From Russia With Love

Think sweeping Aussie rock circa late 90’s / early naughties on this one. Thick raucous chunky lead licks played with mammoth conviction of the Giants of Science kind. I don’t know how he does it but Russia’s leading man, Double O, is both smooth and sharp all at the same time.

On their lead single, From Russia With Love, this Melbournian trio have captured the harsh yet seamless, jaggered edges of their sound. Encasing in under three and a half minutes a raunchy tale of seduction that wraps itself around your ears.

Bound to shake and cause a stir, Russia will dominate your stereo, with love of course…

Listen to Russia here.

Azumuth

The Rain

Fly

Azumuth's music is a journey that encompasses many musical moods, alteranative and power metal riffage, accompany skater punk beats and melodies on these pair of tracks. There are flickers of Faith No More, and moments of Metallica. Fly in particular, makes me like i am playing Tony Hawk on my playstation, cruising along one moment, accellerating full throttle the next, launching into the air, twisting and turning, before gliding back to the crunch of earth.

Listen to Azumuth here

Hey Judes

Reminiscent of bands such as The Bees who brought back sunflower pop rock. Lemonheads like but not as quirky. Sugary sweet without being sickly. It is The Judes softer side that shines through rather than their moments of Buzz Cock-ery, but undeniably The Judes takes their listener on a warm and fuzzy journey.

Warming involuntary bopping will occur

Listen to The Judes here.

Holy Yolanda

Lock up your sons!

A worthy successor to artists who personified all things rock chick. Yolanda and the Stolen Boys play music with soul, sweat and feeling, tapping into a vein of consciousness shared with the likes of the Baby Animals, Melissa Etheridge, Bon Jovi, Concrete Blonde, and Alannah Myles

The kind of music you hear and just feel the energy of the live show, this music just breathes. Yolanda kicks the shit out of so called rock chicks like Pink and Avril.

Nothing like a fine, bad-arse bitch singing rock and roll songs about doing the dirty.

Holy Yolanda!!!

Listen to Yolanda and the Stolen Boys here.

The Twitch

From the Outset The Twitch let you know that they have arrived.

This is balls to the wall rock and roll, strong tight musicianship indicating a lot of time transversing the sonic sound-scape together.

These guys know all about rock structure and layered production paying homage to rock gods such as Pink Floyd, The Eagles, Free, Status Quo and Steppenwolf, I even heard elements of Bowie in there.

Great air guitar stuff, The Twitch are a band that would be just as at home pumping a house party or selling out stadium shows.

I Dig It Man!

Listen to The Twitch here

Peter's Farm

This one’s got everything a good children’s album should have including a narrator with a funny accent, funny voices and funny stories.

The animals on Peters Farm boogie on down to some classic big band swing and rock and roll, a bit of the blues and even some 80’s retro, with strong Australiana themes thrown in for good measure.

Visually strong lyrics coupled with upbeat, playful melodies that are fun by design, bring the world of Peter’s Farm to life.

It gives the oldies a bit of a giggle as well, as memories come flooding back.

A great introduction to the world of music for any infant child.

Visit - www.petersfarmhouse.com

The Light at the End of the World

This is a relaxing mix of rock and synth pop - some of it is not to cheezy - I stress only some of it!! It's a confusing mix - some of it is really trippy and intresting, while other parts are very cheesy and booooring!!! but it's definatly worth a listen, to at lteast to hear the few good parts.

I think the purple flying monkey on the cover really says it all. I think the green trumpet the monkey is holding sums it up, Mary Jane is flying with the monkey all the way to the Light at the End of the Worlds.

Listen to the monkey and A Flock Of Seaguls here