ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 4 JULY, 2021 30 years on from their breakout release Blokes You Can Trust and the Cosmic Psychos are about to go back where they belong: on the road. Mainstay and…
Category: Rock
YOU AM I: Other Lives
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 6 MAY, 2021 One of the most important and influential Australian rock bands of the last thirty years, You Am I have returned to their rightful place in front…
THE SCREAMING JETS: Bitter Pills
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 16 OCTOBER 2020 Australian music legends The Screaming Jets should have been celebrating 31 years of hard rocking this year with another big tour through the Autumn and winter. They…
THE CASANOVAS: Rock N Roll Overlords
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 11 SEPTEMBER 2020 “Stuck in lockdown, so it’s groundhog day every day,” is Tommy Boyce’s answer when he’s asked how things have been for him recently. With the latest…
F L O A T I N G M E: The Journey Continues
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 8 MARCH 2011 It would be difficult for a dedicated Australian music fan to have not heard the name Lucius Borich at some point during the past twenty years….
ELECTRIC MARY: Spreading the Love
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 23 OCTOBER 2014 “Who is this biggest band in Australia?” Rusty Brown says, subverting the question about why his band is not. “I don’t know. Does anyone know? I think the…
DEAD LETTER CIRCUS: Lighting the Fire
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 31 AUGUST 2013 Dead Letter Circus bass player Stewart Hill is incredulous when he’s told that among the many, many CDs lining the walls of the Loud office is an EP…
THE HARD-ONS: All Set to Go!
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON May 16, 2014 Thirty years is a long time in rock n’ roll. For any band to last that long is tough. When the band started out as three…
BENTO: Some Days are Diamonds
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 18 OCTOBER 2012 As the drummer with Silverchair, Ben Gillies had five consecutive #1 albums, won more ARIA Awards than Springsteen has Grammys and sold in excess of six…
SEAWITCH – Well of Spells
80% After years travelling the world and exploring many of the different avenues that life has to offer, Fiona Horne returned to Australia during lockdown and re-ignited an old friendship with The…