Man, what a great music video from Perth lads, “The Chemist“. And there’s something about that line, “Mercy sleeps inside Love’s arms” that just really gets to me tonight. Stick around for the full thing… that last minute of the tune just feels right.
… for no other reason than it’s quite simply a “Ben Drew” kind of day.
I’ve written about aKING here on Burgo’s Music Blog before. Heck, at the time (nearly 2 years ago!) I called them “South Africa’s next big thing“. So why, you might ask yourself, am I devoting another blog post to this band from South Africa? Is it because they’ve released another album, or done something particularly […]
It’s been a while since I’ve written about super-nice dude Farryl Purkiss (see #8 on my “Top South African Bands” post for more details) on this blog… so it was purely happy chance that I came across his new video for “Kissing Devils on the Cheek” on Youtube the other day. It’s the kind of […]
So Die Antwoord recently did an interview with Xeni Jardine, and I can’t tell you how proud I am of them. For the last few months, I’ve been defending Die Antwoord to my Australian compatriots who view them as just… well, a joke. Here, watch this interview and make up your own mind… As Ninja […]
Seriously, I know I’ve said this before, but there is a reason that SongbyToad is one of my favourite music blogs. And this is just one example of why. I stumbled across this video of Mumford & Sons performing “Untitled” at a recent Toad Session, and man, it’s beautiful… Anyway, this is more of a […]
Yet another year goes by… but I won’t let it pass without comment. RIP.
On Wednesday night, I went to possibly the best gig of my life. And no, I don’t write those words lightly. But when I managed to see Rodriguez – the legend behind one of my albums of the century (Cold Fact, naturally) – at the Tivoli on Wednesday, it was easily one of the musical […]