Archive | May, 2010

You Have To Hear: Jinja Safari

So we all know Triple J Unearthed is pretty much the best thing ever, and they’ve recently started digging up some real gems. One of these is Jinja Safari, who were the feature band last week. Hailing from Sydney, Jinja Safari have only made available one song so far, but it is an absolutely sublime […]

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Cloud Control Do Like A Version

To celebrate the release of their debut album, ‘Bliss Release’, Cloud Control dropped intro Triple J studios last week to perform a stripped back version of their song Gold Canary as well as a cover of Kid Cudi’s Pursuit Of Happiness. Both were of course great. I’ve got the album on pre-order and it should […]

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Splendour Sideshows Aftermath

This morning the interwebs went crazy as hipsters everywhere tried to secure tickets to as many Splednour sideshows as possible. The aftermath is that, after only a few hours of the tickets being on sale, a few shows have already sold out: Foals @ The HiFi on the 27th of July sold out, a second […]

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Lisa Mitchell Announces An Extra (Smaller) Show

Following her show at The Forum selling out, Lisa Mitchell has announced that she will be playing an extra date at the much smaller venue of The Corner Hotel on Thursday 27th May. This may well be our last chance to see Lisa Mitchell at a venue as small as this- I’ve seen her at […]

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Boy And Bear Debut EP And Headline Tour

I posted about this Sydney band a while back, after seeing them play an excellent set at Homebake and open for Hungry Kids Of Hungary. However since then a lot has happened- they’ve released their debut EP entitled ‘With Emperor Antarctica’, and have announced their first national headline tour.

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Splendour Sideshows Guide

So tickets to Splendour have come and gone, and if you missed out (or even if you didn’t), you’re probably going to be interested in hitting up a few sideshows. The problem of course is that the Splendour lineup was so full of amazing international artists that it’s going to be hard picking just a […]

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