All by Sean Coffey
Fresh off the back of winning the 'Tapped by Otherside' touring grant, local band Verge Collection are set to kick off a national tour following the release of their new single 'For the Story'. We had a chat to Ben from Verge Collection ahead of the tour.
Reading what you sow: our co-founder reflects on Isolated Nation and conducts an in-depth analysis on the state of written-form media in Australia.
After moving to LA and signing with US ANTI Records (Wilco, Tom Waits), Perth-bred artist Cameron Avery (The Growl, Allbrook/Avery, Tame Impala) has announced a small set of Australian shows
Ten years have passed since Lisa Mitchell was a contestent on Australian Idol. Since then, she has defined herself as a true song writing talent. We explore her new track The Boys, ahead of the release of her new full length.
Make sure you make time for the 2016 Stagebound winners and make sure you're on top of the set times and stage map!
This is largely targeted at freshers, and comes people with 5+ years at UWA and mastering it's idiosyncrasies. Covering things you don't realise how much you'll care about - Parking, food and avoiding lecture attendance.
Because people really don't read reviews properly anymore and like to just skim things, I've decided to format my 2015 Laneway review as a list of winners and losers. As usual, this is subjective, but here are my winners and losers from this years Fremantle leg of the Laneway Festival.
As we've already addressed, some lecturers are just dicks; but there are different levels of dickery. The one who lets you watch his lectures is pretty bad, but then there's the one who refuses to make his lectures available online. We have two great solutions for you!
This year’s St. Jerome’s laneway Festival on its new turf in Fremantle proved to be wildly successful, spectacular in its vibes, layout and packed out audience including many younger ones who don’t abide by the man and jumped fences to get in. If this is the future of festivals, I’m happy.
I’ve often thought that forcing people to travel, organise and commit to see music would mean only the true music lovers (and those rare apt dickheads) would bother to make it out; Southbound Festival 2014 reaffirmed this belief.
At only 34 minutes long, you’d probably be thinking you’ve been swindled something a la Keyser Soze, but what you’re getting is 34 minutes of pure good music; which is probably what you’d get on a normal 50-60 minute record anyway. The music is real, and the album is a real gem.
One of the big hype bands to come out of the new music wave at the end of 2012, the London duo’s release was highly anticipated, to say the least. Off the back of singles ‘Attracting Flies’ and ‘Your Drums, Your Love’ the sweet, smooth voice of Aluna Francis neatly blended with George Reid’s polyrhythmic blend of dubstep, pop and house (among many)...
The maturity and seeming wisdom of Marling belies her age, and accompanied with her articulate voice and clear vision of how to create interesting pieces of music, she has made what is probably one of the best albums of 2013 (Yeah, I’m calling it).
Nickelback is one of those bands who were probably disliked by many prior to the internet becoming life itself; but then the hate grows as people are so easily influenced by their fingerprint riddled screens.
The thing I found most striking about the acoustic rendition is that on more than half of the songs, Lights takes a very different approach to the songs than she did in 2011.
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As you've probably noticed, there's been a spate of album releases over, say, the last month or so.
New tracks from City and Colour and James Blake!
The sophomore release from Sydney outfit has juicy blends scattered throughout the album like gems in Crash Bandicoot.
Some burning questions we know you've all been wanting to ask...
