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• ‘You’ll Leave A Convert’: Dig It Up! 2013

  Wednesday, Apr 17 2013|by Aaron Curran

  

  AARON CURRAN interviews Hoodoo Gurus’ Dave Faulkner, The Flamin’ Groovies’ Cyril Jordan and Kim Salmon ahead of Dig It Up’s second year. Discussed: pulling the pin on Adelaide, uncertainty over a third festival, a Victims reunion, a new Darling Downs album and those thieving Sex Pistols. Dave Faulkner (Hoodoo Gurus) Congrats on last year’s Dig It Up!. I was lucky enough to catch the …

• Track By Track: Margins

  Tuesday, Apr 16 2013|by Mess+Noise

  

  Melbourne quartet Margins may be instrumental, but the solitary song with vocals on their newly re-released second album ‘Divide’ still gets the most attention, says ADAM COOPER. Let me start by acknowledging my discomfort with providing explanations of individual album tracks. Two points come to mind: a) We would prefer the album to be appreciated as the sum of its parts (or at a s…

• Gentle Hour: Snapper’s Peter Gutteridge

  Monday, Apr 15 2013|by Mess+Noise

  

  WES HOLLAND of The Sand Pebbles flew from Melbourne to Dunedin to track down and corner Snapper’s Peter Gutteridge for an impromptu interview. The cult NZ anti-hero held forth on the darkest music he’s made, his qualms with ‘The Dunedin Sound’ and the great many things that bore him and/or piss him off. Photo by BRUCE MAHALSKI. Hermetic. Indisposed. Out of action. Dead? “Ahh, that’s t…

• King Gizzard: ‘It’s A Very Democratic Band’

  Friday, Apr 12 2013|by Darren Levin

  

  King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have followed up last year’s psych-garage debut with a spaghetti western audiobook. FREYA JONES asks frontman Stu Mackenzie why. How do you bypass the sophomore slump? By making an audiobook about a Mexican-Irish boy kidnapped by Native Americans, of course. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s second album Eyes Like The Sky transports the listener in…

• New Noise: Lorde, Arcade Made, Cash Savage, Yolke

  Thursday, Apr 11 2013|by Mess+Noise

  

  Rap iconography, ’90s nostalgia, open-armed devotion and oceanic textures, all in this week’s roundup of Soundcloud offerings. – When none other than Grimes proclaims “Holy fuck this is so good,” the internet listens. And so the spotlight is now firmly on New Zealand artist Lorde, whose debut EP The Love Club also caught the attention of Diplo and surely of some not-as-famous people t…

• Track By Track: Ainslie Wills

  Wednesday, Apr 10 2013|by Mess+Noise

  

  Melbourne singer-songwriter AINSLIE WILLS and collaborator/co-producer LAWRENCE FOLVIG revisit the indecision and triumphs behind making the debut album ‘You Go Your Way, I’ll Go Mine’. ‘Mary’ (A. Wills) A post-apocalyptic beach setting and a female character that loosely references the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene (have I lost you yet?). ‘Mary’ was one of the newest songs for u…

• Songs: Searching For A Sound

  Tuesday, Apr 9 2013|by Doug Wallen

  

  Max Doyle laments the considerable delay for Songs’ second album and opens up to DOUG WALLEN about fortune tellers and jealousy. Remember Songs? Sydney band? Released a killer first album back in 2009? Ring any bells? Well, whatever way, they’re back. Their second album is a very different experience than the first, eschewing wallflower Kiwi jangle for more extroverted jamming and roc…

• The Drones: ‘It’s Just About Spotting Garbage’

  Monday, Apr 8 2013|by Doug Wallen

  

  Touring their first album in five years, The Drones are fierier than ever. But while ‘I See Seaweed’ could well be their masterpiece, frontman Gareth Liddiard isn’t exactly overconfident. Interview by DOUG WALLEN. Gareth Liddiard is a dream interview subject. Words simply tumble out of him, each sentence less guarded and more quotable than the last. The last time I talked to him, for h…

• Lehmann B Smith: ‘I Can’t Stop Really’

  Friday, Apr 5 2013|by Alec Marshall

  

  ALEC MARSHALL (Hot Palms, Why Don’t You Believe Me?) is such a fan of super-prolific songwriter Lehmann B Smith that he was moved to interview him, even though he’s not a journalist and had never done anything like it before. Lehmann B Smith is a songwriter based in Melbourne, Australia. He is a multi-instrumentalist and sings in a sometimes funny but mostly beautiful high-register voi…

• Track By Track: Tim Guy

  Thursday, Apr 4 2013|by Mess+Noise

  

  Recorded in Melbourne, Auckland and Christchurch, with origins even more widespread, ‘Dreaming of a Night Mango’ is TIM GUY’s fourth album. Here the songwriter muses on some of its idiosyncrasies, though not on its curious title. ‘Many People I Know’ I wrote it as soon as I got back from a tour in Europe. I left Germany exactly on the day where it turned into winter: you could feel…

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