Land of Opportunity
Bright lights, fast cars and lumps of silicone for everyone! The United States of America has always been Australia’s cooler, louder, stronger big brother,…
Music
Splendour under the radar
In issue nine of Blank we shone a spotlight on the gals set to light Splendour up in 2014. So now it’s time to…
Taking the ACID test
Australian-born ,Berlin-based group, now deemed supergroup, the Acid create sublime, texturised music that combines the three members’ core musical arts. Liminal has just been…
RAW MILK
Parquet Courts are aware that they’ve been portrayed by online media as, “slacker Brooklyn punk stoner dudes”. This was brought upon by the delightfully…
Hellooooooo Yellowood
Fancy chilling in the rodeo arena of a 126 year old hotel while listening to killer tunes with a backdrop of canefields, just 30…
Coming ‘round Round Mountain
When Chris Eaton, known to his bandmates as Ban Jovi, moved to Australia he knew he needed to find like-minded musicians. So when he…
A Pig Day Out at Piggabeen
Pig Day Out in its second year is a truly grassroots affair run by Joel Colombo. Blank’s editor Samantha Morris spoke to Joel on…
Castanets to country music: meet Megan Cooper
Her father is a musician and was always playing piano and guitar around the family home. She herself started learning piano aged six but…
Metal bytes – edition 11
After kicking everyone’s arses at Soundwave this year Devildriver are returning for an Australian tour in September and Dez and the boys are bringing…
Hanson are back from the middle of nowhere
Flash back to 1997 and there I am, 7 years old. My sister and I sit on our shared bunk beds, gazing at our…