NO LOCAL RELEASE THE END AGAIN
Late last month Melbourne outfit No Local, the project of Liam Halliwell and the late Zac Denton (The Ocean Party, Ciggie Witch, Pregnancy, Hobby Farm) released their gorgeously off-beat second album The End Again. Recorded just before the prolific Denton’s passing in the second half of 2018, it’s the first of a number of forthcoming […]
THE IRREPRESSIBLY IRRESISTIBLE CIGGIE WITCH CALL TIME, ANNOUNCE FINAL SHOW
“Classic Melbourne bullshit, never climaxes”. That’s the humorous and extraordinarily humble self-description you’ll find in the social media bio of the gorgeously idiosyncratic left field pop/rock septet Ciggie Witch. Largely centring on and assembling around the considerable song-writing abilities of the late Zac Denton and later, Mitch Clemens (Skydeck), his brother Lachlan and other members, […]
NEW INDEPENDENT POP/ROCK – AN INDIE30 PLAYLIST UPDATE
So chuffed to be sharing this unbelievably strong spotify playlist of 30 brand new independently released pop/rock tracks with our readers today. Every couple of weeks or so we share an update of each one of our seven New Music playlists giving the artists the recognition and respect they deserve. The new tracks have been […]
MONNONE ALONE’S NEW VIDEO FOR DO IT TWICE
Monnone Alone, the guitar pop project of former Lucksmiths bass player Mark Monnone and an esteemed coterie of Melbourne musicians is set for the imminent release of a new album, Summer Of The Mosquito. The second single to come from it, the instructive and power pop centred ‘Do It Twice’ just scored a video directed […]
RECORD REVIEW: ASTRAGAL (USA) – EP II
Houston postpunk/shoegaze outfit Astragal, intelligently named after the semi-autobiographical novel, L’Astragale, the first of three by French-Algerian author and fierce libertarian Albertine Sarrazin, released their second EP earlier this month, simply titled II. The trio announced their presence three years ago with a short three track debut and followed it up with three more on […]
ALBUM OF THE WEEK #2: STELLA DONNELLY (AUS – BEWARE OF THE DOGS
April 13, 2018 Beware Of The Dogs Stella Donnelly (AUS) Secretly Canadian Mini-review, all media/videos, links to buy and stream at our Album of the Week Page here.
NEW INDEPENDENT POP/ROCK – AN INDIE30 PLAYLIST UPDATE
Our current Independent Pop/Rock Playlist on Spotify is front-ended with some superb new releases by female artists in honour of International Women’s Day. We begin with the Swiss artist Tanya Barany and the opening track ‘In Retrospect’ from her melodically glacial new album Lights Disappear. Melbourne singer songwriter Angie McMahon follows with her deliberative rock […]
STELLA DONNELLY RELEASES THE SARDONIC “TRICKS” AHEAD OF TIMELY DEBUT ALBUM
“You wear me out like you wear that Southern Cross tattoo” You said I’d look much better if I dropped the attitude” ‘Tricks’ – Stella Donnelly Last week Fremantle artist Stella Donnelly shared the last single ‘Tricks’ from her wondrously acerbic, socially critical and at times deeply personal debut album Beware Of The Dogs ahead […]
THE STROPPIES RELEASE THE DELIGHTFULLY AWARE WHOOSH!
“I can push my ideas faster Yeah I’m switched on” Switched On – The Stroppies “Just don’t forget that luxury is built on suffering at best” Entropy – The Stroppies Melbourne quartet The Stroppies, an amalgam of artists from far too many bands to mention* released their delightfully put together debut album Whoosh last Friday. […]
CHRIS COHEN DROPS NEW SINGLE FROM FORTHCOMING SELF TITLED ALBUM
Los Angeles singer-songwriter Chris Cohen is set to deliver his third album later next month and has just shared its third single, ‘Sweet William’, a catchy mixture of soft retro rock and bittersweet psych-pop. Cohen’s idiosyncratically relaxed vocal style fits perfectly with both tendencies and that gives rise to the track’s seemingly effortless nature. But don’t […]