I spoke to Veruca Salt, Everclear and Sugar Ray about nostalgia and staying creative when your career is playing songs you wrote in your early 20s… when you’re now in your 40s.
It was fun. Read it here.
Category Archives: Work
10 Australian Acts Who Kicked Ass at CMJ 2015 (for Rolling Stone)
CMJ was pretty much overrun by Australians (well, that and by hungry music industry loudmouths always wanting to go see some band they were definitely going to miss and instead going to get a slice)… so I hung out with 10 of them across the week for Rolling Stone.
Booze was drunk, photos were taken, shows were played and sweet conversations took place with, as you’d expect, impressive amounts of background noise. Read the result right here.
(for Rolling Stone)
The Tone Deaf Completely Arbitrary Awards for CMJ 2015
I spent an entire week seeing way too may bands, not sleeping enough and drinking far too much.
As a result, these were the acts most deserving of Tone Deaf’s Completely Arbitrary Awards for CMJ 2015.
Have a read… and then listen to all of the bands, because they’re all legit pretty incredible.
(for tonedeaf.com.au)
Parkway Drive – ‘Ire’ review (Rolling Stone)
To sum up my review of the new Parkway Drive record, Ire: ‘is good. v good’.
Read the much longer version here.
(for Rolling Stone)
The Jungle Giants – ‘Speakerzoid’ review (Rolling Stone)
So… who expected the Jungle Giants to release one of the best albums of the year? … … Well. Not me. And likely not you. So read this and find out why it’s so great. For serious.
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