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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

‘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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Kill teen angst, one of Australia’s up and coming acts is gonna be holding their EP launch at the Amplifier on Saturday, 16th of feb at 8pm. Special guests include (one of my fave Perth bands) Sugar Army, Hooper’s store, Batrider (NZ) and The Leap year. The band’s enjoyed a lot of success recently, having [...]

Gregory and the Hawk: Pioneers. It’s not the music of Gregory and the Hawk that makes them pioneers in any way (though it’s good, I personally love it). It’s the fact that the music made by Meredith Godreau – of whom Gregory and the Hawk is a solo project – ‘remains label-free thanks to the [...]

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 [...]