Shannon Hoon with Blind Melon at Woodstock ’94. After a 12 year hiatus following Shannon’s death, Blind Melon are back. Blind Melon, possibly one of the most influential bands in my life, are back, and releasing a new album at the end of this month. And I’m not sure how I’m feeling about this… Shannon […]
Category: guitar
Ryan Adams has left us a parting gift. Unfortunately, I think this signals the end of his blog. But he’s left us a parting gift. And it’s a beautiful thing. The guy makes me ache. Goodbye Ryan. Goodbye Wilson. Goodbye Barnabus, and Foggy. (if you’ve been reading his blog, you’ll know what that’s about). It […]
It’s been a while since a Friday Roundup, so why not? The Dodos – Ashley The Dodos have just released new track, “Ashley” Aah, The Dodos. They look set to become a feature in the Friday Round-up, after appearing in our last round-up here. Yesterday, The Dodos released their new single from the – quite […]
The War On Drugs has just released their EP, “Barrel of Batteries” The consistently great Secretly Canadian label has just released a 5 track EP by the – unbelievably still little-known – band The War On Drugs, entitled “Barrel of Batteries“. And it’s frikkin’ great. Secretly Canadian have this habit of signing your new favourite […]
So quite often, people will email me about an artist that I “absolutely need to hear”. Some are… well, ok. Some are good. Some are great. And some are special. And if it wasn’t for the fans emailing me, I might have missed out and never heard these tunes. So that’s the reason why I’m […]
Pennywise’s new album, “Reason To Believe”, is out now on Myspace. Although you probably wouldn’t know it much reading through the posts on this blog, I used to be into punk. And I mean big into punk. For a few years there, it was all I cared about. Nowadays, only certain punk bands have made […]
… is out. And damn, it’s hot. The Raconteurs new album, “Consolers of the Lonely” is out now. As much as I hate bowing to the Websheriff, after reading of the heckling that’s going on regarding this release here, here and here, I think it might be easier not to post a song. But, if […]
So after a few days off down the coast, I know this entry is popping up late; but on Sunday evening, I accomplished one more of my “band goals”, with a night at the Tivoli. This entry is being composed on the long train back to Brisbane… so excuse some grammatical errors, which I have […]