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Artist: Wooden Shjips
Website: http://www.myspace.com/woodenshjips
Track Name: Shrinking Moon for You (edit)
Playback: flash
Download?: No
Every so often you stumble across a piece of music or a band that remind you why you started playing guitar. Wooden Shjips is one of those bands. Now I won’t kid you, this isn’t nice safe indie pop we are […]

Ross Ryan AND Spectrum, that’s what the email read.
CD Launch. OK?
At a bar… where do I sign.
Seriously though, how often do you get to spend an evening with two of your old favourite acts and a bunch of friends. I also finally picked up a small digital recorder that I had been reading about for […]

Artist: Johnny O’Keefe
Track Name: Sing,sing,sing
Playback: mp3/flash
Download?: Yes
Looking more like a jockey or a boxer than a pop star, Johnny O’Keefe was Australia’s first rock idol, an important part of the worldwide phenomenon sweeping the world in the mid 1950’s, rock’n’roll.
Despite lacking the classic good looks of Elvis or Cliff Richard, O’Keefe was a dynamite live […]

Artist: Richard Thompson
Website: http://www.richardthompson-music.com/
Track Name: Vincent Black Lightning 1952,
Playback: mp3
Download?: Yes
A long time ago in a reality far, far away, (I’m pretty sure it goes something like that…) there was a band called Fairport Convention, and somewhere in the early Seventies I heard their truly awesome album “Liege and Leif” and discovered Richard Thompson on […]

Artist: I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVY
Track Name: FIRE
St Kilda peaked as the centre of Melbourne’s music scene in the early to mid 1980’s, before insatiable developers, rising rents and changing tastes sent many of the more interesting venues and bands packing.
“Immigrants” from the middle and outer suburbs flocked to St Kilda in droves, drawn by […]