The past two years have seen Melbourne, Australia’s The Smith Street Band grow from local cult favourites to international touring folk-punk juggernaut. Much of that rise to prominence can be attributed to two factors; the unprecedented success of their critically acclaimed debut full-length album, Sunshine and Technology, and the band’s relentless and tireless approach to […]
Author Archive
UTG INTERVIEW: The Smith Street Band
March 3rd, 2014 
Brenton Harris 
Posted in Features, Interviews, News 
Tags: Apologies I Have None, Don't Fuck With Our Dreams, folk punk, interview, punk (genre), punk rock, Sunshine and Technology, the smith street band 
Comments Off on UTG INTERVIEW: The Smith Street Band
REVIEW: The Ramshackle Army – ‘The Road Less Travelled’
February 27th, 2014 Brenton Harris Artist: The Ramshackle Army Album: The Road Less Travelled Genre: Celtic-Punk It’s no secret that despite its natural beauty and status as the world’s most livable city, Melbourne, Australia and indeed Australia as a nation, has a rather dark and sordid, yet fascinating past. Originally ‘settled’ as a penal colony by the British in order […]
Posted in Features, News, Reviews Tags: album review, australia, celtic punk, folk punk, irish, melbourne, review, rsa, the east grand record company, The Ramshackle Army Comments Off on REVIEW: The Ramshackle Army – ‘The Road Less Travelled’
REVIEW: Finch – ‘What It Is To Burn X – Live At The Glasshouse’
February 21st, 2014 Brenton Harris Artist: Finch Album: What It Is To Burn X – Live At The Glasshouse Genre: Rock, Screamo In the Australian summer of 2002, I was a shaggy-haired, punk rock-obsessed kid embarking on a journey to musical and personal discovery. After years spent as a devout follower of all things Fat Wreck, Kung Fu, Nitro, Drive […]
Posted in Features, Live, News, Reviews Tags: 10 Years, album, album review, anniversary tour, finch, hardcore (genre), live, new album, post-hardcore (genre), preview, punk (genre), release, Reviews, tour, tragic hero, tragic hero records, video Comments Off on REVIEW: Finch – ‘What It Is To Burn X – Live At The Glasshouse’
ALBUM STREAM: The Ramshackle Army – ‘Letters From The Road Less Travelled’
February 18th, 2014 Brenton Harris Australian Celtic-Punk troubadours The Ramshackle Army have made their debut full-length Letters From The Road Less Travelled available for download and streaming over at their official Bandcamp page. The Ramshackle Army broke onto the local scene of Melbourne, Australia in 2010 and quickly set about playing to diverse crowds up and down the East Coast […]
Posted in News, Streams Tags: hardcore (genre), irish, Letters From The Road Less Travelled, release, stream, The Ramshackle Army Comments Off on ALBUM STREAM: The Ramshackle Army – ‘Letters From The Road Less Travelled’
UTG INTERVIEW: Vista Chino – Kyuss Lives! is Dead, Long Live Kyuss!
February 6th, 2014 Brenton Harris Rising from the ashes of the sadly burnt-out but much beloved desert-rock icons Kyuss, Vista Chino have been touring the world for the best part of the last three years, bringing the music and the vision of Kyuss screaming back to life in all of its distorted glory. Originally formed under the name Kyuss Lives! […]
Posted in Features, Interviews, Live, Reviews Tags: australia, big day out, big day out festival, Brant Bjork, coachella valley, Corrosion of Conformity, desert-rock, feature, interview, John Garcia, Kyuss, Kyuss Lives!, live, Mike Dean, napalm records, peace, rock (genre), stoner rock, Vista Chino 1 Comment »
UTG INTERVIEW: Ghost – Conversation With A Nameless Ghoul
February 4th, 2014 Brenton Harris Without question, Ghost (aka Ghost B.C) are one of modern music’s most interesting acts. An anonymous band operating within a culture obsessed with celebrity, the Swedish quintet have managed to obtain a level of crossover success that most bands in their genre could only ever dream about, while remaining steadfastly cloaked in mystery. More an […]
Posted in Features, Interviews, News, Reviews Tags: australia, big day out, ghost, Ghost B.C., interview, music video, new, tour 5 Comments »
UTG INTERVIEW: Tame Impala, Casting a Spell Over ‘Big Day Out’
February 3rd, 2014 Brenton Harris 2013 was a big year for Kevin Parker and his band Tame Impala. It was a year that saw the Perth, Western Australia based multi-instrumentalist and his band of psychedelic-rock proponents cast their sonic spell further than ever before, completing headline tours worldwide and making appearances on everything from Coachella to Late Night with Jimmy […]
Posted in Features, Interviews Tags: big day out, indie (genre), interview, lonerism, modular recordings, music, new song, news, pysche-rock, Tame Impala, tour, tour dates Comments Off on UTG INTERVIEW: Tame Impala, Casting a Spell Over ‘Big Day Out’
UTG INTERVIEW: Northlane, Backstage At ‘Big Day Out’
January 31st, 2014 Brenton Harris Emerging from the youth centre stages of the multi-cultural melting-pot that is Sydney’s western suburbs, Australian progressive metalcore powerhouse Northlane have been riding an irrepressible wave of momentum of late that has seen them rise from relative anonymity to the very forefront of the Australian heavy music scene. Much of this rapid ascension can be […]
Posted in Features, Interviews, Live Tags: big day out, Distort, hardcore (genre), interview, metal (genre), Northlane, SINGULARITY, sydney, tour, unfd Comments Off on UTG INTERVIEW: Northlane, Backstage At ‘Big Day Out’
LIVE REVIEW: Big Day Out (1/26/14 – Sydney, Australia)
January 30th, 2014 Brenton Harris For over two decades, the Big Day Out has been regarded as Australia’s premier touring musical festival. Responsible for bringing some of the world’s biggest acts to Australian shores, the Big Day Out has played host to international acts as influential and diverse as Nirvana, Kanye West, Blink 182, Rage Against The Machine, Bjork, Iggy […]
Posted in Features, Live, News, Reviews Tags: album review, bigdayout, festival, live, music, music video, punk (genre), Reviews, tour Comments Off on LIVE REVIEW: Big Day Out (1/26/14 – Sydney, Australia)
REVIEW: Throwdown – ‘Intolerance’
January 23rd, 2014 Brenton Harris Artist: Throwdown Album: Intolerance Genre: Hardcore Throwdown have always been one of the more divisive bands in the hardcore scene, attracting a steady stream of passionate detractors who hate on them with a passion, labelling them ‘derivative,’ ‘unimaginative,’ ‘preachy,’ and ‘dated.’ Fortunately for the band, the passion of their detractors has never been a match […]
Posted in Features, News, Reviews Tags: album, album review, dave peters, hardcore (genre), intolerance, metal (genre), metalcore, new album, new release, Orange County, records, release, review, Reviews, straight edge, throwdown 2 Comments »
Backtrack’s Australian Tour Begins Today
January 23rd, 2014 Brenton Harris New York hardcore upstarts Backtrack have arrived in Australia and will be kicking off their Australian tour tonight in Brisbane. The tour which is in support of their crushing new record, Lost In Life (out now through Bridge Nine records), began with a brief trek through New Zealand over the last few days, and sees […]
Saviour To Call It A Day
January 8th, 2014 Brenton Harris In news that has sent shock-waves through the Australian punk and hardcore community, rising stars Saviour have announced that they are calling it a day. The band announced their decision via an official statement distributed by their label UNFD today, in which they confirmed that their upcoming shows at Melbourne’s Push Over and Tasmania’s Breath […]
Posted in News Tags: announcement, australia, breakup, dates, final tour, hardcore (genre), perth, saviour, tour dates, unfd, wa Comments Off on Saviour To Call It A Day