Brisbane’s favourite sons are back with the latest single to be taken from their sophomore album Everything’s A Thread.‘MJ’s On Fire Again’ sees the John Steel Singers reach for that falsetto and hit the ground running.
Hitting the road with Jeremy Neale for the Boys Gone Wild tour later this month, JSS are sure to swoon your faces off with the latest track.
Check out the video below.
BOYS GONE WILD East coast tour:
Thursday 20 February Black Bear Lodge, Brisbane Tickets via www.oztix.com.au
Friday 21 February Black Bear Lodge, Brisbane Tickets via www.oztix.com.au
Saturday 22 February Good God Small Club, Sydney Tickets via www.moshtix.com.au
Sunday 23 February The Lair @ The Metro, Sydney (All ages) Tickets via www.metrotheatre.com.au
The world’s best band* The Gaslight Anthem, premiered their new single 45 on Zane Lowe’s Radio 1 on BBC1 last night… and it’s a freaking miracle.
The first single to be taken from their fourth studio album Handwritten, which will hit shelves July24th, 45 combined the melodic styling of American Slang with the heart wrenching tales of youth present on Sink Or Swim.
In short, this track is totes amazeballs. Seriously though. It’s incredible.
Missy Higgins is back with her first new track in over 5 years: Unashamed Desire.
The track (which you can check out below) is fricken awesome. Its a bolder, darker Higgins this time around. Really excited to check out the new album ‘The Ol’ Razzle Dazzle’when it drops June 1st.
Speaking of new albums, Higgins has also announced a tour in support of her newest creation:
‘The Ol’ Razzle Dazzle’ Tour
Fri June 1 Adelaide, Her Majesty’s Theatre Tickets: www.bass.net.au / 131 246
The new video from Melbourne’s The Temper Trap is ass-kickingly awesome.
The immediate and uplifting anthem ‘Need Your Love‘ is set to a tale of triumph, tribulations and 80’s Bromance.
Picking up where Karate Kid leaves off, ‘Need Your Love’ proves that Johnny isnt as bad as he seemed and Mr Miyagi was, is and will always be a total boss.
A couple of lords from Brisbane made a band. They called themselves DZ Deathrays. They went overseas and sunk some piss. They came back. They released their debut album ‘Bloodstreams’. All our faces melted off.
With epileptic fit frantic highs and super chilled mellow lows, ‘Bloodstreams’ isn’t afraid to show all the shapes that DZ Deathrays can pull.
Shall we walk through the album together?
Bloodstreams: Intro track, don’t get lulled into a false sense of security; they are just joshing with you.
Teenage Kickstarts: Ah there you are. This is classic DZ. Aussie accent sounding through the dying cat screams and the driving drums. Brilliant.
Dollar Chills: Bringing it down a bit, the pulsating Dollar Chills is scathing against pretentious dicks in a super fun way. A nice recovery before…
Dinomight: And it’s true. A dino just might. This track is one of the most solid on the record, both lyrically and musically with shifting focus between the tune’s light and dark.
Play Dead Till You’re Dead: I used to have a cat that played dead. She was pretty crap at it. This song isn’t crap at it – it’s very good at it. Another slower tempo track with some nice sing along ‘Ahh ah ahh’s’ and a fine vocal performance by Shane Parsons. Could this be a future single?
Cops Capacity: A track written after the infamous Brisbane police shut down a show that “The Greatest DJ in the world” was playing. What’s illegal is how good this track is. If you’ve seen the Dee Zeds live before, you will for sure recognise this little clanger.
Brains: A little vocal strain and a trainspotting memory later and we have Brains. Drum heavy, scream heavy, dance your ass off heavy.
Gebbie St: A slow burning experiment for the duo. Sexy, driving and laced with bongos, Gebbie St ticks all the boxes and makes the right conversation.
No Sleep: What is sure to be a party anthem, No Sleep already kills everything else that is awesome with its super awesome film clip. It only has Arj Barker in it! Rad.
Debt Death: I had to listen to this song twice, ‘cause I started reading an article about Lady Gaga’s arse. True story. However, this track is super rad. It is like a crazy world destroying volcano and Joy division had a baby, and that baby was like, hey man, wanna start a band?
Dumb It Down: I’m going to put it out there… this is my favourite track on the album. It has an 80’s feel about it which I just can’t go past, and the vocals are just so different to the rest of the album. Plus, the hook is epic.
L.A. Lightning: I freaken love it when a riff sounds like a second vocalist. And R2D2 at the same time.
Trans Am: Last track on the album, with a softer intro overlayed with some nice feedback.. I’m loving the post punk influences that are poking out all over this album and Trans Am takes that to the next level. An absolute miracle of a song…. Oop SECRET TRACK! I remember when I had a Backstreet Boys album, and they had a secret track. That was pretty good, but this is better.
Well kids, there was the entire Bloodstreams album. I’m blown away by how much this band has grown from the little tiny seeds of potential they used to be. So listen to this album loud and on repeat and raise a drink to the kings of thrash party. In the words of L.J. Hooker, nobody does it better.
Get your hands on a copy of the album, and check them out on their Bloodstreams tour.
DZ Deathrays Bloodstreams tour w/Special guests Velociraptor
Thursday, April 12 | Elsewhere, Gold Coast
Tix: $12 + BF PRESALE / $16 DOOR
Friday, April 13 | The Zoo, Brisbane
Tix: $12 + BF PRESALE / $16 DOOR
Saturday, April 14 | Great Northern Hotel, Byron Bay
Tix: $12 + BF PRESALE / $16 DOOR
Wednesday, April 18 | Beach Road Hotel, Bondi
Free Entry
Thursday, April 19 | The Patch, Wollongong
Tix: $12 + BF PRESALE / $16 DOOR
Friday, April 20 | Oxford Art Factory, Sydney
Tix: $12 + BF PRESALE / $16 DOOR
Saturday, April 21 | Transit Bar, Canberra
Tix: $12 + BF PRESALE / $16 DOOR
Wednesday, April 25 | National Hotel, Geelong
Tix: $12 + BF PRESALE / $16 DOOR
Thursday, April 26 | Karova Lounge, Ballarat
Tix: $12 + BF PRESALE / $16 DOOR
Friday, April 27 | The Tote, Melbourne
Tix: $12 + BF PRESALE / $16 DOOR
Saturday, April 28 | Jive, Adelaide
Tix: $12 + BF PRESALE / $16 DOOR
Thursday, May 3 | Prince Of Wale, Bunbury**
Tix: $15 + BF PRESALE / $20 DOOR
Friday, May 4 | Amplifier, Perth**
Tix: $15 + BF PRESALE / $20 DOOR
Saturday, May 5 | Mojos, Fremantle**
Tix: $15 + BF PRESALE / $20 DOOR
And here is the video for ‘No Sleep’ to get you through until you can get your hands on the album:
M83 will release the ‘Reunion’ EP on 7th May 2012 through Pod, the second single to be taken from the hugely acclaimed fourth album ‘Hurry Up We’re Dreaming’.
As well as entering the top 40 in the UK charts for the first time, the double album hit number 15 in the US Billboard charts and topped the electronic and alternative charts. Named Pitchfork’s #1 single of 2011, “Midnight City” is nowcertified Gold in Australia, has had over 8 million hits on YouTube to date, was voted #5 in the 2011 triple j hottest 100and remains one of the biggest club tracks of the moment across the world thanks to the Eric Prydz rework.
M83 will also take part in Record Store Day on April 21st this year, with a limited edition vinyl 7” featuring the hidden album track “Mirror”. The release will be available as part of a very limited run in Australia.
With the release of ‘Reunion’, the rise and rise of Anthony Gonzalez’s M83 is set to continue. ‘Reunion’ continues to display M83’s aptitude at writing catchy cosmic-pop soundtracks filled with fantasy and imagination. The single will be released with a stunning and diverse remix package of 6 exclusive re-works of the track. Remixes come from Mylo, Sei A, The Naked And Famous, Polly Scattergood, We Have Band and White Sea. A video for “Reunion”, which is a sequel to the “Midnight City” video, will be released in coming months.
Mylo leads the ‘Reunion’ remix charge with his trademark funky synth bass lines and beats cleverly weaved into the spaced out original vocal track to create a contradiction of sounds and another potential hit for M83.
Sei A, the up and coming Glasgow based producer, is hailed as one of the most exciting producers in the techno-house scene, and has given ‘Reunion’ a glimpse of Glaswegian industrialism through his loop filled minimalistic mix. The White Sea remix is a spaced out dubstep nugget, whilst The Naked And Famous take an altogether different route with their rework by building the track into an electronic cacophony of synths, guitars and drums, much the way M83 do performing live.
Tracklisting is as follows:
1. Reunion (Original Version)
2. Reunion (The Naked and Famous Remix)
3. Reunion (Sei A Remix)
4. Reunion (Polly Scattergood Remix)
5. Reunion (We Have Band Remix)
6. Reunion (Mylo Remix)
7. Reunion (White Sea Remix)
The very lovely, very talented, very sexy Lanie Lane has just returned from Nashville where she cut a record with a little known guy called Jack White.
The vinyl offering Ain’t Hungry/My Man is available now, but until you pick that bad boy up, check out the rad video for Ain’t Hungry here:
Ahh breath easy children, the first band you wanted to fuck is back, and they are ready to steal your hearts and make your panties wet all over again!
Blink 182 return with their new single ‘Up All Night’ taken from their soon to be released 6th studio album Neighborhoods, and it’s a dark doosey!
From the perfectly smooth combination of DeLong and Hoppus‘ voices to the infamous controlled chaotic Barker drumming, Up All Night is a sexy, seductive and addictive track. Listen to it. I dare you.
You would be forgiven for thinking that New Navy were The Holidays. With similar minimal summer sounds and lyricalstructure, the two Sydney bands would fit very nicely on a bill together.
New Navy’s new track Zimbabwe is taken from their forthcoming EP, Uluwatu, is mixed by Lost Valentinos’ Jono Ma.
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