I got around to picking up a copy of this album off iTunes the other day and here is my one-week impression.

Damn. I missed the boat on this one! haha. The songs that have been in high-rotation on my local independent radio stations are good, but they dont bring the sense of cohesiveness that listening to the whole album provides. Go buy it now if you haven’t already

Seriously go…

We can wait…

(”let’s make some music, make some money, find some models for wives”)

You may have already heard, but we just found out. A great musician has passed today, and we will honour him with the only means available to us.

Isaac Hayes: musician, activist, southpark character, scientologist.

But to most people, the guy who wrote the shaft intro.

For more on his life: Wikipedia Entry

He will be sorely missed

Hey guys, Here are some tunes I have been road testing (as in literally listening to in the car, not some sort of metaphorical road-test):

Thanks to WeLikeItIndie.com for hosting these two tunes by Bayside.

Bayside-Duality

Bayside-Carry On

Both of them are post-punk/punk tunes with hooks that just keep on coming. Bayside have had some ups and some downs, the story of how they lost their drummer Beatz contrasts their successes (number 4 Top on Independent Albums, number 75 on the Billboard 200). Maybe you have heard of them, maybe not. But take a moment either way to check out those two tracks.

cemusic say basia bulat is pretty effing great… but I can’t agree, the songs are good, but they just didn’t grab me in the way the rest of the tracks on this road test did. Maybe they will speak to you, but they didn’t to me.

This track on the other hand is WEEIIIRD (FreeIndie.Com provide the music): Head over to FreeIndie and listen to HaHa by Mates Of State. Two very awkward looking but extremely talented musicians joined together to create something that just shouldnt work, but does anyway. It bounces around genres, meter and most probably your head, for days and days. Listen to it but dont blame me when you have it stuck in your head. Blame them

I found Black Mags by the Cool Kids totally forgettable, though full disclosure: not the biggest fan of the genre. Even so I usually can enjoy a song a few times, but in this case after the first listen I couldn’t help but skip past it. (more…)

Hey all, I was just in Queensland for a long weekend to escape the pilgrimage to my home town. Now a few brain cells lighter we return, with some ridiculously good news. We have some indie band interviews undertaken by my fearless friend Mitch that will be available just as soon as we figure out which of the buttons on our mastering software makes everything sound good… But onwards we march. Today’s pick of delicious tunes is:

Go here now, do it! You will be rewarded with an embarassment of riches. Well, if you scoot past the (to me) unintelligible Swedish(?) you will find some remixes by Yuksek which are sweet indeed.

What do you get when you mix 5 teenage filipino sisters and Eleanor Rigby? A ridiculously cool cover that’s what. Jazzy and haunting by turns, its on that page somewhere. Seek it out and enjoy. Diddy-Wah (the people who posted said track) say “If you know of a better version of this song please get in touch because I’m about to call it. Best version ever.” I prefer the original… but one of the most amazing covers I would agree.

Jump back in a bit for those interviews and maybe a free sample or two…

(Edited much later: I realise I never came back with the full review of David Ford’s music, wouldja believe they wont sell it to Australian Citizens? *sigh*)

Shameless re-posting of other peoples fine investigative efforts is what music blogging is all about. Right? Well maybe not, but this collection of remixes by On Off On may be just too good to ignore. Check it out here Welikeit.indie.

On Off On are on myspace here: myspace/onoffonmusic

We caught up with the artist himself in a mini email interview, enjoy it after the jump

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