Music Beach Slang – Cheap Thrills On A Dead End Street by Gavin Butler Beach House, Beach Fossils, Ghost Beach, Dirty Beaches, The Beach Boys. Like bears and crystal, the ‘B’ word tends to…
Music Many Things – What We Are by Gavin Butler When it comes to the bittersweet, there’s nothing quite like nostalgia. Painfully pleasant, pleasantly painful; a sweet reflection on what’s…
Music Augie March – Havens Dumb by Gavin Butler “If love is a bolt from the blue then what is a bolt but a glorified screw that doesn’t hold…
Music Owl John – Self Titled Album by Gavin Butler I just bought tickets to see Wil Wagner because The Smith Street Band aren’t touring right now. A while back…
Music Richard In Your Mind – Hammered by Gavin Butler As far as simple pleasures go, getting “hammered in the daytime” is right up there with table tennis and masturbation. My…
Music Spookyland – The Rock And Roll Weakling EP by Gavin Butler Him the damn good carpenter, the damn good sorcerer, the damn good songwriter: the silly fucking thing about Marcus Gordon…
Music The Vines – Out The Loop by Gavin Butler When I was fifteen I saw Craig Nicholls lose his shit. It was at the short-lived and criminally underrated Great Escape…
Music Graveyard Train – Takes One To Know One by Gavin Butler “I thought it was a Modest Mouse song that I hadn’t heard before”. That was my mate Tom’s short and…
Music Julia Holter – Don't Make Me Over (Dionne Warwick Cover) by Gavin Butler Despite her being the second most-charted female vocalist of all time I, confessedly, had never heard of Dionne Warwick. She…
Music Julia Holter – Don’t Make Me Over (Dionne Warwick Cover) by Gavin Butler Despite her being the second most-charted female vocalist of all time I, confessedly, had never heard of Dionne Warwick. She…
Music Interview: Twin Beasts by Gavin Butler Melbournian outlaws Twin Beasts create the kind of throaty, debaucherous blues-rock that makes a man wanna lock up his daughters, swagger into…
Music Tin Sparrow – Echo In The Dark by Gavin Butler There’s a clothing store in Bathurst called The Tin Goose. I know this because I’ve been there. I once tried…
Music Tape/Off – Chipper by Gavin Butler In the time of chimpanzees Beck was a monkey. His words, not mine. What he probably means is that in a…