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Beirut Announce New Single

June 4, 2011 by Lachy 0 Comments

One of my favourite bands in the world, Beirut, have announced that they will release a new single on June the 6th.

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Judging by hits- and let’s face it, that’s how I judge everything- you guys love your Foster The People. So check out this new video the band just made for the fantastic song Houdini, filmed live in Solana Beach.

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Listen To A Bunch Of Random New Sigur Rós Stuff

April 5, 2011 by Lachy 0 Comments

Well, this was unexpected. Sigur Rós just dumped a whole load of tracks onto Soundcloud, including reversed version of older songs, live recordings, demos, and a wonderful sped up version of Avalon.

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The National Palais Live Recording

January 13, 2011 by Lachy 0 Comments

Thanks to the excellent folks over at FanMadeRecordings there is a live recording of The National’s second show at The Palais available, including opening act The Middle East. As much as I kind of wish it was of the first show, I do love having bootlegs of shows that I’ve been to, so thought I’d […]

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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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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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