Drunk Mums - Livin' At Night

1. Who are Drunk Mums? 

Drunk Mums are a garage rock/punk rock band from Melbourne, Australia, formed in 2011. Livin' At Night (Feb, 2024) is a single from their fourth album Beer Baby (March, 2024). 

2. What is Livin' At Night like? 

Livin'At Night is all a lilting garage rock track epitomising fun and all about escaping work day monotony. It swings along with lovely little rock'n'roll guitar licks and comes equipped with a fit-for-purpose sing-along chorus.  

3. Who do Drunk Mums sound like? 

Animal House, together PANGEA, and Mini Skirt.

4. Which bands have influenced Drunk Mums?

GEE TEE, The Saints, and The Hives.

5. What is are the guttersnipes saying about Livin' At Night? 

"Continues their tradition of delivering raucous rock party anthems" - Maximum Volume.

"This track has ear wormy hooks and it's hard not to love it" - Distorted Sound. 

"Tailored for those beer-raised sing-alongs" - Life Without Andy.

“There's a love and it’s you, I start living at night

It don’t matter what we do, I start living at night”

The Lulu Raes - Change My Tune

1.    Who are these heroes? 

Gaze on the majesty of The Lulu Raes, an indie pop rock band from Sydney, Australia. Change My Tune is a release from their debut E.P. All Our Parents Are Divorced (Aug'16). 

2. What kind of gas are they burning? 

Change My Tune is a busy little tune that bustles along bursting with energy. With a surf lick and a sunny vibe, and chaneling some Strokes garage slash 60's pop vibe, the tune will get you hot stepping. 

3. Who do The Lulu Raes sound like? 

The Strokes, Animal House and Foster The People.

4. What have the pillocks in the press said about Change My Tune?

“Shifts the band’s bubbly pop-nerd energy to the garage” – Rolling Stone Australia.

“Fucking unique and incomparable” – Wickedd Childd.

“Indie head banger” – AAA Backstage.

5. Whcih bands have influenced The Lulu Raes? 

Some of the main influences are The Strokes, The Pixies, Oasis, The Beatles and Macy Gray.

6. Why should I give Change My Tune a lash?

Change My Tune throws you off your guard, zigging when you think it will zag. That and the 60's surf pop sensibility married to new century garage makes for a trippy little tune with a bit of fire up it's arse.

7. Do The Lulu Raes have any more bangers?

Burnout is another interesting effort.

8. Any more words dude?

Not a dilly. 

“Damned if I do and damned if I don’t”

Two Gallants are an punk and blues-infused folk rock duo from San Francisco, California. They started on their musical odyssey in 2002 and have five long players on their battle honors. Two Gallants are influenced by the blues and bands like Nirvana, Pavement and Operation Ivy. The second album What The Toll Tells (2006) has the bands best two singles on it, Steady Rollin' and Las Cruces Jail. Las Cruces Jail is a romping tune Pitchfork called “a yowling cow-punk stomper.”

“I shot one man on the county line,

Took his dime and I blew his mind”

Hey Geronimo - Bake A Cake

     1.    Who are this rough and tumble lot?

Hey Geronimo are an indie rock band from Brisbane, Australia. Bake A Cake (July'16) bounces off their second album Crashing Into The Sun (July'16). 

2.    What have they got that’s hot to trot?

Bake A Cake is a feel good pop rock tune, with a retro sixties 'down at the dance' vibe a fuzzy guitar lick and a take home message. 

  

3. Who do Hey Geronimo sound like?

Animal House. Bronze Radio Return. Hey Geronimo reminded The AU Review of The Byrds, The Beatles and The Beach Boys. 

4. What have the plastic punchers said about Bake A Cake?

“Left hand turns into hook after hook after hook” – Triple J. 

“A stupidly cheery song” – AAA Backstage. 

“Catchy number” – Mosh Cam. 

5. Which bands have given Hey Geronimo their devil may care attitude? 

Hey Geronimo’s main influences are Weezer, Custard and The Beach Boys.

6. Why should I give Bake A Cake a swish past the ears? 

Bake A Cake is an upbeat number with more sweet innocence than others would have you suppose. 

7. Do Hey Geronimo have any more good tunes?

Stacks. Dreamboat Jack is a top class cracker. I'll Be There is a  sweet beauty that works itself up into a riot, Why Don't We Do Something and The Dan Kelly Song are all just tasters of Hey Geronimo's sunny brilliance.

8. Any more words kemosabe? 

Get on with ya.

“You’ve got to bake a cake from the mistakes you make”

Jim Adkins is the frontman for punk legends Jimmy Eat World. Going through his 'gee I’m just so sure the fans would just love to hear only me and my acoustic; hell no it’s not narcissism, it's for the fans' wank phase, he has actually put together a tune that doesn’t blow donkey balls. I Will Go (2015) is one of six tunes he dropped on an E.P. of the same name and is a Roy Orbison or Travelling Wilburys sounding number. Not total shite.

“The paralyzing truth, I am what I will choose”

Spring King - Detroit

    1.    Who are these rock gods? 

     Spring King are a post-punk band from Manchester, England. Detroit (May'16) is the second single from their debut album Tell Me If You Like To (June'16).

    2. What kind of tune have we got on our hands?

     Detroit is 'hey diddle, diddle, straight up the middle' garage rock'n'roll. Deliciously distorted guitar hammers out a primitive riff and the all in chorus is stickier than a rapist in church. Pure mindless fun.

    3. Who do Spring King sound like? 

     Public Access TV. Animal House and The Vaccines on the outside.

    

    4. What have the wanna be's said about Detroit? 

    “Fizzling and crackling with energy” – Clash Music. 

    “Fuzzy, raw, frenetic and cheerful” – London The Inside. 

    “A break-neck paced, fuzz-pop singalong” – Northern Transmissions. 

5. Who puts the bang in Spring King's buck?

Spring King's main influences are The Beach Boys, Arcade Fire, Ty Segall, The Black Lips and The Clash.

6. Why should I give Detroit a passing glance?

Detroit will make you shake your ass and feel sixteen.

7. Do Spring King have any more barn burners?

They so do. Rectifier is the one you need. Who Are You? has got what you want. Get amongst.

8. Any more words pilgrim?

Get tah fuck. 

“No scales can balance out my destiny”

The Living End are a punk band from Melbourne, Australia, and one of the finest bands to walk God's green earth. Influenced by The Clash, Iggy Pop, The Who and The Jam and with a rockabilly backbone, a punk soul and anthemic choruses, they are one of Australia's finest rock bands ever. In May of 2016 the band released their seventh album Shift and the boys are as strong as ever. Roll On was the second single from the legends second album Roll On (2001) and is a song Ultimate Guitar describe as "a classic."

“We’ll roll on with our heads held high,

Our conscience in the gutter,

Our dreams up in the sky”