While gallivanting throughout the north on their recent Canadian tour, rock’s most famous siblings found the time to shoot a video with their favourite director siblings, the Malloy Brothers, for Icky Thump single numero dos, “You Don’t Know What Love Is (You Do As You’re Told)”.
The Malloys seem to have a real eye for the [...]

To say that I was surprised at the turn out for Gotye’s sold out show at the Metro Theatre last night, is an understatement. The Wally de Backer I grew to know and love was the quiet drummer with the overwhelming voice for Melbourne threesome, The Basics, and while Gotye might have initially started out [...]

Back in 2005, Visual Artist David Shrigley released an LP sized book of lyrics he’d written, titled Worried Noodles (The Empty Sleeve). Two years down the track, Worried Noodles will now take on a different shape and form, this time in Compact Disc format, with the help of a handful of super hip musicians.
Once [...]

The new and improved sober Ryan Adams recently shed some light on the infamous rarities boxset that he’s been threatening to release for years, made up of the dozens of unreleased albums he has stashed away in a studio somewhere.
From Rolling Stone’s Smoking Section:
…he’ll release a massive box set this winter, full of never-before-heard [...]

Aussie dad-rock heroes Powderfinger well and truly represent the nightmare inducing Lollipop Guild in the pint-sized video for their newest single, “I Don’t Remember”. If I was still thirteen and Internationalist was just released, I’d probably care a lot more - but the song is harmless enough. Keep a look out for a mini-Daniel Johns, [...]

The hit and miss nature of ‘the tribute album’ has caused me to grow weary in this over-saturated market of music compilations. Don’t even get me started on those lousy tribute CDs given away with the UK music press. I swear to god that regardless of what year it is, Q or Mojo seem to [...]

After being under Harry’s spell all weekend, I finally got the chance to slip back into the fast-paced world of the information super highway, better known as ‘the internet’. What did I miss in the music world while I was gone? Not a hell of a lot (even some festival-goers tried killing two birds with [...]

If you ask me, Gondry genes are worth infinitely more than their weight in gold and if I could get me a test tube of the stuff I would be a millionaire. Michel Gondry’s teenage son, Paul Gondry, has just directed his first music video for Eternal Sunshine soundtrack favourites, The Willowz. Paul is the [...]

Like many other dorks on the internet, the bulk of my weekend will be spent reading the final installment of JK Rowling’s boy wizard melodrama, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. In order to enjoy the book to its fullest, I’ll be staying very far away from my computer and all communication devices, so as [...]

Being an avid reader of music blogs, I often find myself purposely going out of my way to avoid bands that have been heavily saturated in the blogosphere. Now I know that makes it sound like I’m in the wrong field if I’m writing this on my very own music blog, but I’m sure you [...]

Armed with only his trusty MacBook and a killer set of samples, Darren Cross (Gerling) singlehandedly delivered to the Hopetoun Hotel the first taste of his solo electronic expedition, E.L.F. Originally set to perform as the support act for Soft Tigers, some wires were obviously crossed as Daz ended up taking to the stage accompanied [...]

After months of speculation, The Police have finally announced their tour dates for Australia and New Zealand. Although originally rumoured to take place later this year, the actual shows have now been slated for early 2008. The tour kicks off in Wellington, New Zealand on January 14 and finishes up in Perth, Australia on February [...]