– The Exploders are touring for the first time in over three years to support their over-the-top new album Orche.Stratos.Pheric, out now on Rubber Records. The record’s “bizarre mash of myth, modern life, wives tale [and] proverb” has been confirmed by the lead single ‘Hey Fucker’ and its new follow-up, ‘Soul Kid’. The five-piece band – including Louis Macklin (Jet, 67 Special) and The Sleepy Jackson’s Malcolm Clark and J Cortez – are doing three dates each in Victoria and West Australia.

Fri, Sept 14 – The Bird, Northbridge, WA
Sat, Sept 15 – Mojo's, Fremantle, WA
Sun, Sept 16 – Indi Bar, Scarborough, WA
Wed, Sept 19 – Workers Club, Fitzroy, VIC
Fri, Sept 21 – Karova Lounge, Ballarat, VIC
Sat, Sept 22 – National Hotel, Geeling, VIC

The Exploders - 'Hey Fucker' by RubberRecords

– Adelaide quartet City Riots embrace reverb and falsetto on their new single 'Wait For You’, a song that’s been likened to The Horrors, Beach Fossils and Real Estate. It’s a preview of the band’s debut album, coming in late October. After penning close to 40 new tunes last summer at a “family shack in the river land of South Australia,” City Riots spent a month recording in Melbourne with Woody Annison (Children Collide). They’re launching the single in three cities after a hometown support slot this week for fellow Annison-produced youths Hunting Grounds.

Fri, Aug 18 – Rocket Bar, Adelaide, SA (supporting Hunting Grounds)
Fri, Aug 31 – MUM at World Bar, Sydney, NSW
Sat, Sept 15 – Liberty Social, Melbourne, VIC
Fri, Sept 21 – Rocket Bar, Adelaide, SA

– No, Batrider’s Sarah Mary Chadwick isn’t a mother-to-be. But her debut solo album is indeed called Eating For Two. She’s launching it with a stack of impressive support acts, including Old Mate, Holy Balm and Convent, a project from Circle Pit’s Angela Bermuda. Following six albums and 10 years in Batrider, who were based everywhere from Auckland and Melbourne to London and Adelaide, Chadwick is now living in Melbourne again and has stripped back her downcast songwriting more than ever. Eating For Two comes out next Friday (Aug. 24) on Bedroom Suck.

Fri, Aug 24 – Bridge Club, Brisbane, QLD (with Bitch Prefect, Holy Balm, Sky Needle and Tight Slip)
Sat, Aug 25 – Red Rattler, Sydney, NSW (with Bitch Prefect, Raw Prawn and Convent)
Fri, Aug 21 – Grace Darling, Melbourne, VIC (with Fatti Frances and Adam Fulton)
Fri, Sept 7 – Format, Adelaide, SA (with Old Mate and Fatti Frances)

– After spending months “barricaded in the studio with bouzoukis, tambourines, xylophones and an Omnichord,” Brisbane’s We All Want To have emerged with their second album, Come Up Invisible. Out Aug. 27 on Plus One, the album’s vocal interplay between Skye Staniford and former Screamfeeder frontman Tim Steward reportedly puts it in the vein of Richard & Linda Thompson or The New Pornographers. The band will tour nationally behind the LP in October.

Sun, Sept 30 – Black Bear Lodge, Brisbane QLD
Fri, Oct 12 – Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine, VIC
Sat, Oct 13 – Yah Yah’s, Melbourne, VIC
Thurs, Oct 18 – Prince of Wales, Bunbury, WA
Fri, Oct 19 – The Bird, Northbridge, WA
Sat, Oct 20 – The Indi Bar, Scarborough, WA
Wed, Oct 24 – Great Northern Hotel, Newcastle, NSW
Thurs, Oct 25 – Yours & Owls, Wollongong, NSW
Sat, Oct 27 – Brighton Bar, Sydney, NSW
Sun, Oct 28– Old Boat Shed, Manly, NSW
Fri, Nov 2 – Alhambra Lounge, Brisbane, QLD

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