Australian punks Total Control and Brooklyn's Parquet Courts will be playing post-punk jams at Strange Matter on Sunday, May 26. They'll be joined by Australia's The UV Race and Richmond's own Dead Fame . Australia’s Total Control grace us with two stellar new tracks of moody garage/post-punk. The band is led by Daniel Stewart (Straightjacket Nation, UV Race) and Mikey Young (Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Ooga Boogas), and this single comes on the heels of their excellent, massively-hyped Henge [...]
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"Influenced by the Germans, the Italians, pale British button pushers, glamorous alien pop futurists, Mid-Western sweat, NYC disco dreamers, undercover kings and queens escaping a dull grey world with rhythm and noise..." Get pulled in by the inescapably hypnotic groove of " Falling ," the sinuous new track from Australian super-group of sorts Lace Curtain (not to be confused with Coomers' Lace Curtains , also rad). As great as this sounds right now on Wednesday morning on a blog, we imagine it becomes nearly transcendent on a foggy/preferably seedy [...]
The already stellar 2013 Chaos in Tejas lineup got even better yesterday with the addition of DIIV, Antwon, Roc Marciano , and a lot more , and we're to excited to announce the second amazing bill that we're co-presenting with the fest: Andy Stott, Total Control, Vulgar Fashion , and more at Holy Mountain on Saturday, June 1 . We've got 5 pairs of tickets to give away for this one courtesy of fest; just leave your name in the comments if you'd like [...]
Total Control // 7”s LP Now this I really like. Like really really. Featuring members of prominent Melbourne rock bands like The UV Race and Eddy Current Suppression RIng , garge punk rockers Total Control have concocted something really snappy. I initially looked into them because I heard that they would appeal to fans of Merchandise , but as listening would show, that comparison isn’t exactly the most apt. While they do get a bit morose on some of [...]
Total Control are controlling the road. Melbourne’s Total Control are currently touring the US; hitting up cities with Ceremony, The Soft Moon, UV Race and Thee Oh Sees. The band will also be...
Tickets to see How To Destroy Angels at The Wellmont Theatre and The Apollo Theatre go on presale today at noon. FYI: You need to make an account at the band's website. Tickets to see Clutch, The Sword and Lionize at Terminal 5 go on AmEx presale today at noon. Tickets to see Stornoway at Music Hall of [...]
Stornoway - Tales From Terra Firma Stornoway’s sophomore album, Tales From Terra Firma is set for release via 4AD on March 19 (March 18 in the UK). The first video from the album for the track “Knock Me on The Head” was recently released and can be seen here http://youtu.be/ztOtNCyjE-w . The lyrics for the song are loosely based on Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1798 poem – “The Rime of The Ancient Mariner.” The video, directed by The Mitcham Submarine, is a [...]
by Bill Pearis Total Control at Fun Fun Fun Fest 2011 ( more by Fred Pessaro // BBG ) Good news for NYC fans of great Aussie band Total Control -- they've added a second show on their East Coast tour , which happens on May 22 at Mercury Lounge . That's the day before their 285 Kent show (5/23) . No openers have been announced yet for Mercury Lounge but tickets go on [...]
by Fred Pessaro // BBG Total Control at Fun Fun Fun Fest 2011 ( more by Fred Pessaro // BBG ) Yesterday news broke that UV Race were heading out on the road as part of a tour toward Chaos in Tejas . Part of those dates were with the great Total Control , though the band were not involved in the UV Race show scheduled in NYC for that week. (TC is some of UV Race plus [...]
The first Ooga Boogas album Romance and Adventure was sort of a spray paint by numbers garage rock record. Nothing to prepare you for how good and varied the band's follow up album would be. Self-titled and brimming with ideas and confidence Melbourne's Ooga Boogas finally return after a three year stretch of not much activity with album number two. The long wait isn't surprising considering that guitarist Mikey Young seems to involved at some level with every single great record coming out of Australia at the moment. Perhaps that is an exaggeration, but being in Eddy Current [...]
Perhaps Brooklyn isn't the best comparison for what's going down in Melbourne these days. No one, to my knowledge, is putting out think pieces about how Melbourne is too damn expensive to attract a real creative class. Melbourne hipsters don't get the same ridicule as those in Brooklyn for the mysterious, carefree ways (old money) they're able to be in bands and eke out a living (old money) in a land of expensive rent. And, no one has gone on the record stating the Melbournization of indie rock is bad for every other music scene not named Brooklyn . [...]
So it's that time of the year when we start to reflect (yet again). Both JD and I have reflected. Things that caught our ears in 2012. We reflect them back upon you. We urge you to listen to each and every one. PATCH – SELECTIONS OF 2012 MP3: Seahawks - Dream Riders [Ocean Moon] MP3: Yas . Kaz - Junpu [Pony Canyon] MP3: Woz - Tongue Depresser [WT] [...]
No introduction needed really. Here are my top 10 favorite 7-inch records for 2012. Hope you like 'em too. 1. The Intelligence - (They Found Me In The Back Of) The Galaxy ( In the Red ) First time I heard this song my jaw dropped. It was at the Crocodile in Seattle and Lars introduced as an old song. At first I believed him, thinking it must have been on some obscure split 7-inch that came out in Moldova. Why did Finburg [...]
In 2012, The Orchard’s large catalog grew way larger, thanks to mergers with IODA and IRIS. To manage the influx, we put all of the new tunes onto a 50TB external hard drive, stuck the USBs into our left ears, and swallowed 168 hours-worth of “5 Hour Energy.” When we ...
In this edition: Discover The Sea Life from D.C.; consider tracks from Sunglasses and Total Control; and watch videos from City and The Sea and Port Isla. Discover: The Sea Life Often we are sent material from bands, PR firms and record labels, who want a plug or a feature in a post. Sometimes we find artists through pure luck or maybe because we're frequently mining sites like Bandcamp and SoundCloud for new sounds. Today's feature fits the case of the latter. We'd like [...]
Ok, so slowly we're getting back on track. This here is the October Mixtape, chockablock full of my fave tunes of October. Some absolute stunners in here - the Lower Spectrum EP was one I kept on coming back to, as was Tame Impala's record, Collarbones's second full length, as well as the Love Migrate disc. [...]
( buy ) Total Control's 2011 LP Henge Beat was not only one of the best albums to come out that year , but also one of the most impressionable albums to come out in quite some time. The band continues the practice of Aussie band members dabbling in multiple bands and is led by Daniel Stewart (Straightjacket Natin, UV Race) and Mikey Young (Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Ooga Boogas). The band's early single for 'Paranoid Video' preceded Henge Beat and was an electronic italo-disco onslaught that made [...]
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What's happening right now in Australia is so exciting. There is so much great music coming out of there at the moment that it's a task keeping up with it all. All the collaborations between bands and their members further muddy the waters. Case in point, Dick Diver , a band that I was fortunate to come across while first hearing of Boomgates and their absolutely fantastic record, Double Natural . Boomgates in itself is a conglomeration of of Aussie bands ( Twerps , Eddy Current Suppression Ring [...]
Bear with us here, but the fact that the new Marilyn Manson album is out this week has got us rambling off on a train of thought that's led us to this point. Y'see, Manson's album skates awfully close to self-parody at times, so much so that it's almost like listening to a cover band doing Marilyn Manson tracks, just not quite as well as the originals. This got us thinking — well, what band would cover Manson well (an especially apt question considering that Manson's own greatest strength seems to be covers )? And more generally, [...]
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