TOUR NEWS: Shellac Announce Australian Tour Dates
Chicago’s Shellac have announced their return to Australia for a run of shows this December. Steve Albini, Bob Weston and Todd Trainer will bring their post-rock/punk sound and legendary live show on the following dates: Saturday 5 December – The Triffid, Brisbane Tuesday 8 December – The Metro Theatre, Sydney Wednesday 9 & Thursday 10 December – Corner Hotel, Melbourne Also Playing Meredith Music Festival. Tickets on sale Friday … Continue reading TOUR NEWS: Shellac Announce Australian Tour Dates
NEW MUSIC: Deerhunter – Snakeskin
Bradford Cox and Deerhunter return with a brand new track – ‘Snakeskin’ – ahead of their new LP Fading Frontier which will be released on October 16th via 4AD/Remote Control. I’m loving the upbeat groove of this first single, fun and dark at the same time. Fading Frontier 1. All The Same 2. Living My Life 3. Breaker 4. Duplex Planet 5. Take Care 6. Leather … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Deerhunter – Snakeskin
SONIC KICKS: Jamie Hutchings
Earlier this year Jamie Hutchings (Bluebottle Kiss, Infinity Broke) marked twenty years in music with a retrospective solo show at Camelot Lounge in Marrickville. With a such a strong back catalogue that spans both solo and band releases it was an impressive and rewarding trawl through his discography and a remarkable overview of the evolution of his songwriting craft. Hutchings chatted more than he probably ever … Continue reading SONIC KICKS: Jamie Hutchings
NEWS: The 25th Annual Meredith Music Festival Announces Line-Up
The 25th Annual Meredith Music Festival have today announced the first list of acts that will be appearing at the even held annually each December. Some of our favourites are on the line-up so as well as it looking like a top notch festival we’re hoping for a raft of great sideshows in the major cities. Our pick of the bunch include Father John Misty, Goat, … Continue reading NEWS: The 25th Annual Meredith Music Festival Announces Line-Up
ALBUM REVIEW: New Gum Sarn – New Gold Mountain
The Auckland quartet have made an auspicious start to their recording career, signing to Spunk who are releasing their debut album across Australia and New Zealand. They’re one of many acts currently making waves with a 90s flavoured sound yet theirs is a blend of influences that makes it hard to pin them down as recyclers of any one band’s sound. That is of course … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: New Gum Sarn – New Gold Mountain
NEWS: The Chills announce new album Silver Bullets
Martin Phillipps has had his battles over the years, both with bandmates, his health and drugs, but the good news is that a new album by The Chills is being released on October 30th via Fire Records. Silver Bullets is the band’s first full-length since Sunburnt back in 1996. Check out the first single ‘America Says Hello’ featuring that characteristic propulsion of guitar and keyboards … Continue reading NEWS: The Chills announce new album Silver Bullets
NEW MUSIC: Gold Class – Life As A Gun
Melbourne band Gold Class have a debut album called It’s You coming out via Spunk in AU/NZ and Felte in US/EU on September 4th. They’ve just released the clip for the first single ‘Life As A Gun’, a dark tension-laden track that channels Protomartyr, Interpol, Joy Division and the Sturm und Drang approach of numerous other post-punk progenitors. TRACK LISTING 01. Furlong 02. Life As A Gun 03. … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Gold Class – Life As A Gun
NEW MUSIC: New Order – Restless
Fresh off the internet superhighway, here’s the brand new single from New Order and straight off the bat it sounds better than anything they’ve done for years. That melancholic pop streak is there. Bernard Sumner’s trademark guitar riff is intact and he’s singing within the music instead of trying to be a rock singer. Nice stuff. The new album Music Complete is out September 25th on Mute. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: New Order – Restless
NEW MUSIC: Kurt Vile – Pretty Pimpin
Here’s the first taste of Kurt Vile’s new album b’lieve i’m goin down, due out September 25th. Pretty Pimpin takes a nice upbeat rhythm and peppers it with Beck-styled vocals and an almost country finger picked guitar melody. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Kurt Vile – Pretty Pimpin
SONIC KICKS: Deaf Wish
Melbournians Deaf Wish have a new album Pain out via Sub Pop/Inertia on August 7th which finds them striking a rich vein of tangled careering avant-rock, genre-splicing its way through the history of post-punk, post-rock, no-wave and hardcore. It harnesses their propensity for tension, both its formation and release as well as the juxtaposition of atonality and dissonance that bands such as Liars, Sonic Youth, Hüsker … Continue reading SONIC KICKS: Deaf Wish
NEW MUSIC: Protomartyr announce new single and album
One of my favourite bands over the last few years has been Protomartyr, a quartet out of Detroit who combine post-punk dynamics, a nihilist howl, jagged edges and intelligent espousals. The good news is they have a new album called The Agent Intellect (their 3rd in as many years) coming out on August 8th via Hardly Art /Inertia. Below you can hear the first single ‘Why … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Protomartyr announce new single and album
VIDEO: Ducktails – Surreal Exposure
Matthew Mondanile (Real Estate) solo career as Ducktails gets better and better with each new release. From hypnagogic woozy lo-fi beginnings to the excellent refined indie pop of The Flower Lane Mondanile seems to be on a quest to refine his sound to sparkling effervescent melancholic pop songs. On the evidence here, from his upcoming St Catherine LP (July 28th), he’s getting closer and closer. Here … Continue reading VIDEO: Ducktails – Surreal Exposure
Doubtful Sounds 