie pop. In dee pop. They make it with considerable aplomb too. Aplomb and My Bloody Valentine-esque walls of... read more...
An interview with Yuck
Jonny Rogoff is chill guy from New Jersey (here’s a video of him appreciating art). Three years ago Jonny was living in the Israeli desert on a kibbutz... read more...
An interview with EMA
Erika M. Anderson is EMA. From the prairie town of Sioux Falls, South Dakota – pop. 153,888 – where the main industries are a meat packing... read more...
A mixtape by Total Control
Screw journalistic objectivity I’m just going to say it: Total Control are the best and most exciting band in Australia. Apologies to Royal Headache... read more...
An interview with Girls
If I could pen an anthology of great, modern American stories, the life of Girls front man Chris Owens would be at the top of the list. Reared in the bizarre... read more...
An interview with OFWGKTA
Complete this sentence: If Odd Future were elected president, we would… Tyler – Make skateboarding legal and have a national titty day, and... read more...
Thee Oh Sees, 'Carrion Crawler / The Dream EP'
This follow-up to the John Dwyer semi-solo effort Castlemania doesn’t drastically divert from the sound Thee Oh Sees with the usual suspects on... read more...
Happy New Year / Nite Fields split 7″
The first release for Brisbane-based Lost Race Records comes in the form of a split 7”, featuring the dream-pop of Nite Fields and the more experimental-pop... read more...
Sun Araw, 'Ancient Romans'
If architecture is frozen music, then Ancient Romans is a sonic testament to the inverse; that music is a process of slowly unfreezing architecture. ... read more...
Sugar Mountain roundup
This morning Marissa said to us, “Sugar Mountain was the best event I’ve ever been to in my life.” So we forced her to write a ‘tops... read more...
Woollen Kits, 'Woollen Kits'
If it was early nineties Spin magazine would no doubt be calling this ‘slacker’ rock and yes it has a loose and relaxed feel but there is... read more...
SUN ARAW interviews Ben Baretto (and vice versa)
If you are going to Sugar Mountain on Saturday you will see many things. But none will bend your synapses quite as thoroughly as SUN ARAW‘s live... read more...
Unity Floors, "Womens Golf" 7 inch
Their sound is of the stripped-back garage variety, which is another way of saying no bullshit or ‘production values’. 7” opener ‘Boil The Ocean’... read more...