One of my fav new Melbourne bands, Hammocks and Honey, are launching their debut EP on a special gold vinyl (see the bottom of this post). You may remember their tune ‘Undone’ as part of our August Beats mixtape. It’s included on the EP, along with for other sweet jams. Check it out below and have a listen.

In other exciting news, whothehell.net have two double passes to give away for the launch. All you have to do is email rsvp@whothehell.net with the subject ‘HAMMOCKZ’ before the end of the week for a chance to win. Details about the gig are:

Where: Bouverie Studios, 1/81 Bouverie St, Carlton

When: 27th November 8pm

Who: Hammocks and Honey, A.O.I, Milk Teddy and Isle Adore

Price: $10 (plus the vinyl will have a special launch price of $15)

Obviously you don’t need to worry about the $10 entry if you win, which means you can potentially rock up, see that rad line-up and score a gold vinyl EP for only $15. Get emailing now.

Spellbinder by Hammocks and Honey

In case you’re new to the viral sensation that is Pogo, he’s a Perth-based electronic producer/composer most famous (y’know, “internet famous”) for cutting up clips from old Disney movies and turning them into songs. His work on Alice in Wonderland and Up was awesome, but his work includes remixes of Terminator 2, Dexter and the like. His YouTube channel is here, where you can find all of his fantastic work. Some of it rides along on the novelty factor, but other tunes are genuinely rad regardless of the origin of the samples.

His latest tune, ‘Wishery,’ is made up of syllables, chords and notes from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. In less than a week, ‘Wishery’ has shot to the top of the Hype Machine charts and amassed over 1.2 million hits on YouTube. It rocks the same schtick we’re used to now from Pogo, but people clearly aren’t sick of it yet. Play the video below to see why people are jizzing over his latest tune.

I posted this song almost two years ago, when Dan Sultan was still another singer-songwriter slogging it out in Melbourne alongside Ella and Jesse Hooper’s project The Verses. Now Sultan has an ARIA award and the Hooper siblings have a major label album release, but I’m glad to see this song made it through as a single.

Parades: Loserspeak in New Tongue from shoottheplayer.com on Vimeo.

The best track off one of the best Aus albums of the year. Nice to reflect on some good Aus music after the musical abortion that was the Arias.

Jonathan Boulet: Ones Who Fly Twos Who Die from shoottheplayer.com on Vimeo.

…and dummer Jonathan Boulet doing his own thang. Boulet’s newest track ‘You’re An Animal’ is released by Modular in December and is pulled from his upcoming sophomore album penciled in for the first half of 2k11.