Yeah it’s one word. Funny how there are so many references in pop culture to tokyo. There’s the Tokyo Police Club, Tokyo Blonde, Birds of Tokyo, the song ‘Tokyo Moon’ by Windmill and the song ‘Bitches in Tokyo’ by stars. Anyway these guys are an experimental/jungle band carrying elements of post punk (and hailing from [...]

Ah don’t we all love a free compilation album. All the more so when it’s been specifically compiled for optimum video gameplay. That’s right. Asthmatic Kitty Records and a few associates have come together to compile an album of songs that are specifically chosen for their quality and the fact that they make good Audiosurf [...]

Yes that’s right, more free music. Hidden Shoal are an independent label who specialise in producing and distributing laid back and/or quirky music ranging from shoegaze, post-rock, minimalist and indie to trip-hop, electro and ambient. As of yet, they have three sampler albums out; The Least Vestige of Land, The Garden of Forking Paths, and [...]

fools, this is the regular author of this blog’s premiere music consultant. this is not to say my music taste matches hers, let alone my diet ( i do enjoy the consumption of meat, however respect the choice of people to be vegan, not my place to tell ya how u gotta eat). Ive been [...]

‘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 [...]

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 [...]

Dosh! I love saying that name. And I love listening to this band’s music. Or rather, the music of Martin Dosh. They recently had a show at the Rosemount in Perth (which I unfortunately missed, was apparently good though – review here) along with Andrew Bird and supported by Perth act Fall Electric. Anyway, a [...]

I swear the first thing I thought of when I heard this dude’s music was ‘holy shit it’s a guy version of freezepop been indie-fied!” And that’s totally it, Muscles’ music is so happy and upbeat and electronically based it’s awesome. There’s nothing heavy here – I know someone said that all music is political [...]