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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. 

Features / Music
Modern Folk
“We are doing the long haul on this album for sure. It came out in April of last year and we’re going to go out again this year, maybe on into 2014. We’ll see how it goes; we’re not going to burn ourselves out."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Dinosaur Jr, Red Kross & Royal Headache
It wasn’t their most thrillingly visceral show we’ve seen, but Dinosaur Jr. showed they remain an essential and relevant band, unique in the way they combine melody, energy and noise.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Bearhug, Bored Nothing & Postrangers
The vocals complemented the music rather than leading it and the new songs they played sounded like their best work to date.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Robert Ellis - Photographs
To sound this fully formed and confident so early in one’s career is a special thing, making Ellis a real Americana talent to keep tabs on.
Features / Music
Going Global
“We are definitely in a much better position now. It was exciting to sign with Flying Nun at the time but they just weren’t working at the speed we wanted to be."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Popstrangers - Antipodes
Popstrangers sound fully formed and in control of a range of styles that morph and rub against each to great effect.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Johnny Marr - The Messenger
Marr shows he still has the songwriting nous and magic in his fingertips that caught the imagination of so many a quarter century ago.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Necks
Their music was both intellectual and physical; an immersive full body experience.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Justin Townes Earle & Robert Ellis
Earle isn’t a folk singer, country singer, blues or soul singer; he is all of the above and one of those reliably great live performers with an impressive catalogue of songs to draw from.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Matthew E White - Big Inner
This album is a glorious piece of work akin to falling down a kaleidoscopic rabbit hole and tumbling through decades of music refracted through a prism of psychedelic country soul.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Civil Civic - Rules
By stripping their electronic instruments back to an analogue-sounding skeleton, Civil Civic have allowed the melodic strengths of their guitars to take centre stage.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Nuggets: Antipodean Interpolations
The venue was oversized for this type of music but Nuggets was still fun, primarily due to the spirit of the audience and the bands.
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