Aldous Harding is on a roll at the moment with a mid year European tour, Australian dates receiving rave reviews and a new album on the horizon. Now she’s also released a disconcerting and hypnotic video clip to accompany the grace and bruised beauty of ‘Stop Your Tears’. Continue reading
This is the first album of new material since Nicholson’s marriage break-up with Kasey Chambers who he’d recorded his two preceding albums with. In that sense this is a new start and it’s a quietly confident one that reflects on the personal attrition of such a traumatic experience as well as geographical locations and depression. … Continue reading
Over the years Tex Perkins has become a versatile musician, a gun for hire traveling from one band project to another tribute show and so on. Beasts Of Bourbon has been revisited though Cruel Sea hasn’t but a group that Perkins keeps returning to and one where he sounds the most relaxed and free from … Continue reading
Last weekend provided the musical highlight of the week with the superb Marlon Willams show at The Basement in Sydney. It was sold out, in fact his whole tour was and he absolutely nailed it with his backing band The Yarra Benders acting as musical foils and conspirators. Read our full review. We’ve got a … Continue reading
Melbourne musician Ben Mastwyk is an integral part of that cities’ Americana music scene, playing with Jemma & The Clifton Hillbillies, Sweet By & By and The Shotgun Wedding. Now he’s in the process of releasing his debut solo LP, conceived both in Melbourne and while traveling through the American South. He’s pulled in a … Continue reading
Shane Nicholson is gearing up for the release of his new album Hell Breaks Loose on August 7th (Lost Highway Australia/Universal) and first cab off the rank is the single ‘Secondhand Man’, a brisk and breezy track with a melancholic undercurrent. Catchy as hell too. It also features backing vocals from Katie Brianna. Tour Dates Aug … Continue reading
This week saw some great new music hitting the internet with new tracks from Ayleen O’Hanlon, Joshua Seymour and the welcome return of Lucero. We also published reviews of the new and very fine album from The Deslondes of which we said: Their songs swing and rattle along with real ache and verve, never settling … Continue reading
Father John Misty has released his new single, the title track to his recently release album I Love You Honeybear, along with a clip chronicling a night on the job for two ambulance officers. Continue reading
Joshua Seymour (Cherrywood) has a new album coming out soon called Rope Tied Hope.It was recorded in the famous Echo Lab Studio in Dallas TX and co-produced by Robert Jason Vandygriff of The Von Ehrics and RJV & Hell County Revival. You can catch Seymour live and help him launch the new album at The Toff in Town … Continue reading
Mark Lucas normally fronts the Dead Setters but here he steps out on his own with a collection of intimate and restrained songs. Lucas has decorated his compositions with fiddle, banjo, piano and even tuba without ever distracting from the personal and sometimes socio-political content of his lyrics. ‘Stranger’ possesses a beautiful, lilting melody, ‘Small … Continue reading
On stage Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan offset their earnest folk music with self-effacing humour yet their albums are wholly musical affairs which have in the past found them lacking personality and spirit. Monterey corrects that somewhat with their strongest songwriting to date but that depth of character is still missing, preventing the album from … Continue reading
Perfect timing from Mr Craddock with his video clip for new single ‘Better Alone’ arriving as he lands in Sydney for a week of shows here and in Newcastle. We’ve sung the praises of this track with its soaring soulful blues feel. Pick of the bunch will be the show this Friday evening at the … Continue reading
James Thomson’s debut album was an impressive calling card, a introduction to a talented songwriter already sounding beyond his years in terms of his songs and their lived-in delivery. The promise of that first sprawling collection of songs has been refined and stylistically expanded on the exceptional follow-up Cold Moon. The balance and symmetry of … Continue reading
Brisbane’s Josh Rennie-Hynes has released a clip for a new song ‘Land Of Clouds’, filmed as part of the Black Bear Sessions. Accompanied by Liam Gerner and Caitlin Harnett, the track we’re guessing is a love song to New Zealand where Rennie-Hynes toured last year and indeed is heading back to again next month (see tour poster … Continue reading
Taken from the new Giant Sand LP Heartbreak Pass, here’s a trippy video clip for the track Transponder featuring Jason Lytle of Grandaddy. Continue reading
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