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Chris Familton, Journalist

Chris Familton

I'm a music journalist, publicist and musician. I’ve been writing professionally about music for the last 15 years, with my music blogs Doubtful Sounds and Post To Wire (alt-country/folk) and as a freelancer with The Music (Drum Media) since 2009, Rhythms magazine, FasterLouder and more.

I've been playing bass guitar in bands since the early ‘90s in New Zealand (Thorazine Shuffle) and Australia (The Finalists, Charlie Horse). I currently also work as a music publicist, with artists including Bluebottle Kiss, Halfway, Restless Leg, Alannah Russack. 

Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Milk Carton Kids
Pattengale’s playing in particular was a dazzling display of dexterity.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Sunnyboys
This was nostalgia in its purest form with people transported back to their formative years, lost in the music and emotion of a band they still clearly love.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Roger Knox & The Pine Valley Cosmonauts - Stranger In My Land
Stranger In My Land is one of those increasingly rare albums that serves as a historic cultural document wrapped up in the trappings of storytelling and song.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Alice In Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
Sludge metal, hard rock – call it what you will; Alice In Chains are still one of the best proponents of heavy guitar music and are showing no reason to court extinction.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Night Beds - Country Sleep
A good record then, but one that leans too heavily on the analysis of forlorn, lost and lonely love than the full-blooded outpouring one senses Yellen was reaching for.
Features / Music
Balancing Life And Music
North America is growing each time we go and there are lots of reggae bands there wanting to play with us and we were blown away by what they were telling us about how people appreciate our sound there.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Son Volt - Honky Tonk
This is one of those albums that requires time and patience and from that its warmth and grace is revealed.
Reviews / Live
PiL, Pic by Clare Hawley
Live Review: PiL, Death Mattel
What made the show so damn good was the impressive state of Lydon’s voice, now a strong instrument of demonic operatics and something akin to Tuvan throat singing.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Mark Moldre - An Ear To The Earth
An Ear To The Earth is exactly what you want from an artist – a record that shows they’re stretching themselves, expanding their art and reverentially experimenting with the great art of songwriting.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Kurt Vile - Wakin On A Pretty Daze
It digs deep into hypnotic grooves, exploring the delicate and subtle possibilities of rhythm and melody with mesmerising results.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Endless Boogie, X & Bruce!
Their main set only comprised a handful of songs, such was the length of them, and the audience looked surprised it all ended so soon.
Features / Music
The Big Spirit Of Song
"I’ve just been touring a lot for the last year and if I can just write a song or two and hang with my family when I’m home then I’m doing good.”
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