Issue 364

Magic Dirt.

What are rock stars doing today? In the case of Raul Sanchez I Jorge, guitarist with Melbourne noiseniks Magic Dirt, they're walking the streets.

"I'm on the mobile, my car's broken down, so it's a bit of a... hell," he laughs. "I'm walking home. It's just around the corner. Besides all that, everything's going great. I think we've got a real good, strong album. We're just rehearsing a lot and getting ready for the tour..."

Buck 65
Secret House Against The World
WEA

A Buck 65 release is a marker along a journey. It's not entirely clear where the Canadian hip-hop rambler is taking us, but he's so relentlessly compelling you're happy to take the bad with the good. He's retained elements of the country feel of 'Talkin' Honky Blues' but this time there's so, so much more to that ol' 65 palette...

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