River Of Snakes

River of Snakes have a new EP out called Bad Blood. Go and see them.. pure rock and roll!

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

A big congrats to King Gizzard for the announcement that they'll be playing the Meredith Music Festival this year!!

Nephi, Utah

Lowell Observatory - Flagstaff, Arizona

The Lowell Observatory is fantastic to visit, with many interesting artifacts and instruments. Percival Lowell was a fascinating 'renaissance man' who built the telescope (below), using the world's best lens-makers (at the time) and the local town's finest metalworkers.

Lowell had done a lot of the groundwork in locating/discovering Pluto, but it was Clyde Tombaugh who did the discovering on the astrograph (below).

After knocking himself out one night, Tombaugh added some padding onto the astrograph (below)

Overground - Melbourne International Jazz Festival

Oren Ambarchi (guitar) and Charlemagne Palestine (USA - grand organ) started the event with epic droning awesomeness..



There were some random acts of noise.. such as Kusum Normoyle (above)

And there were some planned acts of violent sonic performance, such as Will Guthrie's teaming up with Cured Pink (above)

Indonesian duo Rully Shabara and Wukir Suryad (aka Senyawa) slayed!



There were some interesting characters at the after-party also.

Betty and Keith Stephens

Circus Olympia

Circus Olympia was in Castlemaine the other weekend