This video has been nominated for ‘Best Music video’ at the Australian/NZ Urban Music Awards

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Barrage – ‘Only Only’

Feral Media, a Sydney based record label, have launched a new music initiative worth paying attention called Pow Wow. Over a 12 month period starting July 2007, the initiative will release 10 original releases each by a different artist. Each release will feature a generic screen printed custom cover. The first artist we’ll blog from this series is Melbourne’s one man outfit Barrage. This song if featured on his first 7″ vinyl release 2.
www.barragemusic.com

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Bachelor of Arts – ‘Bang Bang Boom Boom’

I’ve seen this band a few times now and if I have to pick a description for their sound, I’d say they’re very Melbourne. You know, big bottom end, dark vocals and overall a dark grey mood, just like the skies are out here. I asked Angus, who also drums for Treetops, more info on the band and he gave me this:

“Bachelor Of Arts started as a electronic studio project when I was living in
Tasmania. It had really Kraut leanings and 80s synth stuff like Eno and
Bowie. When we moved to Melbourne to study and added another member, things
moved into more of a organic, harder sound. We started listening to a lot of
Shellac, early Trans Am, Fugazi, etc and through about ten gigs around
Melbourne we refined our sound. Pretty much straight away we recorded our
current EP and got about the business of further songwriting and touring. We
just arrived home from Brisbane. It feels pretty cool to get out on the road
and meet so many people whilst playing really fun gigs. “

www.myspace.com/bachelorsonline

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The Brunettes – ‘Her Hairagami Set’

The first time I saw these guys they had a toy drum kit and they took turns playing instruments and stage positions. The second time around they were still a four piece, but this time they had a full kit with even more instruments, and stayed at their respective sides of the stage. Now they are a full seven piece band, and this song is the first taken out of their Structure & Cosmetics album. It’s really easy to trivialise a band that banks on retro sounding songs, but I feel that Jonathan Bree and Heather Mansfield could not write these songs any other way. Their genuine take on innocent 50s pop can be compared too their on stage chemistry: it may not be the real thing (they were a couple once) but it’s damn close, and sometimes better.

www.myspace.com/thebrunettes

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Proudly made for $200 this clip opened a lot of doors for this independent roots band after being youtubed over 300,000 times.

www.myspace.com/bluekingbrown

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Mia Dyson – ‘I Meant Something To You Once’

Australia’s very own travelling blues muso have released three albums so far, the latest of which is Struck Down. She’s currently touring the world to promote this release, but I want to blog this particular song because in my recent mulling of past relationships, this one makes a pretty good soundtrack.

I suppose watching Annie Hall for the 20th time will get anyone in this mood, but even though I know what I feel and how to deal with it, blues can always say it better. It doesn’t even have to be exact, I definitely never had anyone similar to the object of loss in the song but that is just minor detail. The important part is always the chorus, the big hook line, when delivered right it will hit straight inside and stir shit up. The flood of images conjured to my head is heavy and slow everything down. Good song.

www.myspace.com/miadyson

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