http://www.melbs.org blogging melbourne music Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:29:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If there were ever a band to accompany drowsy procrastination in the backyard of some rundown Northcote sharehouse, Mum Smokes are it. Like a loveable, heat affected litter of new born Dobermans, Kes and co. potter their wide-eyed way through most of their newish MySpace tracks—the core of their second ... http://www.melbs.org/2007/06/domestic-bliss/ Mr Joseph Pearson is back in the world of blogging. We’ve snared some comments on musics here, but you can also read his fine work over at Make Believe. Right. I ducked into the Tote the other night to check out the Melbourne’s fresh-faced, self-proclaimed ‘Harmony Kings’, Little Red. Actually, I was ... http://www.melbs.org/2007/05/little-red-harmonies/ Fortuitous, really, to be listening to the new Feist album this morning — and then stumbling upon our very own Feist. Can’t claim too much unearthing talent here; unfortunately the unknown-to-me-before-now Ainslie Wills was discovered by Missy Higgins before us: Ainslie has been chosen to support Missy at the Palais ... http://www.melbs.org/2007/05/will-that-she-could/ Sodastream is dead, long live Sodastream. In this commemoration post, Emmy Hennings, a previous guest of Melbs, writes of this much-loved Melbourne duo. Their MySpace profile suggests one final show on April 20th. If pressed to characterise Karl Smith’s lyrical style – perhaps for those handful of curious folk who might ... http://www.melbs.org/2007/03/commemoration-day/ Laziness abounds – it’s another guest post. Elanor McInerney is a dedicated 3CR radio fiend. She’s also a thorough and well-spoken blogger at Symposiasts. And now she’s an outed Melbs compadre. Last year, I saw Kes twice. The first time, in January, he was a solitary bird-like man playing gently transfixing ... http://www.melbs.org/2007/02/kes-band-kes-20/ When in doubt, get a guest to do the work – the three Melbs chaps have each considered writing about Laura Jean, then shrunk from the challenge. It took Camille Deane to look Laura square in the eye and write about this respected Melbourne songwriter. Camille is a long-time ... http://www.melbs.org/2007/02/music-induced-rapture/ In some circles, footy and indie rock go hand in glove. Tim Rogers and Dallas Crane regularly attend it, community radio types sometimes play it and Spiderbait’s bi-polar confusion is well documented. But there’s still a yawning cultural divide between the bedroom pop dabbler and the square-jawed jocks that ... http://www.melbs.org/2007/01/non-violent-direct-action/ This year’s Bob Dylan record, Modern Times, dropped with the usual baby boomer fawning. As Ron Rosenbaum has written in the New York Observer, this praise has been more hot air for an artist whose musical genius has diluted with each year post-1976. With Modern Times, Dylan sounds like the ... http://www.melbs.org/2006/12/mccann-can/ As if on cue, Anthony Atkinson offers a wistful tale of political nostalgia – future “dream team” be damned. In an unlikely and surely unprecedented move, romanticism and ALP politics are entwined in song form by the one-time Mabel. “Keating came on the radio,” Atkinson sings in the first line. And ... http://www.melbs.org/2006/12/loyal-atko/ Post opens with the sound of thuds echoing off into an abyss. The eerily deep sense of space this presents opens the scene on an album that intelligently pursues generic, musical and aesthetic experimentation. Post is a record of details – each of them lovingly combined, treated and tweaked into ... http://www.melbs.org/2006/11/post/