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Upcoming Cheap Melbourne Gigs

February 6, 2010 by Lachy 1 Comment

If there’s one problem with loving live music it’s that it really can get expensive sometimes. With that in mind I’ve compiled this list of great bands you can see in Melbourne over the coming months, all for less than $25 each (including six $15 or under!), which is phenomenal value for money.

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Album Review: Whitley ‘Go Forth, Find Mammoth’

November 6, 2009 by Lachy 0 Comments

Whitley is an Australian singer/songwriter (actual name: Lawrence Greenwood), and his new album ‘Go Forth, Find Mammoth’, has just been released. I know, funky name, isn’t it? Whitely’s first album, ‘The Submarine’, generated a lot of buzz, and songs from it were featured in commercials, movies, TV shows, you name it. In its finest moments, […]

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Album Review: Girls ‘Album’

November 2, 2009 by Lachy 0 Comments

San Francisco drug-pop outfit Girls have the dubious honour of being one of the most difficult to Google bands of all time. Not only is the band name a rather popular term for Google, but they even called their first album… ‘Album’. But really, who cares, when it’s this good? Somehow, in a world full […]

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You Have To Hear: Horse Feathers

October 31, 2009 by Lachy 1 Comment

So I’ve been looking at a lot of summer music lately- fitting given that I’m based in Australia, but maybe not so fitting for my international readers. So here’s a band that reminds me more of winter, Horse Feathers. Horse Feathers are an indie folk band from Portland. They specialise in sweeping choruses, heartfelt lyrics, […]

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You Have To Hear: Your Twenties

October 30, 2009 by Lachy 1 Comment

Your Twenties hail from London, and are next in a long line of artists to have generated a solid fan-base before having even released an album. Thanks, internet! In this case it is definitely deserved, however. These guys’ sound is so polished and seems to come so easily that you feel as if you’re listening […]

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You Have To Hear: The Chairs

October 30, 2009 by Lachy 3 Comments

The Chairs are an indie rock band from Wisconsin, which of course is most famous at the moment for the rather magnificent claim of having given birth to Bon Iver. They have taken the interesting strategy of self-releasing their albums and songs, and I mean genuinely self-releasing. This probably helps in some way to add […]

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