Journalism

Interviews: Sexy/Heavy and Within Temptation (Beat)

Consider Daft Punk. Far from punk, they're retro house superstars. Queens of the Stone Age? Straight-as-nails desert rock. Enter Sexy/Heavy, Melbourne's come-hither rockers so named for doing what it says on their (sexy) tin. Sexy/Heavy singer Knave Knixx shakes it for old school and hard-driving rock.

Read more at Beat.com.au.

Also: An interview with Sharon Den Adel of Within Temptation

Interview: Nostalghia (Beat)

 

Nostalghia is self-described as "post-apocalyptic gypsy punk." Singer and instrumentalist Ciscandra Nostalghia, together with drummer and equally multi-instrumentalist Roy Gnan will prove an oasis of strange and arty catharsis in a desert of screaming, angry men at the upcoming Soundwave Festival.

Read more at Beat.com.au.

Review: Ghost - If You Have Ghost EP (Beat)

 

 

On the front of dinosaur metal act Ghost's first covers EP, If You Have Ghost, stands Papa Emeritus. His eyes are fierce and bulging. It looks like he's awaiting his cue in a Pythonesque Gilliam-toon. A gigantic pink foot could crush him any second. You can almost hear murmurs centring from a huddle of Nameless Ghouls: "And now, for something completely different."

Read the rest at Beat.com.au.