Been listening to FM radio a lot ( Read more... )

Three newish albums. See if you can spot the theme:


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It's been a good time for the old rock'n'roll down here. I went for a period of about a year where I barely saw anyone, but since lately I've caught a number of awesome gigs.

Lamb of God/ Shadows Fall/ Devildriver/ High on Fire at Festival Hall back in December was huge, despite the heat and the shittiness of the venue and the fact that I missed ( Read more... )

Since writing that post about my favourite albums of the decade I've picked up two new recent releases, and guess what? They're both contenders ( Read more... )

Via
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Dear Powderfinger,

Boys, I've never been a huge fan, but I like a couple of your songs and I always sort of respected you for being the mainstays mainstays of domestic Aussie indie rock. You've never been exported well; aside from brief appearance on the MI:2 soundtrack the local bands that have gone on to crack the US have been always of the ( Read more... )

Big interview with Seasick Steve in The Age's Good Weekend magazine a couple of days ago. Good Weekend does this pretty often, sometimes they have good articles about intriguing people and I was hoping this would be one of them. Steven Wold, aka Seasick Steve is most definitely qualifies ( Read more... )