This City - Hear
HEAR is the enema your iTunes needs. Bringing you the most thought-provoking and up-to-date music reviews this side of Lester Bangs, HEAR sifts through the ever growing mountain of press releases and promos to only feature albums, EPs, LPs and mixes that we want to, not that we have to. Also, we try and make things make sense in 200 words or less so that you can just listen to the music.
Monotonix, 'Where Were You When It Happened?'
If you were sloshing around Golden Plains over the weekend, you're probably listening to this album right now. Israeli threesome Monotonix were a memorable highlight of the weekend, outshining bigger names on the line-up with their unabashed enthusiasm, huge hairdos and tiny shorts.
These guys sure made the most of their stage-time, performing their entire set from the muddy mosh pit and crowd surfing while playing their guitar and drums.
Gil Scott-Heron, 'I'm New Here'
Thirteen years is a long time to go without releasing an album. Thirteen years ago I had just discovered the joy of self-love. I had just stopped being afraid of the dark. I had just learned how to take those massive bong hits like Ghostface Killah. Back then, flute solos were a serious and beautiful component of a song.
Real Estate
You want sunny. You want relaxed. You want proof that someone, anywhere, is struggling through the summer just like you are. You also want a killer pop record. Doesn't matter where it's from - this sound is universal. You want Real Estate.
As it stands, these kids hail from New Jersey. A small detail normally, sure, but this fact oozes through every pore of their sun-drenched sound.
Exquisite Corpse
Now it's only an EP, so let's not shit ourselves just yet, but Warpaint are pretty fucking awesome. Coming from the star-studded and smog-misted hills of Los Angeles, this trio of babes is making music that walks that fine line we never knew existed between Beach House's dreaminess and Lindstrøm's beatiness.
Lightning Bolt interview
Lightning Bolt are a juggernaut. They are two men. Brian Chippendale and Brian Gibson. They play and they play and they play faster and they play faster and they play more and faster and more faster. Limbs, masks, and the floor, and the people crushing in, and Halloween. It's like it's Halloween. And then there's the noise, which is the music, and it hits you and you keep going and they keep going.
Flip Out Festival - Royal Headache interview
The Flip Out Festival is the best thing to happen to Melbourne since the VFL v-neck. This year there's something like 13 bands, and a record fair. Before we get on to the interview that will inspire a kind of suicide impulse inside your credit card as your clickety fingers type the numbers into the Corner Hotel ticket page, here's the line-up: Pink Reason (USA), Goodnight Loving (USA), James Arthur's Manhunt (USA), Ooga Boogas, Naked on the Vague, Royal Headache, Super Wild Horses, Slug Guts, The Disbelievers, Native Cats, Dick Diver, the Twerps, Teen Archer and Repairs.
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