Dash and WIll – ‘Pick You Up’

When I got into the car to drive to work I had Tegan and Sara’s The Con in my head so I fired up the iPod, put that song on loud, and then put on a few more pop gems from the twin sisters before arrived at the office. As soon as sat down I opened up an email encouraging me to download Dash and Will‘s new free track called ‘Pick You Up’.

The email unfortunately described Dash and Will as Australia’s answer to Tegan and Sara, which forced me to compare the two acts and since T&S is still fresh in my head from this morning’s drive, D&W’s offering seemed underdeveloped and repetitive. This is an unfair comparison of course seeing that T&S has so much more life and songwriting experience than D&W, but I’m guessing that’s how most listeners would feel too. Nevertheless I’m also sure that like me most people can also see that D&W is bubblling with promising talent and that this choice of single is not indicative of their carreer path. You can hear the obvious distinction in their voices, as opposed to T&Ss hard-to-tell-apart similarity, is going to be a strong point in their songcrafting endeavours.

If you venture to their MySpace there’s a couple more tunes ready for listen and can stand their own ground even in the shadow of a certain popular songwriting sister duo. Looking forward to hearing more.

www.myspace.com/dashandwill

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I haven’t heard from Sia for a while, turns out she’s making some moves in the States

Live on Jimmy Kimmel

Live on KCRW

The painful looking video for ‘Buttons’

http://www.siamusic.net
http://www.myspace.com/siamusic

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Embarrassingly I’ve only got around to catching these guys a few weeks ago, they were really good and deserving of the top spot in the old school album charts.

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Bagraiders – KIM’s ‘By The Time They Reach You’ (The Bagraiders Would Have Stolen Your Wallet And Changed All Your Money To Euros And Gone Shopping In Paris Remix) (mp3)

I met these guys last week at the Good Vibrations festival, really nice dudes. I do admit I wanted to blog this just to post the ridiculously long remix name.

http://www.myspace.com/bagraiders

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Knightlife – Cobra Dukes’ ‘Leave The Light On’ Remix

Melbourne based producer and Cut Copy’s label Cutters signee Knightlife has remixed one of England’s up and coming bands Cobra Dukes. I found this track through Gill Mills excellent weekly podcast called The Best Of Myspace. She was in Melbourne recently but unfortunately our schedules meant that we were in different cities almost the whole time and meeting up was an impossibility, but she did get a healthy dose of new Australian music and she dedicated a whole episode just for that.

www.myspace.com/dancewithknightlife

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www.myspace.com/cassettekids

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Liam Finn – ‘Better to Be’

Well Liam Finn has done some great things. I got this from a press release, but it’s cause for celebration nonetheless. His album I’ll Be Lightning have scored number #13 on the Billboard Heatseeker charts. Now I don’t know if anyone here give a rat’s arse about charts anymore, but this is pretty impressive. Especially for a one man touring musician. I mean just go to his MySpace and check out the dates he’s doing. He even has a spot on Letterman coming up. Nice one.

http://www.myspace.com/theliamfinn

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