The Flaming Lips, 'Embryonic'
The first line of Zero Selon’s review of The Flaming Lips’ new album Embryonic shamelessly mentions his storied fan history with the Lips as... read more...
'Pop Crimes', Rowland S. Howard
On Pop Crimes, Rowland S. Howard’s second solo album, there is a level of considered restraint present. There is a tension that runs throughout.... read more...
'All the Pleasures of the World', Crayon Fields
It’s easy to get complacent with good Australian bands. Melbourne band Crayon Fields have over the years proved to be one of the most consistently... read more...
Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls
I make a lot of noise about fishing, and why shouldn’t I? It’s the incontestable king of blood sports! Nothing beats blasting out into the... read more...
'Album', Girls
Cause I don’t wanna die. Without shaking up a leg or twoYeah I wanna do some dancing tooSo come on, come on, come onCome on and dance with meSo I... read more...
Seekae Interview
Seekae are a three piece from Sydney who are re-releasing their debut album The Sound of Trees Falling on People (SOTFP). For the uninitiated, their sound... read more...
Tiny Vipers, 'Life On Earth'
On her second LP, Seattle’s Jesy Fortino succeeds in doing so much with so little. There are only two elements at play here: Fortino’s metallic,... read more...
Darren Sylvester
Mimicry and facsimile reproduction are common and heavily coded devices in gallery art but not traditionally in music, where ‘rip-offs’ and ‘copyists’... read more...
The Juan Maclean, 'The Future Will Come'
The last time I saw Juan Maclean do a full live set and not just a DJ gig, there were more glowsticks than in the ticket line for Sensation. While that... read more...
Dead Boomers, 'Sharon Stone/Michael Douglas'
One of the best pick-up lines I’ve ever heard (disclaimer: also probably the worst), is "Have you got spanners in your eyes? Cause you’re... read more...
Get Color, HEALTH
HEALTH are our scientists, engineers and architects. The LA band make noise music with almost mathematical precision, building and layering, creating gargantuan... read more...
Vivian Girls interview
The Vivian Girls are characters in a work of outsider art by the completely cray-cray artist and civil war expert, Henry Darger. The chicks have dicks... read more...
Tim & Jean interview
There aren’t many high schoolers contributing more than BO and angst to the world. But there aren’t many high schoolers like Tim & Jean.... read more...
Wavves interview
Nathan Williams must have known that this was going to happen. You can’t produce off-key, less-than-demo quality punk songs about weed and teenage... read more...
Fantasies, Metric
In suburban Toronto, there’s a wonderfully fruitful group of friends. From their collective talent has sprung Broken Social Scene and its offshoots... read more...
Near Tapes Recordings
We’re talkin’ grandiose auditory adventures on tiny spools of magnetic tape and a talented pool of acts such as Garbage and the Flowers, Naked... read more...
Telekinesis!, Telekinesis
Michael Benjamin Lerner understands that simplicity is paramount to good songwriting. That old mantra of "keep it simple, stupid" – heard... read more...
'Maker', Pontiak
Regardless of the era, older brothers who smoke pot and play Dungeons and Dragons are perennially cool. Virginia’s Pontiak capture that wizards and... read more...
Love of Diagrams, 'Nowhere Forever'
Love of Diagrams’ third album gives more away of the band personally than we’ve heard before at the same time as burying their new, intimate... read more...
Micachu, 'Jewellery'
Mica, aka Micachu, is one of those really annoying, young, prodigiously talented people. At 21 she looks 12 and has already rapped with Wiley, finished... read more...
Oh Mercy, 'Privileged Woes'
The croon is making a comeback.I’m not talkin’ Bing Crosby crooning; I mean the kind the New Romantics revitalised, and that The Smiths have... read more...
Here We Go Down The Black Hole
Floating through the cosmos, Sydney’s Jordy Lane, aka Shady Lane, is a modern day philosopher. On his debut album, Here We Go Down The Black Hole,... read more...
The Supreme Genius of King Khan and The Shrines
If Chris Knight and Yahoo Serious can duke it out over who was the Einstein of the ’80s – I’m pretty sure King Khan can be The Supreme... read more...
Dappled Cities interview each other
A lot of people think that we have a big interview budget but they’ve got that wrong. People pay us to interview them! And we use the money to buy... read more...