“We’ve been doing our own thing for a long time,” says Laurent Brancowitz, his vowels drawn out by a thick French accent. “We didn’t really follow the trend or fashion, and at some point the world aligned with our conception … Continue reading Interview: Phoenix
With biopics on The Easybeats, INXS and the return of Countdown having lit up our screens in the same few months that Paul Kelly scored his first number one album, more than ever before Australian music is being recognised for … Continue reading Interview: Archie Roach & the Australian Music Vault
One of the most essential hip hop records released this year comes from a 23 year old Botswana raised, Zambian born, Melbourne based female rapper. Those facts are not what make Birds To the BEE9 so impressive though, nor that … Continue reading Interview: Sampa the Great
There are few artists whose creative star burned as brightly as Prince’s did during the 1980s and early ‘90s. Tirelessly turning out albums for himself and other artists while never settling on one style, he surrounded himself with a revolving … Continue reading Interview: Tony M. (Prince & the New Power Generation)
Ash Sambrooks and Zac Abroms are two of the most driven individuals currently working in the Melbourne music industry. They are artist managers, music publicists and business entrepreneurs who last year came together to reinvigorate the city’s music conference Face … Continue reading Interview: Zac Abroms – Face The Music 2017
“A Decade of Dickhead. And just to make it clear, we’re the dickheads,” says Joel Morrison, gazing around at the interior of The Old Bar. “It’s just amazing that three dickheads can run a bar for this long.” It’s only … Continue reading Interview: A DECADE OF DICKHEAD – THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF JOEL, LIAM & SINGA RUNNING THE OLD BAR
Talking down the phone Luke Holmes sounds excited. Although he and his band Ocean Grove have been making music for the last seven years, their new album The Rhapsody Tapes is still days away from being released and he listens … Continue reading Interview: Ocean Grove
Three albums in, Chicago punk band Meat Wave have established certain norms in their sound and working methods when it comes to recording. Both their self titled debut in 2012 and 2015’s Delusion Moon, which earned them a degree of … Continue reading Interview: Meat Wave
The impact that Booker T. Jones has had over modern popular music as musician, songwriter, arranger and producer would be hard to overstate. At 16 years old he played on the first hit for a nascent recording label called Satellite … Continue reading Interview: Booker T. Jones
In conversation, Archie Roach is every bit as thoughtful and intelligent as you would expect, giving each question careful consideration. Although Roach has been a major figure in Australian music since the early 90s, events within his own life have … Continue reading Interview: Archie Roach
Speaking from his home in Coventry, Neville Staple is battling a very sore throat, having picked up a cold whilst performing at two outdoor festivals over the weekend. Being the British summer, of course it rained, but Staple played anyway, … Continue reading Interview: Neville Staple
The career rebirth of Sixto Rodriguez is one of the most fantastic tales in the history of popular music. The American singer-songwriter released two albums in the early ‘70s, Cold Fact and Coming From Reality, only to be met with … Continue reading Interview: Rodriguez
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