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News: Little Lion Man Video From Laneway

Here’s an absolutely awesome video taken of Mumford and Sons performing their Triple J Hottest song of 2009, Little Lion Man, at the Laneway Festival in Melbourne. All credit goes to the uploader, tanrs7, I’m just featuring it here because it is rather spectacular. And it only captures a very small proportion of the atmosphere […]

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News: Laneway Playing Times

Playing times for the various Laneway Festivals happening around the country in the coming weeks have just been put up, you can access them here by first choosing your city, then clicking on ‘Show Day’ then ‘Playing Times’. The Melbourne playing times don’t look too bad, just a few clashes such as that of The […]

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News: Spoon On Conan

There was some phenomenal late night television music last night, including Spoon on Conan and The Mountain Goats on Fallon. Plus The Swell Season were meant to be on Letterman but he ran out of time because he doesn’t shut up. Ever. Anyway, here’s the video of Spoon performing Written In Reverse off new album […]

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News: Download ‘Blood’ For Free

My favourite song of 2009, and the song which inspires this blog’s title, Blood by The Middle East, can now be downloaded for free via the band’s official website. Obviously I am madly in love with this song, so if you don’t already own it then I highly suggest grabbing the free download and having […]

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News: Cloud Control’s Video For ‘Cold Canary’

So this actually was released a while ago, but I saw it whilst browsing their Myspace recently and it was news to me, so damned if I’m not going to post it on Pluck as news anyway. One of my favourite current Aussie bands, Cloud Control, have released a video for their single, Gold Canary. […]

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News: BDO Playing Times Released

Check out playing times for one of Australia’s premier music festivals here. However the link for Melbourne’s timetable is wrong and won’t work, this is the correct one. In my opinion the Melbourne timetable is an appalling one. A clash between Bluejuice and Lisa Mitchell, two Aussie acts I would love to see, as well […]

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