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Vintage Trouble

Vintage Trouble is a Los Angeles four piece who have just released their debut album The Bomb Shelter Sessions. They are a new band but consist of some players that have been around the scene for a while, most notably singer Ty Taylor, who has for quite a few years been regarded as a voice waiting for his moment to come. Maybe this time it has. The band have got their timing right. Their album is a... Read the full story

Old Ideas – Leonard Cohen (Sony)

Leonard Cohen surely had nothing left to prove, but this album, his first for seven years, and self-described as a ‘manual for living with defeat’, emphatically underlines that he remains a vital and unique recording artist.  Old Ideas is delicate, curmudgeonly, wryly humorous, instrumentally organic and instantly gratifying. That’s a lot of different aspects of distinction and yet they somehow... Read the full story

The AMP Shortlist Revealed

The Australian Music Prize (The Amp) has continued to go from strength to strength since its inception, proving a credible, peer-driven prize that has helped to launch the careers of Australian artists both overseas and at home. In the running for a cash prize of $30,000 thanks to PPCA, the following shortlisted artists have been acknowledged for producing albums of outstanding quality and creativity. ABBE... Read the full story

The Cult Prep New Album

2011 Australian tourists The Cult are due to release Choice of Weapon, their ninth studio album, on May 22nd. The record is their first full-length work in five years, though the band has been releasing tasters of new songs and live recordings in recent years. Long-time Cult collaborator and producer Bob Rock (Metallica, Bush) – who produced one of The Cult’s most successful albums, the platinum... Read the full story

Adam Ant Touring

Iconic pop star Adam Ant will tour Australia in March and April this year in a tour that would either be brilliant or far from it. After a decade when he fought a few inner psychological demons  Adam Ant performed some gigs in England in 2010 . From there He then built up his new band Adam Ant and the Good, The Mad and the Lovely Posse’. 2011 was spent building on that momentum and culminated with... Read the full story

Urge Overkill Interview

Urge Overkill released one of the great albums of the 90’s with Saturation containing ridiculously great rock songs like Sister Havana, Positive Bleeding, Tequila Sunrise and Bottle of Fur. They appeared in Pulp Fiction, had a huge hit with a cover of Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon and toured with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. And before all that they had a series of very cool albums on the independent... Read the full story

Fiona Apple – New Album Coming

It’s been a long time between albums by the prodigiously talented Fiona Apple but it looks like our patience my be rewarded. Last week Epic Records chairman and CEO L.A. Reid promised that the follow-up to Apple’s 2005 album Extraordinary Machine will hit stores sometime in early 2012. “Lots of good music coming from @Epic_Records in the next few weeks. Stay tuned music fans. Welcome... Read the full story

Craig Finn – Clear Heart Full Eyes (Vagrant)

Craig Finn, singer and songwriter for American indie-rock saviors The Hold Steady, is adept at writing songs about having his daily life colored by the fact that he is, first and foremost, “in a band”. It’s been his identity, his point of reference and the source of many of his most goofily triumphant songs with The Hold Steady. But from the first song on this solo album, Apollo Bay, (which incidentally... Read the full story

Suzy Connolly – Night Larks (Laughing Outlaw)

Filing the debut solo album from Sydney guitarist and songwriter Suzy Connolly on the melodic guitar-pop shelf next to artists such as Aimee Mann and Matthew Sweet, who it turn draw their inspiration from Big Star and The Beatles wouldn’t be offensive to any of those artists. But there are moments on her debut album when she manages to transcend her musical lineage and come up with some surprising... Read the full story

Ruthie Foster – Let It Burn (Fuse)

While Ruthie Foster is best known in her home town of Austin, Tx, it makes perfect sense that she chose to make this album in New Orleans, with a cast of musicians from the musically resurgent Crescent City. Foster who performed at last years Bluesfest and Byron Bay, continues to build a great reputation that can only be enhanced by this album. The dominant sound on this album is the Hammond B3 of... Read the full story

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