Playmate: On The Border of Things
A talk, a bilingual performance piece, a video and an immersion into farm life – all in a small garage in Erskineville.
A talk, a bilingual performance piece, a video and an immersion into farm life – all in a small garage in Erskineville.
The first in a series of live videos from the epic Volumes 2015: watch the loud, relentless wall of sound projected by Zeahorse at Brighton Up Bar, giving the festival’s name an even more potent meaning…
Fountaineer’s sound is a love letter to cultural artefacts and golden days, with a 21st-century sense of ingenuity and determination.
“If you created a rad non profit organisation that empowers marginalised youth in the developing world, especially girls, by teaching them how to skate – and you needed an anthem to soundtrack your cause, what would you choose?”
This is like a two-for-one talent treat… With a little help from her regular band-mate Courtney Barnett, Jen Cloher performed this acoustic, stripped-back version of ‘Stone Age Brain’ – usually a duet with Tim Rogers (You Am I).
With their debut album on the horizon, GOY have released a clip for lead track ‘Poison Drum’, condensing the 6.5 minute sonic cavalcade into a promenade through American side-streets.
In Sydney for Vivid LIVE 2014, Texan folk-rockers Midlake swung by the FBi studio – “jetlagged, with a little whiskey still in our blood” – and performed this acoustic rendition of ‘It’s Going Down’ off the new record Antiphon.
British psychedelia kids Temples did a little acoustic performance of ‘Shelter Song’ in the studio last week. We filmed it, so now you have an excuse to spend 3 and a half sweet minutes staring at that hair.
Brisbane indie-psych band Morning Harvey take five with us to talk Madchester influences, time travel and learning to play their instruments backwards for the mind-bender of a video clip, ‘Girl Euphoria (Come Back To Me)’.
Dappled Cities frontman Dave Rennick has a new solo project, after 10 years of releases with the band. Check out his first 80s-drenched single here.