Category Archives: Sydney
LANCELOT – Spoken Word
First track from Sydney-based bro Lancelot’s upcoming EP release “We Can Dance” – coming soon on Binary. French Express giving it heaps of mad/sweet props, so worth a listen we say: -Mandu
Rdio/Vice Party feat. Twin Shadow, Collarbones & Das Racist
This Saturday Feb 4th Vice and music streaming service Rdio are taking over Bondi’s Beach Road Hotel and cramming it full of bands including Das Racist, Canyons, Alpine, Collarbones and Jonti with DJ sets from Twin Shadow & Austra. Better yet it’s a free gig – you just need to win one of the 300 [...]
VEEN
Composed of 2/9ths Ex-Protectors, 2/9ths(?) Ex-Ernest Ellis band, VEEN is showy, cosmic synth-pop that gives a wink and a nod to early Crystal Castles. Brand new Sydney music, see what you make of it: M I N D V I R U S by V E E N 8 B I T L E O [...]
JAGWAR MA
New project from Jono Ma, formerly of The Valentinos/The Lost Valentinos/Valentines Day: The Movie. Here’s something you wouldn’t expect – some riffy beach-side crooner psych, replete with Ghostwood’s leadman on vocals: Come Save Me by Jagwar Ma Does it make you want to wear weather inappropriate clothing and writhe around in the park? Perhaps it [...]
MESAN
A fantastically muscly mini-mix from two deep diving Sydney gents, put together for a gig at the Entertainment Quarter last weekend. Spring Music Promo by Mesan Nothing else to say apart from that really – Mesan OG’s coming soon (I hope)! xMandu
aBillion
You may remember a certain degree of splooging over a band called So I’m Jo last year on this very blog. aBillion is the rising electronic phoenix to emerge from the dissolution of So I’m Jo, and I’ve been informed by a good chum that there’s brand new material coming very shortly that will shake [...]
Rara Avis – Autumn
I don’t know much about these guys – Rara Avis are self described “Fuzzbox keepers and creamy dreamers”. I think you’ll see the aptness writ large in this track: Autumn by Rara Avis Shoegaze is a term all to often attached to bands who simply are too lazy and poor to get something mixed correctly, [...]
Winter People
!Total Bang0r free zone! A phenomenal group has been bubbling away beneath the surface of Sydney’s folk scene for the past two years. After gigs here, there and everywhere the band have settled down to record a full length release. The first cut is called ‘Wishingbone’, it’s a dense, cinematic slice of gorgeous folk. And [...]
Tom Ugly feat Pez
Winner of Triple J’s Unearthed High competition several years ago, Tom Ugly has been chipping away at a debut record. Promising to a broader pallet of sounds and textures to his previous work, Mr Ugly has slipped a new track online featuring Melbourne MC Pez – one half of the duo behind the (unfortunate) hit [...]
Clancy
So a bloke called Clancy with a new EP that has a big meow meow cat on the cover dropped us a note saying ‘oi, lads, check this music’. To this we said ‘aight, and were very pleasantly surprised to find nestled within the package a phenomenal retro electro mix from local man Beaumont. Ten [...]
Guerre Remix EP
It’s a bit in reverse, given the EP itself isn’t out yet, but to get the hype-monster working for them Yes Please Records have set loose a remix package, complete with no-less than EIGHT re-edits, bro-dubs and bedroom-loop-oddities of tracks lifted from Guerre’s upcoming Darker My Love EP. Sydney’s current obsession with glitch and dub [...]
Convaire
I dunno if this is reference to Nic Cage’s finest hour or Chuck Taylor’s finest shoe but this little Sydney troupe is more than just quite good looking.. they’re also quite talented. Get this: Convaire – The New You Once you get post the drearily out-of-tune vocal style, you’ll hum and dance along in a [...]
Pluto Jonze
An incredible double pairing of Australia 2011 hotshots, right here, right now, right here, right now right here here here here here (see below) More below | \/ Meet You Under Neon by Pluto Jonze Pluto Jonze is one of those upsetting group of people who can not only play like Massive Attack, but have [...]
Bon Chat Bon Rat
Little giveaway single is out now from these most excellent Sydney glitchwave bros, independently released and published by Future Classic. It’s called Blackbird, and there’s a clutch of remixes riding off the back of it too including this one from Adelaide via Sydney machine-pop duo Collarbones. And while you’re at it grab the OG 4 [...]
We Can Dance (Frames Remix)