Category Archives: Sydney
Boatfriends
I’ve come to the conclusion that Newcastle, an industrial shipping town on the NSW central coast, must be a formidably boring place to live. That’s why incredibly impressive music like this keeps dripping from there like a giant, moist mop of twenty-something angst held above Sydney: Boatfriends is kinda like I Break Horses if their [...]
New Van She
Following up Herve’s very early leak of his ‘Idea of Happiness’ remix a few months back here’s the real deal title single from Van She’s upcoming record. I’ve listened to it twice already and even considered logging into Soundcloud to leave a really enthusiastic comment with a smiley like this ヽ（´ー｀）┌ It’s THAT good. Van [...]
Enerate
More of this please. Glow-wave nice guys singing like their balls upped and left home a few months ago. Really lo-fi, twee, utterly delightful/shitty little tune from a fresh-faced Sydney electro quartet. Love it. Unstoppable by Enerate How good are the mile-high sweeps into that brutalised 8-bit lead line. AWESOME. More Enerate here
Kristy Lee
The lady with the vocal pipes behind tracks from Pnau and Tonight Only has a little project with friend Mike Ross Here’s their debut fiddle-around called Space In Between – it’s softly spoken electro-pop, don’t stare at it too much or you’ll hurt its feelings. Space In Between by klpmusic More from KLP here
Swimwear
Tim, the co-man behind Dappled Cities has a new retro-pop sideproject called Swimwear. It’s shiny, it’s popular, it looks good on, it’s everything you want in a swimsuit. The full EP is pay-what-you-feel on Bandcamp now, so throw Tim a few coins would ya? Easy High by swimwearmusic Check out Tim’s Facebook too. Why wouldn’t [...]
Ginger And The Ghost
When two self-professed ‘visual artists’ turn their hand to music and production, you generally call ‘SLASHY’ and promptly ignore them until they appear on the cover of Oyster mag several months later. At which point you pretend you were into it from the start. At least that’s what I do. But me ol’ chum Dan [...]
TokyoDenmarkSweden
TokyoDenmarkSweden – electro with a fuzzy, DIY bent. Reminds me of YesYou. Not a bad song, but the track could do with some better mixing. Plenty more from these guys here
We Can Dance (Frames Remix)
Old mate Frames on a wicked flip of Lancelot’s upcoming single Blowing up the internet x
LANCELOT – Spoken Word
First track from Sydney-based bro Lancelot’s upcoming EP release “We Can Dance” – coming soon on Binary. French Express giving it heaps of mad/sweet props, so worth a listen we say: -Mandu
Rdio/Vice Party feat. Twin Shadow, Collarbones & Das Racist
This Saturday Feb 4th Vice and music streaming service Rdio are taking over Bondi’s Beach Road Hotel and cramming it full of bands including Das Racist, Canyons, Alpine, Collarbones and Jonti with DJ sets from Twin Shadow & Austra. Better yet it’s a free gig – you just need to win one of the 300 [...]
VEEN
Composed of 2/9ths Ex-Protectors, 2/9ths(?) Ex-Ernest Ellis band, VEEN is showy, cosmic synth-pop that gives a wink and a nod to early Crystal Castles. Brand new Sydney music, see what you make of it: M I N D V I R U S by V E E N 8 B I T L E O [...]
JAGWAR MA
New project from Jono Ma, formerly of The Valentinos/The Lost Valentinos/Valentines Day: The Movie. Here’s something you wouldn’t expect – some riffy beach-side crooner psych, replete with Ghostwood’s leadman on vocals: Come Save Me by Jagwar Ma Does it make you want to wear weather inappropriate clothing and writhe around in the park? Perhaps it [...]
MESAN
A fantastically muscly mini-mix from two deep diving Sydney gents, put together for a gig at the Entertainment Quarter last weekend. Spring Music Promo by Mesan Nothing else to say apart from that really – Mesan OG’s coming soon (I hope)! xMandu
aBillion
You may remember a certain degree of splooging over a band called So I’m Jo last year on this very blog. aBillion is the rising electronic phoenix to emerge from the dissolution of So I’m Jo, and I’ve been informed by a good chum that there’s brand new material coming very shortly that will shake [...]
Elizabeth Rose