Arena shows have been announced for Flight of The Conchords in Sydney & Melbourne following over whelming demand.
The new shows, which hare scheduled for Friday 6th July in Sydney and Sun 15 July in Melbourne will allow those crazy Conchord fans the chance to pull up their business socks and get down to some serious rhymenosaurusing.
Gotye – aka Wally De Backer – has reached the unreachable this week, becoming the first Australian artist this century to have a #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart .
The Melbournian is in pretty good company, with the only other Aussies to have reached number 1 in the USA int he past 3 decades being Men At Work, INXS and Savage Garden.
The big number 1 was hit with his track Somebody That I Used to Know(feat. Kimbra)‘. The single recently featured on a n episode of Glee which significantly bolstered sales (those darn GLEEKS!)
Gotye’s single has now accrued over 5 million sales worldwide with over 500,000 copies sold in the U.S. last week alone. In fact “Somebody That I Used To Know” is only the sixth song in American chart history to sell more than half a million downloads in just one week.
The song has now been #1 on iTunes in 33 countries – MENTAL!
Splendour In The Grass returns to Byron Bay this year, and they have called a few of their friends to come party with them!
Leading the charge is everyone favourite pale skinned gentleman – Jack White. Splendour regulars Bloc Party will join while Smashing Pumpkins & At The Drive-In will bring a bit of rad nostalgia to the July 27th to 29th festival.
What are we really hanging for? DZ Deathrays of course – oh and watching Lana Del Rey get booed off stage.
Check out the full 2012 line up here:
Jack White
Bloc Party
Smashing Pumpkins
At The Drive-In
The Shins
Hilltop Hoods
The Kooks
Gossip
Miike Snow
Dirty Three
Lana Del Rey
360
Azealia Banks
Tame Impala
Explosions In The Sky
Ladyhawke
The Afghan Whigs
Missy Higgins
Wolfmother
Metric
Kimbra
Mudhoney
Band Of Skulls
Spiderbait
Django Django
Gypsy & The Cat
San Cisco
Last Dinosaurs
Electric Guest
Muscles
Angus Stone
DZ Deathrays
Howler
Lanie Lane
Fun.
Big Scary
Michael Kiwanuka
Seekae
Friends
Yacht Club Dj’s
Bertie Blackman
Jinja Safari
Blue King Brown
Youth Lagoon
Pond
The Beautiful Girls
Tijuana Cartel
Ball Park Music
The Rubens
Ben Howard
Bleeding Knees Club
Zulu Winter
The Medics
Shihad
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
Husky
Kate Miller-Heidke
Father John Misty
Emma Louise
Chet Faker
Here We Go Magic
Parachute Youth
Mosman Alder
The Cast Of Cheers
Wolf & Cub
Gossling
Beni
Sampology (AV/DJ show)
Canyons (DJ Set)
Nina Las Vegas
Danny T
Alison Wonderland
Nice and Ego (AV/DJ show)
Flume
Gloves
Luke Million
Harris Robotis
Alley Oop
So, what do we think of this year’s line up?
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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:
New Zealand’s much loved folk comedy duo Flight Of The Conchords are finally coming to Australia! Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement will bring the funny to our shores this July.
Jemaine said of the announcement; “We are finally returning to Australia. Mostly to apologise.”
It’s hard to pinpoint what has kept the duo from touring our shores all this time, was it band manager Murray’s inability to get the guys a gig outside of an aquarium, Bret’s commitments to his sign holding job or Jemaine’s fear that his Aussie ex-girlfriend Keitha would be waiting eagerly for his arrival? Regardless, one thing’s for sure – it’s going to be one heck of a good time.
General public on sale from 9am local time, Tuesday 17 April
Thu 5 July Sydney Opera House NSW
Sat 7 July Brisbane Entertainment Centre QLD
Tue 10 July Newcastle Entertainment Centre NSW
Wed 11 July WIN Entertainment Centre, Wollongong NSW
Damon Albarn dropped a couple of bombs in his recent interview with The Guardian. The front man of brit-pop icons Blur and cartoon band Gorillaz has alluded to the termination of both projects.
On Blur, who disbanded in 2003 and famously reunited in 2009:
So no more Blur records?
“No, I don’t think so.”
And will you play live again after Hyde Park?
“No, not really.”
This is even bigger news. So that’s it?
“I think so, yeah,” he says. A little later, he goes on: “And I hope that’s the truth: that that’s how we end it. I don’t know: you can write scripts, and they always end up going… [pause]… well, one thing I’ve learned, and I’m sure you’re exactly the same, is that everything I think I’ve got totally sorted out, and I know exactly what’s going to happen – it never works out that way…”
So how should I put it? That in all likelihood, this is the end of Blur?
“In all likelihood, I would say. [pause] Oh, God…”
On Gorillaz, a musical/cartoon collaboration with Jamie Hewlett:
“Gorillaz was a really wonderful, spontaneous thing,” he says. “It started with two people sitting on a sofa, going, ‘Let’s make a band.’
‘All right, I’ll go into my studio and draw some characters.’
‘I’ll go in mine and make a tune, and we’ll put them together.'”
Which brings us to another of today’s revelations. Will there be more Gorillaz music?
“Er… unlikely.”
Really?
“Yeah.”
That’s a shame. Do you feel you’re done?
“Jamie does, which is fair enough. I think we were at cross purposes somewhat on that last record, which is a shame. So until a time comes when that knot has been untied…”
So what do we think? Will Albarn really lay both these musical maestros to rest?
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)
It’s been 6 months of holidays for Lost In Suburbia, but we’re back, tanned, toned, fit and ready (sorry Katy Perry) and stinging to bring you some rad new content.
Here is a sneak of what is to come:
DZ DEATHRAYS Bloodstreams review, hilarious new videos of catfish being trapped between the aquatic and the feline world and an interview with a guy that used to play music with some guy who says he knew Pete Townsend.
The first 20 bands locked in to play the 2012 Big Day Out have been announced, and it is shaping up to be one heck of a 20th birthday celebration for the iconic music festival!
Grunge lords Soundgarden, who last played BDO in 1994 have announced their return to the festival along with splendour headliner Kanye West, rockers Kasabian and the music chameleons My Chemical Romance.
The awesome musical line up will be accompanied by a cheeky little skate demo by living legend Tony Hawk, who last toured with Big Day Out in 1996.
Check out the first line up:
Soundgarden
Kanye West
Kasabian
My Chemical Romance
The Living End
Royksopp
Hilltop Hoods
Boy and Bear
Parkway Drive
Mariachi El Bronx
Architecture in Helsinki
Battles
The Jezabels
Odd Future (OFWGKTA)
Frenzal Rhomb
Girl Talk
The Getaway Plan
Cage The Elephant
Foster The People
Best Coast
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