A DZ Deathrays live show is unlike any I have been to in quite a while. Loud, wild and unpredictable this two piece are a guitar and drums driven maelstrom hard driving guitar riffs with deceptively rhythmic beats that force the crowd away from the sidelines and onto the dance floor. The name Velociraptor fits the support band well;...
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Bluesfest as a music festival is a marathon, not a sprint. Considering the huge line-up that featured this year I came to realisation that I wasn’t going to see everything but I was going to damn well try. Bluesfest was one of the best run festivals I have ever attended, not once over the five days did I see an overflow of...
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After some seriously big recent shows with the Foo Fighters and Tenacious D, a new single and a huge tour just announced, we caught up with Hannah Findlay from Stonefield for a quick chat. It’s just been announced you are playing at Triple J’s One Night Stand in Dalby this year. You guys are from a country town I’m...
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Manchester Orchestra sort of snuck up on me, I had heard their 2009 album Mean Everything to Nothing but it didn’t really stick with me and they faded off my radar for a while, until last Tuesday. Manchester Orchestra are a peculiar group of elements that wouldn’t necessarily mesh well together if you talked about it, but after...
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Is there anything more valuable to a young band than promotion from another artist, what if that artist was Russell Lissack, guitarist from indie legends Bloc Party? On the eve of their album debut Lissack helped build buzz for the Brisbane band considerable after his tweeted his praise for In a Million Years. They needed no...
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