June 2010
All Max Easton articles from June, 2010.
Jez Mead - Beard of Bees
Having amassed several hundred thousand kilometres on his tour bus over the past decade, Melbourne's folk staple Jez Mead has rolled it all together for his fourth album, Beard of Bees.26 June 2010
Musical Longevity: From the Sixties to the Twenty Fifties
With members of Soulshine's forums seemingly endlessly debating the greats of music's past, we decided to take a look at what may come to pass for the greats of music's future in 2050. Soulshine's Max Easton delves into the depths of past and futu...18 June 2010
The Sirens of Venice - Self-titled
From the depths of Melbourne come The Sirens of Venice, headed by husband and wife duo Craig and Camilla Jackson. The self-titled debut from the outfit firms up as a haunting and interesting effort as Max Easton writes.16 June 2010
An Interview With Mat McHugh
The Beautiful Girls have returned in 2010 with a fresh sound on ‘Spooks,’ crossing dub, dancehall and rock to rave-review garnering results. Max Easton spoke with front-man Mat McHugh back in March as they were putting the final touche...15 June 2010
The Neil Young That Time Wants You To Forget
Neil Young is a contentious issue. He plays off key, he has an at times comical voice and wrote some really pissant folk songs. Yet he is also responsible for some of rock n roll's greatest ever albums. Put 'Everybody Knows This is Nowhere,' 'Zuma...10 June 2010
Crash Test Dummies - The Greatest Band of All Time
No, you haven't accidentally navigated to the NME or Pitchfork websites, the King and Queen of ludicrous claims such as Grizzy Bear being the best band of the 2000's. You've come to somewhere much, much less reputable. And this claim isn't ludicro...9 June 2010
VIVID Live: Slow Music Night - Sydney Opera House (4th June, 2010)
VIVID Live is the Sydney Opera House's festival of music, lights and ideas, curated in 2010 by Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson. As a part of this festival, the two hosted a showcase of the artists involved in the festival under the moniker of the Slo...7 June 2010
The Chemist - The Wolves' Howls Shatter the Old Glass Moon EP
The Chemist is a West Australian four-piece from Perth, playing a dark and varied style of jazz/blues inspired rock. Produced by Eskimo Joe's Joel Quartermain, their debut EP 'The Wolves' Howls Shatter the Old Glass Moon' proves all the potential ...7 June 2010
Freshly Picked - Doveman
It's very rare that you can be completely blown away by an artist in a live environment that you can't even see. Naively purchasing front row tickets to the Sydney Opera House's Slow Music Night as a part of the Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson curate...7 June 2010
The 2010 Gum Ball Review (Hunter Valley, NSW)
The Gum Ball is two nights and a day of music wedged in the heart of one of the country's most beautiful regions, the New South Wales Hunter Valley. With a line-up encompassing a handful of the best unknown local acts, 2010's festival was as much ...2 June 2010
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![Neil Young is a contentious issue. He plays off key, he has an at times comical voice and wrote some really pissant folk songs. Yet he is also responsible for some of rock n roll's greatest ever albums. Put 'Everybody Knows This is Nowhere,' 'Zuma' and 'Tonight's the Night' into a battle to the death and you've got yourself a blood sport of unrivalled manliness. However there's a part of Neil Young that most retrospective's seem to conveniently brush over.
Whilst at various times he was crowned as a folk god with Crosby, Stills and Nash, or credited with inspiring some of punk's finest, he also dabbled in some weird shit. Like some of the most bizarre head-scratchingly ridiculous music that has possibly ever been written. Like early day electro-pop on the 1982 album, 'Trans.' Check out the video below of 'We R in Control,' which despite being horrible, was actually quite ahead of its time.
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![It's very rare that you can be completely blown away by an artist in a live environment that you can't even see. Naively purchasing front row tickets to the Sydney Opera House's Slow Music Night as a part of the Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson curated VIVID festival, that was the position I was placed in. Staring at an amplifier.
So Laurie Anderson introduced some guy called Tim Bartlett to pleased applause by the Opera House's Concert Hall and I clapped at said amplifier and sat in disbelief that I bought tickets to stare at a black box and a few cables and sat grumpy with my companion as we spoke in hushed whispers about moving...until being frozen in place as the man releasing music as Doveman began to play.
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