Collarbones – "Don Juan" mp3 Remember how Beirut went all electronic/returned to his electronic roots with that EP that one time? Remember Melbourne collective Psuche? Do you like smooth vocals over glitchy/poppy electronics? Do you like pop songs? Yep! I remember and or like all of those things! That is what you are saying in your head right now. Long distance duo, Collarbones is a lot of those things. Adelaide's Travis Cook and Sydney's Marcus Whale, combine forces to make blissful electronic pop tracks and "Don Juan" is a very [...]
Childish Gambino – "Freaks and Geeks (radio edit)" mp3 It's around midnight and you and all of your friends have decided it's too cold too go out tonight. You've been drinking since dinner and everyone is in that hazy, lazy stupor and they just wants to never go outside again. Staying inside away from the wind and cold seems like possibly the best idea ever. Your room has that warm glow that only ever appears in the winter. Besides think of all the money we can save guys! Another bottle of wine [...]
Super Wild Horses – "Fifteen" Super appropriate that Melbourne duo Super Wild Horses, have decided to release their video for "Fifteen" this week. The same week I attempt to start skateboarding again and also cut my hair like a teenager. THEY ARE PEERING INTO MY SOUL via this cool B&W lo fi handheld clip, you guys. Faceless youths, urban decay, graffiti, skateboarding and all those cool things that young people like. The piano that runs throughout, lifts the track from just fun, to interesting and the,by now trademark, cheap and scuzzy [...]
The Get Up Kids – "Rally 'Round the Fool" mp3 Welcome back, The Get Up Kids! Missed you so much! Really missed 90s emo bands in the 00s. Such a thing to miss but I thing I missed all the same. Yeah sure you reformed and played a show that I caught in Melbourne last year but what I. and probably the world, really wanted was some NEW MUSIC from you. Thanks for this new album, There Are Rules. I really dig "Rally 'Round The Fool" because cool production. [...]
Passion Pit - "Moth's Wings" mp3 THIS SONG! It is just so gross and overwrought and stupidly overproduced BUT GOSH!!! Remember how in Big Love – spoilers ahead! – when Amanda Seyfried and the guy from Breaking Bad got married in the backyard of Bill Paxton's three houses (because of polygamy) with the glow of the swimming pool just looking so good and then this song played and you probably cried SO MANY TEARS??? But then ALSO, how gross is it that there is about 50 layers of [...]
Avril Lavigne – "What The Hell" mp3 Avril Lavigne had done it. She had finally the closed the gap between her hardcore punk beginnings and her newer, poppier sound. Avril had now broken from her origins and was finally ready to become the true pop star she had wanted to be since she released the hit song "S8r Boy" in the year 2000, ushering in a new generation of teenage punks. Standing in the studio vocal booth, she was in shock. Her hands trembled. She couldn't believe the vocal track she had just laid [...]
The Ancients – "Spitting Dummies" mp3 Wilco? Is that you Wilco? Pretty sure it's you. Really like this direction you are taking. Really really smooth, nice alt-country vibes. Feeling a bit nostalgic listening to this. It is much better than anything you have released in the past few years at least. Really dig the pointed recurring guitar line and country-breakdown introduction. Wait? The Ancients? Ohhhhhh, I like you guys too. Kind of wish you would follow in the direction of that sick sci-fi influenced solo track from [...]
Kanye West - Monster {Ft. JAY-Z, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj, Bon Iver} mp3 Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) Cee Lo Green - Fuck You! Dan Kelly - Bindi Irwin Apocalypse Jam Joanna Newsom - Good Intentions Paving Co. LCD Soundsystem - Drunk Girls My Disco - Turn Sally Seltmann - Harmony To My Heartbeat Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Round And Round Bedroom Philosopher, The - Northcote (So Hungover) Triple j is a popular alternative radio station that broadcasts all over Australia in case you didn't know (I don't know who is [...]
Ducktails – "Killin' the Vibe" mp3 The room was littered with various pieces of modern music equipment. You could hardly take a step without tripping over a loop pedal or a mini Korg. Mounds of cables formed shiny plastic snake pits and amps were angry beehives lining the walls. Ducktails was oblivious to the mess and kept sweeping his fringe away from his forehead in frustration. For some reason he couldn't figure this track out. "I just want this song to really mean something" said Ducktails to his three friends [...]
Taking Back Sunday – "A Decade Under the Influence" mp3 "Uggggggh" groaned Adam Lazzara as he rolled his not yet fat body out of the hotel bed. The hangover was pressing needles directly into his tiny brain. Moments of last night flashed into his brain. Microphone swinging, a lack of good singing and just so many teenage girls. He looked over to see if he had managed to "pick up" one of these young women [...]
Pockets – "Gun Shy" mp3 Note this is not at all accurate. RIP Pockets. "Unf! I am so into Minus the Beat at the moment guys! Just soo into them!" exclaimed Trev suddenly - as just waking from a trance - to a dorm room full of barely-paying-attention-acquai ntances. Some of whom were soon to be the friends that would hold his life together for the next year. "The twinkling guitars! They are like, fucking blowing my mind!" he again almost shouted. Very keen to get his love for [...]
Seagull - 'Tea' from Dylan Wiehahn Another AMAZING video from Seagull for new single "Tea". Again directed by Dylan Wiehahn, who directed their breathtaking video for "Company" . This one is less Victoria and more Queensland, but still spookily evocative and goddamn ethereal. Gorgeously hazy and the song is very nice too. Watch thing in full screen. Be amazed. Yep.
Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Childish Gambino – Culdesac Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest Otouto – Pip The-Dream – Love King So many things have already been written about Yeezy's latest album, so let's strip it back to basics. This album truly succeeds because it's not afraid to be a pop album. It wants to be a pop album SO MUCH. Every single song works within a pop template, even when West is trying to be experimental he still manages to cram in just so [...]
1. Childish Gambino - Do Ya Like 2. Kanye West - Dark Fantasy 3. Hoodie Allen - January Jones 4. The-Dream - Yamaha 5. Dan Kelly - A Classical DJ at Dandenong Station Woah woah. Fuck the haters. I have a DEGREE, I'm also not that cool so I'm allowed to sincerely like/LOVE these songs. Also I forgot to care very much about music this year and only really listened to REALLY GREAT pop songs, hip hop aimed at [...]
Motion City Soundtrack – Everything is Alright This song is the very best/worst! Very enjoyable bad pop punk from one of the most middle of the road albums of all time (damn you Producer Mark Hoppus!). Super great helium vocals and just a lot of palm muting. Don't forget the moog! Never forget the moog. But for real! Very relatable lyrics. I am often counting the tiles in the ceiling and self medicating. Two things that many people do. Honestly very much like this song as a clever piece of generation Y anxiety wrapped up in a [...]
Jessica Mauboy feat. Ludracis – "Saturday Night" Oh no! Why is this song so bad?? I had such high hopes for you "J Melly"! After the perfect, yet so so lazy, "Running Back" from a couple of years ago I have been waiting for you to make some kind of really spectacular comeback. Instead you release this! What the? Make more good songs already. Ok wait. I listened to it about 10 times in a row. Maybe it's not too bad eh? One of those "growers". [...]
Dan Kelly – "A Classical DJ at Dandenong Station" mp3 Not sure how "new" this really is seeing as how I saw it performed over a year ago but yay, recorded versions of songs are cool new things sometimes. Dan Kelly is old enough (35! Ancient!!!) to know how to write a song and this a pretty perfect summation of the talents he has refined over the years. It's light-hearted and clever. with so many great hooks in both the songwriting and production. The riffing of classic composer's names, the [...]
East Brunswick All Girls Choir – "Essendon 1986" mp3 Feel the rollicking angst of this new track from Melbourne's East Brunswick All Girls Choir. The 4-piece have been doing good things for a while, slowly gaining momentum and finally have an album coming soon. New single "Essendon 1986", taken from their debut album Sandhurst Town due out in April, is a chugging automotive non-stop rock – kind of folk - song. Dangerous guitars, buried strangled vocals and a relentless barrage of everything. It's pretty much full frontal. I [...]
Oscar and Martin – "Recognise" mp3 RISE FROM THE ASHES (of Psuche) LIKE A PHOENIX and make new low key electronic pop jams with a BRAND NEW NAME. That's what Melbourne duo Oscar and Martin have done and they are currently releasing cool new tracks via ~indie~ label TWO BRIGHT LAKES (I love those guys). "Recognise" is a simple beat driven two minute textured pop track. All sweet and organ-y with Oscar's super smooth vocals providing the hook + cool electronic glitchy parts. I don't even know what I'm [...]
So yeah. What a stupidly awful song right? Not only is this a terrific insult to early Against Me! fans (admittedly the worst kind of fans) but it's also an over-produced pile of rubbish that tries really hard to be anthemic but ends up sounding like a billion dollar mess inside of a tin can. Tom Gabel! What's up with you lately? Like the last part of this decade? Why you gotta take a dump on every fan you ever had in the crappy lyrics to this crappy song? I know you're going to say that you've [...]
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