Melbourne duo Oh Mercy have won the 2009 SOYA music award. They beat out the two other finalists - Songs and Sherlock's Daughter - to take home the prize of $10,000 in cash and Qantas flights.
Awesome local music journal, Mountain Fold , are curating the next three Friday nights at Goodgod Small Club . November 13 Naked On The Vague, Free Choice Duo, Bed Wettin' Bad Boys November 20 The Stabs, Witch Hats, Ghosts of Television November 27 The UV Race, Royal Headache, Lakes Doors open at 9pm, with drinks served until the wee hours (around 4am). Tickets for all shows are $12 on the door, with a special "triple pass" available from Repressed Records for $30. Goodgod is located out [...]
Last night I was tossing (no homo) and turning (some homo) in bed, plagued by the thought that maybe I had either.. a) Left the stove on. b) Forgotten something really important that was supposed to happen this week. I awoke in a cold sweat and remembered that we didn't have a stove. In fact, nobody had stoves. This wasn't 1958. The depression was over. We eat sushi and party all the time. I then checked my electronic iCalendar and noticed the big red circle around today's date. How could I forget?? [...]
The line-up for next year's Perth International Arts Festival (February 5 - March 1) has just been released and it's fairly off the effing chain - Antony and the Johnsons, Dirty Three, HEALTH, Yo La Tengo, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, British Sea Power, Pivot and many many more . The prospect of HEALTH sideshows excites us greatly.
Dino Jnr shredding. The first batch of artists for the 2010 Golden Plains festival was announced this morning. Obviously, Pavement's headline slot was already known , but there are still plenty of lovely inclusions in the fast round. Pavement Dinosaur Jr Dirty Projectors The Big Pink Midnight Juggernauts Tame Impala Super Wild Horses Optimo Calexico Monotonix Gaslamp Killer Nashville Pussy Jeffrey Lewis & the Junkyard [...]
Dino Jnr shredding. The first batch of artists for the 2010 Golden Plains festival was announced this morning. Obviously, Pavement's headline slot was already known , but there are still plenty of lovely inclusions in the fast round. Pavement Dinosaur Jr Dirty Projectors The Big Pink Midnight Juggernauts Tame Impala Super Wild Horses Optimo Calexico Monotonix Gaslamp Killer Nashville Pussy Jeffrey Lewis & the Junkyard [...]
Pavement have added a second Sydney show to their 2010 Australian tour - March 5 at the Enmore Theatre. Tickets on sale now via Ticketek .
The Brooklyn pop-rockers will be heading our way in February for a handful of shows. Wednesday, February 17: East Brunswick Club, Melbourne Friday, February 19 : Perth Festival Beck's Music Box, Perth Saturday, February 20: The Zoo, Brisbane Sunday, February 21: Oxford Art Factory, Sydney Tickets for the Sydney show go on sale this Friday (November 6) via Moshtix .
Al 'fucking' Green Once again the Sydney Festival seems to have trumped the other big summer events (umm.. BDO ) with a fairly diverse line-up for their 2010 program. The highlights include Al Green making his first ever Australian appearance, Dirty Three and Laughing Clowns playing a Don't Look Back show and a super special Severed Heads and The Reels double headline show. The official program isn't released until tomorrow, however, there are several confirmed shows already released. Opening Night Saturday, [...]
Girl Talk's Sydney sideshow will be happening on January 25 at the Enmore Theatre . Tickets are $56.60 and go on sale Friday, November 13 via Ticketek .
Billboard interviews Lil Wayne about his upcoming rock album Rebirth : The album is still rock. I play guitar on 80 percent of the songs and there's a lot of rock influences and rock beats. I also have (Blink-182 drummer) Travis Barker on the album. But I don't want people to think I'm trying to do something I can't do. Don't think you're going to put on the album and hear me screaming and singing. Rebirth is scheduled to be released with the We Are Young Money [...]
Billboard interviews Lil Wayne about his upcoming rock album Rebirth : The album is still rock. I play guitar on 80 percent of the songs and there's a lot of rock influences and rock beats. I also have (Blink-182 drummer) Travis Barker on the album. But I don't want people to think I'm trying to do something I can't do. Don't think you're going to put on the album and hear me screaming and singing. Rebirth is scheduled to be released with the We Are Young Money [...]
NY Times have summed up Weezer's new album Ratitude quite nicely: "Put Me Back Together" is confident and basically unironic: reliable-narrator power pop with a bit of yearning, like what the [All-American] Rejects do on their own time. It's not a parody of a style; it is the style, top to bottom. This, even more than the appearance of the rapper Lil Wayne on the preceding track, or the album's collaborations with high-gloss pop songwriter-producers - Kazuhiro Hara, Jermaine Dupri and Dr. Luke - shows that Mr. Cuomo has relaxed his anxious, isolated [...]
Hobogestapo have posted some fairly amazing photos from Steve Aoki's recent (wild) performance at Roxanne Parlour in Melbourne.
Undercover: Jay-Z Wants To Play Weddings Parties Anything "I'm gonna have video behind me and dancers. I'm gonna have people just go out and pour champagne when I get to a certain song. I'm going to make a whole show of this thing".
To coincide with this year's AusMusic Month Triple J have launched a brand new all-Australian digital radio station, playing music from their ever-growing Unearthed catalogue. You can listen online or by tuning your digital radio to 'triplejunearthed'.
Photo by Daniel Boud . Even though Paul Keating recently declaring the Compulsory Recession of 2009 TM to be OVER, it thankfully doesn't look as though the lovely/exciting world of 'innovative music marketing campaigns' is going to die any time soon. Even screamy 'party band' The Scare have now gotten into the act, in promotion of their upcoming national album tour. The premise is fairly simple - while the group are touring around the country over the next couple of months they are going to be warming up for each [...]
Warp Records hero Clark will be heading to our shores in November/December for a mini tour. Currently only three dates have been locked in, with a big mysterious four week break in the middle where - according to MySpace - his only confirmed appearance is at the Warp 20 show in Tokyo on November 21. Friday, November 6: The Republic, Perth Thursday, December 3: New Guernica, Melbourne Friday, December 4: Civic Hotel, Sydney
Lil Wayne's new mixtape No Ceilings has leaked a few days ahead of it's scheduled Halloween release date.
The Morning News: Is Rapper Kanye West Dead? - miss u Paul.
Polaroids Of Androids
No Church In The Wild
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The Rains of Castamere by The National
CHROMATICS "THESE STREETS WILL NEVER LOOK THE SAME"
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[LISTEN] Gotye (Passion Pit Remix)
New Remix: Jonquil - Run (RxGibbs Remix)
