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WATCH: Violent Soho – ‘Neighbour Neighbour’

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New Violent Soho video looking like California via Brisbane with beers, bongs and babes. Directed by Tristan Houghton from Cartel Film Productions and lifted from the 7″ Tinderbox/Neighbour Neighbour release on I Oh You. Actually is that Val Kilmer working the ceramic? Oh and it turns out guitars definatley float. Good video. Good song. Great fucking band.

Touring this month with Dune Rats support at all shows:
Thurs, Nov 15 – GoodGod, Sydney, NSW
Fri, Nov 16 – Rocket Bar, Adelaide, SA
Sat, Nov 17 – The Tote, Melbourne, VIC
Fri, Nov 23 – Alhambra Lounge, Brisbane, QLD

 

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PREMIERE: Minimum Chips

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We mentioned this in the Melbourne Music Week feature but now we can update you with the wonderful news that Chapter Music are releasing a 20th bday special compilation. Only available at the Melbourne and Sydney shows – as if you aren’t going anyway! ’20 Big Ones’ is a limited edition double coloured vinyl release with 20 tracks of rare and unreleased cuts from the Chapter bands of the last decades.We nabbed the Minimum Chips tracks ‘Jolly Jumper’ which was recorded recently and sounds very nice. The compilation features a wide range of interesting artists including many of whom are playing at the 2 birthday shows detailed below. The Laura Jean track is so beautiful you’ll forget all about those swedish First Aid babes and the Coolies from NZ have a wicked punk number on there too. Enjoy the parties.


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Sat Nov 17, North Melbourne Town Hall, 3.30pm – ALL AGES – woo!
with Crayon Fields, Twerps, Beaches, Pikelet, Laura Jean, Primitive Calculators, Jonny Telafone, Standish/Carlyon, Clag, New Estate, Bum Creek
Tix from MOSHTIX
Sat Nov 24, Goodgod Small Club, Sydney, 7pm
with Crayon Fields, Laura Jean, Standish/Carlyon, Guy Blackman, Jonny Telafone
Tix from MOSHTIX

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HAIL ANGUS

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If you’ve had the pleasure of meeting Angus Tait, you would agree he is a calm man with a nice beard. Angus is a freelance Graphic Designer, whose significant other is music. Approached by Who The Hell to redesign the identity and website, Angus kindly pushed aside his guitar peddles and 18 month old child to produce these new digs.

Along with his sophisticated aptitude for colour and nicely snubbed nose when it comes to typography, Angus also cleverly guided Who The Hell through the build with his knowledge of wordpress, HTML and CSS.

Angus also recently released his first Iphone App called Dashi. Last year, somehow between having a child and earning a buck, Angus found time to make a beautifully crafted tool for learning the basics of Japanese reading and pronunciation. So if you’re thinking about being a groupie for the next Last Dinosaurs tour to Japan or want to read lyrics by the Tenniscoats, this app is less than $2 well spent.

 

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LISTEN: Running Gun Sound – ‘Just You See’

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What has a hip shaking bass line, a double barreled chorus, and the dirtiest guitar solo this side of The Black Lips? It’s ‘Just You See’, the brand new track from Brisbane’s post-mod squad Running Gun Sound. The lyrics are a kind warning: “keep your hands where I can see/ and keep your eyes well on me/ we’ll get along just you see”, but even thinly veiled threats can’t keep this track from being pure summer fun. Guitars here are bursting at the seams with frenzied shredding and everything cracks along at a furious pace before coming to an abrupt stop, like a kid with ADD passing out after a sugar high. BRB, listening to this track 20 more times.

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Running Gun Sound – ‘Just You See’

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LISTEN: Nite Fields – ‘Vacation’

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Nite Fields are a dark as hell Brisbane new-wave electro band who make cold, hypnotic tracks swimming in grim atmospherics. ‘Vacation’ is the latest one of these. Sounding very much The Horrors in their Primary Colours era, its entrenched in deep, echoing vocals and dense, driving synth. This track is just smothered in likeable angst, but the repetitive bass and blunt snare beats stop it from drowning in it’s own moodiness, propelling the track forward before it turns into a hazy, surprisingly sweet synth driven jam at the end. This vacation sure isn’t fun in the sun, but a great tune nonetheless.

‘Vacation’ will be out one limited edition vinyl on November 17th through Lost Race Records. Nite Fields are also playing at the Lost Race Festival  in Brisbane on the same day. Probably not a coincidence.

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Nite Fields – ‘Vacation’

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LISTEN: Them Swoops – ‘Work Around It’

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Even if you’re not easily led astray by tropical aesthetics, still worth getting your ears around this new track by Melbourne’s Them Swoops. Precisely the pleasant seasonal antidote for warm summer days ahead. If you’ve spent most of the year enjoying jangly bands bitch and moan about work and chix and shitty sharehouse suburbia in lo-fi like I have, then this track is a nice cruisy fizzer for yr ginger beer. The two (sometimes four) piece have just wrapped up recording their debut EP Glimmers with LA based mixpert Mark Needham (Cake, The Killers, Chris Isaak [!], Shakira [!!!]) on sound duties. The guys are rounding up their ‘Triple Treat’ tour with pals  Argentina and Tokyo Denmark Sweden at the Workers Club in Melbourne this Friday 26th Oct. Get along. If you’re drunk enough, they might even play Liztomania.

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