Gareth Liddiard announces November tour
As well as details of his solo debut LP, Strange Feeling, which is due out on October 21 via Shock.
Update: Zeal in Sydney, winter, The People
Remember last week? It was winter. It was colder than a nun's vagina and it was more boring than an Arcade Fire music video featuring footage from the butt-fuck surburban shithole you grew up in.
Also, sometime last week, we threw open our arms to the Sydney Music CommunityTM and asked for some help with organising a show for our boy Zeal when he travels up here from Melbourne in September.
Menomena confirmed for Laneway 2011?
Well... YES it would seem so... as, according to Triple J Mornings, Justin Harris from Menomena let it slip during a recent interview that they'll be heading here for the festival in Jan/Feb next year.
The festival organisers are still staying tight-lipped on any details at this stage, but according to their website the full line-up will be announced very soon. Fingers crossed for a few more names off our wishlist as well.
Girls announce sideshows
In addition to appearing at this year's Meredith Festival, Girls will be playing a trio of East Coast dates:
Wednesday, December 8: Manning Bar, Sydney (Tickets)
Thursday, December 9: The Zoo, Brisbane (Tickets)
Friday, December 10: The Corner, Melbourne (Tickets)
Tickets on sale now.
An open letter to The World (re: Zeal in Sydney)
Do you like music? Do you like babes? Do you like Zeal? Do you looooove pugs? If yes, then please read on about this exciting new business proposition. Baby.
Tonight in Sydney: Royal Headache, Border Thieves and OAF's 3rd Birthday Party
Option 1: Royal Headache at Newtown RSL
- the first band (Lowlife) features members of Whores and The Nevada Strange
- super cheap pasta deals at the RSL and cheap beers
- I once wandered into Spectrum and The Warm Feelings were playing and they were fucking amazing. I was a bit drunk but I'm also 95% sure they are actually awesome. Don't act cool and just turn up for Royal Headache, make sure you see this whole show.
- it's FREE entry! But there will also be a donation box to make sure the bands get some money. Don't be a scummy tight ass.
- post-show boozing at Sly Fox (for karaoke) or the Townie (obvs)
Playing times:
8.50 - 9.20 : Lowlife
9.40 - 10.05 : The Warm Feelings
10.15 - 10.55 : Woollen Kits
11.05 - 11.40 : Royal Headache
Big Boi to return to Australia in November
It looks like a solo Big Boi tour (ie. not that Homebush thing a few weeks back where he performed with T-Pain and Fatman Scoop) will be happening in November, with a solitary Australian date appearing on his website - November 18 at Fox Studios, Sydney (which I guess means he'll be playing at The Forum).
DZ announce New York fundraising shows
Raising $$$ for their CMJ New York visit in October:
Saturday, August 12: Shark Bar, Gold Coast
Friday, August 27: The Zoo, Brisbane
Saturday, August 28: Clubhouse, Toowoomba
Friday, September 10: Purple Sneakers at Miss Libertine, Melbourne
Saturday, September 11: Spectrum, Sydney
We recently sat down (inside the Skype bubble) to chat with DZ about their upcoming New York visit and their plans for 2011. The full interview should be up here sometime over the next few days.
Falls Festival line-up announced: Interpol, Sleigh Bells, The National, The Living End
Interpol. Creepy retired porn stars.
Heaps of "yesterday's heros". I know this will get me 'hipster bashed' (ie. punched for wearing a GO P4K t-shirt, not attacked by bros with ironic moustaches) BUT Sleigh Bells are really the only genuinely exciting band on the list. Hot Hot Heat are still making music? I love Public Enemy, but Australia is obviously the only place where they can still play shows bigger than my Nanna's kitchen. The Muse of hip-hop. AND... The Living End are one of the headline acts. Yes, really.
Mehhhhh.
Tours: Surf City, Laura Imbruglia, Betty Airs, Ben Kweller and Delta Spirit
Prediction #1: Surf City's long awaited debut album Kudos (due out in September via Pop Frenzy) is gonna rock the skirts off EVERYONE. Mark our words. Whatever that's worth, right?
To get pussy's wet for the album, the New Zealand psych-punkers will be heading out on a mini-national tour, where attendance is absolutely essential if you want to squeeze into those "told you so" pants in about 6 months time.
Soundwave 2011 line-up: SLAYER, Iron Maiden, Gang Of Four, Pennywise, Sum 41
Soundwave 2011 organisers have been doing a fairly admirable job cock-teasing their potential punters by revealing one line-up act every week via Twitter. This drawn out process was to finally come to an end this week with the official line-up announcement scheduled for today, much to the rejoice of the tween population of Australia who really just wanted to know if Sum 41 would finally make it onto the bill.
Rihanna heading to Australia in 2011
Friday, February 25: Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Brisbane
Monday, February 28: Newcastle Entertainment Centre, Newcastle
Friday, March 4: Acer Arena, Sydney
Monday, March 7: Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne
Thursday, March 10: Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Adelaide
Saturday, March 12: Burswood Dome, Perth
Tickets on sale Friday, August 20. Pre-sales are happening from Wednesday, August 18.
Weekend leftovers: Two Thousand Mixtape, Circle Pit, Gucci Mane, Deerhunter, Best Coast
Things were a bit quiet around here last week as The Real World really grabbed us by the nuts. Thus, here are a few things that were still gathering dust around the back alleys of our inboxes, post-to-website.txt files and bookmarked on our CrackBerrys when the week clocked out.
Cabins announce first ever national headline tour
The important music critics of Australia all agree...
... that Sydney's Cabins are gonna be FUCKING HUGE! Like Powderfinger, Silverchair, SUM 41, Talons and The Porkers all rolled up into a single package, sprinkled with 'darkness' (not The Darkness) and plenty of that thing we like to call 'youthful jest'.
The next fortnight is fkkkking hectic
Splendour sideshows. Cuntloads of local shows. Empty bank accounts.
Buck 65 announces September tour
Thursday, September 16: Corner Hotel, Melbourne
Friday, September 17: Factory Theatre, Sydney
Saturday, September 18: The Spiegeltent, Brisbane Festival
Sunday, September 19: The Spiegeltent, Brisbane Festival
Tickets for the Sydney show on sale Friday, July 16 via The Factory website.
Tickets for both Brisbane Festival shows on sale now via Moshtix.
July looks fkkking sick: Guineafowl, Naked On The Vague, Totally Unicorn, Ernest Ellis, The Boat People
There's soooo many sweater than a bottle of Oasis ($$ for comment) shows on this month. Happy new financial year! Time to shake off the winter blues...
Blink 182 and Weezer to tour Australia this year?
Ohhhh... completely unconfirmed at this stage but... let's all glue our mind erections/electrons together and pray this turns out to be true.
Cheap ticket deals for dualpLOVER's End of Financial Year party
dualpLOVER are offering up highly discounted tickets for their huge End Of Financial Year party this Wednesday evening. Right up until midnight tonight you can get tickets for just $4, while tomorrow tickets will be just $6 right up until 4pm. If you hold out and decide to just rock up on the night you'll be faced with an unpleasant $25 cover charge so GET SNAPPY.
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September, 2010
August, 2010
- Menomena confirmed for Laneway 2011?
- Girls announce sideshows
- An open letter to The World (re: Zeal in Sydney)
- Tonight in Sydney: Royal Headache, Border Thieves and OAF's 3rd Birthday Party
- Big Boi to return to Australia in November
- Meredith 2010 line-up: Dirty Three, Washed Out, Girls, Clipse, Custard
- DZ announce New York fundraising shows
- Falls Festival line-up announced: Interpol, Sleigh Bells, The National, The Living End
- Tours: Surf City, Laura Imbruglia, Betty Airs, Ben Kweller and Delta Spirit
- Soundwave 2011 line-up: SLAYER, Iron Maiden, Gang Of Four, Pennywise, Sum 41
- Rihanna heading to Australia in 2011
- Weekend leftovers: Two Thousand Mixtape, Circle Pit, Gucci Mane, Deerhunter, Best Coast
July, 2010
- Cabins announce first ever national headline tour
- The next fortnight is fkkkking hectic
- Buck 65 announces September tour
- July looks fkkking sick: Guineafowl, Naked On The Vague, Totally Unicorn, Ernest Ellis, The Boat People
June, 2010
- Blink 182 and Weezer to tour Australia this year?
- Cheap ticket deals for dualpLOVER's End of Financial Year party
- Tonight in Sydney: New Weird Australia present Refraction
- Wavves brings King Of The Beach release date forward
- Goodgod Small Club reopens
- Naked On The Vague kickstart collaborative short film
- Peabody and Further to play rare Sydney shows
- The King Khan & BBQ Show break-up over Opera House debacle
- Noz vs Drake: No Thanks
- Betty Airs release debut single/video, continue residency this weekend
- The Strokes setlist from Dingwalls, London (June 9, 2010)
- A Tribe Called Quest Australian tour!!
- Leonard Cohen adds second Sydney show
- Die! Die! Die! sign to Flying Nun, reveal new album details
- Super Wild Horses album tour
- This Weekend in Sydney: Auraltered State #4, Circle Pit, Whores, Dappled Cities
- Tonight in Sydney: Dead China Doll, Nikko, Hira Hira, Founder
- Betty Airs' June romp
- New Cool Kids mixtape
- Crab Smasher's Thick Mosquito Sky out now
May, 2010
- Buddyhead + DVS shoe - "I know who you blew last summer"
- Tame Impala get Best New Music-ed
- Talons R.I.P.
- Sound Series playing times
- Cuntloads of shows: Naked On The Vague, Lenny Cohen, School Of Seven Bells and more
- The Drums announce sideshows
- / / / ▲ ▲ ▲ \ \ \ mentioned in Pitchfork article
- Tumbleweed's surprise Annandale show
- Happy Batrider Day
- Free Gucci Mane = done
- The Soft Pack announce July shows
- Pivot 'leak' new songs
- Shitloads of Splendour sideshows: Frightened Rabbit, Yeasayer, Broken Social Scene and more
- Eels heading back to Australia in August
- Wavves and The Pitchforkers kiss and make up
April, 2010
- Violent Soho announce micro homecoming/album tour
- This week in Sydney: Toydeath, Guineafowl, The Nevada Strange, Pikelet, Richard In Your Mind
- LCD Soundsystem sideshows!!! (with Hot Chip)
- Parades announce national album tour/road-trip
- Guru R.I.P.
- This weekend in Sydney: Die! Die! Die!, Kelly Clarkson and some other stuff
- Splendour In The Grass 2010 line-up announced
- Batrider return home, announce national tour
- Songs pull out of tonight's Eddy Current show?
- Update on the relocated Goodgod shows
- Goodgod goes on hiatus
- Things that happened while we were off living large in Japan and/or Berlin
March, 2010
- Brightblack Morning Light 2-for-1 offer
- The Dead Weather add second Sydney show
- Pivot announce last minute April shows
- Mixtape Mundays
- Die! Die! Die! announce April shows
- Pedestrian vs the 2009 Australian Music Prize
- Splendour In The Grass 2010 rumours (part 2)
- Tours: Seja, Otouto, Pikelet, Mother and Father
- Playing times for Dinosaur Jr tonight
- Julian Casablancas is coming to Australia
- Raekwon adds second Sydney show
- Tickets still available for Dinosaur Jr this Thursday
- The Thermals are a bunch of pull out bros
- Splendour In The Grass 2010 rumours
- Further are going to be playing more new songs tonight
- Lil Wayne sentencing postponed, giving him a few more days to try and get some pussy
- Guru suffers heart attack
February, 2010
- Kitchen's Floor tour kicks off tonight
- Danimals headline The Revenant Club tonight
- New Hold Steady album in May
- Surf City and Songs team up for double headline tour
- Download Hira Hira's debut EP for FREE
- New date and venue for last ever Ghosts Of Television show
- Spoon are playing at Coolangatta
- Australian Music Prize 2009 shortlist - no sign of The Stabs, Tucker B's or Talons
- Deerhoof are coming to Australia?
- Ghosts Of Television need a venue for their last ever show
- The Kill Devil Hills vs Tucker B's
- Win a double pass to The Dodos this Saturday
- Lil Wayne jail sentencing delayed
- Vampire Weekend 'big city' tour
- Eddy Current Suppression Ring national tour
- Jay Reatard cause of death revealed
- The Go Roll Your Bones kick off residency this Friday
- Groovin' The Moo line-up 'announced'
- Tours tours tours: The Mess Hall, The Drones, The Kill Devil Hills
January, 2010
- Sydney Laneway Festival is happening this Sunday
- We are interviewing Frightened Rabbit via Twitter on Monday
- Eddy Current to play two Annandale Hotel shows in May
- Tucker B's are supporting The Kill Devil Hills, updating their website, maybe playing some shows
- Win a double pass to Hockey tomorrow night
- Change of date and venue for Echo & The Bunnymen show
- LOOK OUT! 2010 playing times
- Massive Attack announce Australian tour
- Stream: Four Tet - There Is Love In You