Poppy Reid

Album Review: Bad Religion, Christmas Songs

With a cover image snapped by Gerald Walker in 1946, depicting a six-year-old Austrian boy hugging donated shoes from the Red Cross, it’s clear from the onset that this is no Christmas album doused…

AJ Maddah briefs confused Big Day Out ticketholders

AJ Maddah has pushed back at Blur after the band announced they had pulled out of next year’s Big Day Out. The Soundwave/Warped Tour/Harvest promoter, who was brought in to jointly run Big Day Out…

Beats Music finally announce launch date

After an extensive build up, the music streaming service spearheaded by Interscope/Geffen Chairman Jimmy Iovine, rap mogul Dr. Dre and Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails, How To Destroy Angels) has been…

ARIA Award Predictions: Billy Russell, Zan Rowe, Smallzy

Four Australian Grammy nominees fly under the radar

Four acts have been left out of many news reports on the Australian artists given Grammy nods this year. While global outlets were gushing over Lorde’s nominations whilst dubbing her Australian, some…

Live Review: Muse, Sydney

Devon genre-blenders Muse usually fill openair basins three times the size of Sydney’s Allphones Arena; six albums in and the trio are now just as lauded for the LED imagery, lasers and state of the…

This Record Changed My Life: Protest The Hero

The record that changed my life was Propagandhi’s Today’s Empires, Tomorrow’s Ashes. I can still remember the first time I heard Back to the Motor League; they released this song as an album teaser…

Live Review: Bring Me The Horizon, Pierce The Veil, The Chariot

When Soundwave Touring chose to put The Chariot, Pierce The Veil and Bring Me The Horizon in one room, they would be arrogant not to anticipate anarchy. But while promoter AJ Maddah has been accused…

Live Review: Blink-182, Sydney

Wednesday February 20 Allphones Arena, Sydney, NSW The rise, breakdown and inevitable reprise of Blink-182 has been a steady one. Their first few albums were a ’must own’ for anyone who even feigned…

Live review: My Bloody Valentine

My Bloody Valentine February 19, 2013 Enmore Theatre, Sydney “Are you going to the concert as well? Everytime I see a young couple or group coming in, looking lost, I just say, ‘earplugs are there.’”…

Josh Pyke: Leeward

“It’s disappointing, I try to make myself not care about chart positions and stuff like that, but I think, you know - I was really keen to try and have all top five albums.” Earlier this month Josh…

We Came As Romans: Unite and Conquer

“In the grand scheme of bands everywhere, we’re not a big band, we’re not a major label band, we’re not on the side of billboards or anything remotely close to that.” Joshua Moore and his band We…