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Music Times - March 2006

Hello World

March 31st 2006 06:04

And thus with the expansion of Placeclick and thus the Sydney section of the site, we bid adieu to the world, and my objective for this blog has metamorphised from the rather introverted look at the Sydney local music scene, to a blog that explores a different international or local artist for every day of the week. So be on the lookout for revelations, insights and indeed forthcoming words of wisdom adhering to the music of all shapes, sizes and sexual persuasions.

Next week is brought to you by the letter A... just kidding...

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Probably the best ever...

March 27th 2006 08:46

And thus, with the quote from Napoleon Dynamite, goes my integrity. However, the quote is necessary to introduce my quick note for all those willing and courageous enough to explore music, both Sydney, and the world around us.

The first is the Commmercially ruined and yet universally popular MySpace (www.myspace.com), the blogging site to end all blogging sites. While I'm sure those that put me in charge of this blog are cringing right now at the thought of m advertising a rival blog site, I turn your attention to it not for the sake of gaining popularity for myself, since I don't actually have an account with MySpace. Rather, I refer you to MySpace (aka Rupert Murdoch's attempt to monopolise the Internet) in order to open you to the repository for every single individual musician/group band ever in existence from newly formed and unknown Tigercity to The Ramesses II Quartet (ok that last one was a lie, but don't rule it out just yet...). Ever heard of a band on the radio and never been able to find any of their songs? I guarantee you, not only will MySpace contain the information you desire, but it will allow you the chance to (legally) listen to full songs by them. This is indeed God's gift to the world, depsite the fact that it is in fact run and owned wholly by the devil (aka Murdoch).

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Australia: Awake to the World?

March 27th 2006 08:26

With the recent explosion of indie music around the world and particularly in Australia, it’s a wonder why some bands have been left out of the group. The iTunes Store Top 100 Albums at time of writing shows Arctic Monkeys, Wolfmother, the Strokes, the Killers and Mogwai leading the way for the Indie rock scene in Australia. While they all deserve to be there, there is a problem. With the exception of Wolfmother, all these bands have made it huge in other countries before accomplishing a similar (or in perspective, lesser) feat here in Australia. Where, I ask, are the others?

We Are Scientists (www.wearescientists.com/) are probably one of the bigger indie bands in the US at the moment, and personally a favourite. Yet, apart from the odd video playing on MTV, I am yet to see their album or even latest single (Nobody Moves, Nobody Gets Hurt) make it big in Australia. While their musical style is not totally foreign to the group of bands previously mentioned, the trio manage to bring a twist to the type of music popularized by the Killers. I think I need to pioneer the way for this band to make it big on the Australian indie scene, even if not adopted by the same teeny-boppers who have wrecked the Killers and to a lesser extent Arctic Monkeys (no one can truly kill the Arctic Monkeys).
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Welcome to the Rabbit Hole

March 27th 2006 07:55

To quote the infamous Matrix line, "You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes..."

Despite the numerous connotations this line could have to drugs, I like to think of it as an analogy of the Sydney music scene. Wonderland - where croquet is game of choice, and music tastes are as random as the draw of a card. However, unlike Wonderland, no one music scene rules as Queen, but instead it is subject to invasion from all sides, by all characters, from those as random as the Mad Hatter, to music as mainstream and "conservative" as the rabbit who ironicly drew you into the hole in the first place.
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