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Oh god, Skillet are a Christian band. You wouldn’t know from their playing though. I have had “Comatose” floating around the MP3 player for a while now and it is a ripper and only discover. I only discovered their beliefs when I looked up their bio and spotted this bit
Skillet’s music is a mixture [...]

Short, sharp and to the point. That’s my initial reaction to “The Weather Machines” song “Parts Of Speech” and “202”
The Weather Machines (the musical alias of Jason Ward), produce an infectious brand of guitar-driven, indie pop-rock. You will find yourself tapping your foot almost immediately (and unconsciously) and the more extroverted of you may even [...]

Deleted Scenes is one of those bands that I kept hearing about rather than actually hearing. So I was wonderfully surprised when they turned out to be way better than I was expecting. You know the kind of thing, everyone sings a bands praises and when you get to finally hear them, you end up [...]

Wintergreen are yummy. THis is the sort of music that I love having on the MP3 player, I’ll admit It’s the combination of Fender Rhodes and crunchy guitars on their song “Forest St” that does it for me (the bass solo is a big plus as well). But the vocals and the lyrics have a [...]

Continuing on from yesterdays post about Canadian band “Wintermitts”, today’s band is also from Canada. Wolf Parade is an indie rock band from Victoria (British Columbia).

Another band pursuing it’s own idea of what rock music sounds like, there is a joyous edge to their music. They like to take chances

I spotted Dan Wilson a few weeks back on Rockwiz and was really taken with his act. He walked out on stage, kind of nerdy looking, sits down behind his piano and by now I’m thinking who is this guy?
Then he started singing and I was just blown away. Clever words and a great [...]

Flicking through the channels this week I was galvanised by the video of The Galvatrons. This four piece is from my hometown of Melbourne and I can’t quite put my finger on what it is about them that jars though, it’s almost as though they are laughing through all that hair.
Some hype from the Warner [...]