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  photo by Juxe Areta Goñi versione in italiano pubblicata su FreakOut Magazine Stewart Cunningham founder and leader of Leadfinger is surely to be counted among the best songwriters of the modern Australian rock era. The confirmation came with the release of 'Silver & Black' (Golden Robot Records), the band's sixth album released last February ( review here ). An album where its author exorcised his personal vicissitudes, the lung cancer that struck him four years ago, the risk of dying and in the less inauspicious hypothesis, having to quit music forever. Then came the pandemic and the total paralysis of the music world, which undermined the certainties of everyone in the industry everywhere. The result was an album full of beautiful sounds and very deep in the themes dealt with in the lyrics, which went beyond the personal sphere and took on a broader scope. We spoke with Cunnigham about all these themes in this interview developed by e-mail. So Stew, first of a...

  Born after experience in various bands, the most important of which was that of The Fools , chosen by Radio Birdman as a backing band for their Australian concerts, at the time of the first reunion that led to the release of the album "Ritualism" (Crying Sun, 1996), Howlin' Threads settled into a trio line-up with Dylan Webster on guitar, Matt Houston on bass and Adam Fermo  on drums. Since their self-titled debut EP and single 'Edge Of The World' , both released in 2020, the trio have made it clear that they draw on the best tradition of Australian rock born on that Detroit-Sidney axis that we have all come to love on the records of Radio Birdman, The Celibate Rifles, The Saints, The New Christs, Deniz Tek, The Stooges, MC5, and the great Sonic's Rendezvous Band of Scott Morgan and Fred 'Sonic' Smith. It's all about Webster's excellent songwriting, which is confirmed in these four new songs that each boast prestigious guests. Start...