When I was younger I spent a lot of time in my bedroom studying onanism. I still have an interest and sometimes wonder what young people do in their bedrooms these days. If you listen to bandcamp it would appear a lot of the youth of today spend many hours in their bedrooms… writing music? Recently I travelled to New York for the first time and had the opportunity to see some live music at the Bowery Ballroom in Delancey Street Lower Manhattan. Continue reading
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The best gig of 2016 by song list rat
There is a lame joke that goes: An angel walked into a bar… Continue reading
Awesomed by S-K by Song List Rat

Many years ago I made a personal pact never to see a band or artist on a comeback tour. Continue reading
The rat’s been on a date

Last night I had the hottest date in town. Natalie Prass was playing at the PIAF chevron gardens. Continue reading
There’s a rat in the lane

the laneway festival in perth/fremantle is fast getting a reputation as the too dam hot festival. Continue reading
what the jick by song list rat
we like to take sides. take perth afl fans for example they are either dockers or eagles. so it has been with music across the decades. british is better than american. or so it was in the 60s some say. was there a time when american was better than british? what about the 90s. british bands oasis, blur and radiohead pushed the dial towards briton but then singlehandedly pavement swung the dial back to america as their 5 albums of that decade defined indi rock. Continue reading
best of 2014-more god than mod by song list rat
the rat joins the war by Song List Rat
with the recent release of the war on drugs third album lost in the dream it gave the rat a chance to reminisce about one of the gigs of the year so far at southbound in january.
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