Tag: Lachlan Kanoniuk
[MUSIC: Interview] Tool
Maynard James Keenan is speaking from ‘The Bunker’, the studio at his Caduceus Cellars winery in Arizona, where he’s just finished pre-filtering and is about to start bottling. Winemaking is Keenan’s passion – even more than making music. Such is his commitment to his vineyard, Tool tour and record only when a break in the wine season allows it.
Posted: April 22nd, 2013 under Brag 509, Music, Music - Interview, New.
Tags: Allphones Arena, Lachlan Kanoniuk, Maynard James Keenan, Sydney, Tool
[MUSIC: Interview] Big Scary
It was a pent-up, volcanic build towards Vacation, the debut album from affable Melbourne duo Big Scary. The lead-up to the full-length featured a bevy of EP-oriented material, most notably the stellar compilation of their Four Seasons EPs. After an intensely prolific initial burst, Tom Iansek and Jo Syme have established a relatively measured approach for their keenly anticipated second LP proper, Not Art. Ahead of their album-prefacing Australian tour (replete with the debut of a supplementary third touring member), Iansek rationalises the band’s steady evolution.
Posted: April 15th, 2013 under Brag 508, Music, Music - Interview.
Tags: Big Scary, Caitlin Park, GoodGod Small Club, Lachlan Kanoniuk, Not Art, Pieater/Inertia
[MUSIC: Interview] Purity Ring
With the line between indie and everything else as blurred as ever, Montreal duo Purity Ring (vocalist Megan James and producer Corin Roddick) are circumspect about being pigeonholed into that genre – if in fact it even exists. “I honestly don’t see much separation between [indie and non-indie music],” says Roddick. “Personally, I don’t see myself as an indie artist, I don’t listen to any indie music; I only listen to popular music… I want us to be a popular band that makes pop music. I don’t have any interest in making us seem like we have some cool indie cred going on, I don’t think that’s worthwhile.”
Posted: February 18th, 2013 under Brag 500, Music, Music - Interview.
Tags: Cat Power, Dinosaur Jr, Fishing, George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, Golden Plains Lucky Seven, Headaches, Lachlan Kanoniuk, Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre, Oxford Art Factory, Purity Ring
[MUSIC: Interview] Thee Oh Sees
Thee Oh Sees released their latest album, Putrifiers II, just last September; they’ll released their next, Floating Coffin, this April. In between, they’re maintaining a hectic touring schedule, including their now-annual trip to Australia.
Posted: February 6th, 2013 under Brag 498, Music, Music - Interview.
Tags: All Tomorrow’s Parties, Beasts Of Bourbon, Einstürzende Neubauten, Factory Theatre, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, I’ll Be Your Mirror, Lachlan Kanoniuk, My Bloody Valentine, Thee Oh Sees
[MUSIC: Interview] Swans
For a long while there, it looked like revered American outfit Swans was well and truly dead and buried – as maintained by founder Michael Gira ever since the band’s late-‘90s demise. Unexpectedly, Gira revived the project in 2010 with the resounding LP My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky, and continued their forward trajectory this year with the acclaimed album The Seer. Following on from their triumphant Australian debut touring My Father…, Swans will return for the resurgent local incarnation of All Tomorrow’s Parties, with a Sydney pit-stop along the way.
Posted: February 6th, 2013 under Brag 498, Music, Music - Interview.
Tags: All Tomorrow’s Parties, Beasts Of Bourbo, Einstürzende Neubauten, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, I’ll Be Your Mirror, Lachlan Kanoniuk, Manning Bar, My Bloody Valentine, Swans