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Paul Hitchman has more than a touch of pioneering spirit. The British executive was behind Playlouder, one of the earliest entrants into the digital music marketplace. Hitchman fought those messy…

Bring Me The Horizon are a reliable bunch, never straying too far from their well-defined aesthetic. Since bursting into emergence with 2006’s Count Your Blessings, the British quintet have shifted…

It will probably be really weird or unexpected to hear but two albums – the first N.E.R.D album, the live version [In Search Of...] and Robin Thicke’s debut album [A Beautiful World] – completely…

As impressive as James Blake’s self-titled debut album was, the 24-year-old Londoner has taken a massive leap forward with his follow-up. It inhabits the same aurally cavernous space but Overgrown…

A fortnight or so ago, Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne described The Terror to this publication as “dissonant, even amongst itself”, which seemed like an exciting prospect from a band as reckless…

From a man recently quoted saying "we did live shows to sell the records. Now we do records to sell the live shows," the announcement of Tool’s arena tour of Australia was a welcome surprise for fans…

Alt J, Snakadaktal, City Calm Down Hordern Pavilion Walking into Hordern Pavilion, Melbourne four piece City Calm Down made the most of entertaining an eager audience with their funky tunes.…

Clouds float over our heads everyday; constantly moving with the wind and forming shapes in the sky. It’s not until we lie down and take a few moments to appreciate them that they start to form some…

Sixteen years is a long time in pop. Since Travis released their debut album Good Feeling in 1997 – just days after the release of Oasis’s bloated Be Here Now bought the curtain down on the Britpop…

“I changed my mind, I changed my face, I can change all the time, so give me space,” screeches Kate Nash on OH, a track off her third album Girl Talk. It’s a highly appropriate plea from the…