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Empire of the Sun : Ice On The Dune
Empire of the Sun have picked up exactly where they left off. Forget about your hipster tendencies towards the obscure and embrace the pomp and pop of Ice On The Dune – you’ll soon love it. Australian...
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Hamilton Leithauser: Black Hours
Hamilton Leithauser’s first release post-The Walkmen is his lightest foray. It’s not a collection of ballads; rather, there are plenty of tumbling rhythms and woodsy harmonies. Members of The Shins,...
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Owen Pallett: In Conflict
One of indie music’s premier arrangers, Owen Pallett returns with an impressive album filled with heavy lyrical imagery; his signature violin now matched with synth lines indebted toViolator-era...
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The Bohicas: The Bohicas EP
Announced a few weeks ago to play a two-date round of headline shows in Melbourne and Sydney, The Bohicas were relatively unknown. Since the announcement, airplay of ‘Swarm’ and ‘XXX’ has steadily...
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How To Dress Well: What Is This Heart?
The cover art for the past three How To Dress Well albums are strong indicators of their contents: 2010’sLove Remainsis packaged in a torch-lit shot of random roadside;Total Loss(2012) has the side...
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Daniel Johns
The building across the street from EMI Music’s Sydney headquarters is a thoughtful sight. You can see straight through the smashed windows and broken boards to the dilapidated interior; graffiti arcs...
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Daniel Johns: Talk
3/5 stars So, you’ve probably heard by now that ex-Silverchair darling Daniel Johns is back. Starting with the painfully obvious, this is not a Silverchair record. It is about as far from the ’90s...
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Oh Mercy: When We Talk About Love
3.5/5 stars After 2012’s bass-heavy, funk-fused Deep Heat, Alexander Gow has retreated back to the pensive acoustic indie-pop that defined Oh Mercy’s earlier releases. Fourth album When We Talk About...
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Tuka: Alive Death Time Eternal
★★☆☆☆ Brendan Tuckerman, better known as Tuka and member of hip hop collective Thundamentals, has gone out and rehashed his 2015 full-lengthLife Death Time Eternalas an EP made up of acoustic and live...
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Bastille
Some years ago, a teenage Dan Smith was sitting in his bedroom in south London, recording songs on his laptop. He was mostly making music for himself, barely sharing it with anyone, until finally a...
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Safia
Safia aren’t the next big thing in music, they’re already a big thing. With their host of awards and sales milestones, the band are already one of Australia’s most exciting and profitable acts, and...
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How Birds Of Tokyo Became A Political Band On Their New Album
There’s nothing quite like a band that really strips back a new release to prove it hasn’t forgotten the roots of its original sound. Brace sees Australian rock stalwarts Birds Of Tokyo do just that....
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Birds Of Tokyo: Brace
★★★★ Friends, Aussies, countrymen, lend me your ears. Actually, lend your ears to the new Birds Of Tokyo release, as they go back to basics with Brace – an interesting hybrid of classic tones meets...
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On The Record with Pez
1.The First Record I Bought The first record I bought was The Notorious B.I.G. – Life After Death, which was a double album. It was the album that got me into hip hop and eventually led me on the path...
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Jess Kent: My Name Is Jess Kent
★★★★ Just as the title of this release suggests, Jess Kent’s debut EP is a confident introduction to the Aussie singer-songwriter’s infectious beats. Listening to her work is refreshing; it’s...
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Jamiroquai: Automaton
★★★★ The hype is real behind Jamiroquai’s eighth album, Automaton. With tasty singles ‘Automaton’ and ‘Cloud 9’, it’s clear why fans are insatiable for Jay Kay’s smooth, unmistakable vocals to seduce...
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Pond’s The Weather is a defiant reminder that the world is fucked
Pond once joked that their entire discography was just a fast-tracked version of the overly mythologised and cliched rock’n’roll narrative. Their breakout third album (2010’s Frond) was followed by an...
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Kirin J Callinan explains the weird decisions and all-star collaborations on...
If you had told his fans three years ago that Kirin J Callinan would one day release a glittery, oversaturated EDM record… well, they probably would have believed you, actually. And not because the...
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Kirin J. Callinan’s Bravado is another unexpected step in his weird career
Kirin J. Callinan is back with the follow-up to 2013’s Embracism, and it’s as about as left of field as you might expect. However, not in quite the same way. Bravado sees him abandon his...
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360, Nicole Millar, Josh Pyke, Shining Bird, and more to play the Lansdowne
The Rolling Stone Live Lodge is taking over the Lansdowne Hotel over three weeks, starting late next month, and they’ve just unveiled a packed program, featuring many of Australia’s best names in...
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