Pedestrian TV

Joakim's Youtube Mixtape

Ahead of his sure-to-be-cosmic set at Adult Disco this Saturday, we asked gangly Frenchman, Tigersushi honcho and DJ/Producer Joakim to assemble his top five favourite music videos of all time. If you didn't already know, dude's remixed the likes...

Australian Premiere: Freelance Whale 'Weathervanes' Listening Party

The story goes that Freelance Whales made their debut performance of debut LP 'Weathervanes' at a ramshackle abandoned farm colony on the New York borough of Statten Island - home of Wu Tang Clan - before a hushed crowd of...

How To Run A Successful Magazine: A Frankie Case Study

When I'm released from my cryogenic slumber in the year 2372, I'll bounce my great-great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren on my one good knee and reminisce about a time when magazines were the lifeblood of popular culture. "What are magazines?" they'll ask sheepishly, sext...

Manchester Duo Hurts On DIY Video Clips, Tailored Suits And Melancholic Pop Music

Synth-pop duo Hurts found their (sizable) audience thanks to the far-reaching virtues of the internet - in addition to their pop song crafting chops. There is more than just a sniff of the early 1980s about these two: from...

Splendour In The Grass Tips

This time tomorrow the entire Pedestrian offices will be transported to a (hopefully) spacious Winnebago located in the pristine surrounds of Woodford in Queensland. We assume that some of our readers will be joining us (say hi, we'll be the...

Memory Tapes Talks New Albums, Fear Of Flying And Prince

The last time we spoke to Dayve Hawk, the man behind the Memory Tapes moniker, his acclaimed debut Seek Magic had not yet been released. Now nine months later Dayve Hawk - internet phenomenon, one man band, self-confessed introvert,...

Peter Hook Talks Lost Joy Division Tapes, How Not To Run A Club And Ian Curtis' Legacy

Beautiful, brooding, fractured, naked, evocative - you could throw any number of epithets at Joy Division's seminal 1979 album "Unknown Pleasures", an almost mythologized post-punk touchstone and one of modern music's most fully realized odes to light and shade. It...

Surfer Blood on in-band punch ups, twitter groupies, and annoying Weezer comparisons

Florida band Surfer Blood first started making ripples with their anthemic indie rock single "Swim" and ever since have been on the touring juggernaut all over the UK, Europe and America. They'll be heading to Australia to play their...

Two Door Cinema Club: From After-School Garage Jams To Hanging Out With Phoenix

Speaking to Kev Baird, bassist of Irish indie-dance trio Two Door Cinema Club, what started out as a scheduled 15 minute phone interview to discuss their debut album 'Tourist History' somehow warped into a half hour conversation about evil cats,...