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Tame Impala – 'Runway, Houses, City, Clouds'

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Tame Impala – ‘Runway, Houses, City, Clouds’ (mp3)

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Tame Impala – ’41 Mosquitos (Canyons 41 Mojitos Poolside Mix)’ (mp3)
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I am personally excited about Tame Impala’s upcoming debut album titled Innerspeaker. These boys from Perth have done amazingly well in setting themselves up for a decent debut. Their liveshows are exciting to watch and for this kind of music is more energetic than what I was expecting initially. I met them on the BDO tour in January and are quite nice lads, which is always a plus.

Innerspeaker, is out May 21 in Australia and June 8th internationally.

www.myspace.com/tameimpala

The Optimen – ’80s Babies’ video

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The Optimen – 80s Babies from TheOptimen on Vimeo.

Very cool video game-inspired video. I’m always surprised The Optimen don’t get more kudos – they’re one of the better groups in the cesspit of strine that is Aussie hip-hop.

Fires of Waco + Headaches @ Browning Street Studios

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The venue

awk·ward, adjective

1 obsolete : perverse
2 archaic : unfavorable, adverse
3 a : lacking dexterity or skill,  b: showing the result of a lack of expertness
4 a : lacking ease or grace  b : lacking the right proportions, size, or harmony of parts
5 a : lacking social grace and assurance  b : causing embarrassment
6 : not easy to handle or deal with : requiring great skill, ingenuity, or care

Riding in a full elevator is awkward. Finding out your boyfriend’s mum is about to become your step-mum is awkward. But somehow, spending a hot afternoon crammed into a small room with forty other people and watching melodic punk bands play wasn’t awkward at all.

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Guerre – ‘Light Between Everyone’ + footage

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Guerre – ‘Light Between Everyone’ (mp3)

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I posted about Guerre only a few weeks back and already he’s supplied a sweet new track, ‘Light Between Everyone.’ This one is a short, tender folk song draped in reverb and layers of fragile vocals and shifts into a dreamy organ coda after only two verses. Really beautiful.

Guerre is also doing Monday night performances at the Excelsior, which is basically him, a mic, some effects and a loop pedal. The footage I’ve seen is really good, and you can check out some of it below.

Video Contact 001 from Spiritif Records on Vimeo.