DEAD POET SOCIETY MONARCH SPINEFARM RECORDS From beginning to end, Dead Poet Society creates an atmosphere that feels heavy, emotional, and almost unsettling in the best possible way. It is an album that doesn’t simply play in the [...]
LENE 3000 GREATEST SWAMP HITS 10K PROJECTS Lene 3000 is the moniker of Norwegian witch house singer songwriter Lene Talgø, who is just releasing her debut album with a grand title of Greatest Swamp Hits. For the uninitiated, according to [...]
VACATIONS PURSUIT OF ANYTHING NETTWERK MUSIC GROUP What is it with Australians and well too perfectly crafted sophisticated (pop) rock? Is it something in the water, tradition or something else? The number of such bands/artists from Down Under [...]
MX LONELY PERFECT HOUSE JULIA’S WAR RECORDINGS Peep beyond the meme inspired and crayon coloured artwork to find Perfect House, the most recent EP from Brooklyn, New York based shoegaze band, MX Lonely. The four-track record marks their second [...]
THE CRYSTAL TEARDROP LOVE YOU MORE POPCLAW RECORDS/RISE ABOVE RECORDS If you miss the days of peace, love, and rock ‘n’ roll when music wasn’t just something you listened to, it was something you could disappear into, The Crystal Teardrop [...]
GENE CHAMPAGNE TOO POP FOR PUNK…TOO PUNK TO CARE SIOUX RECORDS Gene Champagne has quite a history in rock ‘n’ roll, or rather punk. Besides making his own music (and by that, I mean he does everything), he is the drummer with Teenage Head, a [...]
NOFX 40 YEARS OF FUCKIN’ UP: SOUNDTRACK + SCORE FAT WRECK CHORDS The title of this album, 40 Years Of Fuckin’ Up, gives away the plot in some ways. NOFX has been around for 40 years, but their debut album, Liberal Animation was released in 1988, [...]
SPOONS NIGHTLIFE SPARKS MUSIC Spoons released their debut album, the brilliant Stick Figure Neighbourhood, in 1981, but it was their second album, Arias & Symphonies that launched them into a different stratosphere. The album contained the [...]