Interpol have announced on their website today that thy are parting ways with bassist Carlos Dengler. In a letter to fans they have confirmed their new album is complete and they will be announcing tour dates soon, sadly without the mustachioed Mr D. Dear fans, As some of you have surely heard, Interpol has completed it’s new album. It was recorded at Electric Lady Studios, … Continue reading NEWS: CARLOS D. leaves INTERPOL…
Antony & The Johnsons are set to followup 2009’s The Crying Light with Swanlights in October this year. He will be releasing an art book and an albbum with the intention that they will inform each other artistically and thematically. The Swanlights art book includes fragmentary images, drawings, paintings, photography, collage, writings and song lyrics. The visual art collection will be available via renowned art … Continue reading NEWS: ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS new album…
Sydney’s Mark Moldre takes his stellar debut album The Waiting Room on an NSW/QLD tour this month. We’ve got review of the record coming soon but we highly recommend you check out the americana/indie folk stylings of Mr Moldre. He has a wonderful melancholy way with melody that will have you humming the songs long after the CD has left the player or he has … Continue reading TOUR: MARK MOLDRE takes new album on the road…
Neil Young recently confirmed he was writing for a new album and is about to embark on an acoustic theatre tour called Twisted Road which may or may not end up being the title of the album. It is a tactic he has employed in the past on the Silver & Gold and Harvest Moon albums. The latest news to leak is that Young is … Continue reading NEWS: NEIL YOUNG recording new album with Daniel Lanois…
Mogwai have teamed up with Vincent Moon and Nathanael le Scouarnec, the guys behind La Blogotheque’s Take-Away Shows, for a live film called Burning that will be out in late August this year. The film is part of a CD/DVD release alongside the live album Special Moves. There will also be a limited deluxe triple vinyl box set which will also include the dvd of … Continue reading VIDEO: Trailer for live MOGWAI film…
After 4 years of killer parties the Purple Sneakers lads have stepped up to the plate with their forthcoming debut mix-comp We Mix You Dance to be released on 11th June on Boundary Sounds through Inertia. The 2CD set will include Vampire Weekend, The XX, Hot Chip, Phoenix, Miike Snow, Animal Collective, La Roux, Art vs. Science, Friendly Fires, Major Lazer and many more. To … Continue reading NEWS: PURPLE SNEAKERS tie their laces on their first comp…
Harvey Milk return with a new record on May 18th called A Small Turn Of Human Kindness and I couldn’t go past the Hydra Head spiel on this one: A Small Turn of Human Kindness is as dense and as heavy temperamentally as it is musically. The seven songs so subtly bleed together that the listener has no choice but to view the entire album … Continue reading NEWS: HARVEY MILK do A Small Turn Of Human Kindness…
Matthew Houck aka Phosphorescent is set to release his 2nd full length of originals on May 11th via Dead Oceans (Inertia in Australia) and is calling it Here’s To Taking It Easy. It follows on from the covers record To Willie and on first listens (yep we have a copy!) it sounds like a finely balanced mix of that alcohol soaked country album and his … Continue reading NEWS: PHOSPHORESCENT to release new album…
Soundgarden played their first public show at Seattle’s Showbox on the weekend under the anagram NudeDragons and though the security was apparently tight there were a few determined folk who got some great audio only recordings. Chris Cornell’s voice still hits those high notes and the rest of the band sound pretty fucking great… UPDATE: check out a review of the show over HERE Continue reading NEWS: Audio from SOUNDGARDEN warm-up show…
Willy Vlautin of the band Richmond Fontaine is carving out a nice side career as a novelist and the latest (his 3rd) is Lean On Pete. The book was released in the UK in Feburary and gets it US release this week… Told from the perspective of fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson, Lean on Pete (2010) is the story of a boy left to fend for himself … Continue reading VIDEO: Trailer for new Willy Vlautin novel…
Yep, as we end the summer festival season we are already setting sights on the start of August when the ever popular Splendour In The Grass rolls around once more. Friday July 30th, Saturday July 31st and Sunday August 1st ‘Woodfordia’ Woodrow Rd Woodford, Queensland This year the organisers have the line-up announcement out nice and early with some big headliners… The Strokes Pixies (only … Continue reading NEWS: SPLENDOUR IN THE GRASS 2010 line-up…
APRIL Die Die Die! – 15th April @ Annandale Bob Brozman – 15th & 16th April @ Vanguard Vascoe Era & Simon Carter – 16th April @ Cambridge Hotel (Newcastle) Vascoe Era & Simon Carter – 17th April @ Oxford Art Factory Perry Keyes – 17th April @ Notes The Bats – 23rd April @ Oxford Art Factory MAY Wilco – 1st May @ State … Continue reading UPCOMING SYDNEY GIGS…
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