Archive for 'Brag 460 (April 30)'
[MUSIC: Interview] San Cisco
San Cisco At A Crossroads By Alasdair Duncan San Cisco’s bouncy boy-girl duet ‘Awkward’ climbed to the number seven spot on triple j’s recent Hottest 100, a smashing success for the young Perth group. When they got the news, they were hard at work in the very studio where they recorded that song. “It felt [...]
Posted: May 6th, 2012 under Brag 460 (April 30), Music, Music - Interview, Splendour In The Grass 2012.
Tags: Alasdair Duncan, San Cisco, The Brag, The Standard
[MUSIC: Interview] Pennywise
Pennywise All Or Nothing By Benjamin Cooper “Dude, I’m really sorry I was late to take your call – I was rescuing a pelican down at the beach who’d been attacked by some of our local Californian weekend warrior assholes.” So begins my interview with Zoltán ‘Zoli’ Téglás, the new-ish frontman of West Coast punk [...]
Posted: May 6th, 2012 under Brag 460 (April 30).
Tags: All Or Nothing, Benjamin Cooper, Pennywise, The Brag, Zoltán 'Zoli' Téglás
[MUSIC: Interview] The Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats Between The Devil And The Deep By Caitlin Welsh Sydney has fared well on the exclusive-shows front recently – see this year’s Vivid LIVE lineup for more than a few examples – but here’s one more to make steam pour out your ears: in March, in New York and London in turn, [...]
Posted: May 6th, 2012 under Brag 460 (April 30), Music, Music - Interview.
Tags: John Darnielle, The Brag, The Metro Theatre, The Mountain Goats, Transcendental Youth
[MUSIC: Interview] The Darkness
The Darkness Vaudeville Kings By Caitlin Welsh It might have been the catsuits; the falsetto; the persistent rumours that one of the singles was not, in fact, a love song but was about genital warts; the shimmering layer of camp stretched over the whole escapade like so much purple Lycra; but somewhere on the way [...]
Posted: May 6th, 2012 under Brag 460 (April 30), Music, Music - Interview.
Tags: Caitlin Welsh, Frankie Poullain, The Brag, The Darkness, UNSW Roundhouse, Voodoo Sons
[MUSIC: Interview] Orbital
Orbital Synth City By Laurence Rosier Staines In 2010 I fled from Playground Weekender clutching a dalek; it belonged to UK dance duo Orbital, whose set had pushed me into a place where this sort of hopped-up thievery felt more like a gesture of devotion. I confess this to Phil Hartnoll, the elder of the [...]
Posted: May 6th, 2012 under Brag 460 (April 30), Music, Music - Interview, New.
Tags: Hartnoll, Laurence Rosier Staines, Orbital, Phil Hartnoll, The Brag, The Metro Theatre, Wonky