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Hyperbole.tv

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The last issue of JMag featured an angry quote from me regarding Google deleting music blogs. And that was before they deleted one of Australia’s finest.

Alas, last Friday we lost Mass Hyperbole, run by inthemix.com.au editor Dave Ruby Howe. As Dave points out, around four hundred posts, one million hits and three years of work disappeared at the hand of the almighty.

Fortunately, Dave has already picked up and started a new blog at hyperbole.tv (but sans the awesome banner of its previous incarnation). You should check it out and keep the dream alive. Hopefully (50% Australian) Rose Quartz doesn’t suffer a similar fate.

Vorad Fils – ‘Lioness’

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Vorad Fils – ‘Lioness’ (mp3)

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Vorad Fils is the new solo project for John Hassell of Seekae fame, whose debut ‘The Warmest Static’ also rounds out the excellent POWWOW new music series from Feral Media.

Vorad Fils shares a sense of amazing technical accomplishment with Seekae, but the music isvery different. Whereas Seekae trade on icy, downbeat atmospherics mixed with glitch-y beats, ‘Lioness’ is more sample based, turning snippets of strings and pianos into a beat that bisect IDM and chillwave. That said, Hassell covers a lot of ground on this album, which ultimately sounds like a talented artist unrestrained by aesthetic boundaries.

‘The Warmest Static’ is definitely worth getting your hands on.

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Aussies clean up at International Songwriting Awards

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Sarah Blasko and Chris Cheney were part of the large scoop of Aussie undertakings at the recent International Songwriting Awards in the US.

Trumping competitors with the alluring ‘Bird On A Wire’, Blasko took out first place in the  Folk/Singer-Songwriter category.  Living End veteran Cheney scored first place in the Rock category for ‘White Noise’.

Geelong sibling duo Emma and Anthony Hewitt of Missing Hours won the adult contemporary award for ‘Missing You’, while the amiable Kevin Mitchell aka Bob Evans rounded out the winnings, earning best pop/top 40 artist for ‘Pasha Bulker’.

Aussies that took out third place gongs included Eskimo Joe in the Rock category for ‘Foreign Land’ and Alexander Gow and Thomas Savage of Oh Mercy for Adult Contemporary for ‘Get You Back’.

A massive list of honourable mentions acknowledged the talents of Andy Bull, Alexander Burnett (Sparkadia), Michael Tomlinson (YKB) , John Mackay (Children Collide), Tommaso Parisi (Tom Ugly) and Ryan Ritchie (True Live) to name a few.

This year’s judges included  Tom Waits, Ben Folds, Ben Harper, Jeff Beck and Robert Smith of The Cure.

Go team.

Parades -‘ Loserspeak in New Tongue’ (video)

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Parades – Loserspeak In New Tongue from Parades on Vimeo.

When I posted this track on here last week, I actually had no idea it was going to be the next single, I just thought it was a clear highlight. Apparently the band and the label agree and have released this clip for ‘Loserspeak in New Tongue,’ a track that isn’t an obvious choice for a single but deserves the special attention. It shows off why Parades are different from almost every other band in the country and that they do their own thing pretty fucking well.

Splendour In The Grass acts

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So it’s just under a week until music fans book out entire computer labs wait patiently by their laptop to get their hands on some Splendour In The Grass tix. The killer line-up they’ve amassed may even offset the expected drop in bottlenecks following an increase in capacity, increase in price, a move to Woodford and restrictions on patrons under 18. Either way, tickets go on sale at 9am next Thursday the 6th of May, and you probably don’t want to wait until lunch time to hit the site.

Anyway, below is a list of the Australian artists on the bill and links to related posts we’ve featured on the whothehell.net, plus a video on the new Woodford site in case you missed it last week.

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