Latest articles by Ellie Robinson
Australian Guitar x Full Tilt 2022: Justice For The Damned
The long-delayed festival makes its Brisbane debut on April 23rd
Australian Guitar x Full Tilt 2022: In Hearts Wake
The long-delayed festival makes its Brisbane debut on April 23rd
Slash: “I was always turned on by rock ’n’ roll bands that had that raw kind of spirit”
For his landmark fourth album with Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators (bluntly titled '4'), Slash took an ambitious leap into new territory
Blues On Broadbeach announces second lot of acts for 2022 festival
The festival will run between Thursday May 19th and Sunday 22nd
Josh Smith and Jon Deiley of Northlane: “We create trends"
If 2019’s Alien brought Northlane to their peak, its follow-up takes them far beyond the point of “overdrive”
Charlie Collins: “I wanted to keep the full version of myself intact on ‘Undone’”
Though its themes certainly reflect its title, Charlie Collins‘ second album is also viciously empowering, honest and heartfelt
Andy Golledge: “I don’t want to sound like a copy of my influences”
15 years in the making, the debut album by alt-country stalwart Andy Golledge is stacked from cover to cover with soon-to-be classics
Spotlight: Ben Speight of Future Haunts
The new EP, I Can't Change The Way You Change, is out now
Courtney Barnett: “I’ve started realising how many more options there are – the ideas are really endless”
Courtney Barnett unpacks the introspection and the scenic inspirations that led to her most restrained, but also most experimental album yet
Amyl And The Sniffers’ Dec Martens and Gus Romer: “If we’re eating the same foods and sharing the same bathroom, we end up making music naturally”
On their explosive second album, Amyl And The Sniffers expand on their raw ’n’ ravenous brand of distinctly Australian punk-rock
Stories will reunite for one special gig at landmark 2022 UNIFY Gathering
The festival's comeback edition, dubbed UNIFY FOREVER, is set to go down next month
Dooms Children: “I had no interest in compartmentalising everything and smoothing out the edges”
Transitioning from hardcore punk to folky psychedelica, Wade MacNeil welcomes a new lease on life with Dooms Children
Hard-Ons’ Blackie and Tim Rogers: “it’s almost like ‘Hard-Ons Plus’ now”
On album #13, Aussie punk legends the Hard-Ons hit their fiercest and poppiest highs yet, thanks in no short part to newcoming frontman Tim Rogers
Justin Bernasconi: “I could see swirls of paint strokes and hear dissonant phrases on the guitar”
Justin Bernasconi walks us through his magical third album, 'Sleeping Like A Maniac'
Loser’s Tim and Will Maxwell: “We were brought up on blues, but I always leant towards more of your Gary Moore sort of shred”
The alt-rock luminaries in Loser are back with another slab of scintillating shred and nostalgic noise. We decipher it all with axemen Tim and Will Maxwell
Moaning Lisa’s Ellen Chan: “In a band, you’re always working towards the same goal, and you’re all trying to service the song”
With their hotly anticipated debut album, Moaning Lisa make a striking case for themselves as the new queens (and king) of grunge
Mod Con’s Erica Dunn: “The dynamic is two thirds drinking beer, eating yummy dinners and talking rubbish, and one third making weird songs”
Mod Con frontwoman Erica Dunn riffs on the band’s growth between LP1 and the jaw‑dropping Modern Condition, the gear that went into it, and why it could be compared to a life-altering, psychosis-inducing ice cream…
Parcels’ Jules Crommelin and Patrick Hetherington: “I think we felt a collective desire to break out from what people expected from us”
Defiantly bucking the trends of the playlist-centric synthpop scene, Parcels have returned with an analogue-forward concept album split in two unique halves
Quicksand’s Walter Schreifels: “I felt more comfortable on this record than I did on ‘Interiors’, because I had gained more confidence from playing as a three-piece”
On their second album post-comeback, Quicksand embrace the modern age as icons of the ‘90s. But what does that mean?
