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Tim ‘Ripper’ Owens
Rip Rip Woodchip, Turn It Into Metal The Ripper is coming and if you’re a Canberran and consider yourself a metalhead it’s your duty to greet the man when he (quite literally) screams into the nation’s Capital later this month. For one thing, he virtually ...
Digitalism
I Love You Moo, Dude It's a rainy night and I'm sitting at my computer waiting for a call from German electro-pop sensations DIGITALISM. I look up a few of their songs. The clip for Two Hearts from the duo's 2011 album I Love You, ...

Spoonbill
The Ornithologist's Wet Dream If you go walking amongst the lush dub lagoons and wonky thwomp swamps of Melbourne's glitch-hop scene you might hear the strange, warbling cry of a rare exotic bird: the SPOONBILL. Feeding on a wide variety of samples and field recordings, ...

The Getaway Plan
The Best-Laid Plan A year and a half on from their reunion, a handful of tours down and with a new album on the shelves, THE GETAWAY PLAN are well and truly back in the mind frame of a full-time, fully functioning band. “It felt ...

The Butterfly Effect
The Last Hurricane After the announcement of lead singer Clint Boge’s departure from THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT the boys will be holding one last national tour. The tour will see The Butterfly Effect performing farewell shows to pay tribute to the last ten years and give ...

Parkway Drive
Gassed In The Tank Byron Bay surfer Winston McCall is not what you would initially expect, being the frontman of Australia's biggest hardcore band, PARKWAY DRIVE. After witnessing his vocals live and recorded, I expect something completely different. Parkway Drive's music is fast, mean and ...

Kim Churchill
One Happy Camper, Eh KIM CHURCHILL had no doubt of what he was going to do upon finishing high school. He bought a campervan, packed his guitar and his surfboard and set his sights on the open road. A few years later and that fresh-faced ...

Dead Letter Circus
Give This Man A Shoe When DEAD LETTER CIRCUS took to the stage back in 2007, singer Kim Benzie would invariably finish each set by jumping from a speaker box barefoot and begging the audience to buy their EP so he could afford shoes. Since ...

The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Gun Culture, New Order And Why Germans Have More Civil Liberties It's fair to say that there aren't many bands to have emerged over the past two decades whose work spans so many styles and genres as THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE. Since emerging at the ...

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From the Bossman

Last issue I promised a sloppy and fond dedication to my three departing BMA-ers and, being an inherently untrustworthy fellow, I shall instead proceed to cast aspersions on their character and bombard them with foul and amusing anecdotes.

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