Features This one’s for the ladies: Chatting sexism, happy accidents and making it up as you go with The Ladies Network by Che-Marie Trigg Sometimes a happy accident can change a life — or the world. Post-it notes, penicillin and Coca Cola were all…
Lists 9 Femme Fatales who are killing it part 3 by Che-Marie Trigg There’s heaps of lists about girl who are in rock music. Sadly, many of these seem to be in lads magazines,…
Music The Ocean Party’s Light Weight is a swell of flexible indie rock by Che-Marie Trigg [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/221944372″ params=”color=000000&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true” width=”100%” height=”20″ iframe=”true” /] Five albums in three years. It sounds like a recipe for disaster, but…
Music ‘Heroin Chic’ is the game, and Ruth Carp and the Fish Heads play it well by Che-Marie Trigg Another day, another excellent Aussie psych-rock band. Ruth Carp and the Fish Heads (pause for a second to appreciate that name)…
Music Flowertruck are 18 wheels of sunny pop on their debut EP Dirt by Che-Marie Trigg [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/222015857″ params=”color=000000&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true” width=”100%” height=”20″ iframe=”true” /] If Sydney’s Inner West is famous for anything, it’s producing a high calibre…
Music Courtney Barnett meets Neutral Milk Hotel on Big Strong Brute’s Good Work EP by Che-Marie Trigg Big Strong Brute is the alter-ego of Brisbane-ite Paul Donoughue. And while he doesn’t look particularly big, strong or brute-ish, he’s…
Features The shameful nature of sexism in music and sexism the music industry by Che-Marie Trigg Once upon a time Mick Jagger told rock journalist Lisa Robinson, “There really is no reason to have women on tour,…
Lists Tassie (our very own vagina), has birthed forth 6 awesome bands worthy of your attention by Che-Marie Trigg Ah the Apple Isle, home to a slew of pristine national parks, majestic mountains and vineyard upon vineyard of wineries. But…
Features Why the SoundCloud lawsuit is total bullshit by Che-Marie Trigg Hands up if you’re a musician and you have a multi-million dollar recording, promotional and touring budget? And keep your hands…
Features Our obsession with kid drummers by Che-Marie Trigg There’s something about a mini human playing a drum. It doesn’t matter whether they’re bashing away to Avenged Sevenfold, Offenbach or…
Features Tinder is the new marketing tool for musicians by Che-Marie Trigg Picture this: you’re in a club, looking to find someone to take home, or maybe just ask out for coffee. You’re…
Lists 7 Brisbane musos who are gunning it by Che-Marie Trigg When I was ten I went to Brisbane for a family holiday. It rained the whole time, I got stung by…
Music Wives is Canberra punk at its best by Che-Marie Trigg Think Canberra is mainly just home to jerk-off politicians, Questacon and heaps of roundabouts? Think again, for where there is…