NEW MUSIC: East Brunswick All Girls Choir | Dirty Bird

From their debut LP Seven Drummers (cos that’s how many they’ve had) due out in April here’s East Brunswick All Girls Choir’s recently released single Dirty Bird. A song that rips and roars like the demented offspring of The Drones and The Veils. The band are also running a Pozible campaign to raise funds to get their album (recorded with engineer Casey Rice (Dirty Three, Tortoise)) pressed … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: East Brunswick All Girls Choir | Dirty Bird

NEW MUSIC: Swervedriver | Deep Wound

Swervedriver return with their first single in 15 years. Deep Wound has been floating around for a while now with the footage in the clip below taken from their studio performance for radio station KEXP in Seattle back in April 2012. The single is available now via iTunes, Amazon and the band’s Bandcamp page backed with a dub version called Dub Wound. The single includes backing … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Swervedriver | Deep Wound

WATCH: Damien Jurado | Silver Timothy (NEW)

Damien Jurado has been on a mighty fine roll with his last few albums and particularly now that he has hooked up with Richard Swift as collaborator and producer. That relationship continues on his 12th album Brothers And Sisters Of The Eternal Son which is due out January 20th via Secretly Canadian. Here’s the first single, Silver Timothy.   Continue reading WATCH: Damien Jurado | Silver Timothy (NEW)

NEW MUSIC: The Notwist announce new album

The Notwist (Germany) released one of 2002’s best albums in Neon Golden and now they’ve announced their new LP Close To The Glass will be released on February 21st, 2014. Word is the album finds the band working and writing as a cohesive unit rather than just a co-write by Markus and Micha Acher and Martin Gretschmann and it again features their seamless melding of traditional instrumentation with … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: The Notwist announce new album

NEWS: Mogwai announce new LP Rave Tapes and release first track

News of a new Mogwai album is always reason to celebrate around these parts and so we were stoked to awake to read that their new LP Rave Tapes is set for release on 20 January 2014 via Spunk Records (Australia and New Zealand), Rock Action (UK and Europe) and Sub Pop (North America). The other good news is that producer Paul Savage (Mogwai Young Team … Continue reading NEWS: Mogwai announce new LP Rave Tapes and release first track

NEWS: Straight Arrows release new single and tour dates

Straight Arrows‘ debut LP was well received across the country and internationally so it’s great to see the follow up is due for release in March next year via Rice is Nice in AU and Agitated in the UK/EU. Until then we’ve got a brand new single Make Up Your Mind to keep us happy (stream/download below) plus a run of live dates where no … Continue reading NEWS: Straight Arrows release new single and tour dates

NEWS: Jamie Hutchings unveils new band Infinity Broke

It has been a six years since Jamie Hutchings put Bluebottle Kiss on indefinite hiatus to focus on what has become a successful solo career with each solo release met with growing critical acclaim. Now Hutchings has returned to a fuller, noisier and more rhythmically intense sound with his new band Infinity Broke which features ex Bluebottle Kiss drummer Jared Harrison alongside regular Hutchings collaborators … Continue reading NEWS: Jamie Hutchings unveils new band Infinity Broke

NEW MUSIC: Sister Jane | Whole Wide World

Sydney’s Sister Jane are releasing Whole Wide World, the first single from their new album, on October 15th and have kindly sent a pre-release stream out into the digital aether. It finds them sounding impressively widescreen with tumbling drums, reverb-laden guitars peeling off all corners of the canvas and vocals that resonate with lush melodicism and barely contained urgency. There’s a decidedly UK post punk/indie … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Sister Jane | Whole Wide World

NEW MUSIC: Geoffrey O’Connor | Jacqueline

I first saw Geoffrey O’Connor in a garish woollen jumper playing with Crayon Fields at the Hopetoun Hotel. They impressed with their twee indie guitar pop, it was knowingly constructed, literate music, the sum of its parts. Fast forward to the 2012 Laneway Festival and the pasty bespectacled man in front of me was the same guy sans woolly jersey. Now O’Connor was ostensibly solo, … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Geoffrey O’Connor | Jacqueline

NEW MUSIC: Ministry | PermaWar

It’s good to see Uncle Al Jourgensen ageing disgracefully in the clip for PermaWar, the first single from what is purportedly the final album under the Ministry name. As usual Jourgensen has made a play on words calling the album From Beer To Eternity. The song itself ticks all the industrial metal boxes and it chugs along with just the right balance of menace and … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Ministry | PermaWar