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Keyword results: Indie

The Ruby Suns interview

Article published 13th Mar 10
Release: Album
To Cure: A predictable playlist

Ryan McPhun is a musical Krishna; the multi-talented operator behind The Ruby Suns has a new album out on Sub-Pop called Fight Softly. With an almost entirely new sonic palette compared to that of 2008's lush Sea Lion, the Sun's new album represents a trip out into sparse synth land. I spoke to Ryan during my lunch break.

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Dick Diver, 'Arks Up'

Article published 3rd Feb 10
Release: EP
To Cure: Hypertension

Dick Diver sound like underground 80s Australia. Arks Up recalls the best parts of the Hunters & Collectors discography: the songs gather around raw, trudging bass lines that sound best filling the pungent, carpeted rooms of Brunswick pubs.

With clever, multi-member pop songwriting, The Go-Betweens also come to mind: the accents not dropped but accentuated; the guitar work sharp, tonal, puncturing.

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Maximo Park

What:
Maximo Park
 
Where:
The Hi-Fi Bar, 125 Boundary St, West End
 
When:

Thursday Nov 12, 8pm
 
How much:

$46
 

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Description:
Maximo Park are one those iconic indie bands and whats more they freakin' love Australia - this is like their fourth tour in four years or something. They are real sociable too - a friend of mine once told me she met them after a show took them out dancing all night upstairs at Ric's.

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Event: Bands & DJs

Stimulus: Fame

Tragic Athletic + Carry Nation

What:
Tragic Athletic + Carry Nation

Where:
Ric's Bar, 321 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley

When:
Sat Jul 18, 8pm

How much:
Free

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Tragic Athletic we missed you! We hear you've been huddled up out the back of Stanthorpe recording new material - does this mean we'll get to hear some this Sat? Ohh pretty please, we've been so good. We want to feel that fresh country air. - RS

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Event: Bands

Stimulus: Red Wine

Here We Go Magic

Article published 24th Apr 09
Release: Album
To Cure: A predictable playlist

Judging from its recent prodigious output, the borough of Brooklyn must not have much room for working-class immigrants and black hip-hop heads with its huge influx of folk-strumming, falsetto-loving, glitch-savvy, new age Gen Y beardos.

Here We Go Magic is Brooklyn denizen Luke Temple's new band.

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Handmade Nation

Article published 22nd Apr 09
Format: Cinema
Mood: Rad

If the pages of Handmade Nation the book are anything to go by, the world of artists and crafters sure is an intriguing one. Their stories, their studios, their curious creations. It's all a wonderfully tangled colourful web of creativity and counter-culture and grassroots community. An exploration of how handmade knitted tea cosies say f-you to the man.

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Parc Avenue

Article published 29th Jan 09
Release: Album
To Cure: A predictable playlist

Strong and at times unique vocals backed with solid musicianship and relatively catchy tunes make Parc Avenue a worthy contender for late end-of-year top album lists or to help kick off this year's list alongside Animal Collective and Antony & The Johnsons (depending on how you interpret this album's release date).

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