http://www.tonedeaf.com.au The Home Of Australian Music Tue, 21 May 2013 06:38:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interviews/306399/martha-wainwright.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interviews/306399/martha-wainwright.htm#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 01:30:35 +0000 Al Newstead http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=306399 “I don’t think I’m hugely influenced a lot of the time,” Martha Wainwright says from her home in Brooklyn, moments before disagreeing with herself. “I think that’s a lie,” she continues, on the topic of what influences her as a songwriter. “Your ear when you’re a young adult and a teenager is so open to [...]]]> http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interviews/306399/martha-wainwright.htm/feed 0 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interviews/306523/charles-bradley.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interviews/306523/charles-bradley.htm#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 00:30:06 +0000 Al Newstead http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=306523 Charles Bradley is a man who has taken a very long and winding road to success. At 64, he has only just released his second album – Victim Of Love ­– following on from his 2011 debut, No Time For Dreaming. In the titles alone, a change in tone is evident in a man who [...]]]> http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interviews/306523/charles-bradley.htm/feed 0 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interviews/304650/jen-cloher-2.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interviews/304650/jen-cloher-2.htm#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 01:30:12 +0000 Christopher Harms http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=304650 Jen Cloher has been a familiar name on the music scene since she, together with her band The Endless Sea, released her debut EP Permanent Marker in 2005. Eight years, two albums, and one ARIA nomination later, Cloher is set to release her third long player, In Blood Memory, with the help of her fans. [...]]]> http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interviews/304650/jen-cloher-2.htm/feed 0 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interviews/304859/ghost.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interviews/304859/ghost.htm#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 01:30:15 +0000 Christopher Harms http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=304859 While melodic hardcore five-piece The Ghost Inside are no strangers to Australian shores, the band’s upcoming tour (featuring a list of impressive supports) is their first in headline mode. The Californian metalcore outfit released their latest album Get What You Give last year and received their biggest response to a studio release yet. They’ve been [...]]]> http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interviews/304859/ghost.htm/feed 0 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interviews/303447/cloud-control.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interviews/303447/cloud-control.htm#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 07:00:45 +0000 Christopher Harms http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=303447 Vampire Weekend called them “the best support we’ve ever had,” they won two AIR Awards in 2010 and 2011, trotted off with the nation’s sixth Australian Music Prize, then several weeks ago, they were listed as one of over 70 bands playing at Splendour in the Grass in Byron Bay. Now, as 2013 charges on, [...]]]> http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interviews/303447/cloud-control.htm/feed 0 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interviews/303320/wavves-2.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interviews/303320/wavves-2.htm#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 01:30:32 +0000 Al Newstead http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=303320 Speaking to the duo that now make up Wavves, lead singer Nathan Williams and bassist Stephen Pope, they seem completely oblivious to the ripples they’ve created in the music world and just come across as two completely normal – albeit endearingly immature – twenty-somethings from the land of LA. They’ve just arrived back home from [...]]]> http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interviews/303320/wavves-2.htm/feed 0 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interviews/302842/foals.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interviews/302842/foals.htm#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 01:30:27 +0000 Al Newstead http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=302842 Foals keyboardist Edwin Congreave takes a minute to reflect on the band’s ever-adapting sounds and ponders the road that has lead the British outfit to international success. Already deep into their heavy year of worldwide tours and festivals, all the while carrying the successes of newly released third record Holy Fire, it is understandable that [...]]]> http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interviews/302842/foals.htm/feed 0 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interviews/301628/seth-sentry-3.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interviews/301628/seth-sentry-3.htm#comments Tue, 07 May 2013 01:30:51 +0000 Al Newstead http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=301628 He’s been asking for a hoverboard for months now, with little success and if he could ask for any other sci-fi paraphernalia his second request would be a teleportation machine, because “it’d be sick. I’d be able to do a whole tour in a week, you know?” It’d certainly help, as Seth Sentry has been [...]]]> http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interviews/301628/seth-sentry-3.htm/feed 0 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interviews/302174/deftones.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interviews/302174/deftones.htm#comments Tue, 07 May 2013 01:03:27 +0000 Al Newstead http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=302174 Sergio Vega’s days are spent consumed with music. “There’s not much going on in my world but making music and the occasional sketch here and there.” he says down the phone line, sounding like a man deep in his element. Since joining the Deftones after bass player and back up screamer Chi Cheng’s tragic car [...]]]> http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interviews/302174/deftones.htm/feed 0 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interviews/299558/temper-trap-3.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interviews/299558/temper-trap-3.htm#comments Wed, 01 May 2013 02:00:53 +0000 Al Newstead http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=299558 Having recently returned to home shores once more, Australia’s own The Temper Trap have spent much time overseas vigorously touring and playing multiple festivals all over the world. So much so that their appearances at Groovin’ The Moo and their two East Coast headline performances have been labeled as ‘homecoming shows’. According to lead vocalist [...]]]> http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interviews/299558/temper-trap-3.htm/feed 0