WOW – Icy Cold

Sydney based trash electro noisemakers WOW played at a Levity night in Sydney recently to debut themselves as the label/brand’s latest artists. I’ve always thought brand funded record labels would be a viable way for new artists to break into the scene. Levity is Levi’s Jeans funded record label, whose labelmates include Cut Off Your Hands and Mercy Arms. This is a fairly small marketing exercise compared to Toyota Scion’s label effort in the USA who put out 500,000 copies of double cd compilation for free every three months, which include some pretty cool special remixes by upcoming artists. While it’s hard to measure just how much ‘cool association’ with up and coming artists would translate into dollar spend, I’m glad that at least there is effort being put into coming up with an alternative to the traditional consumer driven record labels.

www.myspace.com/wowsydney

Funnily enough moments after this picture were taken, WOW got booted off stage by the owner of the pub because she didn’t like the music much.

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Cut Off Your Hands –  ‘Expectations’

This is the new rerecorded version of their debut album You and I, due out in October. The guys are touring the single this month so catch them at:

Thursday 24th July Rocket Bar Adelaide*
Friday 25th July Corner Hotel Melbourne*
Saturday 26th July Transit Bar Canberra*
Sunday 27th July Oxford Arts Factory Sydney*
Friday 1st August Amplifier Bar Perth

*Violent Soho supporting

www.myspace.com/cutoffyourhands

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The Chaperons – ‘Trigger Man’ (mp3)

Raucous and bluesy… it’s what we’ve come to expect from Sydney duo The Chaperones. ‘Trigger Man’ is looser and more raw than what I’ve heard from these guys in the past, imbuing some of that live energy into their recorded material – which is the eternal struggle for the live vs studio personas of any muso.

An EP of the same name is due out August 23. Already sounds like a step up from their self-titled EP. Good work kids.

http://www.myspace.com/chaperones

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Directed by Beaufort.

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Empire Of The Sun – Walking On A Dream (Sam La More Remix)

As posted earlier by yours truly, Empire Of The Sun is a collaboration between Sleepy Jackson’s Luke Steele and Pnau, which stemmed from Steele’s vocal participation in Pnau’s fantastic third album. I have heard some of the songs off the album and they sound amazing. If your favourite track of that Pnau album is the very first song, then you’re gonna love this project. Unfortunately you’ll have to wait for another couple of weeks before we get to blog album tracks, this remix done by Sam La More is the only thing that is available for consumption at the moment. You can get it for free from the website below.

www.walkingonadream.com

The picture above is a still from one of my favourite childhood movies called, you guessed it, Empire of the Sun. It was set in Japan in World War 2 and starred a very young American Psycho/Batman Christian Bale. Yes that’s him in the photo.

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Mission Control – ‘Chariots of Fire’

These four guys from Melbourne describe themselves as “electro jams, psych guitars and sci-fi atmospherics”, and quite rightly so. After touring with Mercy Arms, Damn Arms, scoring a V Festival slot with Presets and CSS, they now give us the first single ‘Chariots of Fire’ off their upcoming album out through local label Etcetc.

www.myspace.com/missioncontrolmusic

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