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 ...
... a fleeting impression.
Rigid With Desire was the next vehicle for FastCars singer-guitarist Di Levi after the first, mod-pop incarnation of that band dissolved. RWD melded ubiquitous (and very underlying) ...
... seems like a seething personification of fast drivin', truth knowin', Bukowski quotin', late night horror show host, divebar smoker-joker, no shit takin', highway travelin', blues mystic, rattlesnake motherfuckin ...
... a cloud. Boomer.
“Sound of Sydney” was a series of compilation albums- appearing in 1983, ’84 and ’86 - and the work of Method Records’ Fabian Byrne, of mod-pop band FastCars. They were fine records ...
... I wonder if you could tell us a little of what that was like for you..?
HH: Well, I was always really impressed by Rowland. Creatively he was so fast and adaptable but always himself. He was my older ...
... series the label issued in the 1980s and so far includes tracks from Ups and Downs, Deniz Tek, the Hard-Ons, Happy Hate Me Nots, Even As We Speak and FastCars.
“The purpose of this crowdfunding is essentially ...
... I hated grunge. it never meant anything to me, other than an invitation for floods of hockey jock bartenders, and vampire rich kids to squeeze us from our own turf so they could make a fast buck play actin ...
... everything in the set. The thing was they played everything so fast. When Danny and Cyril kicked in to “Something Else” by Eddie Cochran, they were playing at least twice the speed of the original. When ...
... up, and you get fired from the warehouse for drinking on the job, shit can go wrong fast. If you ain't got no safety-nets, life can really suddenly seize you by the neck and slam you to the curb, and domino ...
... do with my Valter Longo intermittent fasting regimen and this infinitely sentimental time of year. I like "Serene" space rock invested with swirling sensuality and delicate little wing kozmic blues sound ...
