Snowman – We Are The Plague

The 2008 Melbourne Film Festival has a music documentaries program called Backbeat, there are some very interesting features like Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story and The Night James Brown Saved Boston. Most of them are foreign documentaries, why is this I’m not sure. I guess we hear about local acts enough to not want watch a whole documentary of it. But there is a screening of local music videos called Orbit that looks interesting. I’ll unashamedly admit that it’s also a good source of content for this blog, so for the next couple of weeks we’ll feature some of the music videos here, including some artists we weren’t aware before, like the intriguing sounding All India Radio.

www.melbournefilmfestival.com.au

Snob Scrilla – ‘There You Go Again’

It’s not a name you’ll soon forget, and with a new EP fresh on the shelves and a run on the upcoming Parklife tour, you’ll probably be hearing it a whole lot more pretty soon. Snob Scrilla take the grit out of indie rock, the master lyricism out of hip hop and wind up somewhere on the edges of the genre-playground, like those cool kids in school who didn’t quite fit in anywhere but wound up being friends with everybody.

www.myspace.com/snobscrilla

ted&francis – ‘erlend’

It seems that the French isn’t sick of nu-wave/electro/rave yet because the Pedestrian.tv guys announced that the Kitsune label has just signed Sydney unknowns ted&francis for an album. I wonder if by the time they get their LP ready everyone will be over this sound.

www.myspace.com/tedandfrancis