Posts Tagged ‘Australia’

DMA’s – ” Too Soon “

Posted: February 14, 2016 in MUSIC
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DMA’S Debut Album “Hills End”, With their debut album ready to be released  ‘Hills End’ on February 26th, catch a video watch of album track ‘Too Soon’ from Australia’s answer to Oasis The DMA’S. DMA’S (dee-em-ayes) is Johnny Took, Matt Mason and Tommy O’Dell – three friends who came together making nostalgic garage pop in a bedroom in Newtown. Australia.
Having met whilst playing in other bands, DMA’S are three writers, three mates, three frontmen – all with a common sense of purpose and musicality.
Writing a few songs together, the band demoed them in Johnny’s bedroom-studio, gaining instant attention – all before putting out an official track or playing a single show.

After signing with tastemaker label I OH YOU, DMA’S released their debut single ‘Delete’ to rave reviews, with Channel V calling the band “the next big thing”, and Triple J adding the track to high rotation.
With NME picking them as a buzz band to watch, Blur’s Dave Rowntree naming ‘Delete’ his Record of the Week on XFM, and the band selling out their first national tour – DMA’S have gone from strength to strength.

With “Too Soon” Directed by Mitchell Grant, the clip features the three band members hanging out in different places.

Vocalist Tommy O’Dell says of the video: “We’ve worked with Mitch a few times, so we know he is sick. We like that it’s a purely visual clip and not conceptual or based on a narrative – sometimes you can get lost in that.”

DMA’S will be over in the UK end February/early March playing a handful of dates to support the album, stopping at:
FEBRUARY 2016
28 GLASGOW, Stereo
MARCH
01 NEWCASTLE, Think Tank
02 LONDON, Garage
04 LEEDS, Belgrave
05 MANCHESTER, Ruby Lounge

PALMS – ” Bad Apple “

Posted: February 13, 2016 in MUSIC
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Outside of Sydney, it seemed like this record was a bit ignored. Which is a huge shame, because it’s full of rock gems that span from the riff hurricane of “Bad Apple”, to the Cheap Trick-spiritual successor “Thoughts of You”, to “Sleep Too Much” a face-melter that rivals the power of The Ark of the Covenant. There were also pleasantly surprising softer moments that took Palms away from being pigeon holed as a band that could only do garage-rock. When you feel a bit shit, and needed that quick fix of heartfelt headbangers that you’re not ashamed to belt out off-key and shred an air guitar to, crank Crazy Rack. 

Their debut album, ‘Step Brothers’, came through and won my heart. I started seeing this band whenever I could – the live total has reached somewhere around 30 or something. I know I’m not alone in my enslavement  – the same heads are always gathered at Palms gigs with a beautiful consistency. What’s more, every show brings in a new tidal wive of fans, who know every word, and are even more rowdy than the last bunch. Fuck, doesn’t that just make your heart swell? Doesn’t it make you shed a goddamn tear?

In the two years since ‘Step Brothers’ was released, Palms have made some huge steps forward as a band. They’ve switched labels, moving onto Ivy League Records, and graduated from tiny pubs to support slots at the Enmore…but that love for churning out a belters that are customer-made to turn a crowd into a foaming pit of writhing bodies hasn’t moved at all. If anything, the band have indulged even more in their unwavering love for splintering solos and big choruses. If Phil Lynott were alive today, Palms would probably be his favourite band.

New single ‘Bad Apple’ from PALMS out now via Ivy League Records

BAD//DREEMS – ” Hiding To Nothing “

Posted: February 13, 2016 in MUSIC
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‘Hiding To Nothing’ is the new single from Adelaide four piece, BAD//DREEMS. Their highly anticipated debut album Dogs At Bay is out 21st August via Ivy League Records, If Dogs At Bay had been released during the period that Bad//Dreems are emulating, then it would’ve been one of Au-Go-Go’s most prized possessions. As it happens, Dogs At Bay came out in 2015, and introduced a whole new generation of kids to the glory of pub rock. Beer-soaked riffs, a howl that reaches all the way to the loner coughing up their life savings at the pokies, and a wide swathe of material that nodded to folks like GOD, Coloured Balls, The Go-Betweens and The Angels, Bad//Dreems pounded the listener with an affecting album of impressive rock.

DICK DIVER – ” Year In Pictures “

Posted: February 13, 2016 in MUSIC
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Melbourne, Florida holds plenty of reasons as to why you should be showing Dick Diver to everyone you know. Even without mentioning their magnum opus Calendar Days, shoving songs like “Waste the Alphabet” or “Tearing the Posters Down” should be high on your priority list of songs to put on when someone asks “What should we listen to?”. There’s a narrative tilt to the way that Dick Diver write songs that’s unmatched amongst their contemporaries. If anyone claims that jangle-pop is too disaffected and obsessed with the mundane, smack them sideways with your copy of this record, and showcase the emotional weight in songs like “Boomer Class” to silence them effectively.

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Melbourne, Australia band formed in 2008. Features members from fellow Australian hitmakers Total Control, Boomgates & UV Race. The band’s previous two records (“New Start Again” & “Calendar Days”) were released by Chapter Music in Australia in 2011 & 2013 respectively.

LOOSE TOOTH – ” Bites Will Bleed “

Posted: February 7, 2016 in MUSIC
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One of Melbourne’s more underrated bands, Loose Tooth are about to get a well-deserved profile boost. They’ve hooked up with Courtney Barnett’s Milk! Records for their debut EP, Saturn Returns, due in early April. The first taste is ‘Bites Will Bleed’, a characteristically chugging and unrushed nugget of girl-group-y noise-pop. Some disorienting psych touches seep in too, thanks in part to producer Paul Maybury (The Pink Tiles), mingling innocence with menace. Bites Will Bleed is taken from Saturn Returns the debut EP from Melbourne 3 piece Loose Tooth – out April 1st, 2016 through

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CAMP COPE – ” Stove Lighter “

Posted: February 7, 2016 in MUSIC
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welcome to Camp Cope,
here is a a demo.
thank you for listening

kids from my high school still ignore me when they see me busking in the city 😦 and i think they’re going somewhere to take horse tranquilliser and act like they’re too cool to be there, and they’ll still call me when they wanna get high.

those i look up to look down on me 😦 or maybe it’s just my crippling anxiety? because it’s been happening a lot lately, i think it’s got something to do with you but you make me pretty happy, i’m just whining about the same shit as yesterday.
and i would sneak him into my mothers house :/ where he would draw the things i’d talk about, and we only ever made out and listen to tigers jaw and uv race, yeah it was pretty grouse, but i gave him my old phone and he moved away.
now i read my text books like the bible, there’s something about truth that makes existence bearable, we’re sitting ’round the kitchen table, it kinda feels like family but a little more unstable, and we still have to light the stove with a lighter.
it’s kinda like i almost want you to understand this like the first time you were here, it’s kinda like i almost want you to understand me like the first time we were here.
and all this time it made sense to me why life was so unfair, because the universe don’t know and the universe don’t care. it took years to figure out everyone else had shit on their mind, and the darkness that lives inside of me looks exactly like you sometimes.
i’ll sit alone in my bedroom, hope they can’t hear me in the next room. always alone in my bedroom hoping no one can hear me.

released August 29, 2015

CAMP COPE – ” Lost: Season One “

Posted: February 7, 2016 in MUSIC
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Poison City have a reliable nose for urgently melodic punk bands, and Camp Cope fit that bill perfectly. A Melbourne trio fronted by Footscray songwriter Georgia Maq, they recall the raw, barking release of Waxahatchee, whom they’re supporting in Melbourne this month. The terrifically named ‘Lost: Season One’ finds solace in bed-bound binge-watching and manages to squeeze in a Dogs in Space reference amid all the cutting lyrics.

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PAUL DEMPSEY – ” Morningless “

Posted: February 7, 2016 in MUSIC
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Paul Dempsey is known to most as the singer, guitarist and principal songwriter of highly successful Australian band, Something for Kate. Dempsey has so far released 6 platinum and gold records with Something for Kate along with a double album of B-sides and a Greatest Hits collection. During this time Dempsey has also consistantly played solo shows and toured in solo mode when not busy with Something for Kate as well as producing records for other artists.

Whilst having a break from Something for Kate, in August 2009 Paul stepped out on his own and released his first solo album through EMI Australia. Titled Everything is True, it was co-produced by Paul and Wayne Connolly (You Am I, Youth Group) and mixed  in Los Angeles by Doug Boehm (Elliot Smith).

OSCAR LUSH – ” Out Of Sight “

Posted: February 4, 2016 in MUSIC
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Songwriter based in Melbourne writing dark folk songs. With a voice that commands in its deep tones – drawing comparisons to the late-great Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan alike – Oscar Lush is a young songwriter taking audiences everywhere by surprise. It’s a powerful age-old voice and a talent for writing dark enigmatic songs that makes Lush “a revelation, who seems excitingly out of place” Members: Oscar Lush, Liam Vaughan, Liam Gough, Craig Mattingley

GANG OF YOUTHS – ” Magnolia “

Posted: January 29, 2016 in MUSIC
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Sydney’s Gang Of Youths are one of the most thrilling and emotive live acts in music today, and if you’ve ever fallen for the pulverising, anthemic power that Arcade Fire dish out nightly when they’re on tour, then you could do worse than give them a listen.

Singer Dave Le’aupepe stars in their new video for ‘Magnolia’, a song about a heavy and somewhat heartbreaking subject matter which he’s written about in more detail on the band’s Facebook page

“June 3rd 2014, Mosely Street, Strathfield. In a state of puerile drunken delirium, reeling from having my heart fucked beyond all recognition and knowing my marriage was about to fall apart, I tried to kill myself.

“The want was gone. The care was gone and with the want and the care went the joy and the laughter and the will until all that was left was the heart, and it was tired. My friends called the police just in time to intercept me and I was taken to a clinic to detox from booze and began a process of healing and self-discovery that is still ongoing in my life today.
“I wrote a jaunty pop song called ‘Magnolia’ as part of that process as an apology to those I loved, a reaffirmation of myself and a commemoration of that moment I found myself as a jilted lover with a body full of liquor, feeling like the saddest and freest motherfucker in the cosmos…”

“It’s a claustrophobic and tense subject matter to be sure, so our brilliant, Melbourne-based director Josh Harris and I wanted to highlight the more wanton freewheeling and cathartic moments of what is at the strange euphoric heart of the song. A deep freeness, a sense of loss, a sadness; living somewhere between when the ‘want’ is gone and when every visceral desire is fierce and burning.
“After watching Singin’ In The Rain for maybe the millionth time, I figured that the sense of pathos in the track in conjunction with the pelvis-dominated, eyes-dilated, gyration-emphatic dancing and West Side Story on lower-east side drugs atmosphere in the video clip made for good drama and contrast. We wanted to highlight both the heartbreak and the fun, the urgency and poise and do it without the trite and bullshitty ‘restraint’ or ‘artiness’ that’s become, like, the recurring indie-alt-press bourgeoisie nightmare. It’s not ‘cool’ or anything, but you know. It’s fun. Dancing and smashing and burning stuff is fun.”

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