Posts Tagged ‘music’
http://www.kluster.com.au/issue/seven/iconic-album-covers/ An investigation of the important and iconic album covers for the photography issue of Kluster.
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The Fauves have showed the endurance (if not a more flexible attitude to hairstyles) of Robert Harvey over their musical career – with each entering their twentieth year of playing in 2008. Both the band and the player have fallen perilously short of the elusive high reaches of success in their respective fields during that […]
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The Drones have released their latest album Gala Mill and embark on a brief Australian tour before touring overseas through October and November. Gala Mill is The Drones third album and was recorded in early 2005. The band chose to record the album in a historic mill on a property in Tasmania. The band recorded […]
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If there would be a place that could be decreed the shrine of Oz Rock then this would be it. The headquarters of Alberts – the label synonymous with two of the most successful bands ever to emerge from Australia, The Easybeats and AC/DC. There is a DVD of the latter running, showing footage of […]
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Tags: beasts of bourbon, interview, music, spencer p jones, tex perkins
Sam Cutler has been involved in the music industry since the 60s, working with some of the biggest bands and the biggest shows in music history. The Rolling Stones hired Cutler to be the tour manger for their 1969 tour of USA, which infamously ended at the concert held at the Altamont Speedway in California. […]
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Nick Cave Stories
The Arts Centre presents an exhibition and to honour one of music’s most revered and intriguing characters with Nick Cave – The Exhibition; Nick Cave Stories. The Arts Centre Manager of Collections and curator of the exhibition Janine Barrand worked with Nick over a number of years producing a book Nick Cave Stories providing great […]
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Mick Harvey joined the incendiary Boys Next Door while still at school. He would be a long time member of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, enjoy a brief but highly fruitful foray with The Crime And City Solution. His solo work includes the release two solo albums of English interpretations of Serge Gainsbourg covers […]
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Dinosaur Jr is surrounded by a great deal of myth and legend due to their blazing brief, but influential career and their particularly public and acrimonious initial disbanding. The band returned to the stage and the recorded world with their warmly received new album Beyond. It was the bringing of this album tour to Australia […]
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Swervedriver were one of the very great bands of the early nineties. Their show at the sticky-floored beer barn Selinas supporting (!!) the well on their way to your more straight ahead rock of Powderfinger still ranks in my top ten ever gigs, and even prompted me to make an extensive road trip out to […]
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Tags: adam franklin, interview, music, swervedriver, toshack highway
SPOD Superfrenz
The sired-by-scorpions sex God – SPOD – hasn’t let the worst of luck stop his album celebrating the best of life. The three years of musical magic SPOD had conjured for his second album was lost in one horrible instant in early 2007. Hours and hours of ‘rad, sweat and leers’ were seemingly lost forever […]
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