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Written by: Lia
Albeit slightly distracted by the pursuit of a meat and potato pie from a certain well known pie chain store (not really into free advertising) Sean Cook took some time out with The Dwarf to talk about
Yves Klein Blue’s new EP, tour and t... [more]
Written by: Lisa Dib
They’ve toured throughout the UK, America and Europe with the likes of Supergrass, You Am I, Kings of Leon, the Darkness and the Dirtbombs. With the new album released 21st July, their first after a four-year absence from Australia’s rock scen... [more]
Written by: Kaysea
Putting a slight twist on her next tour,
Clare Bowditch will not only be hitting the road minus The Feeding Set, but she doesn’t even know who the special guests are who will be sharing the stage with her. July sees Clare touring the coun... [more]
Written by: Sarsha
The Dwarf caught up with Van, frontman for California-via-Alaska's
Port O'Brien to dish up the dirt on the indie-popsters....
You’ve just released your debut album
All We Could Do Was Sing, it must feel pretty good... [more]
Written by: redblackblue
Half Seas Over is the latest in a long list of releases from Australian folk, blues, rock singer/songwriter
Jeff Lang. “It’s a little bit more of a storybook album this time around I think, the songs have a lot longer narratives and are a... [more]
Written by: Rich Vinci
Swedish pop minstrel
El Perro Del Mar (“The Dog of the Sea”) came to indie prominence a couple of years ago with the release of a beautiful and melancholy self titled debut. It was a record that carried with it the air of having been disc... [more]
Written by: Troy Peter James Naumoff
The lady speaks in a hard to understand yet well spoken accent. She tells me I'll be put on hold and then be back with Omar shortly. A minute and twenty seconds pass until the silence is interrupted by instrumental Indian sounding easy li... [more]
Written by: McGauz
After a busy year in 2007, Melbourne instrumentalists
LAURA disappeared from local eyes. Touring up and down the country with ISIS, Cog, and on their headline tour promoting last year's live album
Re-capitulate, it was time to b... [more]
Written by: Lia
It’s been a while since we have seen
Goldenhorse playing in Australia, but they are back and about to burst into the Australian music gigging scene again as they tour with their new album and play gigs with Pinky Beecroft and the White Ru... [more]
Written by: gigchick
When one thinks of Ireland they think of green pastures, leprechauns, four leaf and four leaf covers. When pushed into the direction of music they’ll probably mention the tin whistle or the bodhran drum… oh and of course U2. Seven years ago fi... [more]
Written by: marc
It’s been some time now since we’ve heard a peep from Brit rockers
The Music. And if, like me, you thought we may never hear from them again, you weren’t very wide of the mark. “
We had several large discussions, some of us seriously... [more]
Written by: Marmalade Puddle
Posters. Any fan of this thing called music has had them in there time. Blu tack kissed to your walls. Slightly askew. Forever falling down. The what ever makes it stick not bonding enough in the heat of an Australian summer. Crumpled and worn... [more]
Written by: Rocket Queen
It 11.30pm and somewhere in Washington DC,
CJ Pierce from
Drowning Pool is conducting an interview before he prepares to go onstage. No butterflies for this guitarist “but every now and then you do, if you’re gonna do something on TV... [more]
Written by: Stephen Bisset
Ever since the dawn of celluloid, music has played an integral part in the world of film. Imagine, if you can, Saturday Night Fever without the Bee Gees. Further, the infamous ear cutting scene in Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs would have bee... [more]
Written by: Carr
Now you may not know the name
Barry Adamson, but you sure as hell will have heard his music. Getting his first break playing bass with ex-Buzzcocks frontman Howard Devoto’s band Magazine, and moving on to play in the original line-up of N... [more]
Written by: Stephen Bisset
Steampunk
. No, it’s not the latest musical collaboration from Thomas the Tank Engine and Johnny Rotten, but rather a nifty new genre that is set to get a kick in the pants on our shores with the Oz release of Washington steampunkers,... [more]
Written by: Lisa Dib
Don’t be fooled-
Dukes of Windsor are more than a one-trick pony. The Melbourne rock-electro band are more like a freakin’ stable of trickster horses, if you ask me. Burgeoning out from their massive TV Rock collaboration,
The Others... [more]
Written by: mig
Take the Buddy Holly track, “Rave On”, combine with The Ronettes to stir, and the resulting hybrid is cool Danish pop duo,
The Raveonettes.
With a title such as this and a history of collaborating with those that they admire, The Rav... [more]
