The Prom Mixtape
Bourgeois Bogan co-founder Petro Vouris (AKA Cluedo Pierres, Petrosex, Silkie Krusher, Elvis Penis) took a ride back in time in the DeLorean to make us... 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...
Analogue To Digital #7 - Claire Pannell interview
We speak to Claire Pannell, founder of the infamous noise nights Analogue To Digital, at Scitech read more...
Sarry/Drowning Horse, 'Live Split'
The clever chaps at ‘the garage’ recorded Sarry (Japan)’s Perth set and put it out on a CD, along with local purveyors of loud, slow, doom - Drowning... 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...
Secret Circuit, 'Cosmic Vapors'
Artist and musician Eddie Ruschan (aka Secret Circuit) is pushing 40 and well within his rights when combining eras for his retro-futuristic techno release... read more...
Tako, 'Redlight Radio Mix'
Originally broadcast out of a shop in Amsterdam’s red light district, Tako’s mix is a 3.5 hour excursion in 70s boogie, 80s electro-funk, folk, psyche,... read more...
Pauline Manson, '999/Washed To Oblivion'
Pauline Manson, which carries on a lo-fi inclination towards primitive instrumentation and post-punk messthetics which masks a screwed up sense of humour: 999/Washed... read more...
Allbrook Avery, 'Big 'Art'
There was never any doubt that these two getting together would create something of mythic proportions. And so it is – the album Big ‘Art... 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...
The Reatards, 'Teenage Hate / F*ck Elvis'
Of Reatard’s staggering musical output, his 1998 debut LP Teenage Hate is still the best at capturing the punk spit and snarl as seen at the Fall... read more...
James Blake, 'Enough Thunder' EP
Boy genius of 2011 James Blake released his fourth EP Enough Thunder last week. This is not just a big moment in my tiny universe, but for overly sentimental,... read more...
'Batman Smells' - Dada Records' Xmas Compilation
Dada Records have captured the true spirit of Jesus’ birthday with the ‘Batman Smells’ compilation. read more...
Blank Realm, 'Falling Down The Stairs'
This is going to be the easiest review ever written. There’s not a single need to intellectualise Blank Realm’s latest 7” because it just sounds... read more...
The Bats, 'Free All The Monsters'
ASE, NASDAQ, NYSE, Deutsche Borche, Flying Nun. Stocks, fortunes, and people’s sanity are dealt, traded, and swapped within these entities; Flying Nun... read more...
Burnt Skulls, ‘Burnt Skulls’
An exploration in experimental noise, doom and free improvisation, Burnt Skulls eschews narcotic stumbles and psychedelic nuances. Try putting cutlery... read more...
Frozen Ocean, 'Snoises'
Frozen Ocean make Australian music. I’m not talking about no ‘once a jolly jumbuck camped by a billabong’ bullsh*t here but rather I’m... read more...
Andrew Sinclair, 'Harghada Dreams'
In entering the New, New Age of keyboard samples, media plugins and pixelated sound assemblages, he steps out of the Australian environment of debut LP Evil... read more...
How To Dress Well Interview
Tom Krell is American musician How To Dress Well. He makes experimental pop music, that could also be described as an ethereal, narcotic form of R &... read more...
A mixtape by Kurt Vile
Before he landed a job travelling the world playing music Kurt Vile drove a forklift at a brewery. There is still a bit of that forklift driver in Vile.... read more...
Felicity Groom, 'Gossamer'
In this time she’s grown into an assured performer and forged a distinctive sound which is best described as dark, folk ballads served up with lashings... read more...
Rat vs Possum, 'Let Music & Bodies Unite'
On listening to Rat vs Possum’s new album Let Music & Bodies Unite, it’s evident that the influence of electronica and disco has seeped further... read more...
CAN, 'Tago Mago' 40th Anniversary reissue
The Beatles bought glamour, pomp, and rock n’ roll chivalry to the musical landscape. No later than a year after Paul McCartney and co split their ways CAN... read more...