Trans-global pop combo FastCars will play live in Australia for two shows only in October, promoting their new album “Soft”.
Principal members Fabian Byrne (based in Australia) and Di Levi (who lives ...
In case you haven't noticed, trans-global duo FastCars kissed their mod past goodbye a long time ago. moving into dreamy shoegaze and pop-psych. On their second full-length album, “Soft – Songs of Love. ...
A taste of the forthcoming new album, this double A-sided single single puts FastCars in a place of their own. It's elegiac dream pop with an edge and a long way removed from their mod and powerpop beginings. ...
Nil to do with the Mamas and the Papas song, this is from the fab FastCars album “LAX” and it’s a lush, string-tinged brooder that’s a great calling card for the psychedelic long-player.
Remember albums? ...
Where they’ve come from is academic; it’s where FastCars are now that counts. The onetime ‘80s Sydney mod-power-pop band has been a creative duo since reforming in 2015, working on opposite sides of the ...
It's been mentioned here before that FastCars are a 1980s Sydney mod band, revolving around the creative core of Di Levi (vocals, guitar) and Fabian Byrne (guitar), that reformed a couple of years ago ...
Sydney powerpop mods FastCars are hitting the crowd-funding trail for their debut album...a mere 35 years after they kicked off.
Fast Cars were a fixture on the Sydney mod scene of the 1980s, ...
... mainstream stages.
This exhumed live set by Sydney’s FastCars’ underlines this fact. Fronted by Di Levy (vocals and guitar), Fast Cars were habituates of the small but vibrant mod scene that grew in ...
FastCars grew out of the Sydney mod scene of the 1980s. Home turf was the fertile Sussex Hotel and they made a modest mark with a couple of EPs before moving on. This five-song CD is their first release ...
Proto-punk legends The Dictators have a Best Of compilation "Faster...Louder: The Dictators Best 1975-2001" out on Australian label Raven. Compiler Ian McFarlane spoke to Andy Shernoff, bass-player/keyboardist ...
It’s such an obvious idea it’s a wonder somebody didn’t do it years ago. In the ranks of proto-punk/high-energy rock and roll, New York City’s Dictators stand tall (pun intended) so why wouldn’t you compile ...
... USA, USA, who'd very similarly arrived with big dreams of following in the footsteps of Guns N Roses and Faster Pussycat, Poison, and L.A. Guns.
Sebastian Bach was on the cover of "Rolling Stone" but ...
... outstanding. “Scars” is punk rock played at its finest.
“Self Rightoeous” and “You Wanna” kick arse big-time. “Something Faster” is a very heavy track with more great drumming, “Ghosts” is a foot stomper ...
... by $7 billion to a total of $40 billion, then fast-tracked the bill for immediate approval. As we reported on Tuesday night, the House overwhelmingly voted to approve the bill by a vote of 388-57. All ...
... with one of the curmudgeonly old MC5 collectors who hung around our record store, telling us we sucked for being 18 and liking Faster Pussycat and Guns N Roses. He was a hard-hitting drummer, who owned ...
... and family oriented and welcoming people with disabilities, but only if they can make a big, fast buck off 'em. "Vibrant & Diverse" just means you can be different, or disabled, s'long as you got a lotta ...
... everybody owned, and the late great cowboy healer, James Calvin Wilsey, the King Of Slow, who became one of my Top Ten all-time favorite guitar players.
Belfer's written a breathtakingly fast paced, rollicking, ...
... the corrections guards, cops, military and fast-food managers. In the eighties college radio post-punk music era, anybody who was from Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, or Kentucky who liked punk rock at all, whether ...
... a decade ago.
We became fast friends and kindred brethren.
Evad is one of the best frontmen and underground rock ‘n’ roll performers and songwriters in the Divided States Of Fear And Slavery we've seen ...
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In a digital world where old rules are made to be re-written or not read, Fast Cars have resolutely done things their own way.
The one-time Sydney mod band ...