If you ask me ‘yo, what was good in February 2017’ in, like, 5, 10 or 15 years time, I’ll probably say ‘that sick Meat Wave record called The Incessant’.
Would recommend… And do. Read my review of it for Rolling Stone right here.
Tag Archives: 2017
Ocean Grove – The Rhapsody Tapes review (Rolling Stone)
Ocean Grove rule. If Sunk Loto did a bunch of meth and realllllly loved Death Grips, they still wouldn’t put out something anywhere near as weird and brilliantly bonkers as The Rhapsody Tapes. Read my entire review of the album for Rolling Stone right here.
Jet – interview/feature (for Fasterlouder)
Yup. I had a long-ass chat with Jet ahead of their reformation/reunion shows with Bruce Springsteen. It was pretty great to hang and talk with a band that I grew up seeing in pubs in Melbourne and watching their stature grow to where you still hear “Are You Gonna Be My Girl” in US sports arenas.
It was fun. Read it here.
Metallica – feature article with Kirk Hammett (for Fasterlouder)
Hey! I interviewed Metallica.
More specifically, I got to chat to Kirk Hammett for an unreasonably long time about the relationship between he, James Hetfield and Lar Ulrich, how he lost his phone with 250+ riff ideas for their new album, how fans engage with Metallica now, what the band could mean to a teenager in 2017, the band’s inestimable legacy and what Metallica are in 2017.
It was really cool. Check it out here at Fasterlouder.
(and, if you dig it, check out my deep dive on whether their 1996 album Load is actually any good too)
AFI – AFI The Blood Album (Rolling Stone review)
“AFI trade in the kind of darkness that isn’t so much dangerous as it is fodder for a bad tattoo” – read my full review of the new AFI album, AFI (The Blood Album) for Rolling Stone right here.
Pro tip: Their OTT ridiculousness is kinda fun
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