Broads: Stay Connected
- “Where are the folks like you and I?” The question is posed on the recent single, Velvet Paradise, from the new record by southern duo, Broads. It has hidden depth, multiple meanings and it’s central to what’s going on here. By turns it has elements that are pouting and plaintive, mysterious, menacing, seductive and melancholy. If you were going to try and boil it down to one thing I guess it would be this: Broads questions what it is, in the present day, to be a dangerous woman.
Tropical Fuck Storm: Braindrops
- Braindrops is the second album in as many years from Tropical Fuck Storm and an album that leaps over the mordant bar set by its predecessor. Their sophomore album heightens the energy but does so by being less outwardly jarring. This may simply be a result of the band becoming more familiar, but, hey, I still wouldn't describe what they do as 'easily digestible'.
The Hold Steady: Thrashing Thru The Passion
- It’s fifteen years now since The Hold Steady first sent the music press into fits of delirium. Mixing cheesy classic rock riffs with a short-story writer’s sense of observation and turn of phrase; filling their songs with musical in-jokes; the band seemed made for music nerds and critics.
Yamato – The Drummers of Japan @ Redlands Performing Arts Centre
My first Taiko drumming experience was in the 1990’s in Melbourne with a free lunch-time show at the Melbourne Central shopping centre. At the time, the building was home to the amazing Japanese Daimaru department store.
More recently the “Akira” album by Melbourne-based band, Black Cab featured Taiko master, Toshi Sakamoto. Black Cab even played at GoMA in 2017 with two Taiko drummers in tow.
Lagerstein: 25/7
- On my first listen to the lead single Dig, Bury, Drink from Lagerstein’s forthcoming third album 25/7 I honestly believed that Brisbane had birthed a German bier-hall band; not realising that they were a pirate metal band. After the second spin of the record, and a visit to their website, I would have to say that these buccaneering Brisbanites -with brandished swords- have composed a pirate metal soundtrack. It's so richly theatrical it feels like there should be a whole pirate musical to go with it, even if it doesn't exist yet.
Review: Latin American Gala QSO
Latin American Gala presented by the Queensland Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Alondra de la Parra
Guitar Soloist Yamandu Costa
With Brisbane Girls Grammar School students
Chávez Sinfonía india (Symphony No.2)
Costa Concerto Fronteira
Guarnieri Dança Brasileira, Dança Selvagem, Dança Negra
Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No.7
Moncayo Huapango
A Wild and Raucous Musical Trip around the Americas
4ZZZ Top 20
1. Thelma Plum - Better In Blak
2. Mallrat - Charlie (Single)
3. Sahara Beck - Don't Overthink It (Single)
4. Hearts And Rockets - Power (Album Of The Week)
5. Chats, The - Identity Theft (Single)
6. Tia Gostelow - Get To It (Single)
7. Parsnip - When The Tree Bears Fruit
8. Thigh Master - Mould Lines (Single)
9. Start Together - Az Nem Várhat (Single)
10. DUMB THINGS - Today Tonight (Single)
11. Miiesha - Drowning (Single)
12. Full Flower Moon Band - Roadie (Single)
No Sister - 'Influence'
Continuing their interest in experimenting with the post-punk song, No Sister's upcoming EP is an acknowledgement of an elemental, unavoidable creative facet: influence. Threading various literary, musical and aesthetic influences that range from Sheila Heti, Ruth O'Leary, David Sylvian, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Prince, No Sister's new EP expands their post-punk sound to include influences from both sides of the Atlantic (and Pacific).
19th August 2019
Local Artists:
FELIVAND: Waitin’ For You (Single)(Independent)
Keelan Mak: Sleep Talker (Single)(Independent)
Private Function: St Anger
- It’s hard to find a debut album rollout which has been so befitting of a band as Melbourne band Private Function’s new record St Anger. The name, a piss-take of the Metallica album of the same title, features a suspiciously similar album cover, and when Metallica tweeted asking fans their favourite track off of the original St Anger, Private Function responded with their debut LP’s lead single Talking To Myself.