Brendan Telford, Journalist

Sydney garage punks Step-Panther are back from their first stab at international notoriety, something that Stevesie tells Brendan Telford is mightily addictive.

"The scene is really healthy; we are all feeding off each other. Most of our music is tongue-in-cheek and never meant to be taken too seriously."

"There is a tension from yearning for that place of familiarity. Then of course we are parents now; we made the first album whilst I was pregnant, and inadvertently so, so it only informs on that in retrospect."

Geoffrey O’Connor has stepped out from the shadow of his band Crayon Fields to embrace the love ballad. He takes some time out from mixing the new album to talk to Brendan Telford.

Sun is a far removal from her Moon Pix (1998) days, and it must be said that Cat Power has never sounded surer of herself.

Self-prescribed “nui rock-soul” collective Inc3do are bringing plenty of good vibrations to their shows. Guitarist Ivan Tutic chats with Brendan Telford.

TEEN show that living in their psych and New Wave-inflected world is heavenly.

Breakup Song is thankfully as indecipherable, unexplainable and enjoyable as Deerhoof can get.

"One thing that we do that I think is underrated in people’s view of us is that we like the silences, we like the notes that stretch out, we like the way there is a lot of open space. When the cello plays you can hear and feel every string, and the fretboard is very textual."