new bands

The Sure-Fire Midnights - Rock with noise

Stumbling around the web I’ve found these likely lasses from Perth, The Sure-Fire Midnights. Don’t be fooled by their  shy, innocent demeanour. Check out the songs on their myspace page. Guess who provides the soundbite at the beginning of Lets Talk? That is all you need to know about where they are coming from. Consider the [...]

Supagroup: Rock music now with less irony

Music has that affect on people. For the philosophical acoustic genius John Fahey, Bluegrass Music Destroyed his life (a book that is bloody hard to find. Will have another go via a UK bookstore I discovered via a comment at Road to Surfdom). For rockers Supagroup it was rock’n'roll that had an adverse affect on [...]

Oakley Hall

I was given Oakley Hall’s Gypsum Strings to review. They were unknown to me prior last week but I’ve done the review and can confidently now say that Oakley Hall are my favourite new band. Echoes are heard of Neil Young, Zeppelin, Pentangle, The Stones etc without being overtly derivative. At Oakley Hall’s website you [...]

The Flairz

I have come across The Flairz as they seem to have some buzz happening. You can hear them at their My Space page. The cute thing is that they are all about 13 years old. But that seems to be the problem. If the band was in their early twenties I doubt if they would be [...]

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