2003 – Get Free – Vines Hearing ‘Get Free’ for the first time was both thrilling and confusing. Who were this band? Where were they
1995 – I’m Jealous – Divinyls The most consistently excellent Australian guitar pop band of the eighties and nineties, The Divinyls barely put a foot
It makes no sense that The Killjoys have remained an indie secret for decades rather than a ubiquitous pop household word.
The early ‘90s was a blissful time for women in Australian Indie music. Particularly in Sydney.
1984 – Dive For Your Memory – The Go-Betweens The song-writing team of Robert Forster and Grant McLennan rivalled any of the greats and
A primal, animalistic pulverizing four minutes of rock, this was the song journalist Everett True used as the first example of something called “grunge”.
The Innocents story is the great tragi-comedy of Australian rock history. It’s comical. Unbelievable, a terrible litany of misfortune punctuated by some of the best power-pop songs ever written.
‘Quasimodo’s Dream’ is generally chosen as The Reels moment, their epiphany, but years before they were from the outset not only impossible to quantify or box in any kind of genre, but also hugely brave.
Skyhooks were the first beneficiaries of the advent of colour TV (and Countdown specifically). Gone in a flash was the double denim greasy hair of the Sunbury blue-rock years. In came pancake make-up, feather boas, and the sheen of satin flares and white suits.
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