Q&A Scene
Q&A Scene: Gabriel Vargas
Tell us about your new single/ album/ tour? The release of my single “Like Wolves” has been a couple of years in the making. The song is quite layered both in meaning and instrumentation. It […]
Month: March 2018
Snap Scene
Snap Scene: Stonnington Jazz Announce 2018 Program
The award-winning Stonnington Jazz is back. Now in its 13th year, the program features some of Australia’s most esteemed jazz musicians and composers, along with emerging artists from the jazz underground.
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Q&A Scene: Luke Plumb ~ LUKE PLUMB & The CIRCUIT
New album? Turn & ReTurn What’s your favourite work at this point in time? I’m really happy with how Still Shining and Ancient Light came out but I always have a soft spot for the […]
Review Scene
Review Scene: Beck, Margaret Court Arena, February 28 2018
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen Beck live in Australia. I remember first seeing him play solo acoustic at the Melbourne Showgrounds in late 1995 as part of the Summersalt lineup. He was an emerging talent back then and was sandwiched in between Pavement and Sonic Youth on the bill 6 months prior to his breakthrough album “Odelay” being released. Seeing him here again 22 years later it seemed like no time had gone by. Actually I tell a lie – looking around the crowd there were a lot of 25 year olds trapped in 48 year old bodies and I was one of them.
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Snap Scene: Gogol Bordello – 170 Russell, 14th March 2018
When you mix Romani music with punk and dub step you end up with a new creation that is heavily influenced by the pure sounds but they are less recognizable as the once distinct styles. In that lies Gogol Bordello’s attraction. Their circus-like performance could soon be just a motif, shallow and entertaining but soon tiresome and without gloss, if there was no substance behind the music.
Review Scene
Review Scene: Gogol Bordello – 170 Russell, 14th March 2018
Okay, so looking up Gogol in a dictionary is an absolute mind-fuck. We all know the meaning of Bordello but Gogol offers a bit more of a challenge. Firstly it could be that Gogol refers to Nikolai Vasilievich, the Russian novelist, dramatist and short-story writer, or it could well be that the Urban Dictionary is correct when it defines Gogol as ‘1. To hit on a girl by ‘accidentally‘ walking into her or 2. To get jacked off by a girl on the dance floor or any public area at a party.‘
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Q&A Scene: Richard Walsh ~ THE ELECTRIC GUITARS
Tell us about your new album ‘Sideways Changeling’? It’s a meditation on psychic doom, paranoia and fictional nihilistic emptiness. What’s your favourite work at this point in time? The high paying kind. And all the […]
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Q&A Scene: James Chandler ~ PERCH CREEK
Tell us about your new single/ album/ tour? Our current single Gold Shop is a convoluted tale of mischief set to a 60s inspired funk groove. It’s about Eileen’s alter ego as a moustachioed dude […]
Review Scene
Review Scene: The Lemonheads, TV Daze, Spike Fuck-The Curtin, 6th March 2018.
Just after 10pm, The Lemonheads take to the stage. Evan Dando is sporting a hefty beard, and his dishevelled appearance causes a few hearts to drop in sadness at his state and belies the youthful rock god of old that inspired Ben Lee to pen the song, “I wish I was Him.” But despite appearances Dando redeems himself.
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Q&A Scene: A HITCH TO THE STICKS Special: Tim Phillips ~ RAMBUNCTIOUS
Tim Phillips is on the line-up for the inaugural A HITCH TO THE STICKS bus trip with Rambunctious. He answers a few questions for us before the festival hits the road: About A HITCH TO THE STICKS: What does […]