Following up what many consider to be the band’s best album (if nothing else it was their highest selling in Australia) Diorama will be Silverchair’s fifth entitled Young Modern which is set to be released …

As of late the only thing that has recently outshined Beck’s live shows, filled with a utensil jam band and marionettes, is one Borat Sagdiyev. With YouTube posts at an all time high for …

[by David Barnes]
Even as an amateur music reviewer, I have received a flood of CDs from independent artists. While I am expected to ‘judge’ these CDs, I make sure to do so from a perspective …

[by David Lukins]
With the recent release of their latest EP I had the opportunity to speak with Sibylla Stephen, co-lead vocalist of up-and-coming Aussie folk-acoustic outfit The Little Stevies. Playing a cheeky, raw mix of …

Black metal is a strange thing, to a certain sects of fan it can take on entirely different meanings and embody a completely different lifestyle. Take a comparison between the Norwegian band Immortal and San …

Roughly a month ago it was brought to my attention that Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson would be releasing an album of new material, this time with an interestingly historic running theme surrounding his relationship with both his father and one IBM1401.

Outside of a certain realm of music fan, despite his overwhelming catalogue and history, Harry Nilsson is still a slightly obscure reference, much like The Walkmen. Despite being “music fans” there is a large …

With his latest album, The Information, Beck has once again transformed himself as an artist as he transitioned his persona even further into that of a musician in the dark ages of electro-blues. Beck …

With the effects of 2004’s Dig! still reeling throughout modern rock, The Upsidedown serve as the link between new and old; between neo-psychedelia and modern garage. Forming over the course of a few years …

I was sitting in a meeting Monday afternoon and it suddenly came to me, the difference between early 90’s alt-heroines Liz Phair and PJ Harvey. They were both universally known for passionate romanticism gone …