The Basics… do these guys even need an introduction anymore?
We tend to write about them every couple of weeks so I think it’s safe to say that we’re fans, and like any good fan, we are going absolutely mental over their brand new everything-but-”Basic” single, their nautically themed music video and now, the announcement [...]

Yes, I understand that the above title is somewhat odd. A song over forty years old leaking in this day and age of the interwebs is almost a farce, given how common it is to witness entire records appearing online in crude mp3 matter months before being released. What is more odd is that someone [...]

For their first appearance together in two years, Jack and Meg predictably did something a little different to send off their ol’ pal Conan O’Brien on his last ever gig as host of Late Night, though I’m pretty sure no one could have guessed sister Meg would step out from behind the skins to accompany [...]

Hey there Tweeters! Here at Twelve Major Chords there’s nothing we love more than a bandwagon that we can jump straight on to, and Twitter is no exception.
For all you mums and dads out there, Twitter is the latest social networking craze to take over the internetz. Users start an account, follow their friends [...]

Well, it appears that The Basics are back and sadly not with a vengeance a la Bruce Willis, but rather a more “mature” sound. I really tried hard to refrain from using that term because it reminds me of your Dad’s CD collection - but I’m talking the ‘good’ mature - like a fine, [...]

Howling Bells have been all over the place since recording their May 2006 debut of the same name, Howling Bells. Between writing songs in a country house in Victoria, recording in LA, and mixing in London, the foursome have been working like crazy getting ready for the release of their second album, Radio Wars. Here’s [...]

I’m not really into re-posting/circle-jerking other blog’s news, unless I heavily edit/dumb down the piece by throwing in street smart slang in order to pass the work off as my own, but this was too good not to share. Or RT. I don’t know. Social networking terminology has me confused.

(Via goldenfiddle.)

Hey, remember that struggling Rock ‘n’ Recipes segment we occasionally have here on Twelve Major Chords? No? You have no idea what I’m talking about? Well, that would be because despite us coming up with the brilliant idea of having all your favourite rock stars contribute a recipe of theirs to this glorious website [...]

The cool cats over at Way Cool Jnr. have compiled a list of the Top 25 Australian Music Blogs and just like Spinal Tap we here at Twelve Major Chords go all the way to 11. Using a combination of ones and zeros, stuff to do with Google Rankings and something about Technorati, Nick [...]

There’s no easy way of putting this so I’ll be frank: for the first time in my life, Rivers Cuomo, Weezer’s erratic and idiosyncratic frontman has officially creeped me out. Period.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m absolutely loving the volume of output we’re receiving from RC and the Weezy kidz at the moment (iPhone apps, [...]

Changing Horses, Ben Kweller’s newly released fourth album has been described by the lovable manchild as his “country” record, which is both unsurprising and completely logical seeing as though seven out of the nine times I’ve seen him live he’s donned a western shirt (that’s approximately 77.8% plaid). This might just be the “I finally [...]