Endless Summers: Festival Season Down Under

Oceania's music festival season is notorious hot stuff. Since early December, we've been receiving some awesome coverage from festivals abound. Reports are coming from Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and soon enough Melbourne—cities going absolutely bonkers with music right now. From our trusted sources to you, it's an endless summer via
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Correspondent Reports


Mastodon Crack The Skye at Big Day Out 2010 in ... Issue23large_square
SYDNEY, METAL/PUNK/HARDCORE, Mar 03, 2010 by musicfeeds

Mastodon Crack The Skye at Big Day Out 2010 in Sydney

Mikey talks to one half of American prog metal band Mastodon at Big Day Out Sydney 2010. The boys try hard to hold back the silliness, but there's sever...
Decoder Ring Go About Blinding the Stars at Big... Issue23large_square
SYDNEY, EXPERIMENTAL/NOISE, Feb 16, 2010 by musicfeeds

Decoder Ring Go About Blinding the Stars at Big Day Out

The boys from Decoder Ring sit down with Mikey Carr in the picturesque surroundings of the backstage area at this year's Big Day Out Sydney. They talk a...
St Jerome's Laneway Festival 2010: The Rant Fro... Spoz__square
ADELAIDE, ROCK/INDIE/ALT, Feb 10, 2010 by spoz

St Jerome's Laneway Festival 2010: The Rant From Adelaide

Aaaah St Jerome you and your wacky laneway get together are MY kind of music festival. Why? because you're the ultimate boutique event for obsessive mus...
The Look of Sydney's Big Day Out 2010 Cybelem_square
SYDNEY, POP, Feb 09, 2010 by cybele

The Look of Sydney's Big Day Out 2010

This was Sydney's 100th Big Day Out. It was a scorcher of a day, reaching 32 degrees by 8am. The day before the temperatures had reached 42 degrees. Tha...
Wagons On a Hot Route at Big Day Out Sydney 2010 Issue23large_square
SYDNEY, BLUEGRASS/COUNTRY/BLUES, Feb 09, 2010 by musicfeeds

Wagons On a Hot Route at Big Day Out Sydney 2010

Melbourne alt-country band Wagons have never been the kind to shy away from arduous national/regional tours. Over the past few years they've probably se...
Riche Lewis of Tumbleweed Talks of Reuniting on... Issue23large_square
SYDNEY, ROCK/INDIE/ALT, Feb 09, 2010 by musicfeeds

Riche Lewis of Tumbleweed Talks of Reuniting on Stage

Psychedelic rockers Tumbleweed returned to the music scene last year after a prolonged hiatus. Time heals all wounds it seems, as Mikey found out when h...
DOWN-load-UNDER: Featured MP3s by Festival-Tour... New
SYDNEY, ROCK/INDIE/ALT, Feb 02, 2010 by jinx

DOWN-load-UNDER: Featured MP3s by Festival-Touring Artists

A decent MP3 sampler, and very free for you to enjoy, of some of the big bangs performing at this year's Oceania summer festivals. Also, the highlighte...
Dappled Cities and Tim Derricourt Get Situated ... Photo_square
BRISBANE, ROCK/INDIE/ALT, Feb 01, 2010 by benrobinson

Dappled Cities and Tim Derricourt Get Situated Laneway

We hang out with Tim Derricourt of Dappled Cities (on a random fake bull) to talk about their most recent success in Australia and the touring circuit o...
Bluejuice Get Loose at Big Day Out 2010 Issue23large_square
SYDNEY, ROCK/INDIE/ALT, Feb 01, 2010 by musicfeeds

Bluejuice Get Loose at Big Day Out 2010

Still working harder that a band of one armed whores, Bluejuice frontmen Jake Stone and Stav Yiannoukas channel the spirit of Bruce Lee in this high-ene...
Tame Impala Take Detour at Big Day Out 2010 Issue23large_square
SYDNEY, ROCK/INDIE/ALT, Feb 01, 2010 by musicfeeds

Tame Impala Take Detour at Big Day Out 2010

Psychedelic rockers Tame Impala shoot the breeze with Mikey at Sydney's Big Day Out 2010. The trio talk about their upcoming album release, lament the c...
Datarock Cools Off, Interview At Sunset Sounds Photo_square
BRISBANE, ROCK/INDIE/ALT, Feb 01, 2010 by benrobinson

Datarock Cools Off, Interview At Sunset Sounds

Datarock played a short-n-sweet set at this year's Sunset Sounds festival, in Brisbane, but it was definitely a wild show—as to be expected this time of...
Moby Shares a Little Past and Present at Sunset... Photo_square
BRISBANE, ELECTRONICA/DANCE, Jan 30, 2010 by benrobinson

Moby Shares a Little Past and Present at Sunset Sounds

When we received word that Moby was willing to sit down for an interview on camera, we were excited to ask him about so much. His catalogue, full of dep...
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Drops Some Wisdom At The B... Issue23large_square
SYDNEY, ROCK/INDIE/ALT, Jan 29, 2010 by musicfeeds

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Drops Some Wisdom At The Big Day Out

Possibly one of the most complex and eccentric musicians of our time, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez of The Mars Volta gets deep and meaningful with Mikey Carr at...
Kasabian Take a Load Off at Big Day Out Sydney ... Issue23large_square
SYDNEY, ROCK/INDIE/ALT, Jan 29, 2010 by musicfeeds

Kasabian Take a Load Off at Big Day Out Sydney 2010

Mikey Carr returns with another backstage interview at this year's Big Day Out festival in Sydney. Talking to Tom and Sergio from the indie Brit outfit ...
Precious Time with Lisa Mitchell at Sunset Sounds Photo_square
BRISBANE, POP, Jan 28, 2010 by benrobinson

Precious Time with Lisa Mitchell at Sunset Sounds

Lisa Mitchell had every reason to be at easy when this interview went down. Patrick Watson playing the background, at least made it seem like it. We wer...
Dizzee Rascal Feeling Good at Big Day Out 2010 Issue23large_square
SYDNEY, HIPHOP/RAP/R&B, Jan 27, 2010 by musicfeeds

Dizzee Rascal Feeling Good at Big Day Out 2010

Mikey Carr chats with British MC Dizzee Rascal before his performance at the Big Day Out festival in Sydney, just this past weekend. The pair discuss Di...
Made in Japan at Come Together Festival 2009 Issue23large_square
SYDNEY, ROCK/INDIE/ALT, Jul 24, 2009 by musicfeeds

Made in Japan at Come Together Festival 2009

The bearded blunder (that's Mikey) catches up with Sydney indie outfit Made In Japan over a quick bite at Come Together Festival . With their new deb...