The Australian Index - Music Blogs

Back at the start of the year I posted a list of bands to keep an eye on in 2008. One of those bands was Rooftop Nightwatch, who played a number of excellent gigs last year, but have since slipped beneath the waves. Fortunately, the band lives on in the guise of Little Scout, which features Rooftop Nightwatchers Mel Tickle and Pat Elliott, as well as new additions Kirsty Tickle and a part-time dru

Well, what better thing to come out of tragedy (well, minor tragedy) than a piece of creative writing. I've decided to use the dwarf story (maybe not all its profanities) to write my feature art...

Last day of the FBI supporter drive, we gave away a bunch of Izrock Kill Pixie/Marcus Oakley packs. Thanks to everyone who signed up. We also had CuriousWorks director/founder Shakthi Sivanathan, just back from a road trip to Roeburn in the Pilbara, WA. PlaylistMelancholy Serenade - King Curtis
Nothing To Lose - Dimitri From Paris
I Won't Be Found - The Tallest Man On Earth
3 Friends To The Stars

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Another exploration in the visual arts side of the Melbourne Festival during October 2008. An Australian photographer exhibiting is Mathew Sleeth. Another photographer is Anne Noble at the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Fitzroy:Anne Noble, Penguin in Japan, 2003 Noble is a Wellington-based New Zealand photographer, who is long recognised as a major figure in New Zealand photography.

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Ceremony - It Rained Today In My Head
Live at Chain Reactionhttp://www.myspace.com/wewereheredvd

I love the sense of space and subtle introspection that seeps through Gregory Euclide's artwork. His says of his latest series, 'my work explores the way we experience nature and how this is tied to the cultural practice of constructing landscapes as idealized images. When we are in nature we experience the world through all of our senses in a dynamic way, but at the same time we are framing

Scott Prendergast wrote, directed, and starred in the movie Kabluey, which he referred to as a 'melancomedy' about Salman, an awkward but well-intentioned man, and his sister-in-law, Leslie (played by Lisa Kudrow), who are thrown together amidst an array of personal difficulties. While Leslie's husband is away at war, Salman steps in to serve as a live-in nanny to his two young nephews, who

There is little need for comment. Obesity is a big problem in Australia. Matt Golding

This is me on my bed, with my new dvd courtesy of Jeremy, typing on my NEW LAPTOP. That's right semi-faithful readers! you are now looking at the proud owner of a PORTABLE COMPUTER and I love, love, love it. Blogging from bed?! is there anything sweeter? That's right I just fucking asked you if there is anything sweeter. I think it's safe to say the answer is no. Except possibly this:

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DR. BOOGIE PRESENTS: SHIM SHAM SHIMMY The second volume in Sub Rosa's Dr. Boogie series from their new roots imprint, Fundamental... The first, from last year, dug through the vaults of Canned Heat fat-guy/vinyl fiend/vocal warbler/party animal, Bob Hite, and gave us all an ace collection of tracks by the likes of Elmore James, Bill Haley and others. It was a mix which made my Top 10 of last year,

It's been awhile since I've seen You Am I. I've seen Tim Rogers play two or three times over the last 18 months but I haven't seen You Am I play. It's a bit strange considering I'm quite a big fan.

Anyhow, with their new album Dilettantes out on September 12, they're doing a Let's Be Dreadful tour across the nation this October and November, supported by Tame Impala.

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Rainwater tanks are here to stay. Not only is the general populace turning to them as the realization sinks in that water is a scarce resource, but they are also being legislated by government at all levels. The unfortunate problem is that the vast majority are not the most attractive additions to the built environment, particularly the latest round of polypropylene models, which are mostly big b

Though most know Max Bode as an art director over at the ubiquitous New Yorker, he is in fact quite an illustrator. Creating bright, clean illustrations, in a style at times reminiscent of old video games and cartoons, Bode work is a real treat, especially when stumbling across one of his illustrations in the New Yorker.time savedtime saved

Cappuccino is an open source application framework for developing applications that look and feel like the desktop software users are familiar with. It is built on top of standard web technologies like JavaScript, and it implements most of the familiar APIs from GNUstep and Apple s Cocoa frameworks. When you program in Cappuccino, you don t need to concern yourself with the complexities of tra

PleaseDressMe is a classic example of scratching ones own itch. AJ, Gary, and Joe love finding great new tees, but finding the tees wasn't the easiest thing in the world. Rather than sifting through multiple websites, they figured why not just go to one website that makes searching for t-shirts easy? Once they came to that conclusion, Joe went to coding and after a few calculated keystrokes he bro

Dianogah s core instrumentation is as a trio of two bass guitarists and one drummer. They have toured the US extensively, traveled throughout Europe and played in South America, amongst other places, with acts such as Man or Astro Man?, Blonde Redhead, Shellac, Silkworm, June of 44 and Don Caballero.time savedtime saved

Every producer that ventures into IDM/electronica territory seems to have some sort of Achilles heel in the eye of the critic. For Mrs Jynx, otherwise known as Mancunian producer Hannah Davidson, it seems hers is a question of history. Much has been made over her particular sound being overly reminiscent of -ziq/Mike Paradinas' output. The [...]

This book is part of a series of books about possible futures. I have been reading it since January as I commented on Cellobella's post: The Uglies Trilogy. I really got into it the last couple of weeks when I've been resting off this cold. It's was given to me by a year 7 student last year when I was ranting in class about the advertising industry and how it sets up impossible standards for women

As you may already know whiteboydancefloor are big Grafton Primary fans, so if you haven't heard it already the boys will be releasing their debut album entitled Eon on Saturday the 13th of September, make sure you get a copy. These boys certainly know how to get your booty shaking. If you haven't experienced one of their pumping live sets before, then bring your dancing shoes on down to the Oxfor

In this episode is a bit of a downtempo number with tracks from Boards of Canada, Wayne Smith, Lord Finesse and Gil Scott- Heron. Bringing the Bytes and Bleeps to your eardrum from the past looking to the future.

1 Atomic Moog 2000 (PNALoungeMx) - Coldcut (Herbaliser)
2 Apodeiktikate Xazoi - Stixoima
3 All Night at the party - Eek'A'Mouse
4 Archipelago - Quantic
5 All Things To All Men - Cin

Well.. your furtivity is soon to be heading to japan for a well-earned break. Our hiatus is 10th until 29th september, so when you don't see many updates, we're not being lazy, just busy!Anyhow, couple of dates to keep in mind for the month.September 12 looks like a crust party at maggotsville - crux, walrora (melb), dining in tuscany, scum system kill and voting with bricks. $8 to get in.On the 2

Sao Paulo-based electro / synth-pop duo Tetine certainly have something of an extensive backhistory behind them, Bruno Verner (keyboards, programming, vocals, guitar) and Eliete Mejorado (vocals / keyboards / samples) first forming their creative partnership back in 1995 before going to release their debut album Alexander s Grave the following year on their own High School [...]

Okay, so, dig this. Not only has David McCormack just released his six track EP Cassingle only the other day, but now he's actually playing a show in the not too distant future. Needless to say, all our Christmasses have just come at once here at 12MC. Thanks Uncle Dave!Here's the best part. The show in question is not just any old Dave McCormack number at the Hopetoun Hotel. No sir, this special

Another TV commercial. Not sure what I make of this one...

I feel a million times better today.After downing a whole bottle of $3 wine and spewing it up everywhere (I literally got the dwarfs out of my system) I feel positive and at ease with myself.I ran...

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Kris long timer Odiusembowel bass/guitarist has amputated his left thumb and will no longer be recording with or playing with Odiusembowel for the next 6 months ATLEAST.Alex (Akaname/Backyard Burial) is now currently learning our material and playing bass at his first show with Odiusembowel next week at their Art House show!When they play with The Kill, Super fun Happy Slide, Pathetic Human, Passe

Got another of those last minute requests, this time to cover Robert Forster's gig at the Brisbane Powerhouse, which I couldn't say no to. Unfortunately it was a 3 songs and escorted out of the venue job, which was a shame as I always enjoy seeing him play. In addition, it was a bit of a frustrating shoot as we were only allowed to photograph from way out to the side of the stage, the high po