Pinky Beecroft used to be a member of the infamous Australian band/cabaret act that was Machine Gun Fellatio, but these days his pet project is called The White Russians. Michael Bowser gets the low-down on milk-based drinks, the brilliance of Ween and the merits of writing for TV shows like Farscape (as one’s day...
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Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, The Bedroom Philosopher is the musical persona of one Justin Heazlewood, a multi-talented comedian/writer/whatever-the-hell-else-he-feels-like-doing who clearly has spent far too much of his time travelling on trams. Michael Bowser drills him about his heady new concept album, Songs From The 86 Tram, among other hot topics such as the “nu-Australian”...
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Deadly Are The Naked are a Melbournian band who know how to Party – that’s with a capital fuckin’ “P”, folks! – both live and on record, as well as mellow out with the occasional silky-smooth, chilled ballad. Michael Bowser moves up close enough to the flying sweat and the high-energy forces of nature...
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Ra Ra Riot from Syracuse, New York are set to release their sophomore record The Orchard on 24 August 2010 on Barsuk Records in the US, and via Arts & Crafts in Canada. Last weekend on Sunday at Osheaga music festival in Montreal, I sat down with guitarist Milo Bonacci and violinist Rebecca Zeller...
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During his radio promotional stint and just days before his sold-out homecoming album release show on August 3 in New York City, Ryan Star squeezed Music Vice writer Laura Antonelli into his hectic schedule. On Wednesday (July 28) they discussed over the phone the joy and excitement in Star’s record finally being released and...
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Melbourne’s Sex On Toast are arguably a lot of things: Wilfully weird, musically convoluted, unashamedly smug and, most of all, stupidly talented. Taking their main cues from the likes of Frank Zappa and Mr Bungle, any further attempt to describe their (otherwise indescribable) music is mostly in vain. Michael Bowser speaks to frontman/guitarist Angus...
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Ian Blurton is a big name in Canadian indie music. A gigging musician since the early ’80s and also a producer whose credits include records for The Weakerthans, The Lowest of the Low and Amy Millan. This July, Ian Blurton’s power-trio C’Mon released their latest record Beyond The Pale Horse. I talked to Ian...
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A recent press release describes the music of Death O’Connor as being “like Kraftwerk being sucked off in an alleyway by The Stooges”. Curious and a little dubious, Music Vice’s Melbourne-based writer Michael Bowser had a brief “conversation” with The Man (as opposed to The Band) himself…so with no further ado, ladies and gentlemen…Mr...
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Eleven months after first gracing the pages (pixels?) of Music Vice, Perth’s resident blues-rockers Cal Peck and the Tramps are set to launch their second EP, Kill For You which comes out on Peck’s own label, Hurricane Records this week. Sitting outside his rehearsal space, looking as sharp as one can on a cold...
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A month ago Music Vice’s editor Brian Banks had the pleasure of meeting Carré Callaway of Los Angeles rock band Queen Kwong. The interview took place on yet another sunny and sweltering day in Toronto on Saturday afternoon, 19 June 2010 at Dundas Square. Queen Kwong had just finished playing a set at the...
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