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“The lock-out laws are killing Sydney’s night life and, by default, damaging our cultural identity and music scene.” Exploding Soho I WANT TO CONGRATULATE you on your recent feature article on Violent Soho in April 2016 magazine [RS 763]. It is good to see you have resisted the urge of putting a more popular artist in Chris Martin on the cover and instead have focused on promoting an Australian band who really may be just about to explode. Keep up the good work. Hayden McCarthy, Mount Annan, NSW Let Buckley Be IN YOUR STORY ON THE RE- lease of the new Jeff Buckley album, “You and I”, you ask Buckley’s A&R man Steve Berkowitz what Jeff would make of his archives being raided and released. Though Berkowitz waives the question…
TELEVISION GAME OF THRONES RETURNS TO WESTEROS Season Six of the celebrated show hits Australian screens from April 25th. We follow the lead up to the launch, as well as give you weekly recaps of all the blood, backstabbing and debauchery. RECAP 2016 REUNIONS COACHELLA Our full coverage of the highly anticipated comeback shows from Guns N’ Roses and LCD Soundsystem at the famed U.S. festival. MUSIC HOT RIGHT NOW NEW MUSIC Daily premieres of albums, EPs and videos, as well as our weekly Friday wrap-up of the best new music from emerging local artists. WATCH MY SOUNDTRACK ECCA VANDAL The rising Melbourne electro-rock-punk star walks us through the songs that have defined her life, with plenty of surprising inclusions. EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: RANDY HANSEN We chat to the main man…
Bieber Crushes Seattle Justin Bieber kicked off his 100-plus date Purpose tour in Seattle with all the spectacle you’d expect – blasting off the stage on a pressurised platform and dancing through fire and water. The night also had its unscripted moments: “This guy offered me a banana in the front row,” he told the crowd. “I don’t know what he’s trying to insinuate, but I’m good on potassium right now.” Iggy Pop: Raw Dog Twenty-one New York Academy of Art students got a big assignment when Iggy Pop posed as a nude model for a series that will be exhibited in the autumn. The students “were very impressed with his poses and his presence”, says professor Jeremy Deller. PARTY CRASHERS Lorde and Taylor Swift (she recently called Lorde her…
AS RIVERS CUOMO began writing his latest batch of Weezer songs, his producer, Jake Sinclair, asked what it would take to get back into the mindset that produced the band’s classic first two albums. “I need to get out of the house,” Cuomo replied. He ended up doing way more. He grew back the beard he wore when the band recorded 1996’s Pinkerton. He started watching young surfers at Venice Beach in hopes of finding lyrical inspiration. He even signed up for Tinder – for purely platonic purposes. “My wife’s cool with it,” Cuomo says with a shrug. The result is the band’s fourth self-titled LP (out now), destined to be known as the White Album, thanks to a cover image that shows the band near a lifeguard tower on…
OUT OF THE DORM ROOM, INTO THE STUDIO Car Seat Headrest’s Will Toledo wrote most of the 2015 LP Teens of Style as an angsty college kid. The follow-up, Teens of Denial (out late autumn), takes his psych-pop vision to new heights, with a sharp-edged sound abetted by Seattle producer Steve Fisk. “My viewpoint has changed a lot since the songs started,” Toledo says. “I was feeling much bleaker about life at the time.” DE LA SOUL’S BIG, GUEST-PACKED BLOWOUT For their first LP in 12 years, the Kick-starter-funded And the Anonymous Nobody, the rap trio went all in, recording with a live band, L.A.’s Rhythm Roots Allstars, and getting assists from Damon Albarn, Usher, Snoop Dogg, Jill Scott, Pete Rock, Estelle and even David Byrne. “He’s asking me for…
THE REPLACEMENTS’ CAREER began as it ended: in total disaster. Playing their first show as the Impediments at a sober club hosted by a teen rehab centre in St. Paul, Minnesota, they took the stage with 12-year-old bassist Tommy Stinson displaying a cannabis leaf on his instrument; they were caught drinking, ejected and threatened with blacklisting. Sensibly, they changed their name, and the most exciting, self-destructive indie-rock heroes of the Eighties were born. This sort of tragicomedy defined a band that could be thrilling and poignant on a good night – and on a bad one, a train wreck nearly as awesome. Memphis journalist Bob Mehr vividly charts its bumpy arc through a recent reunion, delivering mythic battle tales like a barroom historian: the vandalised tour vehicles, the couch hurled…
