Wasted Years Records headed down to a scuzzy Melbourne rehearsal room to catch Swedish Pop Factory in action. What we witnessed was more like an aerobics workout than a rehearsal. Heart rates were above 160bpm and the tunes were epic. We’ll be sure to bring some orange slices to the next jam for the half-time…
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Okay, let’s be clear here: I’m not suggesting for a minute that you should replace your phone completely with a cassette walkman. I mean, it doesn’t make calls or allow you to send texts, and it certainly doesn’t facilitate you meeting up with online babes for cheap thrills (or committed meaningful relationships—but seriously, who’s using…
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Wasted Years favourite Lorikeet launched their latest single, All Talk, at Melbourne’s Bar Open last Friday evening, with support from local bands The Sand Dollars, Kinder and Pink Harvest. Lorikeet were in swell form, and ripped out an impressive 30-minute power set to a very receptive—and somewhat inebriated—crowd of punters, with the latest track and…
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We took a real fancy to this live version of Answer To Yourself (The Soft Pack) that Black Fox recently busted out in Sweden. It’s an energetic, gender-bending blend of gold pants, silk, sweat and what appears to be Richard Branson in the front row. Party!
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These pricks hail from Melbourne, Australia. They call themselves D.I.C.K. (Dream In Colour Kidz) and remind us of great Australian thrash bands like the Cosmic Psychos. Enough Said.
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A few weeks ago, on a particularly lazy Sunday afternoon, Leigh and myself were mulling about our North London flat looking for stimulus. It was a chilly afternoon—after what had been quite a sunny Spring week in London—and the thought of a grabbing our acoustic guitars and heading for a cozy open mic night in…
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Wasted Years favourite The Yetis have fired up the camcorder and slapped together some moving pictures to complement their début single Little Surfer Girl. This clip is quite literally a day at the beach and has a very similar feel to A Hard Day’s Night by The Beatles. Good natured high times with friends? Count…
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Wasted Years Records is proud to present the first episode of its new YouTube series Poptails—a delectable musical adventure, where we challenge our resident barkeep, Joel Persson, to design a cocktail to compliment our song of the week. We kick things off by challenging Joel to conjure up the perfect beverage to slam down whilst getting…
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Feast your eyes on the trailer for Black Fox’s new EP ‘Exotic Trash’. You can get your paws on a copy of the limited edition audio cassette or digital download on Feb 6.
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As we’re approaching the end of the year, we gotsta talking’ around the water cooler about the best gig we’ve seen this year. The general consensus amongst the no-hopers that keep things chugging at Wasted Years was that nothing has yet topped seeing Skaters bang out a 45-minute power set at Dingwalls back in March. The…
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