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LISTEN: Elizabeth Rose – ‘The Good Life’

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‘The Good Life’ opens with dark sounds suited to A Clockwork Orange but quickly bounces back to dance-pop and Rose’s very high-level production. Writing of her aspiration to leave the family home and start searching the world for her own piece of the elusive ‘Good Life’, this track is as catchy as any dance party anthem but somewhat understated by Rose’s reserved indie vocals. Mastered in London with award winning engineer Matt Colton (James Blake, Coldplay… what??), ‘The Good Life’ follows her awesome debut EP in 2012, Crystallise.

Get along to one of her spectacular live shows at Bigsound or the OutsideIn Festival:

Wednesday 11 September – Bigsound, Brisbane

Thursday 12 September – Bigsound Showcase at Bakery Lane, Brisbane

Saturday 21 September – OutsideIn Festival, Sydney

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LOOK: Cutters and Two Bright Lakes Present – MMW

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With the vast expanse of the National Gallery of Victoria’s Great Hall transformed into a live music venue, the gems of Melbourne’s indie scene came out to play with the Gallery’s priceless collection. Featured as part of the Labels Series for Melbourne Music Week, the night showcased the best of the labels’ respective talent. With the neo-90s penchant of Two Bright Lakes, to the innovative electronica from Cutters Records, this was one hell of a variety night.

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Pigeon – ‘Oh Hebe’ Video

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‘Oh Hebe’ is the new single from Pigeon, a band from Brisbane that have ripped up the festival circuit and landed the QLD support slots for Van She. ‘Oh Hebe’ is not a typical indie dance track. It has a jarring vibration and slamming drum beat that is a bit twisted and I can see these guys up there with Art vs Science and winning plenty of JJJ love. They have heaps of shows coming up so check em:

Friday 10th August – Sol Bar – Maroochydore

Saturday 11th August – Alhambra Lounge – Brisbane

Thursday 16th August – Transit Bar – Canberra

Friday 17th August – Great Northern Hotel – Newcastle

Saturday 18th August – Goodgod Small Club – Sydney

Thursday 23rd August – Workers Club – Melbourne

Friday 24th August – The Loft – Warrnambool

Saturday 25th August – Ed’s Castle – Adelaide

Friday 31st August – Great Northern – Byron Bay

Saturday 1st September – Red Deer Festival –Mount Samson

Like them here – http://www.facebook.com/pigeonsite

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This Thing – multi launch @ Phoenix Public in Pictures

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‘This Thing’ launched a bunch of artist releases at the Phoenix Public House to a pumped up crowd of excited punters. A night of cool beats by a diverse group of producers floggin their wares and ripping up the house with five live sets. I caught four and they were very good.

Naps – http://www.facebook.com/naps.oceans.trees.earth

Crumbs – http://sensoryprojects.com.au/?p=712

Wooshie – http://www.facebook.com/wooshiebeats

Andras Fox – http://www.facebook.com/andrasfox

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World’s End Press – ‘Second Day Uptown’

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World’s End Press – ‘Second Day Uptown’

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Lighten your Monday with happiness delivered from Melbourne’s World’s End Press. Driven by their live jammin and disco party sound, W.E.P. have a dapper new single on digital release. Despite working on a new record for some time, it seems the boys aren’t ready to make any full length release dates just yet. I don’t think they’re playing hard to get, they just haven’t quite distilled their live sound into a recording yet. ‘Second Day Uptown’ represents what W.E.P. do very well and that is to get your ass dancing. It’s got that distinct bass groove and familiar vocal with a little gospel style, praise the lord keys that have you waving you hands in the air with smiley face joy. This is a tune to go out big on so enjoy lovers.

Check their Facebook for details about a physical release – http://www.facebook.com/worldsendpress

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DZ Deathrays – ‘Brutal Tapes’

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Known also as ‘those dudes who make killer filmclips’, Shane Parsons and Simon Ridley/DZ/DZ Deathrays’ Brutal Tapes marks the second EP for the thrash punk (thrush?) dance DUO.

I bold/caps duo as they make more noise than that plane Snoop Dogg piloted in one of his acting career ‘highpoints’ if it cut laps on [insert relevant street] on a Friday. In a good way.

Compiled of studio recorded, house party (complete with rowdy bro crowd vocals) recorded and remixed tracks, Brutal Tapes is a polished, harder, sexier offering of dirty-glorious guitar riffs and belting drums from the Brisvegans.

It is about 5/7ths killer, though, with the two remixes taking some punch out, but to be fair it’s a tough ask to make it any more danceable. To be unfair they should’ve left it at five tracks.

The filler isn’t unlistenable, but the remixes seem limp compared to the rest of Brutal Tapes, really just showing that these two don’t require anything else added to their formula.

They even slip in bongos, and it fits. It fits so damn well you won’t look at bongos the same way. Amazing.

And live? Fuck. They’re even better in all their ear smashing glory.

Dananananaykroyd picked them up for another bout of Splendour sideshows when they get back to our shores after tearing the UK a new one, so if you haven’t already hit that then make it happen.

I’mma go ahead and put Gebbie St. up for the sexiest song of 2010/11. This (NSFW) fan made clip captures all of that.

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Bag Raiders: ‘Shooting Stars’

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Bag Raiders – ‘Shooting Stars’

It seems like our upcoming festive season is shaping up to be one of sublime summer jams; the kind of tunes that sound just as good on your car stereo as you cram in on your way to the beach or a festival as they do in a dark dirty nightspot after 3am.  A slew of these gems are emerging from some of our favourite home-grown beatmakers i.e Empire Of The Sun, Miami Horror, and Damn Arms – but I think my favourite so far is the new Bag Raiders production Shooting Stars. The Sydney duo have been kicking parties into high gear for a while now – see last year’s ubiquitous stomper Fun Punch – but this release transcends the club and manages to be that rare thing – a truly brilliant pop song.  The electrified power cheese of their earlier work is abandoned in favour of a more mellow approach, with swirling melodies slowly building to one of the most joyously bouncy choruses you’ll hear all year.  Rhys of Like Whoah/Ted & Francis lends his vocal talents to this track and wouldn’t sound out of place on a Backstreet Boys record, but underpinned by that kickin’ disco bass it’s a deliciously pop combination that you can’t help but grin and nod your head to.  Get this now or miss out!

Turbo Love is the other single that’s been thrown onto the web, and it’s more typical munter fuel.  All thick, juicy synths, robot voices and a whole lot of Bang, it sounds a bit too much like a disposable Van She Tech remix from last year to get too excited about, but the ‘Raiders typically slick production talents make it well worth a listen.

The Turbo Love single with both of these tracks is out now on Bang Gang 12 inches and the boys are heading to Japan in December, so make sure to catch them before the year is out.

http://www.myspace.com/bagraiders

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