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Surf City - goofy cunts. In what surely is a match made in the Popfrenzy board room heaven, New Zealand slop-punks Surf City and Sydney's undefeated champs of the Hard To Google Award, Songs , are joining forces for a handful of shows. Friday, February 26: Whammy Bar, Auckland Saturday, February 27: Mighty Mighty, Wellington Thursday, March 4: Goodgod Small Club, Sydney Saturday, March 6: John Curtin Hotel, Melbourne You can also catch Songs supporting Eddy Current Suppression Ring at their two Sydney [...]

Sydney screamo champs Hira Hira have made their brilliant 2009 debut EP, We. Are. All. Xray. Pricks. No. Talent. Fuck. Off , available as a FREE download on their Bandcamp page . While you're chewing through your monthly bandwidth quota you may as well head over to Sydney Tapes , where you can also download a couple of live Hira Hira recordings.

Nathan from GOTV dropped this info in the comments of this article , but just in case you missed it... The LAST EVER Ghosts Of Television show is now happening at the Gallery Bar at Oxford Art Factory this Thursday (February 18). The show has also been downsized slightly, and will now feature just Dominic Talarico (at about 11:15pm) and Ghosts Of Television, who'll be playing around midnight. It all starts around 11pm and tickets are $5 on the door.

...as well as some other equally large cities: Friday, April 30: Billboard, Melbourne Wednesday, May 5: The Hi-Fi, Brisbane Thursday, May 6: The Cooly Hotel, Coolangatta Friday, May 7: The Forum, Sydney Thursday, May 13: Fowlers, Adelaide Friday, May 14: The Astor, Perth You can also catch the loveable Austin lads playing alongside Tegan, Sara, The Vampy Weekenders and Miami Horror at this year's Groovin The Moo festival tour . Tickets for both the sideshows above and the Groovin The Moo dates go on sale this Friday, February 16.

The cream of Australian music talent. The fairly disappointing/safe/dull list of nominees for the 2009 Australian Music Prize was unveiled yesterday at The St Kilda Festival. Oh Mercy - Privileged Woes Black Cab - Call Signs Kid Sam - Kid Sam Lisa Mitchell - Wonder Sarah Blasko - As Day Follows Night Bertie Blackman - Secrets & Lies Lucie Thorne - Black Across The Field Urthboy - Spitshine The [...]

YES. Apparently they are. Wednesday, March 3: The Corner Hotel, Melbourne Saturday, March 6: The Lost Weekend (festival), Brisbane Tuesday, March 9: Spectrum, Sydney Wednesday, March 10: San Francisco Bath House, Wellington Thursday, March 11: Kings Arms, Auckland Thanks to Christian-Angelo for the heads up.

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As previously reported , legendary Sydney band Ghosts Of Television recently decided to call it quits. The band originally planned to play their last EVER show on February 19 at Doldrums (aka Hibernian House) in Surry Hills. But, according to Mr Shaun Prescott the venue is closed and thus the band are now on the lookout for a replacement location. So, if you own an art space, have a large living room and/or have keys for the hotel formerly known as the Hopetoun then hit the band up via [...]

This interview of The Kill Devil Hills by Andrew Houston from the Tucker B's is like an unexpected bowl of spiked punch (ie. amazing): OK Alex, time for some serious business. You recorded your most recent record with Burke "Bucka Bucka" Reid. Did Bucka Bucka spend all his pre-production time talking about how he wanted you guys to be more like The Tucker B's and that as a band you needed to get "in the pocket" before he would record you? (Not taking away from Rav's recent fiery 10 questions [...]

It's really a no-brainer dudes/dudettes. If you're a fan of San Fran duo The Dodos AND you wanna see them play this Saturday at Oxford Art Factory in Sydney then shoot us an email at us@polaroidsofandroids.com and tell us in 40000 words why you think we should give you a double pass to the show. As per usual (boring!!), because the show is an 18+ event you'll need to be legal age and have relevant identification. Same deal goes for your date/hooker/lover/plus one that you'll be bringing along. [...]

Lil Wayne was supposed to start his year-long jail today, but, as MTV reports he has had the sentencing delayed until March 2, because he has a cracked tooth that requires emergency dental surgery. The rapper is set to undergo surgery February 12 in Miami, according to [his lawyer, Stacey Richman]. He will need a week to 10 days to recover. His defense offered prosecutors February 25 as a date for Wayne to turn himself him in after surgery, but Judge Charles H. Solomon instead selected March 2. Sources close to the rapper [...]

A little birdy (not Ms Steele) recently told me that this band called The Vampy Weekenders were kind of on-track to become the biggest, most rad hipster band on the planet. This led me to believe that some people might be interesting in knowing the band have just announced the details of a bunch of shows for when they are here in May galavanting around the countryside . Thursday, April 29: Town Hall, Auckland Tuesday, May 4: Palace Theatre, Melbourne Thuesday, May 6: Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide (ALL AGES) Tuesday, May 11: The Tivoli, Brisbane (ALL [...]

Last week we let it slip that Eddy Current Suppression Ring would be playing two Sydney shows in early May. We now have confirmation that the shows will actually be happening in early April AND be part of a national tour (yep, WA and Tassie finally get some loving). Friday, March 19: The Amplifier Bar, Perth Saturday, March 20: Margaret River Masters Festival, Margaret River Saturday, March 27: Brisbane Hotel, Hobart Thursday, April 8: The Zoo, Brisbane Friday, April 9: Annandale Hotel, Sydney Saturday, April 10: Annandale Hotel, Sydney Friday, April 16: The [...]

The Commercial Appeal reports that the official cause of Jay Reatard's untimely demise was "cocaine toxicity". The Shelby County Medical Examiner, Dr. Karen E. Chancellor, also cited alcohol as "a contributing factor". Jay's manager, Adam Shore, has also announced that there are some possible posthumous releases in the works, including a new solo record for Matador and a re-issue of some of Jay's early stuff with The Reatards on Goner Records .

Pleasurably wild Sydney lads Go Roll Your Bones are starting a month-long residency at Kings Cross' World Bar this week, tackling the 'sloppy drunk' 2am slot every Friday in February. They'll be joined each week by a host of party-starting bands, helping carry you through the regular 10pm to 2am drinking hours... February 5: DZ, The Joysticks, Brainslaves February 12: Howl, Sideways Hitchhiker, Step-Panther February 19: The Small Hours, Wandering Bear, The Good China February 26: Ernest Ellis, The Preachers, The Salvadors

Thanks to a good ol' fashioned media screw-up (premature street press advert-ulation) the line-up for this year's Groovin' The Moo has dropped a day ahead of schedule. Besides the foxy Tegan (and, yeah, Sara too) and Jonathan 'the skate rate' Boulet, the line-up is pretty damn terrible. I mean, Silverchair, Grinners, Empire Of The Luke Steele and Kisschasy on the one bill? Holy cuntballs. Vampire Weekend Tegan & Sara Spoon Silverchair Grinspoon Empire Of The Sun British India [...]

The Mess Hall (w/ Bridezilla and Cabins) Thursday, March 4: University of Wollongong, Wollongong Friday, March 5: Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle Saturday, March 6: Manning Bar, Sydney Thursday, March 11: Neverland Bar, Gold Coast Friday, March 12: Joe's Waterhole, Eumundi Saturday, March 13: The Zoo, Brisbane Thursday, March 18: Republic Bar, Hobart Friday, March 19: Hotel New York, Launceston Saturday, March 20: Corner Hotel, Melbourne Sunday, March 21: Karova Lounge, Ballarat Thursday, March 25: Mojo's, Fremantle Friday, March 26: Rosemount, Perth Saturday, March 27: Jive Bar, Adelaide The Drones Saturday, February 20: East Brunswick [...]

There are couple of amazing things about the playing times (as below) for this year's Laneway Festival . a) Daniel Johnston is opening for Dappled Cities. That's right, the man that gave birth to Kurt Cobain, Yo La Tengo and The Beatles is opening for eh.. those guys. b) It's gonna be pretty empty at "headline o'clock" at the Clock Tower Stage, right? c) Really nice too see they are accommodating oldies like me that enjoy an afternoon snooze, with The Middle East conveniently scheduled right before 3pm nap time. [...]

Everyone's favourite Scottish lovers/musicians Frightened Rabbit are currently in the country playing at the national Laneway Festival, supporting Echo & the Bunnymen and topping up their highland tans. We'll be chatting to the lovely lads via Twitter on Monday from 12.20pm , hitting them about their upcoming new album The Winter Of Mixed Drinks , their ambitions to race kangeroos and everything in between. To be part of the action (LIVE!) you'll just need to 'follow' (tech term) the Frightened Rabbit Twitter , as well as the 'world in-famous' [...]

Photo by Alicia . Although not 'official' just yet, we have received word that soon-to-be-internationally-mas sive Melbourne garage rockers Eddy Current Suppression Ring will be playing a pair of shows at the Annandale Hotel in early May, presumably as part of a national album tour for their new LP Rush To Relax . Sunday, May 9: Annandale Hotel, Sydney Monday, May 10: Annandale Hotel, Sydney The band's latest single, Anxiety , which is getting a bit of a solid run in radioland at the [...]

It's been a fair gap between 'drinks' (or more precisly 'shows') for Perth/Sydney fighting blokes the Tucker B's . While the gang don't have any headline shows of their own planned at the moment, you can catch them supporting fellow WA lads The Kill Devil Hills on Friday, February 12 at the Annandale Hotel and Saturday, February 13 at the Heritage Hotel in Bulli. They have also assured us that they'll be playing some more shows sometime around April or May, the details of which are possibly hidden somewhere in the group's Australia [...]