October 2008
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Bliss N Eso @ The Enmore Theatre, Sydney... →
It was Bliss N Eso’s homecoming concert, and an hour out from doors opening, Enmore Road was already brimming with excitable punters. Every second passer-by was screaming “Bliss N Esoooooo!” like a call for hallelujah. With Zoo York t-shirts, hoodies and Australian flags abounding, the entire scene was itself near-religious.
The first act in a long line of supports were locals Mind Over Matter....
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Radiohead reveal 'In Rainbows' sales →
Over a year since its infamous pay-what-you-like release, Radiohead have revealed the figures behind In Rainbows. And let’s just say they went home with the proverbial pot of gold.
Jane Dyball, head of business affairs at Warner-Chappell and one of the people behind the now-historic release, heralds the band’s seventh LP as a success. The proof? According to Music Ally, over three million copies...
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Hot Chip man goes solo →
While most people struggle working one job, bespectacled Hot Chip vocalist Alexis Taylor has found time in his non-stop schedule to release a solo record.
Titled Rubbed Out, it features, “15 bespoke songs and instrumentals by Alexis Taylor”; all of which were seemingly made in between recording, remixing and touring with Hot Chip. It is available now via Treader.org, although the poor status of...
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Franz make deadly music →
Falls Fest headliners Franz Ferdinand have revealed that their third album, tentatively titled Tonight, features percussion from an instrument that puts the entire – œdeath metal’ genre to shame – a human skeleton.
In an interview with MTV’s Chris Harris, frontman Alex Kapranos recalled that they used the skeleton for “a real dry, percussive sound”. The venture with the human remains soon became...
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My Morning Jacket headline shows →
In between warming the stage for Neil Young and wowing revellers along the Big Day Out circuit this coming January, My Morning Jacket will be playing two intimate club dates in Sydney and Melbourne.
Touted as “Kentucky’s answer to Wilco,” My Morning Jacket are a blend of country, alternative rock, sonic experimentation and psychedelia, as seen in their latest record, Evil Urges. Characterised by...