WATCH: Heart Attack Alley | Don’t Waste My Time
Auckland, NZ’s Heart Attack Alley are a harmonica driven blues trio featuring members of Vietnam War, Drab Doo Riffs and Supergroove and they’ve just released a video for their track Don’t Waste My Time. Their debut album Living In Hell is in the can and will be out October 12th via Voodoo Rhythm Records. European Album Release Tour 2012.10.04 Amsterdam (NL) @ Winston Kingdom 2012.10.05 Den Haag (NL) @ … Continue reading WATCH: Heart Attack Alley | Don’t Waste My Time
SONG OF THE WEEK: Dan Deacon | True Thrush
Dan Deacon is one of those mad musical scientists who can harness corrupted instruments, perverse melodies and an innate sense of unbridled fun and create truly unique and original music. He first burst onto the scene when his album Superman of the Rings got picked up internationally, allowing him to take his solo live show to the masses outside of Portland, Oregon. Since then he … Continue reading SONG OF THE WEEK: Dan Deacon | True Thrush
WATCH: Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders | Dumb Love
Jack Ladder has secured an international release on the label Holloweyed for his LP Hurtsville and now he’s also debuted the brand new video for Dumb Love, another gothic blues pop gem from the album. The video brings new meaning to pulling faces. Continue reading WATCH: Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders | Dumb Love
NEWS: PVT release new song and announce international tour dates
PVT have been working on their new fourth album and have just released the first song and opening track from it, the slow build, kosmiche vibe of Shivers. Check out the video below and if you are in USA, Canada, UK, Europe and Australia you can also catch them live as they play a ton of dates with Menomena, Bloc Party and Gotye. PVT TOUR DATES … Continue reading NEWS: PVT release new song and announce international tour dates
SONIC KICKS | Matt Purcell & The Blessed Curse
Matt Purcell has released a couple of great records with his band The Blessed Curse, the most recent being this year’s excellent Mathew Street that found him incorporating folk and power pop influences into his sound. Acoustic guitar and violin are prominent throughout but it is Purcell’s songwriting that really shines through with a plethora of gloriously catchy melodies tumbling forth from his songs and … Continue reading SONIC KICKS | Matt Purcell & The Blessed Curse
WATCH: Ross Fish | A349M
Continuing on today’s electronic tip that started with Thom Yorke’s new Atoms For Peace single, here is a great new track/video from Ross Fish with a killer mechanical shuffle and glitchy whirs and bleeps. The vocals work perfectly too, whether in their natural form or slowed stretched or pitched up. Fish is a musician/producer out of Savannah, GA in the United States and you can … Continue reading WATCH: Ross Fish | A349M
LISTEN: Atoms For Peace | Default
Radiohead’s Thom Yorke has released the first track from his Atoms For Peace project with Flea, Nigel Godrich, Joey Waronker and Mauro Refosco. Default is available now on iTunes with a vinyl 12″ to follow in October and a full length album in 2013. Continue reading LISTEN: Atoms For Peace | Default
Pick of the New Releases (7th September, 2012)
WATCH: Donny Benet | Gimme Your Heat [Video]
Sydney’s electro lothario Donny Benet returns with his second album Electric Love (out now via Rice is Nice) and if you thought his schtick wouldn’t last beyond one album then think again. We’ll have a review up soon but Electric Love is a real step up from the debut with tracks stretched into jams that sound like The Pointer Sisters jamming with Suicide. There is … Continue reading WATCH: Donny Benet | Gimme Your Heat [Video]
WATCH: Calexico | Splitter [Video]
Calexico have just this week released their new album Algiers and here is the video for the first single from it, Splitter. Algiers is their 8th album including 2010’s soundtrack to the film Circo. The album title comes from the neighbourhood where they worked on the album in New Orleans. Their record label ANTI- has posted an insight into the making of the record on their … Continue reading WATCH: Calexico | Splitter [Video]
Two to Tango: A panel discussion on musicians and venues
Last night at Sydney’s Annandale Hotel a panel of musicians, venue owner/bookers and industry people was convened to discuss the state of the live scene in Sydney and in particular the relationship between musicians and venues. The genesis of the discussion was a FasterLouder opinion piece by musician Brendan Maclean detailing his frustrations with The Sandringham Hotel when news came to light about their current … Continue reading Two to Tango: A panel discussion on musicians and venues
WATCH: Piers Twomey | The Mountain Song
Taken from Piers Twomey’s 2012 album Strange Advice comes the gently shuffling The Mountain Song, a wonderfully breezy song that incorporates Sparklehorse/Grandaddy percussion and Twomey’s lilting folk voice that occupies similar territory to Grand Salvo’s Paddy Mann. It is a delightfully simple song with some clever shading and great textural variation. Live Dates Sept 9th – Annandale Hotel, Annandale, Sydney Oct 11th – Green Room Lounge, … Continue reading WATCH: Piers Twomey | The Mountain Song
Doubtful Sounds 