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Interview : Bluejuice

What's News- Groovin' The Moo

What's News-2010

Summer time and the living is easy....

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Why NOFX are great

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Interview : Diana Anaid

September 2nd 2010 09:27

Diana Anaid has come a long way since the success of the single “I’ll Go Off”. Countless tours criss-crossing the country and playing with Australian music’s more prominent women. She continues to write great folk based tunes and has started her own label to release her fourth album. Touring with good friend and recent collaborator Monique Brumby, Diana found ten minutes to sit down an answer some questions about her career so far and display her fondness for smileys!!!

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Interview : Blue King Brown

August 31st 2010 09:42

Natalie Pa’apa’a is chilling at home after returning from Europe. “ We’ve just come back from some festivals in Europe where alot of people have seen us for the first time and had a really great response.” She’s also pretty excited to be finally talking about the new Blue King Brown album Worldwize (North and South). For the band this album has become quite a journey starting in 2008 and taking 2 years and flying half way around the world to get to the final product. “It’s a double disc with North and South now and it will be followed with East and West later on.” Natalie explained the reason for the long time frame as “ It longer to realise the sound and the music we wanted to create. We kind of threw out restrictions and committed to crafting each song and making it ready.”

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Avenged Sevenfold - "nightmare"

August 30th 2010 08:56

I think I mistook Avenged Sevenfold for something they clearly were not. When there was a buzz about this band in the scene a few years back I slotted them into the current fad of screamo bands and thus, never paid them any attention. With the hype surrounding the new album and a spot on 2011 Soundwave bill, I thought it was only fair to give the new album a spin and my perception totally changed.

Avenged Sevenfold's new album is full of the great melodic guitar riffs that hark back to the glory days of Metallica and Iron Maiden. Opening cut and title track takes you back to the hay day of mid-eighties metal. A track that inspires headbanging and air guitar solos. The album settles into heavy rock. 'Welcome To The Family' is a solid track even if at times lyrically it comes across a touch cheesy. The album rolls along at a great pace until it shifts down a gear at 'So Far Away' and we get a handful of slower tracks which at first reminded me of the band Extreme. (For those of you over 30 you will know who they were-or just youtube them) The change in direction feels a little out of place but is the band's attempt to show greater depth in songwriting and opens for more experimentation in further years

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Interview : Sister Jane

August 25th 2010 11:56

*as printed on musicfeeds.com*

Sister Jane hail from the cold climates of The Blue Mountains but play some of the warmest, fuzz driven psychedelic rock you’ll hear. Playing MUM this coming Friday, Dan from the band took some time out from work to answer a few questions about the band.
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Interview : The Priory Dolls

August 23rd 2010 11:05

Preparing to make their way up to Sydney to perform, I grabbed a few moments with Rory to give us a run down on The Priory Dolls.

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Devil’s Brigade - “devil’s brigade”

August 22nd 2010 00:57

Matt Freeman from Rancid’s solo project has seen the light of day in between Rancid not touring Australia and while Tim works on another Transplants album. Our first taste was back during the Give Em The Boot samplers Hellcat records used to put out. That offering ‘Vampire Girl’ (which has bee recorded here) was a gritty psychobilly affair with Matt’s graveled vocals and some fine slapping double bass work. With the debut self titled Matt has expanded on that pyschobilly root and added dynamics such as western, rockabilly, punk and blues. The end result is a dozen tracks of, and this pains me to say, mediocre songs.

This album has such potential to be great. Matt is a wonderful bass player. In fact, he is one of the most underrated bassists in music today. Yet the transition to an upright bass sees him simplify and take the shine off his own ability. Vocally, it fails. His harsh growling voice suits the pace of a Rancid song, but here, it’s mismatched. Either he needs to “sing” (which I’ve heard him do in back up vocals with Rancid) or the pace of the music needs to be quicker to accommodate. The songs themselves are not to bad. Tim Armstrong’s guitar work is impressive. Tracks like opener ‘I’m Movin’ Through’ & ‘My Own Man Now’ are straight up punk rock tracks, but it’s when he moves away into traditional rockabilly and touches of country music where it starts to fall apart. He just doesn’t quite pull it off. ‘Shakedown’ sounds like a Rancid B-side from their last record. ‘Bridge Of Gold’, sung by Tim and Lars feels unnatural and ‘Ride Harley’ is neither here or there

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Interview : Only The Sea Slugs

August 19th 2010 18:57

*The fine people of musicfeeds got me to talk to Sydney band Only The Sea Slugs. This is the result*

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Darren Hanlon @ The Factory Theatre 13/8/10

August 18th 2010 11:03

Georgia Fair are two young guys who play the most chilled, laid back summer tunes. The kind of music you could listen to in a beer garden on a Sunday afternoon, ideally over looking the beach. You may also recognize the song Picture Frame from the Moove ad. The duo did a great job of setting up the vibe in the room and made alot of people pay attention. Their short set certainly impressed.

I’ve always been impressed by Darren Hanlon’s songs. There’s a real creative story telling in his lyrics and he can take the simplest of situations and turn them into a fascinating song (like missing a bus in Los Angeles and then getting wrong directions back). With his new album “I Will Love You At All”, he stood a solemn figure on stage for the first few tracks before bringing out his new band featuring opening act Shelley Short on drums. With band in tow, Darren displayed a variety in his songs. Part country, part folk part alternative pop all mixed with his subtle humour.
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Interview : The Boo Hoo Hoos

August 17th 2010 09:54

The Boo Hoo Hoo’s are on tour with The Ravenous (see yesterdays post) so Music Feeds let me catch up with the boys to find out what shenanigans have gone down so far.

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INterview : The Ravenous

August 16th 2010 09:20

According to The Ravenous if you like acid house, hip hop or breakbeat, horrorcore, new jack swing, industrial metal, disco, avant-garde jazz or sludge metal you should check them out. Through the good people at Music Feeds, I had a chat with the guys and I have no idea what to think.