last day of Aussie music month

In tribute to a brilliant Aus Music Month on Triple J, which ends today.. here we go through some of the newish and just awesome Aussie acts.

1. Something with Numbers - new, fresh, maybe emo, maybe bad live, who even knows. Who even cares? hmm well i like the sound of Apple of the Eye, the first sort of commercial single. See if they will prove themselves over the next few months.

2. The Cops - Argghhh. Can't get enough of these guys. So pop and rock and indie and dancey all rolled into one giant grape of coolness. If you haven't heard them go back under the rock.

3. TZU - Wait till we see these guys live. Just going to go absolutely sick. I have heard good reports. Everything they touch turns into gold. Well not really gold in terms of record sales, but just sheer brilliant hip/hop, jazz funky beats to dance too. Catchy ass tunes you want to sing all summer long. Buy the singles, buy the albums, just got and buy the Cat Empire-Hilltop Hoods mashed up love children doing their thing.

Other really notable mentions as i couldn't be arsed to write anymore. Little Birdy & the Red Riders putting out some awesome material this year. New electronica which i guess had been massive on my stereo this year Goyte, Midnight Juggernuts, Hook N Sling, The Presets,Kid Kenobi, Soma Rasa all worth seeing live and have mad albums. On the blues and roots front sort of a bit quietish but lovin Custom Kings, John Bulter Trio, Juzzie Smith. Big prediction for the newish TZU band of next year would be True Live who just have a good sound. Well hip hop just so many to mention. Happy days for all things Hip Hop, think Muph & Platonic, Macromantics. Others i want to hear heaps more of - Offcuts and Dukes of Windsor.

Massive lame awards go to Something for Kate, Eskimo Joe, Josh Pyke, Bob Evans, Darren Hanlon. Sorry if your a fan and your reading this but it's my blog so i can think i write what i want too. Comment if you want. lol.

the world is coming to my party tonight

lovin:

1. New Young Pony Club - Icecream (plus verious remixes of it)

2. Rain at night on the roof
3. Pinot Noir, favourite new red wine. lol yes very wanky to be listing wine, but god it's good.

4. Swimming & warm weather
5. Regina Spektor - Radio

6. Dangerous Dan v Van She - Around the World (Daft Punk Remix)

7. This site - Bargin Queen (Babe on a Budget Shopping Blog)

8. BORAT!! Yack Shmash, Quingchee!!

festivals in the sun

Serious beat and breaks all over the country this summer. If you haven't put down for a festival then you are totally going to miss out big time. Here are some of the noteable festivals you should be enjoying. Too bad most of them are sold out!!

Name: BEATS ON THE BEACH
When: Monday 1 Jan, 10am - 9pm
Who: Pete Murray End Of Fashion, Sick Puppies, Karnivool, Van She, Pendulum, Infusion, Katalyst & Ru C L, The Nextmen (UK), Dynamite MC, Concord Dawn (NZ), 10sui, Noodles, Verse, Wolf & Cub, Freq Nasty (NZ), Red Riders, Bodyjar, Saul Williams (USA), Avalon Drive, Soma Rasa, National Pornographic, Bourbon Street, Spook, Mission Ignition
Where: Kingsford Smith Park, Ballina, NSW.
How much: $85 (+ bf) - $190 (+ bf)
Sold Out: NO
Vibe: Should be interesting, newbie on the festival circuit, might have a lot of crashers from Byron, but cool vibe right on the beach. hope they get the food/toilets/crowds right.

Name: PYRAMID ROCK FESTIVAL
When: Dec 30 & 31st
Who: Silverchair, The Living End, Ugly Duckling (USA), Xavier Rudd, Evermore (NZ), Freestylers (UK), End Of Fashion, Mylo (Scotland), The Grates, The Beautiful Girls, Brant Bjork & the Bros (USA), Faker, Lior, Karnivool, Crazy Penis (UK), TZU, True Live, Mia Dyson, Ash Grunwald, That 1 Guy (USA), Sunk Loto, The Casanovas, Bomba, Bertie Blackman, Foreign Heights, K-Oscillate, Carus & the True Believers, Behind Crimson Eyes, The Loose Cannons (UK), The Spazzys, Bliss n Eso, Something With Numbers, The Red Eyes, Josh Owen Band, Rob Sawyer, Jess McAvoy, Illzilla, Mammal, Subfocus, Ben Quinn, Durbeyfield, Lowrider, Digital Primate (UK), Simon Slieker, Bushido, The Legs, Long Walk Home, Crimson Flames, Mushroom Giant
Where: Pyramid Road, Phillip Island, VIC
How much: $140 (+ bf) - $160 (+ bf)
Tickets: Sold out
Vibe: Newish festival but becoming a rival to the other Vic giant, Falls Festival. Full of class aussie acts.

Name: PEATS RIDGE FESTIVAL
When: 29 Dec - 1 Jan
Who: Angus & Julia Stone, the Black Seeds, Iota, Bertie Blackman, Afro Moses, Juzzie Smith, Jez, Bluebottle Kiss, Brant Bjork & The Bros, Munted Monkey.
How Much: $170 - 4 days camping
Tickets: Still available
Vibe: 10 stages or something amazing including ecologically sustainable festival design, and activities. Should be one hell of a party!

suburban mayhem

Saw the new Australian movie, "Suburban Mayhem" last night. And Mayhem yes it was! Absolutely crazy stuff. Great movie if you like sex, violence, sex, cars, bourbon and hard rock chick athems. Actress Emily Barclay portrays the hard edge Katrina, who plans her father's murder to get her brother out of jail. Nice piece of Aussie cinema. Awesome soundtrack. Very angsty wanna-sort-of-bash-some-other chick music. Check it out.



Track Listing:
2. Adalita – Double Dare
3. The Buff Medways – Troubled Mind
4. Spazzys – Paco Doesn’t Love Me
5. Your Wedding Night – White Hott
6. Bird Blobs – Inbred Disco
7. Adalita – Sex Beat
8. Magic Dirt – Daddy
9. Theredsunband – Devil Song
10. Little Birdy – This Is A Love Song
11. Suzi Quatro – 48 Crash
12. Spazzys – The Sunshine Drive
13. Magic Dirt – Sucker Love

im outta time, wanna see me disco??

Found some awesome tunes today. This blog is extremely cool as - Acid Girls, dj's from California who like playing indie house disco - think Le Tigre, Klaxons, acid remixes. The mixtape is unreal. Also look out for the MIA/Diplo (Sunshowers Remix) which has Salt n Pepa samples, freaky shit.

The Infadels are currently in Aus. Playing at the Gaelic theatre tonight in Sydney, their track Love like Semtex is big player on the Jays. Described as Vintage rock> listen out for thier cover of Steady as she goes.

sample sale

anyone know the Hip Hop song that is using a Strokes sample?

i fought the war (and the war won)

Metric is a Canadian indie/electro/rave rock band. Originally formed in 1998 in New York City,they are currently based in, Ontario.The band consists of vocalist and keyboardist Emily Haines, guitarist James Shaw, bassist Josh Winstead and drummer Joules Scott-Key. Their first full-length album, Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?, was released in 2003. Their newest album, Live It Out, was released on October 4, 2005 and was nominated for the 2006 Polaris Music Prize for the Canadian Album of The Year as well as earning the Juno Award nomination for Best Alternative Album. Haines and Shaw also perform with Broken Social Scene, and Haines has been a guest on albums by Stars, KC Accidental, Delerium. Listen out for notable songs "Monster Hospital" (also remixed by MSTRKRFT) and "Police an the Private".


Dutch abstract rock ... Kashmir once were apparently a bunch of art obsessed manikins; playing around in Copenhagen with different media, such as graphics, street art, absurd poetry and of course music; then they found their means of communication, forming a rock 'n' roll band. “The easiest way to get heard was to plug whatever instrument into a guitar amplifier and turn it up ‘till somebody either listened or left. You couldn’t quite get the same attention from painting a picture or reciting a poem”, Kasper, the lead vocalist recalls. Loving the track The Cynic - which features a duet with David Bowie. Their official site is www.kashmir.dk

Lovin' these tracks today:
1. Plump Dj's - Summertime
2. AFI - Love like Winter
3. Tool - The Pot

goin all electro on your ass'

Just going to ramble about some sortof indie-electro i am obessesed with this week:

Midnight Juggernauts are an indie-electro-synth assault. they Say "A sonic blizzard traversing dirty-organ-rock to stadium-disco-metal to sci-fi rollerskating jams, igniting dancefloors along the way". Tracks - 45 & rising, Secrets of the Universe.

Others:
1. Anything by the Presets
2. Death from Above 1979 - Sexy Results (MSTRKRFT Remix)
3. The Bump - Kid Kenobi & Hook N Sling
4. Something Wicked - Soma Rasa

Awesome tracks. Disko Murder at the CIVIC Hotel, Hunter St, Newcastle. Check it out.

New Music November

Cassius - French Electronica/House/Pop
Cassius, comprises two kings of the French Electronic scene: After Initially recording for Mo' Wax as La Funk Mob, producing classic albums for France's only successful Hip Hop export MC Solaar and - for Zdar - forming the pioneering French House outfit Motorbass with Etienne De Crecy, Cassius officially formed in 1998 as ‘two friends making music for living better.' Key tracks: Feeling for You, The Sound Of Violence (Feel Like I Wanna Be Inside you), Toop Toop.

Klaxons - Screamo / Happy Hardcore / Pop
One blogger says Klaxons seem to be spearheading a neo-rave movement of sorts. I think indie-rave: like boys in tight jeans with perky synths and guitars. Actually, it all seems more art rock than rave similar TV on the Radio + Yeah Yeah Yeahs + Bloc Party + The Cops + The Rapture.
Nice tracks - Gravity's Rainbow, Atlantis to Interzone

MSTRKRFT - Electronica/Club/House
MSTRKRFT (read as "Masterkraft") is an electronic music group who specialise in from Canada who specialise in REMIXING anything. The group was started in 2005 by Jesse F. Keeler formerly of Death from Above 1979 and Al Puodziukas) formerly of the Mississauga electropop group Girlsareshort. Al-P was also the producer for Death from Above 1979's debut album You're a Woman, I'm a Machine. Notable tracks - Wolfmother - Woman, BLOC PARTY - LUNO COVER + TWO MORE YEARS REMIX.

True Live - Hip Hop / Jazz / Classical
Melbourne based TRUE LIVE are a unique ensemble that cross boundaries of genre and style while engaging audiences with songs of passion and meaning. With performances and recordings consisting of a three-piece string section (cello, violin, double bass), percussion, keyboards and vocals, the group create a contemporary, organic sound. Drawing on the sounds and performance ideals of Hip Hop and Jungle, they are the new Cat Empire & TZU mashed together. Tracks to look for TV, Question This.

The Cops - Rock/ Funk / Electronica
Four peice Aussie band from Sydney describe their influences from Vanilla Ice, to Primal Scream and Beck. Head bopping and damn catchy tunes, the Cops use electronica nicely to balance nifty rock riffs. Singable tunes - Call me Anytime, Wallet - Puffer-Smokes-Keys.