Gareth Liddiard: aliens, rap and weirdness
To say The Drones have entered darker and weirder territory on their latest record, Feelin Kinda Free, is a foreboding statement. The band, officially now a five-piece, have been gleefully mutating into […]
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Top 10 favourite Australian songs
Making an arbitrary list is like creating a mix tape, only more narcissistic and time-consuming. But compiling my top 10 favourite Australian songs has proved a pleasant distraction and an excuse to go back and revisit […]
Top 20 albums of 2013
The difficulty experienced during the construction of this list suggests that it was a very good year for music. Hard choices were made. There were some massive albums, some of […]
Gareth Liddiard: interview
After their monumental 2008 record Havilah, it was hard to know where The Drones would go next. But they returned this year with their sixth album, I See Seaweed – another colossal musical journey. […]
Splendour In The Grass 2013
After many years of lobbying the bureaucratic powers of Byron Bay to have their festival moved from its long-time home of Belongil Fields to the North Byron Parklands, the promoters […]
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