KATE HENNESSY reports on the Sydney leg of the St Jerome’s Laneway Festival, which took place at Sydney College of the Arts in Rozelle on Sunday (February 5). Photos by ELIZE STRYDOM . Never trust anyone over 30 (to review a music festival). Known for our pernickety gripes, misanthropic snipes and general nitpickery often we can’t see the wood (the music) for the trees (the irritations). The task is handled better by breezy early-20-somethings to whom those perennial festival agitations (lack of dunnies, shade, cheap booze and nice food; glut of dickheads, schedule clashes, short sets and clusterfucks) make ...

Watch Phish at their final night of their NYE run @ Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2011/12/31. Phish 2011/12/31 Madison Square Garden New York, NY Set 1: AC/DC Bag > Wolfman's Brother Scent of a Mule Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan Lawn Boy Gotta Jibboo Farmhouse Pebbles and Marbles Ocelot Fluffhead[1] Set 2: Party Time Light > Golden Age Theme From the Bottom Heavy Things Ghost Sneakin' Sally through the Alley 46 Days Suzy Greenberg Set 3: Cavern Steam[2] > Auld Lang Syne > Down with Disease[3] The Wedge Alaska Wading in the Velvet ...

So last night I DJed with Musa . Who, by the way, is totally super rad . Like. I met her a week ago when we DJed Pebbles's bounce party at Sway. And she played "Nolia Clap" and I was all, "Gosh darn. I, like, totally forgot about this song!" And then last night. She played "Move Ya Body" and I was all, "Gosh darn. I, like, totally forgot about this song!" I love people that both A) remind me of awesome songs I'm too stupid to remember and B) don't openly mock my Taylor Swift tee. Which reminded ...

I started collecting vinyl in January of 2008.  Here is what I have amassed. (updated January 2012) AC/DC Back in Black American Football American Football Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha Band of Horses Everything All the Time Infinite Arms Battles Gloss Drop Mirrored The Beach Boys Endless Summer The Beatles 1962-1966 1967-1970 Abbey Road Hey Jude Let it Be Magical Mystery Tour Rubber Soul Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Beck Modern Guilt Odelay The Bee Gees Best of Bee Gees Vol. 1 [pre-disco] Saturday Night Fever Ben Folds Five Ben Folds Five Blackalicious A2G [EP] Blazing Arrow The ...

by John Crowell • January 2012 People throw around the word “underground” to describe the origin of breakout artists, but few can claim the moniker as literally as Imbogodom. Truly; collaborators Daniel Beban and Alexander Tucker recorded the entirety of their 2010 debut, The Metallic Year , deep inside the studios of the BBC’s Bush House in London. The result was a dark, foreboding collection of tape manipulations and eerie instrumentation that sidestepped the common tape-looping trope of straightforward granular squall in favor of restrained atmosphere, mangled stringed melodies, and eerie musique concrète. Since then, the pair has had a chance ...

Brute Heart is a three-piece from Minneapolis, MN and this song is off of their upcoming 7-inch release with Portland's M'Lady's Records. "Fever" is a moody, sharp piece. The guitar emerges out of the song in soapy bubbles that are filled with little pebbles. The pebbles pop the bubble midway between the band and you. The lyrics ring out deeply, with a tremor that is almost like Carrie Brownstein, although you can see if they decided to amplify volume over echo we'd hav...

. I do my laundry here. Little known fact about this particular laundromat / car wash - it’s owned by Ramiro from “Ramiro + Pebbles”, Jam’n 94.5 FM. They have the sickest vending machines. One is completely stocked with ice cream 24/7. so good on hot laundry days in the summer. Shout to the old [...]

Official 12/28-12/31 Poster (blue edition). Design by DKNG © Phish 2011. Phish 2011/12/31 Madison Square Garden New York, NY Set 1: AC/DC Bag > Wolfman's Brother Scent of a Mule Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan Lawn Boy Gotta Jibboo Farmhouse Pebbles and Marbles Ocelot Fluffhead[1] Set 2: Party Time Light > Golden Age Theme From the Bottom Heavy Things Ghost Sneakin' Sally through the Alley 46 Days Suzy Greenberg Set 3: Cavern Steam[2] > Auld Lang Syne > Down with Disease[3] The Wedge Alaska Wading in the Velvet Sea First Tube Encore: Slave to the ...

2011 is coming to a close, and it's that time of year when we all do a lot of reflecting on the year that's passed. For some of our favorite celebrities, there have been a lot of ups, and some others there have been quite a few downs. PHOTOS: RIP: Celebrities Who Left Us Too Soon In 2011 We love when stars capture some of the ups and downs and special moments from their lives without a paparazzi camera through their personal Twitters! We've come up with a list of 30 of some of the best celebrity ...

Yesterday, we revealed the first installment (picks 50-21) of our fifth annual Critics Poll. Today, it’s the top 20 Australian albums of 2011; a vintage year. 20. Belles Will Ring Crystal Theatre (Dot Dash/Remote Control) Key notes: Conceived in rural New South Wales and recorded in co-frontman Liam Judson’s parents’ living room, Crystal Theatre took BWR’s spooky psych revivalism and full-screened it, with pleasing results. What we said: “It’s an evocative and complicated album, put together by a band who work together as naturally as four limbs on the same beast.” More reading: Track By ...

CUBIQ: Perched on a sinking desktop of promo, in an uncharted box of beats came Cubiq. It was not until summer 2010, somewhere on the dusty digital highway; that with one stuck thumb, they hitched their way onto the blogger-sphere. Nothing much happened that particular summer’s night, but I can tell you this - it’s all happening now. And so the story goes that way back when, some semi-respectable hobo blogger kept pushing those Cubiq boys’ tunes, full well knowing that if you throw enough pebbles then something’s bound to break. Those tunes were scattered like half decent ...

A look back at the year in Reggae and Dancehall... IN THE NEWS Mavado had a real good year- incl getting his US visa back and signing to a hip hop label (DJ Khaled's 'We The Best Music Group’). Vybz Kartel's reported jail shootout while in custody on murder charges caused twitter frenzy... just goes to show what a headline act he is even in jail, no?!? Talking of jail and the threat of it, "Free Buju" was the phrase on the lips of us all this year he was sentenced to ten years. The campaign for his ...

The Eight Miles High Festival celebrates ‘60s-influenced psych, mod, garage and surf at The Zoo on Saturday Dec 10. Featuring the way-out sounds of Richard In Your Mind (pictured), the Brisbane debut for Melbourne’s Sand Pebbles, experimental dark/shoegaze rockers Black Cab, with locals Los Huevos, Grand Atlantic, Dead Shades and Howling Rabbits filling out the bill. Tickets are on sale now from OzTix, $25.50+bf. ...

CHRIS HOLLOW , bass player for Melbourne’s enigmatic psych-rockers SAND PEBBLES , won’t let the truth get in the way of a good story. He chats with KRISSI WEISS .

The cover you won't see - spot the deliberate mistake? If you're a regular or even occasional browser of this blog, one name you may have noticed popping up on repeat play is that of The Damned. I've been a Damned avid since bagging Love Song in '79 - then absorbing the albums and submerging slowly into the tunes 'n' chants atmosphere of their supercharged live sets. I've given The Damned a lifetime of unconditional support and they've never let me down. Not one howler of an album, never a half-hearted performance or limp squib of a ...