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Faker and Sparkadia team up for national tour, torch passing etc

Photo by Roger Sargent

Remember when Memphis Bleek kicked that awesome freestyle at the start of a Jay-Z album and it was like the passing of the torch, from the legend to the new kid on the block?

No? Ok.

Anyway, this upcoming tour, which sees over-loved Triple J rockers, Faker, team up with up-n-comers, Sparkadia, is kinda like the Australian indie pop-rock equivalent of this. "Memphis who?" I hear you say. Yeah, exactly.

Thursday, September 4: Prince Of Wales, Bunbury
Friday, September 5: Metro City, Perth
Saturday, September 6: Settlers Tavern, Margaret River
Friday, September 12: Forum Theatre, Melbourne
Saturday, September 13: Wrestpoint Showroom, Hobart
Sunday, September 14: HQ, Adelaide
Friday, September 19: Coolangatta Hotel, Gold Coast
Saturday, September 20: Enmore Theatre, Sydney

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Artist Pages: Sparkadia   Faker  

New record store opening in Newtown this weekend

Independent record store, Repressed Records, formerly located in a distant land called Penrith, is relocating to sunny ol' Newtown, with the grand opening happening this Saturday.

You will be able to find the store at 356 King St, which we are told is left from when you come out of the station, down towards the performing arts high school.

This is what Nick, an employee, had to say about the general thinking behind the store:

Well, it's good to know we aren't alone in that belief.

Record buying in Newtown has never been better at the moment with Paint It Black, that awesome vinyl/rarities store on the south part of King St that I always forget the name of, Egg Records and the 'mainstream' outlets (Fish, HUM etc) covering a nice wide spectrum of tastes and styles.

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WOW get kicked off stage at Levity Nights

Levity Nights, which we are told is some hip new 'night' that we have been deemed too ugly and/or too old to attend, recently played host to one of our current faves, electro whizz kids - WOW.

However, the fun was short lived with the duo getting booted off stage by the venue's owner (a hard-faced old lady called 'Doris') three songs into their set.

Very disappointing to see the band decide against sparking a riot and destroying the place. Do you think Limp Bizkit rose became the greatest band of all time by taking shit from old ladies and politely just packing up when told?

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Artist Pages: WOW  

Mistletone Records are having a super duper mail order sale

Over at the Mistletone Records shop they are having a bit of a sale. All titles are now only $15 - including albums by Dan Deacon, Panda Bear, Kes Band, Beach House, Bachelorette, Francis Plagne and many others.

And to make this sweet ass deal even sweeter - they also include FREE shipping! To anywhere in the world!

Act quickly though, as the sale is scheduled to end on July 8.

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Video: SPOD: Cats!

SPOD actually showed off this Powerpoint powered 'video clip' at his Hopetoun launch show a few months back. Everyone had to crowd around his laptop to watch it though, as the projector wasn't working.

This is undoubtedly the best video you will see this year and/or EVER.

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Artist Pages: SPOD  

New Music: The Get Busy Crew

The Get Busy Crew 'rep' Sydney. They make party jamz. The lead female MC is 11 years old. They rock the bells like LL, and the stuff they kick is approximately 5,000 times more fresh than you and your homies' weak ass rhymez.

Bustin' Lines

You can catch the whole crew at the Pedestrian TV issue 14 launch show at the Berlin Lounge on the Gold Coast this Friday (July 4). The night is also co-presented by the lovely folks over at the Have Fun Club, who are THE go-to kidzz for all things electro. Definitely a show worth checking out if you find yourself in the sunny part of the country this weekend.

Discovered via Catcall's blog.

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Artist Pages: The Get Busy Crew  

Violent Soho are doing album launch shows, support shows, strip shows, peep shows, slightly bizarre sex shows

Bands rocking A Tribe Called Quest t-shirts get immediate props.

Those wild fuckers, Violent Soho, are bustin' outta Brisbane in a big way over the next couple of months, playing shows everywhere, anywhere and somewhere:

Saturday, July 12: The Troubadour, Brisbane (+)
Friday, July 18: Spectrum, Syndey (+)
Saturday, July 19: The Tote, Melbourne (+)
Thursday, July 24: Rocket Bar, Adelaide (#)
Friday, July 25: Corner Hotel, Melbourne (#)
Saturday, July 26: Transit, Canberra (#)
Sunday, July 27: Oxford Arts Factory, Sydney (#)
Friday, August 15: Great Northern, Byron Bay (*)
Saturday, August 16: The Zoo, Brisbane, Queensland (*)
Friday, August 22: Northcote Social Club, Melbourne (*)
Saturday, August 23: Northcote Social Club, Melbourne (*)
Thursday, August 28: Annandale Hotel, Sydney (*)
Friday, August 29: Annandale Hotel, Sydney (*)
Friday, September 5: Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle (*)
Saturday, September 6: Waves, Wollongong (*)

+ album launch shows with Reptiles
# supporting Cut Off Your Hands
* supporting The Mess Hall

The Sydney album launch show will also feature those local 'ruffians' Circle Pit. Yah!

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Artist Pages: Violent Soho  

Radiohead get remixed by old computer hardware

Hey, you remember that time you remixed Radiohead's track Nude as part of some online contest thingo? Well it was kinda cool, in fact I even thought it was (almost) straight-up 'banging'.

That was until I saw James Houston's effort.

And for those playing along at home, the 'instruments' used were - a Sinclair ZX Spectrum (guitars), Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer (drums), HP Scanjet 3c (bass guitar) and a hard drive array (speakers, vocals & FX).

Via Kripy.

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Artist Pages: Radiohead  

Menomena show off some awesome b-sides and rarities via Muxtape

Unless you have been living under a large rock-shaped plastic thing for the past few weeks, you know all about Muxtape. It's arguably the greatest online mixtape making machine EVER. It's also nice, clean, friendly and been embraced by many musical peeps as a nice way to give people access to fresh and/or awesome stuff.

Case in point - Menomena's Muxtape, which consists of some fantastic rare songs, b-sides and other goodies by the Portland outfit.

Some other notable Muxes that we have stumbled across over the past little bit...

RZA's Staten Island Ferry Ride mix, which seamlessly goes from Paul Simon to Wu-Tang Clan to Elton John.

Albert Hammond Jr's mix is very enjoyably nostalgic.

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Artist Pages: Menomena   Albert Hammond Jr.   RZA  

Falls Festival ballot opens, no line-up announced

As of RIGHT NOW you can head over to the Falls Festival webspace and sign up to their ticket ballot, putting you in the draw to get tickets to this year's pair of festival dates, which once again will be held at Marion Bay in Tasmania and Lorne in Victoria right around the time where 2008 meets 2009 (ie. New Years Eve).

The official line-up won't be announced until August 13, however, we hear it's just going to consist of The Wiggles, The Eagles and Grafton Primary playing back-to-back sets for two and a half days straight. So yer should really get onto the whole early sign-up thing PRONTO.

The dates to mark down in zee diaries:

Wednesday, August 13: first line-up announced
Wednesday, August 27: ballot closes
Monday, September 1: ballot is drawn, lucky subscribers get notified
Wednesday, September 17: remaining tickets go on sale to the the general public

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Artist Pages: Falls Festival