Amateur Hour | new music

17 Mar 2016

NEW MUSIC AND SHOWS – STINA TESTER & CINTA MASTERS

Writer: Laura Imbruglia Melbournians Stina Tester and Cinta Masters have arrived with a taste of the great stuff to come on their debut album. These guys play what the presser describes as "experimental synth punk", and I don't really know how else to add to that. I guess you could say it's stylistically connected to the 80s. You can expect pulsing rhythms, screeching guitars (or is it a synth? probably) and overlapping occasionally harmonising vocals.

9 Mar 2016

NEW MUSIC & UPCOMING TOUR – OLYMPIA

By Laura Imbruglia

Writer: Laura Imbruglia Olympia rules, ok! I saw her live and she blew my socks off. Very much looking forward to the debut Olympia album "Self Talk", which comes out on April 29 through EMI. Until then, watch her new video for "Smoke Signals" and dig it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK6Jt3Gxeao Did you enjoy? Of course you did. More Olympia videos here OLYMPIA ALBUM TOUR For ticket info: 26 May, Newtown Social Club, Sydney NSW Tix here 3

21 Mar 2016

NEW MUSIC + ALBUM LAUNCH – TYRANNAMEN

By Laura Imbruglia

Writer: Laura Imbruglia I love Tyrannamen. So much. I played a gig alongside them a couple of years ago and watched their set, not having heard anything about them prior. The first song was barely a few chords in, and I was hooked. I queried Tom from Harmony about them, as he had organised the show. He told me they only play about once a year, as a few of the band members are in

16 Jun 2016

Q&A – Music – Luca Brasi

By Clemmie Wetherall

Photograph by Ian Laidlaw Writer: Laura Imbruglia ARTIST: Luca Brasi Tom Busy from Tasmania's mighty Luca Brasi has a little chinwag with us ahead of their gig tonight at Max Watts! If This Is All We're Going To Be by Luca Brasi 1. If you had to re-imagine your sound as a food, how would you describe it? Smooth peanut butter on white bread. 2. And as an animal? A koala. Undoubtedly Australian, kinda dopey, sometimes vicious. 3.