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I wrote up the awesome Julianna Barwick back in December 2007, if you liked her you are going to love Pikelet. Pikelet is Evelyn Morris, who started out her music career here in Melbourne as a hardcore drummer, a few years back she switched from drum kit to a mix of classical guitar, piano accordion, [...]

I must confess I have always had a soft spot for Suzanne Vega’s work since I first heard back in the Eighties. Jools and I saw her at the Dallas Brooks Hall in the late Eighties (September 1987 it turns out) and find that I can still call up memories of the performance (which for [...]

Every year there is a “summer song”, some of the bands that have filled this role have survived past the end of summer (the Ramones, Blink 182), most don’t (anyone remember Wheatus?). Don’t take this the wrong way the summer rock song is a tricky proposition to pull off. You cant just throw out any [...]

Chairlift are the latest poster children for Apple. Yep these are the dudes responsible for the music in the new Nano ad. (Yes,yes yes, I am being seduced by the music in Apple ads again, rather ironic really when you consider that the iPod doesn’t have a radio, remember when radio was how we discovered [...]

Have you ever been rummaging through your playlist and found a band and not have any idea where it came from. That’s what happened to me with Almadrava. They have been on the MP3 player for months now, they show up and I think “Wow, that’s really cool” and the list move on and at [...]

Sunday night is here and I’m going out to catch a band, and today involves a further treat because I found Selena Cross. A young South Australian singer/songwriter and musician who currently lives in Sydney or Melbourne or somewhere else – it depends what you read. I’m thinking that I probably should have heard about [...]

Fleet Foxes is a five-piece Seattle based band they describe their music as “baroque harmonic pop jams” (I really like that as a description). Their music has a heavy emphasis on harmony, simple three- and four-part block harmony. The songs are about friends and family, history, nature, and the things that surround them in the [...]