17 Mar 2016

NEW MUSIC AND SHOWS – STINA TESTER & CINTA MASTERS

By Laura Imbruglia

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.

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31 May 2016

NEW MUSIC: SARAH MARY CHADWICK

By Laura Imbruglia

Writer: Laura Imbruglia Sarah Mary Chadwick writes really beautiful, affecting songs. Her live show is so confronting and honest that I have witnessed people go through the seven stages of grief with her, just watching the show. I shit you not. I truly believe she's one of the best writers in Melbourne, and that listening to her music is an immersive, emotionally demanding, and ultimately hugely rewarding experience. Tell me that there isn't a better

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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

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Simona Castricum May 2016
29 Jun 2016

MUSIC INTERVIEW: SIMONA CASTRICUM

By Clemmie Wetherall

Photo by Avery Writer: Clem Wetherall Smart, sexy, personal and powerful, Simona Castricum's latest release #TriggerWarning40 is a thoroughly enjoyable collection of gritty techno-pop anthems. This is the third release for the Melbourne musician, artist, designer and writer and it follows on from her 2014 release Exotic Ladies Of Birobidzhan*'. Reverb drenched vocals and industrial strength percussion are the bedrock across the albums eight tracks and while they capture a particular 1980s Madchester meets Nine

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23 Mar 2016

NEW MUSIC AND TOUR – CAMP COPE

By Laura Imbruglia

Lost: Season One by CAMP COPE Writer: Laura Imbruglia Melbourne's certified rad chix Camp Cope are releasing their debut S/T album on April 22 through Poison City Records and touring it around the country throughout May. You may know them from their most recent single "Lost: Season One" (above), which came out in January and has been getting a bit of JJJ love. You may also know them from their hard work and relentless touring

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10 Oct 2016

NEW VIDEO: SCOTT & CHARLENE’S WEDDING “DISTRACTED”

By Laura Imbruglia

Writer: Laura Imbruglia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZezxBaUmfVY Do yourselves a favour and check out the new video for Melbourne's most excellent Scott & Charlene's Wedding! It's called "Distracted", it's released through awesome local label Bedroom Suck and it's a rollicking good time. We wouldn't be telling you about it if we didn't love it, so just take our word for it and press play on the video up there. For our readers living overseas and craving some great

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30 Mar 2016

Q&A – MUSIC – JACK STIRLING

By Laura Imbruglia

Writer: Laura Imbruglia ARTIST: Jack Stirling & The Perfect 1. If you had to reimagine your sound as a food, how would you describe it? Great question. I once had an imported hot sauce on a taco that was so spicy I nearly checked myself into hospital. I think it would be that hot sauce. 2. And as an animal? Another great question. What's the spiciest animal? 3. And as a TV series character? Fran

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22 May 2017

GL

By Laura Imbruglia

Cruising on glowing synths, gritty drum-machines, and stratospheric vocals, GL’s music is a cosmic dream-sequence not unlike a lost reel from the mid-80s. Signed on first listen by newly-minted Sydney label Plastic World (home to releases from Retiree, Alba, Tuff Sherm and Cassius Select), the duo’s debut album "Touch" contains some of the catchiest electro pop we've ever heard. Experience the sound of cruise control, dive bars, strobe lights and tape decks with GL. Watch

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24 Feb 2016

DAMIAN COWELL

By Laura Imbruglia

Damian Cowell ‘was the guy in TISM’. Or so he claims. Anyone could, really. TISM wore masks and performed under pseudonyms. But the rest is more interesting: 20 years, 7 albums, 2 ARIAs, at least one lawsuit, top 10, TV Week, Big Day Out, programming Rage,being called ‘Scum’ by Nico, quoting James Joyce to bogans and James Hird to intellectuals, doing radio interviews with a motor mower, performing two songs simultaneously from both ends of

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