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Local Natives have performed one of their new tracks, ‘Heavy Feet’ live at a record shop in Los Angeles as apart of their current tour. Such an intimate recording of their performance, and gives all those fans out there a great little boost before the release of,  Hummingbird  at the end of this month. If you missed an early listening chance, you can check out 8 tracks  here .

Local Natives have performed one of their new tracks, ‘Heavy Feet’ live at a record shop in Los Angeles as apart of their current tour. Such an intimate recording of their performance, and gives all those fans out there a great little boost before the release of,  Hummingbird  at the end of this month. If you missed an early listening chance, you can check out 8 tracks  here .

When Henry Wagons isn’t challenging the culinary world by combining the most ludicrous combinations of savoury and sweet or taking photos of his dogs, he fronts his band, The Wagons. In late September 2012, Henry got together with six internationally renowned collaborators for a solo project entitled Henry Wagons & The Unwelcome Company. Appearing on the record, entitled Expecting Company , are: Alison Mosshart (The Kills and The Dead Weather), Sophia Brous, Canada’s Jenn Grant, Robe rt Forster (The Go-Betweens), Patience Hodgson (The Grates) and Gossling. What started for Wagons as a few demos he was throwing together in his bedroom, has turned into this [...]

Giving us a taster last week with a nice little trailer on YouTube, the lads from Cold War Kids have divulged details on their newie. Dear Miss Lonelyhearts is the name of the new LP and we haven't got long to wait for it, with a release date set for April 1. "Miracle Mine" is the track they've released and my lord, they know how to treat their fans with their brilliance. I think there's a little festival known as Splendour in the Grass that conveniently falls, a couple months after the release date... I'm [...]

Hailing all the way from LA, Vermont-born DJ Morgan Page is psyched to be arriving on Australian shores in less than a week for his Australian tour. Thirty-one year old DJ and music producer Mr Morgan Page is set to play all across the country, including performances at Australian festival Big Day Out in Adelaide, Sydney, Perth, Melbourne and the Gold Coast. In hype of the stellar lineup announced by 2013’s Big Day Out, here we get to know a bit about the inspiration behind the success of Morgan Page and what he’s looking forward to about facing [...]

After announcing yesterday they would return to Australia in April 2013,  The xx  have sold out their initial shows in Sydney and Melbourne within 15 minutes after going on sale to the general public. Due to the unprecedented demand, additional dates in both cities have been added, with tickets on sale now. Young UK indie trio  The xx  have quickly become one of the most in demand acts on the planet, and they’re bringing their incredibly atmospheric and captivating live show back Down Under this April. First hitting Australian shores as part of the Laneway Festival [...]

Yeah Yeah Yeahs  are set to release their fourth album,  Mosquito ,  April 12th, 2013 on Modular Recordings in Australia and New Zealand. Click  here  for a teaser! “We would love for this music to make our fans feeeeel something, for it to stir some shit up inside of them, whatever that may be,” says singer  Karen O . “SO much feeling went into this record, it was the rope ladder thrown down into the ditch for us to climb up and dust ourselves off. I hope others can climb up it [...]

Phoenix will release a follow album up to their insane Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix album this year. The French rockers have confirmed they'll be killing it at Germany's Rock AM Ring festival in July. The lads have also stated they will announce more live dates very shortly, which is exciting news for all! Best news all week!

One our favourite bands here at Scenewave Cold War Kids, have given us a nice little teaser for the start of the year. What sounding to be a great snippet off their forthcoming album, this is all we need to hear, to keep us on knife's edge for the ensuing LP release. Who knows, this could be the name of the new LP or the name of the little teaser? Your guess is as good as ours.

After releasing their debut EP Heart of a Lion in September last year, Sydney locals The Griswolds have launched themselves into the spotlight of Australian music. After scoring a sought-after spot in the Parklife lineup last year the band has been performing at numerous other festivals, touring the country and gaining an ever-increasing Aussie following on the way. We caught up with lead singer Chris to discuss playing with Django Django, upcoming festival gigs and their love of the 80s. How pumped are you to be supporting Django Django for your upcoming gig at [...]

Miles Kane has given us a new track off his new EP to be released in February. For me, it sounds like Miles has aligned himself along the Arctic Monkey's, 'R U Mine' path, with this track, 'Give Up' giving the same whiff. I dig it heavily. What do you think?

It's that time at last! Triple J Hottest 100 voting has opened. For those that don't let their musical intelligence be insulted by Triple J, this year promises to be another hard slog at getting those 10 tracks perfectly right, so that you can just tick them off as they come up one by one on the 26th January. Well... at least that's what it used to be like. It's been only 10 years ago now, that Queens of the Stone Age held the number 1 spot with their mental track "No One Knows", and only five years [...]

Falls set times are here! Get out your magic markers and start plotting your course through the dense musical-high-sea that is the Falls program. Bringing in the New Year at Marion Bay is The Flaming Lips with their spectacular live show full of human bubbles, confetti cannons, balloon drops and massive light productions! Welcoming 2013 into Lorne we have Two Door Cinema Club bringing their dancefloor ready album  Beacon  to our shores for the very first time. Even after these massive headline acts, you've got the Hives, followed by TEED after midnight on the 30th and Hot Chip in [...]

High Highs  have revealed plans to release their debut album,  Open Season ,  on Fine Time/Sony Music on January 25th.  The band will support the release in Australia with an intensive schedule of live appearances, including three at the Laneway Festival, and headline gigs in Sydney and Melbourne. Jack Milas and Oli Chang are  High Highs .  The Sydney natives – now Brooklyn residents – craft music critics have described as an “unholy” marriage of acoustic-guitar textures and synthesized atmospherics that shimmer and stun with “sun-kissed sadness.”  The High Highs sound is a dynamic [...]

‘Le Guess Who?’ in Utrecht is a curious festival. Originally a Dutch event in focused on Canadian bands, these days there are top-class acts visiting from all over the world. Among them Deerhoof, Ty Segall and Suuns; the music was rocking harder than your grandmother in a rocking chair on Ritalin. But instead of just plainly telling you about it, we thought we might just let you hear the voice of the people. So we went from venue to venue asking: ‘just who goes to ‘Le Guess Who?’. Rien and Jacolien – Utrecht, the Netherlands [...]

By Jeremy Elliot Hailing from the southern depths of Western Australia, Abbe May is an electronica/doom pop star. Her 2011 LP Design Desire was ranked in the top five Australian albums released that year. Get to know Abbe May as she chats about her relevantly themed follow up LP Kiss My Apocalypse, which promises to be a particularly rambunctious piece of doom pop. Catch Abbe as she tours Sydney, Melbourne and Perth throughout this month.  So you’re currently adding the finishing touches to Kiss My Apocalypse, what can listeners [...]

Kodaline have released a cover of one of our favourite tracks here at Scenewave, LCD Soundsystem's, "All My Friends". They've definitely added their own touch to it, and in true Kodaline style, a stellar video clip to represent their interpretation. If you dig this, it's taken from their second EP 'The High Hopes' which will be released on March 11th, a week ahead of their debut album release 'In A Perfect World' on March 18th.

Snowbombing 2013 proudly revealed back in October its stellar DJ line up for next April's event, with the clear intention of putting together its biggest ever show on snow! The news sees original and groundbreaking legends of the scene mixing it with the most current, crafty and energetic stars in the business. The live acts include KASABIAN, Example, Katy B, Disclosure, Rudimental, and P Money. The DJ lineup consists of Carl Cox, Seth Troxler, Maceo Plex, Skream, Andy C, James Zabiela, Norman Jay, David Rodigan, Fake Blood, Netsky, Kerri [...]

By Jack McAuley Just three months ago you would be excused for not having heard of Jake Bugg, but now it seems to be the name on everyone’s lips. His self-titled debut album took England by storm and claimed number one on the English Charts, which are famed for their affinity for Pop and Electro music. Somehow, with his intricate combination of Dylan-esque vocals and Alex Turner attitude, this eighteen year old from the housing estates of Clifton achieved the impossible. Jake Bugg’s detractors unfairly label him as a Bob Dylan knock-off, though in full credit [...]

My mate Jack and I had the pleasure of attending local indie act Cub Scouts' EP launch last Friday at Alhambra. The Brisbane 5 piece's first release is titled  Told You So , and it's one of the better Australian EPs we've listened to this year. Having already received a huge amount of buzz from Triple J for their first single "Evie", the band has followed up the hype with the release of four other equally as upbeat and catchy tracks, and the reflective "Light Me Up" to finish. When we chatted to Cub Scouts' marketing manager at [...]