Issue 381

The Hilltop Hoods.

The Hilltop Hoods shot to prominence with 'The Calling', becoming the first Australian hip-hop act to gain a Gold record. The follow up, 'The Hard Road' has a hard act to follow, and not only in terms of sales, but also in of 'keeping it real' for the Hilltops. I'd heard rumours and stories that the new album was 'commercial', and that the trio were tearing themselves apart from within; but talking to Suffa a day after the album was finished made me realise that the Hoods still have it very much together...

McLusky
McLuskyism
Too Pure/Remote Control/Inertia

To make a statement like "McLusky were the best band of the last ten years without any sort of competition of any sort from anyone," is both to be provocative and to rather understate the case. There are those who disagree, of course, but these people are wrong. McLusky were gods: angry, loud, Welsh gods. That they split up early last year was both inevitable (the candle that burns brightest etc) and incontrovertible proof that the world is hideously, nightmarishly unfair.

You could say I'm a fan...

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