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Gig Review: The Jezabels @ The Toff, 15th July

July 17, 2010 by Lachy 0 Comments

Thursday night saw The Jezabels play a rare and intimate headline show at The Toff in Melbourne. It was kind of good.

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Foals Free Secret Show

July 16, 2010 by Lachy 0 Comments

Not much more you need to know. This is just phenomenal, a massive and awesome international act playing a free all ages show in Melbourne on July the 27th in the leadup to their appearance at Splendour in the Grass. This is a Myspace Secret Show, which means you have to sign up with your […]

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Cajun Dance Party

July 15, 2010 by Lachy 1 Comment

So I’ve been posting quite a lot about smaller Australian bands lately, so I figured I’d try something a bit different and look at a more established international act that are perhaps a bit underapprecaited. Cajun Dance Party is one such artist. Firstly to get the obvious done with straight away, they sound one hell […]

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Metric Do Daytrotter

July 14, 2010 by Lachy 0 Comments

The always wonderful Daytrotter recorded a brief session with the equally also always wonderful Metric during this year’s massive SXSW festival. Unfortunately it’s only two songs, but if you were going to choose two Metric songs it would probably be these two: Gimme Sympathy and Help I’m Alive, both from Metric’s excellent 2009 album ‘Fantasies’. […]

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Splendour Playing Times

July 13, 2010 by Lachy 8 Comments

After a long wait, playing times for Splendour in the Grass have finally been put up. With a lineup this consistently brilliant it was inevitable that there were going to be some huge clashes, and sure enough no-one will be able to see all their favourite bands at Splendour. Here’s the timetable. Some particularly nasty […]

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Alps

July 12, 2010 by Lachy 2 Comments

Alps is an indie band hailing from Sydney, consisting of Niall White , Charlie Godwin , Dave Smith, and Fergus Wilson. They are easily confused with the better known (and also great) shoegaze outfit consisting of Chris Hearn also called Alps, and also from NSW. Inconspicuous name aside (according to their Facebook page they are actually […]

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