Posted by admin on Nov 8, 2009 Melbourne-based rock quartet – and one of my favourite Australian hard rock acts – Mammal, have officially split. The announcement was made yesterday via a post on their website that says: Due to long standing personal, political, musical and business differences, Mammal has decided it cannot continue and is no more. Ezekiel Ox will be releasing the debut album for...

Posted by admin on Nov 2, 2009 Canadian duo crank out the powerpop on album number six Reviewing Tegan & Sara’s work is difficult, if only because I’m pretty sure that what has hampered the group’s success – their open lesbianism, the fact that they are twins , and the perversely popular idea that they might have sex with each other – are also the reasons that so many people...

Posted by admin on Oct 14, 2009 The issue for Scarlett Johansson’s musical career is this: she’s so earnest in courting an indie music crowd that she risks alienating those adoring film fans who might actually slap $30 on the barrelhead for one of her albums. I mean, her first album was a collection of Tom Waits covers produced by Dave Sitek, when lord knows she could simply have gotten Timbaland to...

Posted by admin on Aug 22, 2009 I’ll be the first to admit it – this blog has participated in some cheap Guy Sebastian bashing in the past. Not because I don’t like the guy – I think he’s amazingly talented. In fact, I’d go so far as to say he’s got the second best voice in Australia, behind Anna Weatherup. More about that here… I do it because it gets a cheap...

Posted by admin on Jul 26, 2009 I have only just discovered Chickenfoot. Apparently their first performance together was in February 2008 at a Sammy Hagar concert in Las Vegas. When I read that, I had that terrible sinking feeling – perhaps I don’t have my finger on the pulse of music that I thought I had! But then I read that their debut album came out on June 5th, 2009. Ahh – my journalistic...