Eli Duxson

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Omar Rodriguez is now honoured with his own signature model from Ernie Ball music Man, the Mariposa. A left-handed player, he’s spent decades playing right-handed guitars strung upside down, as well as reviving some unique designs along the day due to his penchant for special guitars. Squier

As music fans, we’re always looking for cool new ways to experience our favourite tunes. With the rise of vinyl and lossless audio over the last few years, we’ve been able to enjoy music in a better format, but what about hearing new or secret things in our favourite

The devil’s interval – diabolus in musica – or simply the tritone is a one-of-a-kind interval. You’ll have likely cringed to its characteristic piercing dissonance that’s notoriously rumoured to have been banned in middle age churches. Tritone Today, we’re going to explore where this three tone interval has cropped

Kim Deal and her chunky , percussive bass playing was such an integral part of the Pixies’ sound that if it were removed it would have been a completely different band. Her driving, no-frills style continued into her subsequent career as guitarist and singer with The Breeders and then

Ratatat are a Brooklyn based electronic rock band, featuring Mike Stroud on guitars and synthesizers and producer Evan Mast on bass and synthesizers. Between them they share percussion, sampling and other instruments, all in pursuit of their own sounds were the soundtrack to our indie-sleeze phases. Ironically, those ended

Glenn Miller and His Orchestra became the first recording to be awarded a Gold Record in 1942 for ‘Chattanooga Choo Choo’, only it wasn’t an official Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) award. It was a publicity stunt from RCA Victor who literally sprayed a master copy of the record with gold lacquer after the […]

“It comes in waves, right, getting gear,” he says. “Sometimes I’m on a roll but these days I’m like, ‘well, I’ll probably enjoy what I have,’ and then getting caught up in even learning how to play all the things I do have.” Vile is just starting his day doing press for his upcoming studio […]

Being Ausmusic T-shirt Day and being a Friday, we decided to put together 13 of the most iconic and best band t-shirts of all time.

Those are the words of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard polymath Stu Mackenzie as he rides his bike on the way to his Melbourne studio. King Gizz has produced a whopping 20 albums in a little over a decade and has garnered a reputation for churning out albums prolifically, but they’ve still managed to […]

Walk back through the glory days of high-strung guitars and skinny jeans with these iconic 2000s indie rock riffs.