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PREMIERE: Hollow Everdaze – ‘Ships’ Video

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Glad to present to y’all the first look at the new video from the excellent Hollow Everdaze.

I caught these kids playing a dim, hole-in-the-wall warehouse party a few weeks ago. Cop searches at most parties I’ve been to have ended in drunk guys throwing lemons at police, people leaving and a general deflation of the mood, but props to Hollow Everdaze for playing right through. The guys were as chill as they are in this clip.

If you haven’t heard much material from these guys, this video is a decent introduction. Sitting on an empty wharf at mid night seems to be a fitting place to pen a lazy psych waltz anyway. Hollow Everdaze are releasing a mini album on July 28th which you should definitely get excited about. The guys don’t really look too happy about anything in this clip, but we promise they’re hyped about the album release too.

 

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Film/Editing: Jason Galea

Additional Filming: Michael Avery and James Thomson

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LISTEN: Jenny Broke The Window

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Jenny Broke The Window is definitely one of the more interesting and unconventional band names I’ve come across.

Hailing from the South Coast of NSW, the indie-pop outfit’s new single ‘Ravel’ is feverishly catchy – from the bouncy string sample intro to the track’s anthemic hook, there’s an energy present throughout the entire duration of the song that compels you with giddy desire to skip, dance or do something!

The five-piece have crafted a single that continually shifts and evolves. It’s a mash-up of musical ideas sewn together ever-so-smoothly, while the production on this is slick.

‘Ravel’ is the first of two new songs Jenny Broke The Window has recorded this year with a video also currently in the works. They’ll be launching ‘Ravel’ at The Standard in Sydney on the 23rd of May, with support from The Preatures DJs, Gang Of Youths and Rockets.

In the meantime, highly recommend giving their previous EP Another Summer a spin.

 

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LISTEN: Tiger Beams – ‘Beat It’

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‘Beat It’ is the first thing we’ve heard from Brisbane duo Tiger Beams since their incredible (and criminally underexposed) debut album In Your Dreams, which came out in 2011. Plenty of other projects have kept singer/drummer Jesse Hawkins and guitarist Jeremy Neale busy, but it’s still massively exciting to see them back and in fighting form. ‘Beat It’ comes strutting out of your speakers, dark and tough (even while referencing Willow Smith), with Jesse Hawkins’s spikey, erratic beats starting out front and centre and staying there throughout the whole track.

The song builds up a great sense of rising suspense, Hawkins’ vocals are cool and snarky in the verse, the choruses exploding with that howling thing that these guys do so well. With ‘Beat It’, Tiger beams have found a sweet spot of music that’s both sparse and dangerous, and supremely danceable and catchy. Here’s hoping another album isn’t too far away…

The video is also very cool, and very creepy – watch it here.

Also, do yourself a favour if you haven’t already and snag a copy of In Your Dreams.

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LISTEN: Eddie Numbers – Let Me Breathe (S.F.T Remix)

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Don’t you just love it when Soundcloud suddenly cuts to a track that you actually really dig?

Enter this remix by S.F.T, a Kiwi producer signed to Auckland’s Renaissance Music. We all know that all NZ urban music puts its Australian equivalents to shame, and this is no different. This remix of fellow Auckland native, Eddie Numbers, is one thumping track that all urban/beat lovers should get on to, pronto (you can take a listen to Numbers’ original EP Try Before You Buy, here). The verses in this track are tight, not to mention the killer choruses. This definitely fits snugly with the current melodic flavour hitting Triple J at the moment – but it isn’t naff.

I strongly suggest that you stop what you’re doing and just take a listen the opener (plus his entire Soundcloud) to lap up all this Kiwi hawtness.

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INTRODUCING: Readable Graffiti

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Melbourne three-piece, Readable Graffiti, have been quiet as of late in terms of new material, since dropping their 2012 EP Male Mood Swings – although news has it they’ve recently recorded a bunch of demos, so stay tuned.

The electro-rock outfit have now officially released a new single, ‘Tokyo Speed Thrills’, from the EP, accompanied by mind-bending surreal video featuring sliced up eyeballs and ants crawling out of a man’s palm. Sound familiar?

Well, they’ve taken snippets from the 1929 silent film, ‘Un Chien Andalou’ written by none other than the surrealist king himself, Mr Salvador Dali (alongside co-writer and director Luis Bruñel), the Melbourne trio have done them the honour of providing an equally obscure soundtrack (gritty-guitars, casio-tone disco beats and all). The idea of combining the two seems incongruous, but instead you get a big phat bizzaro-slap in the face. Marvelous.

Their driving riffs and furious disco beats makes for an adrenalin-rushing experience (along with the sweat-inducing cinema noir courtesy of Mr Dali). Hear more of their twitchy grunge-electronica on their Bandcamp page.

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WATCH: Beaches – ‘Send Them Away’

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Check out the new Beaches clip for ‘Send Them Away’ created by Ben Montero. The single is taken from She Beats, the new LP from Beaches. We’ll have an in-depth feature on the new record coming up next month. You can get your hands on it May 3rd. Details of the She Beats tour below:

Friday May 31

Hobart – Brisbane Hotel

supports to be announced

tickets $10 on the door

 

Saturday June 1

Melbourne – Northcote Social Club

with Bushwalking + Early Woman

tickets $15+bf from NSC / $18 on the door

 

Friday June 14

Brisbane – Black Bear Lodge

supports to be announced

tickets $10.70+bf from Moshtix / $14 on the door

 

Saturday June 15

Sydney – Goodgod Small Club

supports to be announced

tickets $10.70+bf from Moshtix / $14 on the door

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WATCH: Big Scary – ‘Luck Now’

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Big Scary keep going from strength to strength. I vaguely recall the duo playing a friend’s mini music fest at Grumpy’s Green down on Smith St four years ago. Now they’ve got their fine NYC mugshots in Interview mag and are taking stabs at Phil Collins’ repertoire, coz they can.

The pair are ready to drop their new album Not Art in just a little over a month (snippet preview here). It sounds excellent, of course. Not that you’d expect anything less from these guys. Big Scary’s sound has left a big impression on me since those ‘Apple Song’ days. But y’ know, stuff like that never really falls too far from the tree.

I’ve always warmed to these guys; Jo on fun drums + Tom’s fluffy piano pageantry and wavering vocal that kinda always sounds like he’s about to crack. The pair are pretty good at being stoic. Or trying to be. Bets that the new record is going to be just as beautiful and emotionally eye-gauging as the last. And if that doesn’t happen (which it won’t) – you’ll still be guaranteed the audio/visual equivalent of a hug anyway.

Big Scary are playing a sold out show in Sydney at Goodgod tonight and another sold out gig in Melbourne at the Corner this Saturday.
If you’re in Brissie though, there are still tickets to their Friday show at Ahlambra available for purchase here.

Not Art is released June 28th (Pieeater/Inertia)

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LISTEN: Palms – ‘This Last Year’

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‘Love’ ruled, but the chorus in Palms‘ new track is the biggest thing since forever*.

(*Andrew Stockdale still making music/ local bands producing video clips in VHS format only/ DJs in tropical shirts.)

Thankfully, the loose term can be applied to Red Riders’ first album. It’s the one that still exists somewhere in a pit of 2006-2007 nostalgia (Dardanelles, Bit By Bats, The Scare, Young and Restless, Ground Components, Ghostwood, Mercy Arms etc) where I spend time regularly when I feel like hitching the portal to a happy place. I spent the weekend mourning over Red Riders’ back catalogue, so this new tune from half of their former members is a damn timely drop.

Palms’ new track is also a good stab at bleeding heart, so if you need a breakup song, a reason to tell your bf/gf stuff ain’t cool or just a general reason to cry over 2007 – sit up and listen.

Palms are supporting King Tuff for an I OH YOU / VICE party on Anzac Day eve. If you’re in Sydney and can get down to Goodgod on Wednesday – we highly recommend it.

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LISTEN: Grand Prismatic – ‘Smoke That Thunders’

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‘Smoke That Thunders’ is the new track from Melbourne’s Grand Prismatic. That incredible alt-country fog that got around last year’s debut Birds and Beasts still remains. Brendan Clarkson’s vocals morph more into Glenn Richards (Augie March) as the track rolls along, and paired with lyrical content about going cold turkey and a Wilco groove shaking the whole damn place – it’s all good news, really. A great sound from an excellent band who are deserving of your time, attention and disposable income.

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EXCLUSIVE: North Arm – ‘Quitely Lightly’

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Those of you familiar with Newcastle-based band Firekites (remember that chalk video that Kanye blogged?), will instantly recognise the warm melodies and sensual, soft-hushed breathy sounds of Roderick Smith. Now, if I were to describe a fellow man, in this tender way out loud on the streets of Newcastle, I’d probably meet the pointy end of a cold chisel. But this gentle artist (accomplished painter), musician (what I’m writing about) and humanitarian solicitor (legal guy behind Renew Newcastle .org) continues to thrive on what is beautiful about the working-class novocastrian city; the sunshine and a community that supports most art.

In his first solo release, Rod explores his childhood dreaming, through memories of his families holiday house in North Arm, the capital of Australia that never came to be. ‘Quietly Lightly’ recaptures a flowing motion like that of the sea or undulating forests and scrub as he takes us through a pop-driven journey of regret, love and longing.

Now because this is an exclusive first listen that will be found nowhere else online for at least an hour, let me leave you with a quotable line that can be recycled in the aggregators:

“Smith delved deep into his young heart for ‘Quietly Lightly’, recovering memories that guide his light and soul in music making”.

That’s less than 140 characters too… *wink*. ‘Quietly Lightly’ is the first single from North Arm’s upcoming 4-track EP Thought Lines, set for release on April 27 through Spunk records.

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