ahh, sorry Urchinmink

awkward thread title

I endorse this!

Hahaha...nice work TONK lads. Long time stalwarts of Canberra music (Liquid, Me the conquerer, others I'm sure).

See Jose, still working for M+N even after that ill-judged review of Glimcrack got the thumbs down!

THOUGHT THIS THREAD WOULDA BEEN STARTED BY THAT WHINING HEB BITCH HAHA

Another venue crisis at the bottom of this thread.

Gotye orders a meal at McDonalds in Austin whilst at SXSW, and asks for.....wait for it......a DIET COKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Feedtime boxset finally out on SubPop

Why does a small band in Canberra have an agent in the US marketing their tracks?!

dietcokegate

ughhh formatting

Why does a small band in Canberra have an agent in the US marketing their tracks?!

Get with the times, man. Most new bands these days have engaged the services of a manager and agent before they've even decided what popular bands to base their sounds on.

Drummer from Vines quits after 10 years of putting up with Craig Nicholls and joins Wolfmother Come on Jose! Music News waits for no one!

Kimra adjusts to fame!

Anthony Pateras relocates to Europe, plus new releases.

tex, tim and even to play at footy

Shit - did I just find out about Anthony pateras' last oz gig for the foreseeable future the day after it happened?
It seems I did.

Tigers, yes, but your enthusiasm may still bolster the chances of a feature/interview (eho knows). While I'm at it, a review and or feature of the ambarchi,, haino, o'rourke double LP wouldn't go astray http://soundcloud.com/experimedia/keiji-haino-jim-orourke-oren

Negative Guest List update

Is Katy Perry's Marine video 'propaganda?

YVAN EHT NIOJ

I give up now

will this run, jose?

Buck up Jose! This is a hit-generating goldmine

Pun intended?

Ha. Plus he looks like Rove, so there's that angle.

Oh NO!!!! I'm sorry unvisible or anyone who may be offended by my accidental pun. Was not intentional.

geez! Tonedeaf articles are so painful to read

It's almost as if they're purely there for the Jose-makeover.

http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/9035/

Ok this is kind of gold, especially if you know him. For want of a better word, Robert is a sound artist, and as you may have seen or read in 'the news', he has been up to mischief with Cher and her Key to Adelaide. I believe he is about to publish an article in Crikey, but given his musical disposition, M+N could run with this too.

Ally Spazzy's new direction

yowzers

Wow.

''Get back on the dole 'cause I'm out of control.''

Reminds me of this

It must be said, Ally is my favorite Spazzy

Some passengers on that train look really impressed.

Hmm interesting.

Come on M+N do the news story about the Halloween ATP!!

All Tomorrow's Parties follow the hugely popular I'll Be Your Mirror Melbourne with...

RELEASE THE BATS
An All-Day Halloween Party Extravaganza
Saturday 26th October 2013
Westgate Entertainment Centre and Grand Star Reception, Altona, Melbourne, Victoria
On sale Wednesday at 9am via www.ATPFestival.com

Dear Australia,

We know that you aren't terribly into Halloween. We find this to be a bit of a shame. Therefore we want you to try something to help remedy that situation, to get you looking forward to Halloween this year just as much as we do. And not just dress up all crazy and dark. Not saying that you shouldn't. You definitely should. Get dark. It's Halloween, dammit!

It's not because we particularly care all that much about how a bunch of disaffected and fatally unprepared religious coconuts left England's green shores on a questionably named boat, and, having lost half of their number to the cruel hardships of their first winter, felt the need to thank God profusely every time the autumn harvest promised to keep them alive. In turn they let this devolve into either kids extorting sweets from surly neighbours, or, conversely, hiding from the neighbours' awful blackmailing kids.

It is in fact because we sincerely love one last big old bash before - in the case of America or England - it gets too cold to do stuff, or in the case of Australia - too hot to do stuff. And because we love doing this, we've gone and assembled a bunch of excellent live-music playing people in the one place, and asked them to get busy doing what they do best. Creating music that will make you feel alive.

We call it RELEASE THE BATS, and you may get excited about it being held IN AUSTRALIA this year RIGHT NOW!! Attending this excellent event is what we would like you to try.

Why are we all excited about this? We haven't done it in Australia yet. And, if you’re as old as we are, you will have heard of a little band that was around a few years back called The Breeders, and, having managed to talk them into putting on their floaties for a Last Splash in the UK, we thought we might try and talk them into coming down to perform at the Westgate Entertainment Centre and Grand Star reception in Altona, Melbourne - the site of our recent I'll Be Your Mirror festival co-curated by The Drones. GUESS WHAT?!! YES!!! THEY SAID YES!!!

That makes us feel all good and warm and fuzzy.
That, however, is not, in and of itself, terribly scary.
Like we said before, it's Halloween, dammit.
We want you to be quaking in your boots.
Literally and figuratively.
We conjured something that will.

Prepare your soul for a dark journey, fellow traveller. The core of your very being will be assaulted by the audio maelstrom that is the Jesus Lizard - flying in for this very rare and
exclusive appearance - their first Australian visit since 1998. They will summon five kinds of hell, and unleash raw, dark forces that will confront your psyche. They promise the sonic
equivalent of staring at the sun. Hope that you are ready for the starkness that is reality when, like all things in this existence, it ends.

Happy Halloween.

Like we said, prepare yourself. We suggest using the medium of wardrobe to pay homage via a particularly clever reference to either: one of the bands playing, or one of their finer recognisable pieces of either album or single work, and you will be found. And you will be rewarded. With a prize. We don't know what the prizes are yet (give us a break - its 6 months away!), but we are working on it, but you can probably guess that it is going to be something completely awesome. Just like this, the first time ATP sets out to RELEASE THE BATS!

LINE UP
The Breeders performing Last Splash (only Victorian show)
The Jesus Lizard (only Victorian show)
The Scientists
F*ck Buttons
Lightning Bolt
Sleep
Forest Swords
Total Control
Hoss
The UV Race
White Walls
The Spinning Rooms
+ more to be announced

FESTIVAL INFORMATION
Date: The festival takes place on Saturday October 26th 2013. The event starts at midday and runs until 1am - headliners will finish by 11pm with around 14 acts in total set to play live.
Location: Another unique aspect of ATP’s I’ll Be Your Mirror is the location, offering both indoor and outdoor space just a stones throw from the CBD. The Westgate Entertainment Centre and Grand Star Receptions - two venues in one complex in Altona - just 13km away from the centre of Melbourne. And no - it won't be as hot as last time. There will be two stages, a cinema, art exhibition and an amazing food court. The event is limited to just 5000 attendees. One of the extracurricular highlights of our recent event, Pricasso, will return to paint some special Halloween portraits in his own inimitable style.

Tickets: Tickets are priced at $150 (+ booking fee) and go on sale this Wednesday at 9am from www.atpfestival.com
Transport: There will be a shuttle bus operating from Newport Station (the nearest station to the festival) to the venue and back priced at $2 each way. You can catch a train to Newport Station from Flinders Street, Southern Cross, North Melbourne, South Kensington, Footscray, Seddon, Yarraville, Spotswood and Williamstown. We will be running other buses from the CBD you can pre-book closer to the event and there is also on-site parking available at the venue. A taxi for 4 people from the CBD will cost around $35 - $40, $38 from St Kilda and around $42 from Fitzroy. More info on exact up-to-date transport details will be emailed to all ticketholders closer to the event.

oh fuck that...they aren't going to do anything in sydney again are they?

Oh this looks muy caliente!!! Think I shall attend.

Surely FL or M+N would write an article about The Guardian writing an article on ''the best Australian bands you've never heard of''? Or perhaps not enough Gotye.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2013/mar/12/best-australian-bands

Pretty sure FL already did

M+N did the '5 bands to watch' for every state, as well as constantly alerting people to new bands with the 'new band alert' posts...there's plenty of stuff on here if you look around.

M+N did the '5 bands to watch' for every state...

It was only SA, WA and Tasmania. Poor Darwin, snubbed yet again.

Ghoti you are spot on, they already did...sheesh I am behind the times.

Mule, I meant the an article about The Guardian in the UK giving a toss, not about new bands generally. Of course M+N already does that, in spades.

ah! i'm out of it, ignore me.

APRA song of the year finalists announced, plus some other categories

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/entertainment/2013/05/23/13/35/tame-impala-up-for-song-of-the-year