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• We Are Scientists and Ash rock The Metro!

  We Are Scientists and Ash fulfil their mutual desire for 1) "far too many guitars on stage (3 guitars and 2 basses) and 2) "a band with 100 singers" as they take to the stage together after their own respective sets at Sydney's Metro Theatre to rip through a barnstorming cover of Weezer's Only In Dreams.
  
  Watch here and turn it up!
  

  Posted Friday 13 August by Paul Hannigan 0 Comments
• SPOTLIGHT ON: Revelate, by The Frames

  
  
  If you came to the world of Glen Hansard late, perhaps via his and Marketa Irglova's 2008 Oscar win for Best Original Song with "Falling Slowly", you might be forgiven for thinking his songwriting pallete runs merely the course of oftentimes intense, tremulous declaritives.
  
  Long-time aficionados, however, know The Frames can bring the rock with the best of them. And then some.
  
  They also know that The Frames are one of the greatest live bands you will ever see. To see them for the first time playing to a home crowd, or a transplanted Irish one as is the case with this gig we filmed at Sydney’s Metro Theatre, is simply, well, a revelation. Not so much a gig as a communal gathering of acoustic acolytes determined to sing every word of every song at the top of their lungs in mass unison. A very real congregation, then.

  Posted Wednesday 14 July by Paul Hannigan 0 Comments
• Preview 20 Aussie bands Playing At SXSW

  Here's your chance to check out some of the great Australian acts that are appearing at this year's SXSW in Austin, Texas.

  Posted Thursday 11 March by Paul Hannigan 0 Comments
• The Decemberists @ The Metro Now Playing

  
  
  
  Palanquins, pachyderms, concubines, sequins and silk. And that's just the first verse.
  
  
  As someone who starts most days with The Infanta blasting from the stereo in order to shake the cobwebs and head once more into the breach, it's hard to overstate the excitement of filming The Decemberists' recent Sydney gig at The Metro. (Let's gently put aside the fact that they did not play that song live, and move swiftly along. Disappointed? You have no idea.) Fans are drawn to a band like The Decemberists for a multitude of very personal reasons. While they do not often speak directly to the human condition, they sweep us along with such an array of characters, so richly drawn and acutely observed, that we feel enmeshed in the fabric of their lives, which in turn reflect on our own experiences.Musically, whether snared by the rich, faux-medieval hooks or rousing chamber pop choruses, the incredibly dense, multi-layered narratives of Colin Meloy's lyrics or just the downright soul-stirring rhythm section that constructs crescendos like no other, this is a band that has carved out a unique place in people's hearts.And if all that isn't enough, they do a brilliant cover of The Go-Betweens 'Bye Bye Pride'!

  Posted Wednesday 17 February by Paul Hannigan 0 Comments
• Animal Collective Full Concert Video Now Streaming

  
  
  They may have stepped into the wider critical spotlight with the release of their eighth studio album, Merriweather Post Pavillion, but when it comes to their live show, the Maryland crew prefer to keep us resolutely in the dark. Of course this makes shooting a gig more than a little problematic.  No matter. Because through the lacey blackness on stage, punctuated here and there by the occasional flash of fluorescence, emanates a noise so assuredly unique, so compellingly complete, that all you can do is close your eyes and let it carry you off to whatever fantastical place it is that produces stuff this good.

  Posted Tuesday 16 February by Moshcam 0 Comments