Head over to www.intoavoid.blogspot.com Check it out, its a little less broad but good none the less Read More

The Remainders are a new band who play with a style that is quite old. Listening to their live set reveals the raw hard hitting punch of Nirvana with the classy style of Led Zeppelin. Some… Read More

The Triple J Hottest 100 was launched on the 26th celebrating the best music of 2005. Bernard Fanning came in at number one with Wish You Well and Ben Lee took second with Catch My Disease… Read More

This story jumped out from The Age:What a short, strange trip it was. After the Grateful Dead angered some of its biggest fans by asking a non-profit website to halt the free downloading of… Read More

Stoner rock, psychedelic metal, call it what you will, an Australian band has never attempted it, until now. Bands like Fu Manchu, Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age (which formed from Kyuss… Read More

Morphine is a band that I have only discovered recently, but, unfortunately, they no longer exist. The bassist and lead singer, Mark Sandman, collapsed on stage July 3rd, 1999, at the Giardi… Read More

Australian band the Vines have completed a new album which is due for release some time next year. They disappeared from the lime light when their singer Craig Nicholls was diagnosed with As… Read More

On Friday 3rd I’m heading out to Ambervale youth center to see the Remainders and a whole lotta of other heavy rock bands. The Remainders are in a studio at the moment recording an alb… Read More

I went to the White Stripes side concert last Wednesday at the Hordern Pavilion, and was once again blown away at how good they are, it is always amazing to see them pull off the songs that… Read More

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The guitar solo, something bands can tastefully or not so tastefully put somewhere in a song. They can either boost a song or give the artist another point of expression. But it can also be… Read More

Here it is - Rolling Stone Magazine's top 50 albums of the year. Amazing that the Rolling Stones can still make a high selling record with their latest, A Bigger Bang, reaching #2 in the UK… Read More

The folks from the website www.thisdayinmusic.com have released a book about; yep you guessed it, musical facts, album/song chart positions, births and deaths of musicians on each day of the… Read More

Get With The Times is a new podcast by my friend Peter, also the author of the podcast/blog Open Your Eyes. This new blog is a look at the most important artists and their songs of certain d… Read More

The Sixties are often cited as the era when rock music was created. Rock Music is defined as a group of related music styles that have dominated popular music in the West since about 1955. R… Read More

Went to a gig on Wednesday night, it was okay not exactly my cup of tea but most of it good music. The line up in order was Malfunction, the Remainders, the Small Hours and Dappled Cities Fl… Read More

For those of you who do not know this band you are missing out on: . the next best thing in Australian music . a spacey psychedelic mix of keyboard, bass and guitar . a… Read More

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To sum up the album, it could be best described as short and sweet. But this one assumes is the point with the promised release of the ‘second half,’ Hypnotize to be released Nov… Read More

This is the lineup so far for this years Sydney Homebake festival. It will of course increase and I will keep you informed of updates. I’m considering going but at the moment the only… Read More

If you are in NSW and you want to see the Remainder’s live (the exciting new band I talked about, see earlier post) then head down to the Young Music Festival (a town two hours away fr… Read More

One Zeppelin’s early acoustic/electric folk ballads remain a favourite for many fans although unlike other songs of the ilk (Over The Hills And Far Away, Bron-Yur-Stomp etc) it was nev… Read More

Super groups are what you get when members from different bands leave their band and join with other people from different bands. They are super because if their original band was popular th… Read More

Grunge is basically the use of overdriven guitars mixed with overwrought vocals. As is often the case the belief is that Nirvana created Grunge, although their sound is mostly the base for m… Read More

Haven't done any serious blogging for a while but I have some real good pieces coming up. I have an article on John Lennon and one on who created Grunge. I will have a feature article on a g… Read More