Keyword results: Melbourne
Dick Diver, Arks Up
Dick Diver sound like underground 80s Australia. Arks Up recalls the best parts of the Hunters & Collectors discography: the songs gather around raw, trudging bass lines that sound best filling the pungent, carpeted rooms of old pubs.
With clever, multi-member pop songwriting, The Go-Betweens also come to mind: the accents not dropped but accentuated; the guitar work sharp, tonal, puncturing.
Sister Cities Music Festival
What:
Sister Cities Music Festival
Who:
Megastick Fanfare, The Emergency, Shady Lane, Love Connection, TST, The Lockwoods, Tantrums, Bon Chat, Bon Rat
Where:
Oxford Art Factory, 38-46 Oxford St, Darlinghurst
When:
Sun Jan 10, 5pm
How much:
$15 + BF here
Description:
Sisters. There's often that rivalry. Which one's better looking? Who does better at school? Who's got the Harbour Bridge? For one evening these sisters will set their differences aside to play with freak pop, noise rock and electronic acts in an intimate subterranean festival. Both cities will be representing their unique soundscapes, and a free compilation CD will welcome the first 100 to arrive.
Event: Festival
Stimulus: Networking
Two Sides of the Truth / Do Anything Go Anywhere
World music has gotten a bad rap. It's too often associated with and passed off as music that late thirty-going-on-forty somethings are listening to, trying to seem relevant or hip. It's as if the entire hipster collective has bought into the eternal struggle of Rob Gordon versus Ian Raymond and of course, we all want to be fucking John Cusack.
All the Pleasures of the World, Crayon Fields
It's easy to get complacent with good Australian bands. Melbourne band Crayon Fields have, over the years, proved to be one of the most consistently awesome groups, and they've just created a dreamy pop album that hasn't (on-repeated listens) presented me with one dud track. Not to be a bore about it - but imagine if Crayons were based in NYC? They'd have been on the cover of Nylon, Fader et al at least five or six times.
How a Moth Becomes a Boat
Havana is a slum, no matter what people say. If you think it's all dancing and beautiful food, Jesus Christ, you've been misinformed. It's a vile city, with plenty of poverty, rum and counterfeit cigars, and to walk away loving such a horrible place is something I put down to the writing of Ernest Hemingway and that sickly Cuban fisherman.
Dead Boomers
One of the best pick-up lines I've ever heard (disclaimer: also probably the worst), is "Have you got spanners in your eyes? Cause you're sure tightening my nuts". Yeah, gross. But it was in jest, and at least he was getting a little creative with it, rather than singing a Rob Thomas song AT you during drunken karaoke.
UV Race LP
The world is going to end. The UV Race know it. They tell you on the final cut of their new album. Story has it that when the calendar ticks over to December 21, 2012, that's it. Lights out. But what's the point of worrying about something that's out of your control? Those that had the chance to catch UV Race live at Flip Out know that they seem pretty intent on not letting a presupposed doomsday spoil their fun.
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