Remember a few years ago when Blue Crush came out and every girl thought that she could surf? Well it’s happening all over again, except this time with well established musicians and side projects. Shitty metaphor aside, Damon Albarn’s latest band that’s not even a band, The Good, The Bad & The Queen have released [...]

The following is what my review of Andrew Bird’s recent stint at the Basement could’ve sounded like, had I attended. You see, Maria had bought tickets for herself and yours truly to see the much celebrated music man, and while I’m not too familiar with his work I was genuinely excited about the show. However, [...]

So you thought that The Vines’ cover of OutKast’s mega hit ‘Ms. Jackson’ was pretty cool, but so 2002. So you though that the fact that it kept appearing in recent live performances by the band was wearing thin, almost a little too passe by ‘live cover’ standards. So you thought to yourself “Why [...]

The Shins performed “Turn On Me” on David Letterman the other night; the same day that their album was released. The band performed brilliantly as usual, adding several new members including Anita Robinson and Eric Johnson. According to their Myspace…

“If anyone is confused about who she is, Anita is one half of the Portland band [...]

It’s lucky I’ve kept all my receipts for all the Crowded House “Farewell To The World” DVD’s I bought people for Christmas, because as it turns out - it’s not over and I’m going to have to get my money back. Neil Finn and the boys have picked up the towel that was previously [...]

Though we’ve been somewhat quiet on the David McCormack front here at 12MC as of late, that’s not to say the man himself hasn’t been keeping himself busy in the wonderful world of music.
On Thursday November 30th, Señor McCormack lead an all star tribute to the late Grant McLennan of Go Betweens fame at [...]

Last night a couple of hundred Sydney punters crammed into the very hot, Hopetoun Hotel to catch Dappled Cities Fly play their second sold out show. While Friday night’s set was entirely made up of the band’s debut, A Smile, Saturday’s show was basically their new record Granddance from start to finish.
Support came in [...]

Approximately three months ago I took a vow of celibacy of the musical variety. After hearing that the new Shins’ record Wincing The Night Away had been leaked by a reporter, I chose to ignore all urges to right click and “Save Target As”. Since then, I began counting down the days until January 23, [...]

A grand time was had by all on Sunday evening at the Annandale Hotel for Pinky Beecroft’s Birthday bash. The head White Russian thanked all in attendance for coming so early, and for giving the Flickerfest Short Film Festival a miss in favour of his birthday celebrations.

Soviet-name sharing band, The Russian Brides offered support with [...]

It’s common knowledge around Beatles nerds that when the Fab Three were putting togeher the Anthology series of CDs a decade ago that a third ‘new’ track was left off the third and final installment. After the so-so results of “Free As A Bird” and “Real Love”, in which the remaining Beatles added their voices [...]

One of the things that seems to be polarising audiences the most about Sofia Coppola’s controversial third film Marie Antoinette, is her choice of songs that make up the film’s soundtrack. Coppola has selected contemporary music by the likes of New Order, Gang Of Four, Phoenix, The Strokes and many more, and pitted them against [...]

Current 12MC Flavour Of The Month, Oasis, are starting to plan their seventh studio album. After a world tour hanging out with Myspace kids and playing a bunch of acoustic songs whilst sounding better than Liam, Noel Gallagher recently announced that 2007 will see the release of Oasis’ most ambitious album yet.
From NME.com, “All [...]