Storm in a Teacup @ The Factory

Storm in a Teacup rolled a blanket of glorious folk over the Factory Theatre, flowing between sweet, simple acoustic pieces and tempestuous full-band numbers.

The lineup featured Tinpan Orange, Jordie Lane, Jen Cloher, Harry Angus, Liz Martin and Husky, individually incredible and collectively amazing.

Let’s hope SiaT comes around again – it finishes tonight in Mullimbimby.

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Dead Letter Chorus – ‘Yellow House’

It’s winter and it’s bloody cold, a bastard with a biting chill thats left me and everyone I know curled up inside, fighting off the cold. Dead Letter Chorus are back with Yellow House, bringing warmth and youthful romanticism back to this bitter winter.

The video is super honest in it’s delivery – singers Gabby Huber and Cameron Potts are almost painfully cute as they ride across pastel golden fields with the sun on their backs. This is a song of sweet love & warm living rooms, and a clip to match.

It says good things of their new album, Yearlings, due out mid June.

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Boy & Bear @ The Metro

‘Home-town boys made good’ is one damn accurate cliché if you’re in Boy & Bear. Supported by Emma Louise, a Queensland export with infinite potential ( and almost as infinite charm ) and Jinja Safari, Boy & Bear played The Metro last Thursday, sold to capacity. Their tour’s over for now, so here’s some photos  to keep you folk-pop’d up until next time.
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Elizabeth Rose – ‘Throw me to the Stars’

Elizabeth Rose – ‘Throw me to the Stars’ (mp3)

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Something really fresh here. Elizabeth Rose is a one lady show hailing from Sydney town. More balls than a sports store & charming to boot – coupled with the irresistable jazz charms of ‘Throw me to the Stars’ and you have one damn fine new artist.

I dig the vibe of this track – it feels innocent and raw, but with production belying Elizabeth Rose’s youth. It’s dark and rough but still bright and ridiculously listenable (unlike this).

She’s headlining a show at The Gaelic in Sydney on the 25th of May (that’s next week) so make your way on down.

Elizabeth Rose on FB.

Photo: Yvette Worboys

Brendan Maclean – Cold and Happy’ (video)

You love food fights, right? And you love your Grandparents too, yeah? Well, if you dig food and oldies, you’ll dig this video clip from piano-crooner-fantasm Brendan Maclean. You’ll probably like it for reasons other than the clip, too – Cold and Happy is driving & addictive, pulling off something rarely seen in Australian music. Love your piano pop, lest it abandon you.

Brendan is playing June 7 at The Basement. Tickets for The Basement Presents: Brendan Maclean are available here.

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Eastern Aquarium’s Night of Fun @ Tone

Sometimes, you really regret having commitments outside of music. Tonight was one of those nights, where life meant missing out on two fantastic electronic acts, Kilter and Galapagoose at Eastern Aquarium’s Night of Fun. Still, the cosmic gods did allow for me to see Fishing, Albatross and Elizabeth Rose, three fantastic electronica acts.

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Post Paint – ‘Cultural Capital’

Post Paint – ‘Cultural Capital’ (mp3)

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Baked in summer and fresh out of the oven, Post Paint are sweet indie-pop darlings ready to explode into your hearts and minds. Cultural Capital is a charming track, sweeping us all into winter with a dash of sunshine mixed amongst jumping guitars and rolling drums. Can’t wait to hear more from these guys.

Post Paint on Facebook

The Holidays play the John Curtain in Melbourne

The Holidays – ‘Golden Sky’ (mp3)

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The Holidays have been kicking about for a couple of years and I really liked an old self titled ep of theirs. Lately we have had a couple of singles released in anticipation of their debut LP, due in September. I was curious how the sound would translate live and I am glad to say they did a good job. It was a fairly packed John Curtain and there was a good energy in the crowd, despite the set consisting mostly of new and unheard material. Take a look through more pictures after the continue reading jump.

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Parades live pictures from the East Brunswick Hotel

Sydney band Parades played the East Brunswick Club in Melbourne on Friday night and it was a pretty effin great show.
Parades are currently touring their debut LP ‘Foreign Tapes’ details here – http://whothehell.net/Pm

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Art Rush – ‘The Reasons I’ve Decided To Die’

Art Rush – ‘The Reasons I’ve Decided To Die’ (mp3)

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I don’t think anybody is really expecting Sydney’s Art Rush to ever complete his ambitious (and blatantly Sufjan-cribbing) ‘50 albums inspired by 50 suburban shopping centres’ project. Yet it’s this same ambition that creates some intensely interesting music.

Take ‘The Reasons I’ve Decided To Die’, from his latest epic in this fifty-ilogy, Castle Towers. ‘The Reasons…’ is a surprisingly funky slice of stream-of-consciousness lo-fi R n’ B… except that usually in R n’ B, panting “I need some company” means “I want to fuck”, rather than “I’m feeling increasingly uneasy about the characters hanging out outside Castle Towers shopping centre as I make my way home from work, and some company would help me feel less of a target.”

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