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Dec 15, 2008

The biggest disappointments of 2008

Obama didn't pick Lil Wayne as his running mate, the total lack of new albums by Courtney Love and Ini Kamoze didn't beat down Girl Talk for not clearing his sample of Here Comes The Hotstepper.

Dec 8, 2008

More acts added to Laneway Festival

A whole truckload of local acts get added to all four stops of the festival's national tour.

Nov 23, 2008

Gig Review: The Stabs + Talons + Atrocities @ Spectrum - 15/11/08

I went and saw some bands play last week. Here is a story about that.

Nov 18, 2008

Our favourite Australian/New Zealand artists of 2008

Artists that touched us. Artists we touched. A big list of people we think you should try and touch sometime.

Oct 27, 2008

Interview: Talons

We talk to Christian J Best, lead singer and guitarist of the Sydney punk trio, about their debut album, the awesomeness of Slayer, band members becoming Nazis and and the joy of stabbing Kyle Sanderlands with an ARIA award.

Oct 20, 2008

New Music: Talons - Mudrockets

This is the first song to 'leak' from Talons' upcoming debut album, which is just getting it's final coat of polish at the moment and is expected to be released early next year.

Choirs + punk chaos = absolute brilliance.

Sep 4, 2008

Talons need new handbags

One of Sydney's finest bands are putting on a super special fundraising show this Sunday featuring performances from Further, The Holy Soul, Dead China and many many more.

Sep 3, 2008

Gig Review: The Mess Hall + Violent Soho + Talons @ Annandale Hotel - 29/08/2008

Three good bands? Worst crowd ever? Least enjoyable show of 2008? Questions?

Jul 13, 2008

Talons head into the studio this week to lay down tracks for their (long awaited) debut album. The record, which is still untitled at this stage, is due out in a few months time and set to be self-released by the band. #

Jul 11, 2008

New Music: Vital Organs

Talons frontman, powered by gin and second hand organs, unleashes his own solo project.

Jun 17, 2008

New Music: Damnbuilders

The hot new Sydney duo are currently exploding on the 'scene' like a ultra-hot vindaloo. In your pants.

Apr 30, 2008

Brisbane hates Talons. And we hate Brisbane. See how that works? #

Apr 27, 2008

Gig Review: Essential Festival @ Gaelic Theatre - 25/04/2008

Bleh.

Apr 22, 2008

Gig Review: Die! Die! Die! + Talons + The Ripping Dylans @ Oxford Art Factory - 19/04/2008

Drunk, sweaty, punk rock fun.

Apr 13, 2008

Gig Review: Witch Hats + Talons + Circle Pit @ Spectrum - 12/04/2008

Melbourne's Witch Hats officially launch their new album, Cellulite Soul, with a blistering performance.

Apr 5, 2008

Final line-up for Essential Festival unveiled

A fantastic selection of local bands have been added to the bill, shifting the quality of the festival from 'meh' to 'meh, ok then'.

Mar 18, 2008

Gig Review: Goodbye Sunshine Festival @ some warehouse in Marrickville - 15/03/2008

Mar 14, 2008

Goodbye Sunshine Festival

Taking place this Saturday and featuring a whole bunch of awesome Sydney bands including Talons, Dead Farmers, Straight Arrows, Ghosts Of Television, Dead China Doll, Atrocities and many more.

Mar 4, 2008

Gig Review: Further + Sounds Like Sunset + Talons @ Hopetoun Hotel - 01/03/2008

Further launch their new album, Tactics, with a show worthy of our gushing fanboy praise.

Mar 4, 2008

Gig Review: Batrider + Yes Nukes! + Talons @ Spectrum - 29/02/2008

Feb 29, 2008

This weekend is the greatest weekend of music the world and/or Sydney will ever experience

Batrider, Talons, Further, more Talons, Dan Deacon extra Sydney show, Devastations, Okkervil River, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Gotye, Broken Social Scene and Siamese Ginzz make their debut performance!

Feb 8, 2008

Tonight in Melbourne

We don't normally cover the goings on of Melbourne (cuz we don't live there) but there are a couple of awesome Sydney bands heading down this weekend which if you live in the Southern city we think you should check out.

Feb 6, 2008

Gig Review: Talons + Regular John + Sacred Stereos @ Annandale Hotel - 03/02/2008

Jan 25, 2008

Australia Day 2008

There is a whole platter of things on offer around the place this Australia Day.

Dec 30, 2007

Our Favourite Albums of 2007

Just minutes before the year clocks out, gets embarrassingly drunk and makes out with their cousin we have a little list of the music we have enjoyed the most from 2007.

Dec 24, 2007

2007 - A Mixtape

We have packaged together our favourite songs from the past twelve months as our gift to you for visiting our site this year. Enjoy!

Dec 6, 2007

Gig Review: Talons + Laura Imbruglia + Atrocities @ Hopetoun Hotel - 30/11/2007

Hey, reckon we should just bite the bullet and change the name of this website to talons.com?

Nov 30, 2007

Talons EP launch TONIGHT!

Our favourite Sydney band celebrates the release of their debut EP Ducats tonight at the Hopetoun Hotel.

Nov 22, 2007

Bridge Mary Kiss take out Hopetoun Incentive 07

Defeating some of our favourite bands as they book themselves a spot at this year's Homebake Festival.

Nov 20, 2007

Hopetoun Incentive Grand Final Tonight

Four local bands battle it out tonight for a spot at this year's Homebake Festival.

Nov 11, 2007

Gig Review: Spider Vomit + Straight Arrows + Talons @ Spectrum - 09/11/2007

It was one of those dream line-ups on Friday evening as the fantastic Melbournitez Spider Vomit dropped into town and were lovingly supported by two of Sydney's finest.

Oct 17, 2007

Polaroids Of Androids Party

We had a party last Saturday night. The two best bands in Sydney played. We got pretty drunk. It was fun.

Oct 15, 2007

Gig Review: Walrus + Talons + The Ripping Dylans @ Annandale Hotel - 12/10/07

Three of our favourite Sydney bands combined forces on Friday evening to form something that resembled a rock version of Voltron. They then proceeded to impress people.

Oct 12, 2007

Gigs this weekend...

AKA a thinly veiled plug for our own very special, very DIY and very awesome party.

Sep 26, 2007

Walrus return with Double A Side

And a launch show to celebrate...

Sep 11, 2007

Gig Review: Talons + Laura Imbruglia + Emergency Emergency @ Hopetoun Hotel - 09/09/07

Talons kicked off their Hopetoun Hotel residency on Sunday with a blistering performed.

Sep 8, 2007

Your FREE Sunday

Are you broke from a busy Saturday night? Did you get robbed at 3am coming home from the pub? Well, not all hope is lost. There are three different things going on tomorrow around town that are FREE to get into.

Aug 31, 2007

We are spoilt

Tonight there are more 'better than decent' shows going on in Sydney than ever before in the history of time. Shows featuring the likes of Batrider, Dead Farmers, The Stabs, Straight Arrows, Talons, Hand Me My Jetpack, Actor/Model and Tucker B's are all happening. Oh my.

Aug 24, 2007

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