When ARIA award winning Aussie rockers, The Jezabels were wrapping up their tour for their last album, Prisoner, they were in New York and stopped by to record a Buzzsession with The Wild Honey Pie . Two songs, now online for you to watch / listen. Watch "Endless Summer" above. Word on the street is they will also have a new song in the forthcoming LP Mélodie Francaise , where Australian artists take on classic and contemporary French songs.
As long-time fans of The Jezabels , it's been pretty glorious to watch their rise from small Australian artist to pop-inclined rockers who can easily sell out nearly any city's largest venue. Their songs are powerful, they hit hard with steady percussion and exhilarating female vocals. In their Buzzsession performance, recorded and shot at Brooklyn's Degraw Sound with the help of Shuffler.fm , the band played their 2012 gems "City Girl" and "Endless Summer". Watch both stunning clips below and stream the recordings free of charge using our Soundcloud embeds. [...]
Once again, we're bringing you our roundup of the best live music on television this week. The amount of great performances can be hard to keep track of, so every Monday I'll post a preview of the best and most interesting performances coming up. I'll be sure to give you one essential pick for each night, as well as a runner up or two if there's a lot to great stuff to choose from. Here are the best performances I think you should set your DVR (or check Hulu the next day) for: _ [...]
Wednesday night saw a lot of Aussie action as The Jezabels swept through for a vocally powerful, however slightly flat performance at Virgin Mobile Mod Club.. can I just call it Mod Club, these sponsorships are hilariously ridiculous, however beneficial for the venue it may be. Canada's own Eight and a Half kicked things off, reinvented in the wake of The Stills, Dave Hamelin and Liam O'Neil have teamed with Broken Social Scene's drummer extraordinaire Justi n Peroff to create something new. The result is a more electronic, synth based indie rock sound, where, if you were [...]
Starting with the rise of U2 and continuing today with Coldplay , Commonwealth bands seem to have held a monopoly on a specific type of anthemic rock built from mid-tempo melodies, a shimmery wall of guitars and just a touch of gloom. Australia's The Jezabels follow suit but add soaring vocals to the mix, and if they are the latest torchbearers, then we're cool with that Anglo tradition continuing. The band brought their cathartic anthems to New York City's Webster Hall on October 17 for [...]
The CMJ Music Marathon is exactly what it sounds like: a five-day free-for-all of live music. From October 16-20, hundreds of acts — some established, but most looking to make their big breakout — will descend upon New York City for the CMJ Music Marathon 2012. The event has a very solid track record — prior buzz-mongers include Santigold in 2007, Lady Gaga in 2008, Mumford & Sons in 2009 and Kendrick Lamar [...]
Photos by Bobby Lilly T here are moments in life that pulsate with possibilities - moments you know will blossom into incredible stories you will happily retell for years. So when someone offers you the opportunity to cover a local opener plus an Australian headliner who are playing aboard a sternwheeler on the Willamette River in a nautical steampunk-themed celebration, you do not refuse. You rearrange your schedule, work out the logistics, and you get on that boat. The aforementioned party was the third of four Music Experiment events scattered throughout the [...]
► Garbage headlines the Palladium behind their new album "Not Your Kind of People," with Screaming Females opening. ► The Shins visit the Gibson Amphitheatre of their acclaimed new album "Port of Morrow," and joining them on this tour is Washed Out , the woozy electronic band fronted by Ernest Greene whose own new album "Within and Without" has gotten a lot of deserved love too. That's Washed OUt's video for "Dedication," above. ► The legendary Emmylou Harris visit's UCLA's Riyce Hall. ► The Lumineers do a second [...]
Incoming: The Lumineers, Garbage, Justin Bieber, the Shins, Emmylou Harris, the Jezabels, Deerhoof, Wax Tailor, the Wombats, Conor Oberst, Kimbra, Father John Misty, Nick Lowe, Coheed & Cambria, Dr. Dog, Patrick Wolf, the Offspring, Jason Mraz, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, the Black Keys, the Head & the Heart, She Wants Revenge, the Maccabees, Of Montreal Above: The May release of "Not Your Kind of People," their fifth album and first in six-plus years, marked a strong return for Garbage , staples of our FM diet in the late ’90s. They visit the [...]
The members of British Columbia's Yukon Blonde have been road warriors in 2012, touring much of North America and Europe in support of their sophomore LP Tiger Talk , including appearances at SXSW and a series of festival sets during the summer. Now they're heading out again, this time piggybacking two lengthy tours – first across the U.S. with Sydney, Australia's The Jezabels and then throughout their native Canada with The Sheepdogs , winners of Rolling Stone's 2011 "Choose The Cover" contest . [...]
Its that time of year again. Ahead of the award ceremony later this year, Jagermeister have unveiled their Independent Music Award Nominess for 2012. In what has been another stellar year for independent music, Jagermesiter have somehow managed to whittle down Australia's best into categories of just 5 artists, and doesn't it make for interesting reading... Following the theme of 5, we here at PS HQ have decided to write up our own lists of deserving artists at this years event. This is not to pressure Jager into [...]
A selection of photos from Friday at Electric Picnic 2012 by Debbie Hickey [...]
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Tweet Today is the second birthday of Sounds Good To Me Too (SGTMT) . To celebrate we're having a whale of a party at SGTMT HQ. It's crazy down here. We've hired one of those party entertainers to make balloon animals and Tom has dressed up as a giant penguin. Oh the laughs. We felt it would be most appropriate on this day of days to take a trip down the grammar strewn alley of old SGTMT posts and relive some of our [...]
Knotan Artists lose record deals; it happens all the time. But when it happens to an international artist and rather than find a new deal, they disappear off your radar entirely, well that's just a shame. Swedish singer-songwriter Frida Hyvönen was represented by Secretly Canadian for her first two albums, 20052s Until Death Comes and 20082s Silence Is Wild , but after that they parted ways and as such, the release of her third pop album To The Soul [...]
CMJ Music Marathon is proud to announce its first round of artists for this year's event, held October 16-20 in New York City. The 2012 festival includes CMJ's most wide-reaching line-up to date, drawing on acts from a broad spectrum of countries, backgrounds, and genres. Attendees of previous CMJ festivals are already familiar with the Marathon's adventurous programming, but the 2012 festival is the boldest manifestation of CMJ's commitment to exposing the world's best new talent. Please visit www.cmj.com/marathon for full details on 2012 performing artists announced so far. Highlights include: The Presets, [...]
CMJ 2012 Like I said earlier , the initial CMJ music lineup was going to be announced tonight and it came to pass. View the full first wave of confirmed CMJ 2012 artists after the jump. CMJ 2012 Initial Music Lineup The Presets The Walkmen The Mountain Goats Kimbra GZA OFF! King Tuff Killer Mike Com Truise DIIV Pig Destroyer The Jezabels [...]
It's hard to believe but it's almost already time for CMJ. Returning this October 16th through the 20th, the festival has revealed its first round of artists. The Presets The Walkmen The Mountain Goats Kimbra GZA OFF! King Tuff Killer Mike Com Truise DIIV Pig Destroyer The Jezabels Electric Guest Poolside Daughn Gibson Robert DeLong Icona Pop Emma Louise Mac DeMarco Prince Rama Young Magic The Stepkids (these guys are great, we booked them last [...]
Watch Australia's The Jezabels performing "Endless Summer" from their debut LP during their current North American Tour at the Osheaga Music Festival in Montreal
I'm going to be honest: I don't know how I didn't post this song already. Endless Summer is anthemic indie rock fronted by a powerful female voice a la Florence and the Machine. And they're from Australia. In other words, wheelhouse . It also has been in heavy rotation with City and Colour's The Girl and Cory Morrow's Beat of Your Heart this past week. They're three completely different songs (in summary, my taste can range and new stuff hasn't been that intriguing to me this past week). The Jezabels, of [...]
Frank Yang I had decided a little while ago that I was done with big, outdoor music festivals. My last go-around was Pitchfork 2010 - not even what could be considered a "big" festival in the grand scheme of things - and even then, I was really feeling the "I am too old for this"-ness of the experience. But two years is a long time, or at least long enough to forget those aches and pains, and so when the opportunity arose at the last minute to hit Montrél's Osheaga - Canada' [...]
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