Last Dinosaurs are heroes of Australian indie rock. A decade into their career they’ve released three excellent records, the latest being Yumeno Garden. The album sees the band navigating new…
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That jarring two note intro to Purple Haze, the unholy riff in Black Sabbath’s Black Sabbath, the opening to the Simpsons’ Halloween Specials. What do these songs have in common? They’re…
Brisbane’s Rebel Yell – aka Grace Stevenson – makes dark techno that destroys your soul and heals it at the same time. Characterised by harsh industrial pulses, (often) demonic vocals and…
Glenn Branca was a hugely influential experimental composer and guitarist. He died in his sleep after suffering from throat cancer at the age of 69. Tributes have poured in…
The 1965 Fender Telecaster that achieved undying infamy when Bob Dylan went “electric” is set to go under the hammer. Bob Dylan’s “electric” tour was one of the most…
“We [were] sick of people feeling they know who we are and what we’re capable of” – guitarist/vocalist of Sleater-Kinney, Carrie Brownstein. The seventh album from Sleater-Kinney, The Woods is…
With Apple’s update of Garageband for iOS, a host of new features have been introduced, including a batch of new sounds and an easy to use step sequencer, reports CDM. …
Wollongong house-pop duo TEES harness an incredible ability to milk every ounce of nostalgic emotion from you with their music. Drawing influence from Madchester and celestial pop elements that are…
Childhood is often conflated into a few overwhelming memories that form a kind-of distant, draping, impression. The way foresight tends to accumulate sensations rather than events, lends us grand notions…
In 2002, freshmen Ben Goldwasser and Andrew Vanwyngarden met at a university in Connecticut and formed what we now know to be MGMT, driven by no other ambition than “hanging…
