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Triple J. Setting music back for a new generation
The following is lifted from Andrew McMillen’s National Affairs article in the January 2012 edition of Australian Rolling Stone: What happens when your band wins the musical equivalent of the lottery,...
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Song of the day – 439: Eleanor Friedberger*
I’ll level with you. I don’t want to come over all Chuck on your ass, but I know next to nothing about Eleanor Friedberger. I had to look up on Wiki to discover she used to be in Fiery Furnaces – a...
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Royal Headache – Royal Headache (What’s Your Rupture)
By Scott Creney This album’s great for what it is — tuneful, frenetic fun. At 26 minutes and change, it flies by faster than the best days of one’s youth. More agitated than angsty, it’s a music that...
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22 of Everett True’s favourite songs of 2012 so far
A little early, perhaps … but there’s always so much great music around the difficulty is documenting it all, giving it a fair shake. DISCLAIMER 1 This is a random list – influenced by the heat today,...
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Everett True’s 64 Favourite Songs of 2012
Last year was sensational for music. Here, re-acclimatise yourself. This year was even more sensational, so much so that I find myself having to increase this list somewhat to incorporate a little of...
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Everett True’s 12 favourite all-male albums of 2012
I know I’ve said that albums are a devalued currency. Doesn’t mean that they don’t still have worth. Plus, none of Collapse Board’s fucking contributors – except for Mike – have actually sent in a...
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How sad is this? The Washington Post gets the drop on almost every Australian...
How sad is this? The Washington Post gets the drop on almost every Australian publication with its summary of Australian music in 2012: It’s been an especially fruitful year for my favorite geographic...
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Song of the day – 552: Bed Wettin’ Bad Boys
I had this whole review worked out last night on the 383 back from the city. And then I went and fucken forgot it. (You want a one-liner? “The race for album of the year is over before it’s begun....
View ArticleWhy would anyone want to hate the best rock band to come out of Australia in...
The title of this blog entry was posted on Facebook in response to a link to my recent Drones Song Of The Day (10 Reasons To Hate The Drones). Good question. Why would anyone want to hate the best...
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Camperdown & Out – Couldn’t Be Better (Popfrenzy)
By Jake Cleland Are we jangled out yet? This trend Doug Wallen pegged in Mess+Noise last year as The New Melbourne Jangle (not exclusive to Melbourne) shows no sign of stopping and the reason is...
View ArticleThe return of Everett True | 22. Good Throb
A quote from Viv Albertine to start us, perhaps. “I want boys to come and see us play and think ‘I want to be part of that’. Not ‘They’re pretty’ or ‘I want to fuck them’ but ‘I want to be in that...
View ArticleThe people have spoken | 10 great discoveries from Collapse Board
I ain’t sayin’ we’re always first. In fact, I know damn well that quite often I’m around three years late. I’m just sayin’ that it’s nice to know that some people have been turned on to some great...
View ArticleScott Creney’s Album Roundup: Aug 2015
Future music fans will look back on this era and wonder what our fucking problem was. By then all the derivative filler & trustfund-funded garbage clogging up our ears will have disappeared and...
View ArticleJerry and the Giant Peach of new music
I do not know how you have managed to survive without me. Put a brave face on it? Good on you. That is the spirit. No time for words. Just flagrant misrepresentation. I remain surprised that men...
View ArticleThe Best of Australia in 2015
Above: Deafcult at the Crowbar. Photo taken by Justin Edwards. Every press outlet outside of Australia will try and tell you folk (I’m from Georgia in the US of A, remember) that Tame Impala carried...
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In Photos: Laneway 2016 @ RNA Showgrounds, Brisbane, 06.02.2016 – Part 2
Photos from Laneway 2016 at Brisbane’s RNA Showgrounds of METZ, Royal Headache, DIIV, Shamir, FIDLAR, HEALTH, The Internet and Goldlink.
View ArticleThe Blurst of Times @ The Foundry, Black Bear Lodge, and The Brightside,...
Opening The Blurst of Times’ fourth iteration at The Foundry is an exceptionally powerful performance from Brisbane’s 100%. Melding synth pop to harder-edged industrial dance, the trio revamps some of...
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In Photos: Blurst of Times 2017, 29.04.2017 – Part 2
Part 2/2 from Brisbane’s Blurst of Time 2017, featuring Jarrow, Rackett, Horror My Friend, Jack River, The Creases and Royal Headache.
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