Interview with ‘The Black Elk Medicine Band’ (02-05-2013)

Our Editor Juan J. Cruz had a chat last week with Isaiah Mitchell (Earthless) who told us about his new solo project ‘The Black Elk Medicine Band’ and touring next week in Australia with Nick Allbrook (Tame Impala, Pond) on bass guitar and Robert McManus (ex-Grey Daturas and ex-Monarch) on drums.

Read below to see what he has to say about his new project and his current Australian tour.

The Drones

The Drones is one of those iconic Australian bands that also happen to have good music taste and were in charge of the last Edition of the All tomorrow´s Party music festival in Melbourne. They are originally from Perth and they are strongly influenced by the ‘garage rock’, even though they also fit in the ‘experimental rock’ genre. In my opinion the key is Gareth Lilliard –vocals, guitar- who is quite a front man and a great musician whose guitar style reminds me Joe Mascis’ (Dinosaur Jr) at times.

The show warmed up with their two new singles ‘I See Seaweed’ and ‘How to see through Fog’, and they ended up playing most tracks from their new album with a few old songs in between. The band seemed very relaxed for most of the show, Gareth taking charge of the show biz, with dirty riffs, soloing and a spasmodic dance that seemed driven by his –sleek- red Fender Jaguar, and Fiona –on the bass- making sure the beat was firm and strong.

I would have some complains about the sound engineer but it was a really good show and it was well worth my time. As in past concerts, Gareth and Fiona have demonstrated they are great artist and whatever name they decide to play under, it is really worth it dropping by.

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Mia Dyson

Mia Dyson is a famous Australian songwriter and guitarist from Torquay. She composes beautiful songs with a deep toned voice and scratchy chords roughly played on her electric guitar, with a characteristic style that may remind some grunge blues band, only toned down a few notches.

On the bass, Tim Keegan was great. I am a bit fan of his previous work with Liz Stringer –on steel guitar during the show-, Matt Keegan and the Tiger and me. Humble and quiet bass notes until it needs to be heard. Nothing too techie, nothing too fancy, just a clean nice ‘jazzy’ Fender sound that builds up without taking over.  Danny McKenna on drums to complete the set and a couple of teenage girls doing a ‘solo cameo’ at the end of the show.

Quite a nice venue, such a nice show, just before she goes on tour to the US.

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Vydamo

Vydamo ('Vye-dam-o') is the solo project of Art vs. Science´s vocals and keyboard guy Jim Finn and is on tour right now or the first time. You may have listen his catchy single ‘Gonna Make it’ on Triple J over the last few weeks.

After a really busy Saturday with a full-day photoshoot on the East side of Melbourne, I jumped on the tram to swing by the Toff in Town, just to find a massive queue at the door. Nodded to the bouncer, and ran up what felt like the longest and steepest staircase in Melbourne. Lucky me, I got there just on time.

Surprisingly, there were hardly any photos being taken by anyone in the night, so I hope you   enjoy the shots below.

I won´t be surprise if there´s a second date in Melbourne soon. Just remember you saw it here first!

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Interview with Unida (17-04-13)

‘Liveinphotos’ had the opportunity to interview ‘Unida’. For those who have not heard much of it, it´s a stoner rock band that was formed with ex-member of iconic bands Kyuss and Slo Burn.

Our Editor Juan J. Cruz had a Q/A with Mr. Arthur Seay, the amazing guitar player of Unida -second from the left-. His musical background also includes his band House of Broken Promises, and he was also known for being the road-tech of Slipknot.

Read below to see what he has to say.

The Art of Sleeping

Just got back from a holiday on the other side of the world and I decided to post about this young Australian band that I saw last year, but happened to be quite busy to do it at the time.

The Art of Sleeping is a young Brisbane-based band that has a fair bit of fans in Melbourne. A mellow sound with keyboards and acoustic guitars, yet solidly arrange with drums, bass and electric guitar. The vocals somehow remind me good ol’ Goo Goo Dolls, and some of their influences are Australian bands FleetFoxes and Mumford and Sons (click on the links to listen a few tracks).

Well, enough said, you can check their sound by following the link to their myspace.

Enjoy the Friday playlist!

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High on the 'Hawk

YEAH!

Great news, my photos of John Stanier went all the way to California -USA- and they are now featuring in the iconic DRUM! Magazine.

I love the design, the blue page margin and mainly... that massive full-page print!

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