Archive for February, 2008

Audiosurf – ride your music

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Pretty sure this is the best way to really experience your music. Valve have done it again and brought out an awesome game. However the brilliance of this one is that it has the potential to appeal to a much larger audience. The game takes any song you present it with and creates a completely [...]

Livestock’s Long Shadow

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

I was uh, gonna start off this entry with an apology for being serious and vegan and preachy but I won’t – because I think this is important. Livestock’s long shadow is a report released by the Food and Agriculture dept. of the UN. It “aims to assess the full impact of the livestock sector [...]

Billie the Vision & the Dancers (free album!)

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

More indie pop, what do you know. Can’t ever get enough of those bright colours, and happy tinkly jangly chords. Billie the Vision & the Dancers, apart from being a mouthful, is a fine exemplar of this genre. Though they do dig a bit deeper. Their music touches on a few issues (in a happy [...]

Twee (eeeeeeeeeeeeee!)

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

Oh man, I just stumbled across this blog by pure accident – it’s glorious. And clearly self explanatory. Subscribe to feed. Now!

Lightspeed Champion

Friday, February 8th, 2008

Indie pop – you wouldn’t have guessed it from an ex-member of the Test Icicles. Devonte Hynes does go there. Oh yes. Lovely melodic folky indie pop, a deviation from the hardcore and dance-punk influenced music his last band was churning out. New album out since Jan 21st this year – Falling off the Lavender [...]

It’s happening.

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

‘The thing RIAA is scared of is that their billion dollar backbone can no longer shelter people from exploring music themselves. Their business plan had evolved into telling the world what they will want to listen to and buy, and now they’ll have to actually compete with talented artists again. As the people regain control [...]

Viva La Snowman <3

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Snowman are ours – a Perth band through and through. Though they haven’t really done any shows for a while now and we haven’t heard from them much at all recently, word is they’re working on their new album, set to be finished by the end of January (?) – well don’t take it from [...]

Vegans Galore

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

We all know the story concerning the eventual rise of all things underground into the mainstream – it gets annoying when all of a sudden the band that you heard about ages ago suddenly gets airplay on the commercial stations. Pfft. And if it can happen with cons, I’d dare say it can happen with [...]

Shitdisco!

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

The best thing since the Klaxons and The New Young Pony Club. Classed in the same genre of ‘new wave’, Shitdisco is more accurately defined as Dance-Punk (they label themselves as ‘disco-house/punk’). Get into it! I met a nice guy from England at the Necks concert on Monday evening and he exclaimed that I was [...]

Eleventh He Reaches London at the Hydey

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

Eleventh he reaches london is a critically acclaimed Perth band who mix together post-rock and post-hardcore to form epic pieces of music that take your breath away. But! don’t just take my word for it: “Now that I had witnessed 50 minutes of perfection, I found it hard to believe Coheed & Cambria could come [...]

Necks in Perth

Friday, February 1st, 2008

The Necks are back in Australia after a brilliant sold out European tour – and no wonder. These guys make awesome music and I cannot stress that enough. If you can get your hands on their album Townsville, you will not regret it. 58 minutes worth of ecstasy – it’s just one long piece of [...]