OK, these songs have nothing to do with Easter but are some of the best tracks zipping around the interweb this week. They are late and sparse due to an iMac meltdown. Hey Apple, I thought your OS was meant to be stable?!
Liam Finn, son of Crowded House front man Neil Finn, released his [...]
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teenagersintokyo: Proudly not footballers’ wives
My search for the best Antipodean bands continues today with Sydney’s teenagersintokyo. Like most of my gender, A Free Man is a sucker for girls with guitars, or bass, or keys. The Sydney quintet offers a little bit of each plus a lanky lad on drums. They are sexy and sassy, but in this era [...]
Aussie Rules: No Through Road
A Free Man’s Best of South Australia series continues with Adelaide’s No Through Road. Founded by Matt Banham in 2000, No Through Road has been churning out fetching lo-fi tunes at a heady pace. Matt’s hooked up with a regular band these days and their most recent record “Too Much or Not Enough” has just [...]
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As you may or may not know, A Free Man is bound for Down Under. In anticipation of the imminent move, I’m on a mission to discover the best up and coming bands from my soon to be home. We Grow Up is an Adelaide quintet that got some attention last May after winning [...]
The Best of South Australia
A Free Man will be headed Down Under in a matter of weeks. In anticipation, South Australian music blogger Ringo Stalin at Champignons for my real friends hooked us up with his choices for the best bands from SA. Head over and see what Adelaide and environs have to offer. My fav was Home For [...]
MP3s of the Week: International Idol Edition
One of the guilty pleasures, among things like beef flavored Rice-a-Roni, that I hang onto from the States is American reality TV. We get the king of that genre, American Idol, a couple of days after it airs in the U.S. I have found a way to get completely hooked again this year. I rarely [...]
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