15 Essential Australian rock and folk albums!
I’ve been a devotee of Australian rock ‘n roll for a long time, ever since I picked up my first Midnight Oil and Church albums in my teens. There are […]
Category Archives: Dream pop
ALL INDIA RADIO – Red Shadow Landing (2012)/The Silent (2011) – Aussie ambient rock
All India Radio is the Australian band/recording project of one Martin Kennedy. He’s found quite a bit of success with it Down Under over the last decade, but I must […]
Big June/July netaudio catch-up Part Two
OK, it’s now August 2013. But I missed a month of roundups so I’m still catching up on July and June! And there’s still more left over! (part one is […]
Big June/July netaudio catch-up Part One
So I totally missed out on doing a netaudio roundup in June due to some crazy life circumstances. Since that’s one of this blog’s more notable features, it stinks. It […]
A listener’s guide to THE CHURCH, part II: Some solo albums
A few months ago I did a roundup of albums by Aussie psych legends The Church, which many seemed to enjoy. I was asked to attempt a tougher task, the […]
HER VANISHED GRACE – Star-Crossed (2012) The ocean of sound
Dream pop is a genre the aim of which is to use all the sonic tools available to a rock band to achieve a trancelike state in the listener. Without […]
Concert Review! Steven Wilson in Toronto, April 23, 2013
Here’s a new feature! Not one you should expect to see often, but when I go see a concert, I may as well write about it. I’m sort of a […]
March Netaudio Revue
Time to talk about a few things that were pointed out to me in the last couple of months. This is the second in a monthly series (post 1 is […]
A listener’s guide to THE CHURCH
This is a special post for me. Many people have a “personal” musical act that really inspired them during their formative years, and I’m no different. Around 1990, as a […]
WHITE BLUSH – White Blush (2012) Yesterday’s haze today
I was both pleased and concerned when I got my first actual request from an independent musician for some coverage here in my humble corner of the cyberworld. I mean, […]
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