7 Questions with Welcome the Wildfire

Proving anyone that thinks Melodic Rock has to be dull and boing will be proved very wrong when listening to Welcome the Wildfire. The Perth rockers, answer 7 Questions about their influences and what gives them their individual sound.

1. What would be the best way you would describe your music?

Melodic Rock with catchy yet memorable vocals and guitars, on top of strong bass lines and drums.

Every part of our music gets to shine and capture people’s attention. Each member is creatively strong and displays that in our music.

2. What can people expect from a Welcome the Wildlife live show?

An energetic and captivating experience which doesn’t slow down from beginning to end. Even a 1st time observer will be tapping their foot or dancing.

We always strive to entertain new potential fans in every crowd we play to.

3. What album has been most influential to your sound?

‘Birds Of Tokyo – Universes’

We share the same desire for strong melodies with an energetic sound at the same time as pushing ourselves to sound fresh and stand out from the norm.

4. How did you come up with your band name?

We came up with the name because we feel it expresses how you should never back down and give in to whatever pressures there are in life that can control or hurt you. ‘Embrace the fire and be strong within yourself. Don’t turn back, the future is always brightest’.

5. What’s been your favourite venue to play at?

The Rosemount Hotel. It is still by far the biggest venue we have played, which we hope to exceed and change in the near future. We also released our debut EP ‘Where I Ignite’ in January 2014 at The Rosemount, so it will always hold a special place in our hearts.

6. What would be your dream show? (who you’d play with, where you’d play etc)

We would really love to get on a big festival in Australia. Soundwave, Big Day Out or the new Warped Australia tour. Playing with big bands and younger newer bands too.

Each member has a different favourite genre of music so to keep us all happy we couldn’t pick just one band.

7. What can we expect from you guys in the coming months?

We are planning to shoot a video for our 1st single off our debut EP called ‘In The Street Light’. It’s the best song we’ve written so far, and it’s currently #9 on the JJJ Unearthed Rock charts.

We are also looking to tour the eastern states later in the year and maybe even record our 1st full length album over there too if we find a good producer and studio.

You can see us in the mean time playing around Perth at various venues such as The Rosemount Hotel and Beat Nightclub. Come down and check us out!

7 Questions with Kids From The Mill

Impressive Melbourne rock band Kids From The Mill, are edgy, dangerous and have a sound thats entirely unique. They are a stand out in an otherwise bland range of music. Any lovers of Rock music are fools to not listen to them. Lead singer Paul Teesdale, gives some extra insight into the band.

1. What would be the best way you would describe your music?

Aussie garage rock with blues, post punk and prog influences. 

2. What can people expect from a Kids From The Mill live show?

A loud energetic kind of a thing. We scream, bust amps and snap sticks. Chaos almost under control. 

3. What album has been most influential to your sound?

Naming a single album is difficult. The Drones Gala Mill is certainly a big one. It’s dark, tells a story and is bloody beautiful. 

4.  How did you come up with your band name?

The name Kids From The Mill came from our song Kid from the mill.  The song was written about the rough neighborhood my mother grew up in. It was a line of simple shacks situated behind a timber mill. She was neighbors with hardened criminals and alcoholics. The local kids were a bunch of scallywags to say the least so Kids From The Mill kind of fit us.

5. Whats been your favorite venue to play at?

We’ve played the Espy a couple of times now and particularly love the Basement there. It’s a small stage where you’re almost at eye level with crowd. It’s got an old punk bar vibe to it. Love it. 

6. What would be your dream show? (who you’d play with, where you’d play etc)

We really just want to take it to the country. A regional tour is our idea of fun. Wearhouses and rough country pubs. It’s good stuff. 

7. What can we expect from you guys in the coming months?

We are writing and working on our second ep at the moment. Going to try to get it out by summer. There will surely be a gig or two thrown in over the spring so keep an eye on our Facebook page for info. 

If your interested in what their EP The Stains sounds like, have a look here

Kids From The Mill- Stains EP

Kids From the Mill are a Melbourne based rock band, with a truly original sound. Their bluesy, drum driven songs with brilliant lyrics, that have a hidden dark side to them, make this band proof that Australian Rock music is still alive and well

This EP is a perfect example of ‘shut up and listen to this’, if the song Bruises came through on the radio, you’d be a fool to turn it down.

The chorus is heavy and holds nothing back, and the lyric ‘she came home with bruises up and down her inner thigh’ isn’t the type of thing you’d expect to hear, and it sound like it wouldn’t fit in any song, but it works so well. And leaves you singing away to it, even during your first listen.

With Bruises coming to a close on a heavy note, the soft, and steady build up to Sicka is unexpected and the chorus smacks you in the face. With Paul Teesdale vocals coming in hard and fast, the song is an absolute riot.

Kid from the Mill, is a stand out track on the EP and offers a fantastic story for the listener, and its as loud and extreme as the rest of the EP, if you’re going to listen to one track off the EP make it this one for sure.

And then theres the title track The Stains, the songs is wild and feral and complexly unpredictable and offers up some examples, that the days of Australian rock music being wild and powerful are not over yet.

Kids From The Mill, create a beautiful spider web of vocal, guitars and drums and then, smash through it with force and grandeur. They are a band worthy of any high praise they receive, and lovers of true rock music will not be disappointed by these guys.

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http://www.kidsfromthemill.com

Lepers and Crooks-Her Kiss

Her Kiss, by Sydney outfit Lepers and Crooks is a delicious blend of strong vocals, epic guitars and energetic bass lines.

The guitars riffs are dreamy and fluid, and the drums float airily in the background, until the songs fantastic buildup in the superbly catchy chorus.

Lepers and Crooks have you hooked from start to finish with this catchy little number, leaving you wanting more.

Kiera Stephens

 

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7 Questions with My Piranha

My Piranha are one of those bands that plays rock hard and fast, with a no holds barred approach that makes their live shows a must see.  Bass player, Ken was kind enough to answer 7 questions about the band, their influences and what you’ll get from a live show.

1. What would be the best way you would describe your music?

Three dudes playing super loud in a small sweaty room. A Black Night Crash DJ said “My Piranha sound as if DZ Deathrays and Ty Segall had a baby”. We kinda liked that. We just call it alternative grunge rock n’ roll.

2. What can people expect from a My Piranha live show?

Chaos, movement, beer spillage and string breakage . Lots of “Yeah!” and “Alright”.

3. What album has been most influential to your sound?

I’d have to say Sparklehorse – Good Morning Spider hands down. We all think that album is amazing. It’s a great record, it didn’t necessarily inspire us stylistically but more the way it made us think about songs. Buts it’s probably influenced us more than anything else.

4. How did you come up with your band name?

I’m not exactly sure how or when it came about but Jez and I were writing demos under a different name for a while and I’m sure the name wasn’t very good. We would just have these bands names floating around all the time that we thought if we got something going together we would use one day. I think it just came from one of those.

5. Whats been your favourite venue to play at?

We’ve been pretty lucky actually. Our friends keep booking us shows at some really rad venues. But The Rochy feels like home at the moment. We’ve always had an awesome time there and the shows have gone really well. It’s always a great vibe in that room, the dudes from Black Night Crash have made something really cool happen there. Jordan and Jonny always look after the bands and give out the best band rider in town for sure.

6. What would be your dream show? (who you’d play with, where you’d play etc)

This is a hard question to answer. I’m going with the assumption that we can have any bands living or dead. We’d have to say Thin Lizzy, Deep Purple and us as support at Cherry Bar or somewhere like that. A tiny sweaty stage with less than 200 people and a killer line up. Can’t go wrong.

7. What can we expect from you guys in the coming months?

We’ve got a bunch of shows booked for the next few months. We’re releasing our debut E.P on October 5th at Black Night Crash and a small tour in the works. We’re pretty excited to get that out. And we’re heading back into the studio to finish of some more songs as well. It’s all pretty fun at the moment.

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http://www.mypiranha.com.au

7 Questions with the Shadow Makers

Shadow Makers are a band that fans of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Queens of the Stone Age need to check out, they are the perfect band for anyone who has a deep craving for some dark rock n roll. Daniel Knight guitarist/singer was kind enough to answer 7 questions about where the band came from and where their going next.

1. What would be the best way you would describe your music?   

Still haven’t really worked that out, it’s rock n roll and can get heavy but not too dark.  There are influences from the UK and US and you can hear that in the music.

2. What can people expect from a Shadow Makers live show?  

You could expect us to sound just like the record that we haven’t put out yet but a little louder and sweatier..  We like shadows, smoke and lights too.

3. What album has been most influential to your sound?  

Considering we have multiple song writers that’s a bit hard.. While writing a lot last year I think we were listening to new Puscifer and BRMC records.. don’t think I could say just one album.

4. How did you come up with your band name?  

That actually took a while!  Didn’t want an absolute mouthful of shit and there’s a lot of patenting out there. Wanted something a bit creepy and thought of our name and liked it.  It didn’t rub us up the wrong way after a month or so so we went with it.  It has little to do with nuclear weapons.

5. Whats been your favorite venue to play at?  

We’re still fresh out of the blocks and as a band have only played two shows.  Our debut gig was upstairs at the Rochester Castle in Melbourne and we had a fucking ball. That one.

6. What would be your dream show? (who you’d play with, where you’d play etc)

Dream show… I guess to as many fans as possible from as high up as possible.. maybe stream us live from a Richard Branson orbit joyride?

7. What can we expect from you guys in the coming months?

We’ve just gone into the studio to get some usable recordings out there so will be releasing something this year, not sure what yet.  More live shows around Aus too.

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The Black Gypsies-Revelations

If you have any doubts about the state of Australian rock music, The Black Gypsies will undoubtably change your mind.

Revelations, the bands very first EP was produced by Australian rock music veteran, Chris Cheney (The Living End). The four track EP is just as powerful and mind-blowing as the bands main influences, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Queens of the stone age and The White Stripes just to name a few.

What makes The Black Gypsies, such an outstanding musical achievement is Cale Mason, he’s done it all himself, the blaring guitar, powerful vocals, thumping bass, and powerful lyrics were all his own work, while stepping in to give the songs their intense drum sound is Ryan Caesar (Children Collide).

Each of the four tracks displays Masons ability to create music of different styles and have them gel together perfectly. The records first track is Spirt in Search, a psychedelic experience that is very rarely seen, and one that Anton Newcombe (The Brian Jonestone Massacre) would not hesitate in putting on one of his own records.

Straight after is For the Sun, if one thing wakes you out of the trance spirit left you in, this song certainly will, the song is reminiscent of the likes of JET and early songs from The Living End.

Revelations is arguably the stand out track on the EP, in its 4:33 running time, Masons lyrics hit you fast and hard, the guitars blast in your head and the drums start you up, the songs stand out lyric ‘Fuck your Revolution’, echoes in your brain and stays with you long after the EPs end.

The record ends on its most powerful and memorable song, Gods Gonna Cut You Down, a reworking of the track made famous by Johnny Cash, that could very easily become, The Black Gypsies own. It’s as powerful as it is haunting, and really makes the listener think.

Nothing about this record is over done, or misplaced, every vocal note and guitar sound fits perfectly. A very possible Aria winner, Revelations is a must have for anyone who doubts current rock music.

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http://theblackgypsies.bandcamp.com/album/revelations

The Dark Fair-Penny Universe

If the Runaways had a baby with The Divinyls, the most likely offspring would be The Dark Fair. These ladies hold nothing back on their EP Penny Universe tearing at guitars and smashing drums. Each of the four tracks is filled with powerfully gritty vocals that could give Alison Mosshart a run for her money and guitar riffs so fluid and aggressive, they conjure up images of driving down a desert highway.

Walking On The Face Of Pluto has a drum beat thats played with grace and passion, and matched perfectly with cryptic and soulful lyrics.

Track Boom opens with a fantastic riff followed by mesmerizing drums and teamed with lyrics so catchy and hypnotic one listen just isn’t enough.
Penny Universe is a strong EP with four glorious pop/rock tracks that disproves anyone who thinks girls cant play rock like the boys.

Kiera Stephens

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Queens of the Stone Age-The Fun Machine Took a Shit and Died

Some song are always could have beens, Fun Machine is one of these, originally supposed to appear on Lullabies to Paralyze but after being “stolen” or as was, in fact, lost, it never found its home on an album.

Fun Machine shows that Queens provide some of their strongest songs when lyrics like ‘Got guns Do you wanna take aim at each other? Scratch the itch? Give the finger?’ are teamed with aggressive, soul satisfying guitars and Josh Homme’s signature velvety howl. This viciously hot and edgy song doesn’t lose anything, not even once, during its 7 minute length.

Kiera Stephens

                                     

The Kills-The Last Goodbye

When a band that is described as a electro blues, the idea of them doing a piano ballad seems humorous and has the potential of being awful if done wrong, The Last Goodbye by The Kills is neither hilarious nor awful.

Alongside a wonderful album Blood Pressures, with it’s strong rock tracks and typical blues beats, The Last Goodbye has the potential of being out of place and ruining the tone and flow of the album, but the pain and hurt in Alison Mosshart’s voice and the powerful lyrics ‘How can I rely on my heart if I break it with my own two hands?’ doesn’t ruin the tone or flow of the album, but rather, gives the album greater depth and ups the emotional power of the album as a whole.

Without The Kills identifiable howling vocals and swirling blues guitars, The Last Goodbye could be a catastrophe of a song, but not one element of this song brings down the album, it holds its own as a song, and give extreme credit to Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince for not only having enough faith to put it on the album, but writing something so haunting and powerful.

Kiera Stephens