Category Archives: what?
John Talabot hits Melbourne
John Talabot’s album “ƒin” has been getting an absolute thrashing since I got my hands on it a little over a week ago. I’ll also be seeing him at Laneway on Saturday. But there is no such thing as too much Talabot so I’ll be at this on Friday night. Good times.
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 [...]
Vice Record & Release
If you’ve seen the programme for Melbourne Music Week already, you’ll probably agree it’s banging. There’s Kubik, the Labels Live series and oh so much more. Take Record & Release. The guys at VICE are dropping a recording studio in Racing Club Lane, with Parking Lot Experiments, Absolute Boys, Electric Smile Band, //ThisThing// Collective (and [...]
Voltaire Twins – Animalia
A brother/sister value pack, producing lush, coldwave pop from sunny-side city of Perth in Western Australia. Do you thin they pash each other? Their profile shot is all sorts of sexy… in a Fever Ray kinda way. The Wolves In The Walls by voltairetwins This is the current single – forest pop with a most [...]
The Worst Thing Ever
Is this I don’t even like Juke that much and I found this really upsetting. Hell is other people. xMandu
CLUBFEET
Broken Hearted is the second video in the Gold on Gold video collaboration series between the hypertalented Alex Goddard and the super-hawt right now Aussies Clubfeet It’s a bit wanky, what with the grainy filters and pouty models getting their babylons out for zero reason whatsoever, but fun all the same. And oooeeeee, the track [...]
TANK
Sydney ambient pop producer Oliver Tank has been slowly winning hearts with bedroom produced tracks fronting Aqualung-sized melancholy: Last Night I Heard Everything in Slow Motion by Oliver Tank And seriously, the ‘wah-oh-a-wah-oh’ bits in here are going to shred your emotional well-being for the whole week: Beautiful (Snoop Dogg cover) feat. Fawn Myers by [...]
Enniolee
Sydney lo-fi electro pop duo from Adam Bozzetto (Potty Mouth, Vacation) and KP (vocalist for Pnau and Tonite Only) Not life-changing, but certainly well-produced and summery enough to shuffle your hips along with: Different Beat by Enniolee Hear more Enniolee over at Soundcloud xMandu
Fear of Tigers Radio
Good on him for trying new things… he ran the London Marathon the other week to raise money for animal welfare groups, what a champ. This is the second edition of FoT’s radio show, and some of the tracks in here.. oh boy oh boy oh boy… aural euphoria wall-to-wall. The Guestlist – 22/April/2011 by [...]
Mega Mystery Band
My friend at l is being a poof and not telling me and I like the patience and drive to research/work it out myself. The song is great, the video is hipster twaddle – so the first thing I’d do if I were to get all House MD up on this mystery would be to [...]
YouTube Symphony
The YouTube Symphony set-up shop in Sydney this year – Tourism Australia had the cute idea of partnering artists from the Symphony with established Australian indy artists, throw them around the countryside and see what kind of music popped out the otherside. Andy Bull, Cullen, Luke Webb and some lad called Everett Smith were the [...]
Architecture in Helsinki
AMAZING. So happy these guys are back on the warpath. Architecture In Helsinki – Contact High by modularpeople Alot poppier than previous excursions, but still damn kooky. Acid sing-along! Tour dates! AUSTRALIAN HEADLINE SHOW Sunday May 15 – The Capitol, Perth WA Thursday May 26 – Hi-Fi Bar, Melbourne VIC Friday May 27 – Hi-Fi [...]
Valentine
Did you get one? You didn’t? Awwww… Here, have a heartcrushingly beautiful R+B love song, gloriously put to film by Marcus Soderland (part of the Grindin’ extended family) Til’ next time lovers -Mandu
Black Rose
Big time gypsy teckno on Made To Play (no surprises there) featuring Jesse ‘Honcho’ Rose and Henrik ‘Schwarzkopf’ Schwarz as the dynamic deux Black Rose. You know want to expect here – bouncy, frumpy tech-house built for playing (live). MTP036 Black Rose – Anthem Single by Made to Play No big deal -Mandu
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