Gleeful Sydneysiders go for a carefree jaunt down a higgledy-piggledy cobblestone lane, pints and pies in their roly-poly bellies. Their jolly frolic is folly and they sound so British it hurts! Jingle jangle jangle go the trebly strums, flip flop flip go the wispy bangs. This will sell. ...

A Beginner's Guide to the Sea is the first Holy Sea release since their debut Blessed Unrest appeared in 2000 to widespread acclaim and inevitable Triffids comparisons. Thankfully, while their productivity makes Portishead looks like workaholics, the quality control remains sky-high. ...

Hmmm … some ear and eye candy for a change. Although the sleeve notes of Triple J’s Hottest 100 vol.15 try to present this as a representative selection of 2007’s music, there’s a bit of a game going on here. Whereas the “Songs Most Chosen By Rage Guest Programmers” series is free to c...

After the re-release in 2007 of the ill-fated Lethal Weapons punk compilation and La Femme’s eponymous debut album, Shock imprint Savage Beat! has continued the current nostalgia bent, releasing two CDs that showcase the work of Melbourne punk Garry Gray -- from his fledgling work in the ...

If part of Aussie pub rock is about lack of pretension then Eddy Current Suppression Ring are its new crowned kings; they play it at its funnest and most unaffected. Or maybe they just take its good bits -- the drinking bits and dancing bits, where good jams win out over the overwrought, ...

Now You’re Infected!!! is the debut album by The Night Of Love, a psychedelic improv outfit with members based in Brisbane and Newcastle. Most of the 12-strong ensemble play in other bands such as Crab Smasher, Brasskulls and Taste of Teeth to name just a few, and while this album was ...

Firekites are, if you like, a sort of supergroup, inasmuch as its members can be also be found playing in groups such as The Instant, Pivot and The Herd, or with everybody’s mum’s favourite nice guy, Josh Pyke. So they’re not nobodies, then, which might account for their sudden appeara...

Forget the somewhat sinister name – Morning Stalker doesn’t just doesn’t do menacing. Eerie? Yes. Haunting? Sure. But what darkness there is on 'Bromden' is the hazy kind you find in the gloaming, not the impenetrable black of midnight. The first third of ‘Bromden’ sees Morgan McK...

Andrew Tuttle, who is Anonymeye, used to live in Brisbane; John McCaffrey, who is Part Timer, used to live in Northern England; both now live in Melbourne. This is more relevant to this split CD-R than it may seem: the four tracks on Silhouettes 3 (one from Tuttle and three from McCaffrey...

Man du jour. Fondu with a man in it. These are merely two examples of having fun with Mandu. I am sure there are more. Actually, for awhile there I masqueraded as Mandu, posting illogical comments on friends’ blogs, prompting recourse of the dumbfounded variety: "Oh Mandu you've done ...