Severed Heads are no more. This 5-disc boxed set collects a bunch of their earlier work. I only became... [more]

If you'd missed it the first time around, like I did, there's a great local indie Kraftwerk tribute compilation from... [more]

I only bought a handful of copies of No Depression, but discovered the current one is the last issue,... [more]

It's true, I saw it! A new record shop in Thornbury, on High St! It's called "Eight Miles High", and... [more]

Apologies for not posting this earlier when Simon sent it to me - tonight at the Tote from 6pm, Mick... [more]

I made it over to the Edinburgh Castle last night to catch the raggedy blues experience that is John Fox,... [more]

The Pink Stainless Tail have released their take on RMS' Free Software Song (previously, among others). As with much of... [more]

Not only did I have some spare time on an interstate flight to actually think about this, but I did... [more]

Just found - Tarantula - a bunch of old interviews (mostly from earlier this decade) by The Sand Pebbles' Chris... [more]

According to this WFMU post (check out the video, too!), we're now another Monk short - Dave Day passed away... [more]

How do you get Alec Empire, Mouse on Mars, The Raincoats, Jon Spencer, Solex(!), The Silver Apples, Alan Vega, The... [more]

It's been a while since I've gone on about all this - If you hadn't yet heard the wonderful Cambodian... [more]

The Angels of Light have a new album out, which I'd been hearing plenty of good things about -... [more]

Somewhere in between the catastrophes I managed to get myself down to Carni for another Monolith night - this... [more]

Another night of experimental guitar goodness at Carni, this time culminating in Barnaby Oliver's Wall of E Electric Guitar... [more]

Tony Wilson was being treated for kidney cancer, like Lee Hazlewood. Instead, he died of a heart attack. Paul Morley... [more]

I just had an e-mail from Barney Oliver about this performance by The Wall of E Electric Guitar Ensemble from... [more]

"cowards and heroes listen my friends if you have money or nothing to spend it'll make no difference in a... [more]

Githead have a new album called Art Pop that pretty much continues the same themes as their previous angular,... [more]

...so for some reason I found myself staring at an ad on SBS, post-Rockwiz, for Steely Dan's concert that's happening... [more]

I got down to Carni last night to see Zac Keiller, The Immediatists and The Boats put on a... [more]

Zac just mailed me to say he's playing - both solo and with The Immediatists - as support for The... [more]

Yeah, I went to a metal gig - a bunch of guys in or near Sunn O))) at The... [more]

Things gleaned from this month's Wire: Githead have a new album out, called Art Pop (and a t-shirt to go... [more]

I first heard about Labrador records late in 2005 by reading somebody's blog post about Pelle Carlberg's first solo... [more]

I'm busily enjoying last year's Bluebottle Kiss album Doubt Seeds (they're playing tomorrow night at the NSC, too) and... [more]

I went to The Tote last night for the launch of The Infinite Wisdom of The Pink Stainless Tail. Biddy... [more]

I managed to pop into Off The Hip for only the second time since it moved into the city (despite... [more]

In some kind of twin tragedy, we're losing both Candle Records and Synaesthesia Records (Mark's going off to work in... [more]

It looks like last.fm is leveraging flickr's machine tags in the next update so that event pages will pull photos... [more]

Lakes of Russia did another gig at the After Dark bar. Great stuff if you're into fairly laid-back one-man... [more]

The Immediatists are getting better each time I see them - it's a shame to see only a handful... [more]

36 photos from last night's gig at the Brunswick Hotel. I'd never seen that many people in there when... [more]

Don't forget, Pink Stainless Tail at the Brunswick Hotel, Friday night! Not only that, but their album launch for The... [more]

It seems I'm not the only one who likes the reworkings of Electric Lash, It's No Reason and Grind... [more]

I'm not sure how long Muscle Shoals Records (right up at the top end of Lygon St, in East Brunswick)... [more]

The Immediatists brought us about 2 hours of improvised music which I really quite enjoyed - some (most) moments... [more]

This Friday (ie. tomorrow night), The Immediatists are playing at Scarlette in Smith St for 2 hours from about 8:30.... [more]

I've been back for a couple of days, recovering and getting back into work (and, today, catching up on... [more]

It must be box season - Flying Nun Records has a 25th anniversary boxed set available - The Clean, Bailterspace,... [more]

I dragged Richard up to the After Dark bar in Northcote last night to see Retail Fireworks again, who... [more]

In a case of spectacularly bad timing, I'll be away the whole time while Stephen Cummings does a Wednesday residency... [more]

I had a great time at the East Brunswick Club watching various artists merge guitars and effects all night,... [more]

Apologies for not posting this earlier - Tomorrow night (Thursday, 18th) a bunch of instrumental musicians are descending upon... [more]

Labrador Records have an attractively-priced (works out to be about AUD$36 including shipping!) 4-CD boxed set celebrating 100 releases in... [more]

I finally got around to buying an Electrelane album (I'd been meaning to for ages, honest). The other two... [more]

There's a documentary afoot called Don't Think I've Forgotten, covering the 60's and early 70's when Cambodian musicians (Sinn... [more]

Stagger Records has assembled a tribute album to everyone's favourite ghost, Rowland S. Howard. There's appearances by people like Mick... [more]

David Sylvian's samadhisound label has put up a podcast with 15 minutes of nice sounds - David Sylvian, Derek Bailey,... [more]

Are you after a ringtone that's better/weirder/more interesting than the usual crap? Try toneshared - they've got a few really... [more]

also via the Triffids forum (I never really poked around it before - web forums never seem to work for... [more]

Via The Triffids website (where Graham Lee talks about last night's gig, too) it turns out there's a new video... [more]

No photos this time - I asked permission and even signed a form they had in case I ended up... [more]

Power pop and rock 'n' roll merchants Off The Hip have moved their shop from Preston to the CBD... [more]

If you're itching to buy a bit of music, help out Karmic Hit who need a few more people... [more]

To finish off the Music and Postmodern Cultural Theory Conference, author/sound curator/sound artist/interesting guy David Toop will be performing at... [more]

Down at the Tote, Mark Murphy indulged some of us by playing some of the tracks from Ripe's The... [more]

Holy fuck. Candle Records to close down March 2007. Who's gonna take over from such an inner-city heart-on-sleeve kinda label... [more]

It's good to hear some squelchy electronic fuzz again, on an album that's been cursed with the familiar lazy... [more]

From Resonance FM, a remix of British Transport Films by Richard Thomas. I'm hoping acb already knows about these films,... [more]

Pelle Carlberg has a new song available, called Middle Class Kid, from his upcoming album. He's a bit more restrained... [more]

Good news, everyone! Royalchord are supporting Jason Molina at the NSC on the 19th, so now there's 2 very good... [more]

Clinton Green has been posting up mp3s from the tapes that came with each issue of NMA Magazine, featuring various... [more]

Via a friendly northern neighbour (thanks V!), I found out about Issue 3 (of 2006) of Meanjin which is... [more]

I caught the tail end of Defenders of the Axe #3 at the Loop Bar on Wednesday night, watching... [more]

Found on flickr this evening - photos of a few gigs in the early 80's by The Models, The Church... [more]

Sweeping The Nation has a nice Illustrated Guide to the Auteurs for all my friends who thought Luke Haines was... [more]

So there I was ordering a few things off Karmic Hit's website (mostly to pick up the re-released Jack... [more]

Glenn Bennie's GB3 had a warm up gig at Readings 2 weeks ago, but this was the real thing... [more]

Iain McIntyre (of ninetynine) has written another book, this one called Tomorrow is Today, about Australia in the Psychedelic... [more]

Jandek has been remixed.... [more]

I didn't make it to #2 (or #1), but the good news is there's a third edition of this night... [more]

On Sunday evening at The Tote, Iain Macintyre's launching a book called Tomorrow Is Today, with some musical support from... [more]

wow. epiphanous, indeed. hearing a bass hum that loud in the main hall of the arts centre was certainly, well,... [more]

Glenn Bennie's GB3 did a gig at Readings on Friday evening to announce the presence of their new album... [more]

Suprisingly, The Age has an interview with Lloyd Cole, whose new album Antidepressant is in shops now (I spied it... [more]

a few interesting gigs coming soon: GB3 are doing a live in-store appearance at Readings in Lygon St tomorrow evening... [more]

Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto are coming to the Melbourne International Arts Festival to do Insen in about 2 weeks'... [more]

I managed to talk myself into popping down to this one 'cause I hadn't taken any live music photos in... [more]

ABC's dig has a podcasted interview with Kim Salmon and Ron Peno about their current project The Darling Downs, talking... [more]

Current in-tray: Black Cab's much-awaited second album, Jesus East. Sounds great so far. Holidays on Ice - Playing Boyfriends and... [more]

I just semi-randomly found The Clean's video for Tally Ho as shot by Chris Knox all the way back... [more]

No, I never expected to see Stephin Merritt, Laurie Anderson and Scott Walker on the same album, either.... [more]

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It's been three years since their last, self-titled, release, but Martin Kennedy and co. have another sublimely relaxing album... [more]

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Another CD I've picked up after hearing a track on one of The Wire's cover discs is codename: dustsucker... [more]

hallelujah! there's a new GB3 album out called emptiness is our business, and it's got input from grant mclennan, steve... [more]

Severed Heads has a new release out, entitled Under Gail Succubus. If you, er, act soon you get a bonus... [more]

While I chuck another mix CD on the fire, I s'pose I ought to mention what music we played at... [more]

Interesting news via my own comment stream - Pete Scholtes has an interview with some of The Monks, since there's... [more]

Album of the week - Flywheel's What to look for in summer - it's jangly, occasionally moody and it's made... [more]

It's been a while since I've taken any live music photos, so here's a blast from the past while... [more]

Black Cab have their follow-up (at last!) to the very well-received Altamont Diary due out on August 24th, with a... [more]

I just came across another online music magazine called Earplug, which has a (rather short) interview with Nitzer Ebb after... [more]

The Story of The Fall - another day, another song explained. On Cary Grant's Wedding, we're told: Interesting choice of... [more]

I received an e-mail a couple of days ago from somebody called Zac, suggesting I come along to The Loop... [more]

I must admit, I only got into King Curly around the end of last year when a very nice sydneysider... [more]

I should be out taking photos, but instead it's all Sweden all the time - my sister mailed me on... [more]

I've been on a bit of a music-buying spree lately while I'm able to. A journey across the suburb... [more]

The Triffids' Born Sandy Devotional is about to be reissued in "remastered with bonus stuff" form on July 1st, with... [more]

...from a piece in this month's issue of The Wire about an early 80's German band called Die Tödliche Doris,... [more]

I found myself a copy of GB3's Circlework from a couple of years back - it completely passed me by,... [more]

With a name that's hard to top, Señor Coconut has returned with an album of Yellow Magic Orchestra covers, complete... [more]

I've been stuck in a bit of a listening rut, lately - I've run out of enthusiasm for re-ripping... [more]

Here's some more photos of Scott Edgar and the Universe, this time from 303 in Northcote. I only caught... [more]

You may have seen this photo in today's MX - I didn't find out until late tonight, by which... [more]

I wandered past that new magazine shop on Elizabeth St today and figured I'd see if the new issue of... [more]

I've been listening to fairly quiet stuff over the weekend - the new Radio Dept album Pet Grief had just... [more]

via david, Grant McLennan has died at 48, in his sleep. I don't know what to say. The Go-Betweens... [more]

Via somebody's livejournal I was randomly browsing through, there's an Indiepedia now - there doesn't yet seem to be a... [more]

The Church seem to have found their groove over the last few years, quietly putting out numerous "official", b-side compilation... [more]

Via buzz's del.icio.us feed, what happens when you feed a radio station into last.fm? It'd be interesting to see the... [more]

Fabulous news - I've heard from a few places now (friends and Synaesthesia) that ABC's got this new experimental music... [more]

Yesterday afternoon I picked up Black Monk Time, a book about The Monks written by Eddie Shaw and his wife... [more]

Like most people who somehow ended up listening to "Industrial" music in the early 90's, I ended up owning a... [more]

I got home from the latest flickr Melbourne pissup meetup to find a 4-track EP by The Five Venoms... [more]

My Rowland S. Howard photos seem to be a bit of a hit with harried publishers, once again. I... [more]

It's hard for me to listen to the new Josh Rouse album, Subtitulo without yearning for his previous effort,... [more]

Speaking of starting again, I may as well point out (perhaps a little sheepishly) that one of the factors in... [more]

By now, you've probably already heard that Nikki Sudden died recently. Ed Baxter has a piece over on Resonance FM's... [more]

My camera's having its sensor cleaned (at last), so I was left to wander the north on a perfectly cloudless... [more]

I enjoyed Richard Hawley's mp3s so much I ordered 2 albums from amazon, but of course the mp3s were re-recorded... [more]

My friend Scott Edgar and his Universe have a new website with a couple of mp3s and gig dates -... [more]

(thanks, Steve!) Demonstrating (perhaps) that myspace isn't just for young'uns, Ripe have re-emerged with a few new tracks available for... [more]

One thing I noticed on Synaesthesia's revamped website was that Mark Harwood does a show on 3RRR called Wake In... [more]