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Written by: Celine Jennings
#1. Thou Shalt Know Your Place
This is more or less addressed to those of the more
lofty persuasion. If you’re standing at 6’ 1’’, you shouldn’t be front row centre. Sorry, but you must understand: who, of the two of us, you and... [more]
Written by: Audrey Millman
So, what you may know already is that
Frightened Rabbit are an indie band from Selkirk in Scotland. But I’m sure there are things you don’t know about this band. Actually, I am positive you don’t know too much about this relatively quiet... [more]
Written by: Ben Vernel
First, let me apologize for the pun-filled title of this article. I really went overboard. Now, to the interview.
Snob Scrilla is quite possibly the most interesting hip-hop artist in Australia right now. Originally from the USA, the Sc... [more]
Written by: Audrey Millman
The Dwarf spoke to Sydney hip-hopper
MC Immune about hip-hop and the possibility of an emo-hip-hop crossover...
So what is the MC Immune story?
I did graffiti in high school and Platterpush and Codeks from Down Under B... [more]
Written by: Kaysea
After enchanting the Laneway crowds last year with their slightly chaotic performances, San Francisco's favourite rent-a-party collective,
Still Flyin', are winding their way back to our shores for an encore Laneway appearance,... [more]
Written by: Matt Gallant
Fresh off a mad weekend of shows including sets in Ireland, France and Newcastle; Jez Willis from the UK dance band
Utah Saints had the time for a quick chat, hot off the satellite with The Dwarf.
You may know these two boys from the m... [more]
Written by: Lisa Dib
Even from the time of Beethoven (whose Third Symphony was originally called Bonaparte- guess why), musicians and artists have been making and taking political stands, for and against their causes. The Foo Fighters fight against AIDS (or the il... [more]
Written by: Lia
Even from the time of Beethoven (whose Third Symphony was originally called Bonaparte- guess why), musicians and artists have been making and taking political stands, for and against their causes. The Foo Fighters fight against AIDS (or the il... [more]
Written by: Audrey Millman
You may know the name The Wildes, but it's probably best to get aquainted now, before they get all popular and you have to say indie-wank like "I liked them before they were famous". The Wildes, much like their namesake, are ram... [more]
Written by: tephanis
Antagonist A.D. were back in Australia with a new album, this year’s
We Are The Dead. Being interested in all things both Kiwi and musical, with the noteworthy exception of 30 Odd Foot Of Grunt,
The Dwarf popped over in an elect... [more]
Written by: Audrey Millman
The Dwarf had a quick chatette to Slap618 from hip hop duo 1point618 on
Tell us about 1point618 and how the band came about?
It came down to a matter of survival. Initially we started working on tracks along with Cable Tasman... [more]
Written by: Sam Fell
The music industry today, is in a state of flux. There are a number of reasons for this, the most recent being the current economic downturn, but over the past few years, it’s largely been due to the massive changes in distribution methods, ma... [more]
Written by: Rocket Queen
Somewhere in Brisbane, co-founder and guitarist of
The Saints, Ed Kuepper takes my call. I have been told that he may be a little temperamental, but he is anything but. The Saints were created 1974 in Brisbane, at a time and place where n... [more]
Written by: Lia
After a few years pushing the soul barrow, Sydney band
Kid Confucius have embarked on a slight departure from their usual musical style and gone in a more rock direction with their latest offering
The Let Go.
Drummer Bart Denaro fo... [more]
Written by: dom mercuri
If I told you that in a magical land far far away, there was a mind-warping festival that had been built for artists and curated by artists, would you believe me? What if I then told you that it had been curated by the likes of Dirty Three, Po... [more]
Written by: Lisa Dib
Jesse “The Devil” Hughes, one half of dynamic desert-rock act
Eagles of Death Metal is “driving around Hollyweird”, on the phone with a blushing Aussie interviewer with a nasty case of enjoying her job. That’d be me, by the by. “I’m a red... [more]
Written by: Lisa Dib
Some people forget that musicians, regardless of stature, calibre or age, are just like us. Not in an NW Magazine- oh- my- god- Jessica- Simpson- drinks- latte-and-uses-a-mobile-
too kind of way; more like a ‘when you gotta go, go’ kind o... [more]
Written by: robbie g
If you are a person who has not yet heard
CW Stoneking, of which there are still a few, then what follows is a rough paraphrase of what a million other write-ups will have said. Unassuming Australian gent, grew up in the outback, produces... [more]
Written by: Audrey Millman
Saul Williams is to hip-hop poetry what Samuel L. Jackson is to films. The man is just one cool customer. The LA-based artist is not only famous for his genre-smashing music, but his political outspokenness and general goodwill and harmon... [more]
