Tess Ingram, Journalist

This time they’ve put together 11 tracks that happily mesh yet don’t sound like an attack of the clones, hitting the sun-soaked surf-garage rock nail on the head.

Despite this, Secondhand Rapture is by no means a second-hand effort, built on the expectations of established genres, but rather a personal take on pop by two fresh, young New Yorkers worth watching.

Fairbridge remains one of the few festivals where sing-alongs are encouraged, showers are not and the juveniles are talented, not drunk. As an attendee’s t-shirt read: FOLK YEAH!

In two short years the name Fat Shans has become synonymous with the forefront of exceptional West Australian music.

Dressed in their trademark vintage aviator costumes and featuring guest vocalists on a number of tracks, Flight Facilities were the perfect hosts.

Not a terrible album but not an overly listenable one either.

Just give it a while to marinate in those good ol’ juices of time.

Tess Ingram talks to Adam Germano of Freqshow about just how they’ve managed to pull off creating a live drum’n’bass sound so successfully, and of their new night Outbreak.

Sea Of Bright Lights extends the band’s earlier EP work and matures their sound, making this a solid debut from the almost-veterans of the shoegaze scene.