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02 Sep 2010 :
Liberation Music are producing and releasing a deluxe packaged vinyl 7” single of ‘The Golden Age Of Bloodshed’. The B side is a previously unreleased instrumental titled; ‘Lost In Space’.
‘Lost In Space’ was a piece composed by Rowland for the ‘Pop Crimes’ album which remained unfinished. It was mixed after his passing and is presented here respectfully as an interpretation of his original intent. – Mick Harvey, J.P. Shilo & Lindsay Gravina
There will only be 500 individually numbered copies of ‘The Golden Age Of Bloodshed’ available world wide. Released through Liberation Music in Australia and in stores from Friday October 29th.
Please click the following link to view the video clip of ‘The Golden Age Of Bloodshed’, as directed by Richard Lowenstein http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=nP1M6hoygnU
‘The Golden Age Of Bloodshed’ is also available on Rowland’s ‘Pop Crimes’ album. Lauded as one of 2009 Australian releases of the year, the album is earning due respect with a local release in the UK and Europe on English indie label, Infectious.
*“Wringing his guitar neck for all that it's worth, this could easily be the sound of some kind of infernal film noir as the echoes and bends cast long shadows among the trails of curling cigarette smoke caught in the dim afterhours lighting.” The Quietus.com, UK
“8.5 / 10 Thankfully we’ll always have ‘Pop Crimes’, a brooding piece that sees the post-punk firebrand playing the existential cowboy as beautifully as ever.” NME, UK
“4.5 / 5 Howard’s vocals speak of a life lived close to the edge and his garrulous, almost weary delivery is haunting. But it is his evocative, inventive and constantly surprising guitar playing that leaves the greatest impact.” The Irish Independent *
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27 Aug 2010 :
Perth's Birds Of Tokyo came within a whisker of ending Eminem's month-long reign at #1 when their new, self titled release, entered the ARIA Album chart at #2 earlier this month. Four weeks on and the album has already surpassed gold sales and sits comfortably at #6 on the national ARIA album chart. The album is also #3 on the official ARIA Australian artist chart and #2 on the AIR, Independent Music Charts.
It's the independent group's third studio album but their highest ever chart debut result. Recorded in Sweden and mixed in New York, the intensely melodic and brooding collection of songs has already attracted massive critical acclaim with the Sunday Herald Sun raving that ‘Birds Of Tokyo haven't merely arrived. They've smashed the door down.’ Melbourne’s The Age newspaper go on to say “Dominant, sculpted sound and cathartic introspection appear to be the next big thing.”
“We’re so proud of this new body of work and where we’re heading musically”, said the group’s drummer, Adam Weston. “We’re afforded this new confidence by the positive energy and love of the listeners...thank you!”
"Plans" - the latest single from "Birds Of Tokyo" - is one of several songs that have been heavily supported by longstanding supporters, Triple J, over the last month. The lead track is now also receiving loads of spins from Nova plus other stations around Australia and is currently at #18 on the national ARIA singles chart, its highest position yet – the only way is up! ‘Plans’ is also #2 on the ARIA Australian artist singles chart this week with a killer VIDEO saturating screens around the nation.
This overwhelming response to Birds Of Tokyo's new music coincides with tickets going onsale for their biggest ever national concert tour. The shows are all selling fast with over 5,000 tickets going out the door nationally in just the first 24 hours. All shows will feature very special U.S. guests Silversun Pickups and just announced, Perth band, The Chemist will also join the line-up for all shows excluding Perth where The Emperors will hit the stage.
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26 Aug 2010 :
Kasey’s fifth solo album, ‘Little Bird’, will be released on Friday September 17th.
The 14 tracks were recorded with an all-star band that Kasey dubs The Millionaires; John Watson on drums, Jeff McCormack on bass, with her husband Shane Nicholson, Jim Moginie (Midnight Oil) and Kasey’s dad Bill Chambers playing all manner of guitars and stringed instruments. Then came a procession of respected guest vocalists for different tracks: Missy Higgins, Camille Te Nahu, Brooke Harvey, Andy Toombs, James Gillard, and seminal American country singer Patty Griffin.
“These guys are some of my favourite musicians, including the backbone of my touring band, so there is a familiarity and intuitive understanding of where this music should go,” says Kasey. “When the songs are that fresh, there’s something magical about taking them into the studio and bringing them to life, right then and there.”
Kasey will commence her national ‘Little Bird’ tour the same day as the album is released. She will be joined on the road by John Watson on drums, Bill Chambers – multi instruments, Jeff McCormack on bass, Michael Muchow on guitar and Ashleigh Dallas on fiddle.
Over the next three months Kasey and the band will perform shows right around Australia. As well as the gorgeous new songs from ‘Little Bird’, Kasey will also perform all her classic hits from her previous four solo recordings plus songs from her ARIA and multi Golden Guitar winning collaboration with her husband; Shane Nicholson ‘Rattlin Bones’.
See Kasey's songwriter page for full tour dates.
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21 Aug 2010 :
It only takes a few seconds for Planets, the first single off Short Stack’s white-hot second album This Is Bat Country, to prove the breakout success of 2009’s Stack Is The New Black wasn’t a GOLD flash in the skinny-pants pan. Ominous makes way for anthemic, brooding melds with bravado, and the world is a better place for three and a half minutes. The Stack have landed – bigger, better and more confident than ever.
“Planets was the little track that could,” laughs singer, guitarist and songwriter Shaun Diviney. “We have this mature, sexy new sound coming through, and can't wait to show it off. It’s still definitely very us, It’s still aggressive but it’s controlled. I wanted to do this whole Queen thing with layers and choir harmonies.”
Fittingly, the accompanying clip for Planets finds Short Stack in a sumptuous masquerade ball, a mysterious world where everything is possible but all is not what it seems.
To celebrate the release of Planets, there are heaps of fan pre-orders available including exclusive and never before released content, head to www.shortstack.com.au for further information.
It’s an understatement to say Short Stack – Shaun, Andy Clemmensen (bass) and Bradie Webb (drums) – have come a long way since forming on the NSW Central Coast in 2005. Undeniably the biggest online band in the country, they have developed a legion of dedicated fans. Short Stack toured nonstop from 2007 with major supports and then building and exploding with national headline sell out tours in 2009 and 2010 closing with a sold out performance at Sydney’s iconic Opera House in April. Sold out shows is one thing, but having your debut album land in the ARIA charts at number-one on the way to going gold takes things to a whole other level. As Shaun says, “Not many artists in Australia can say that. It’s something we’re really proud of, and a personal milestone.”
Mixing electro quirks and choral harmonies with a disco edge and their ever-present rock swagger, pop salvation never sounded so invigorating. The scene is undeniably set for another chart-blitzing effort when This Is Bat Country drops on 19 November 2010.
But after taking the clichéd “second album” pressure in their stride, the guys have a lot of milestones on the way. Believe the hype and get on board, because the Short Stack juggernaut is about to take off into overdrive – again!
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19 Aug 2010 :
Australian music legend Billy Thorpe passed away on February 28, 2007. A decade in the making and Billy’s fixation in the last years of his life, Tangier is the final defining statement in an extraordinary musical career. What started as a family trip to Morocco in 2000 to celebrate his wife’s 50th birthday became an inspiration and obsession to translate the myths, sounds, stories and culture of the region. Thorpe worked tirelessly for seven years, writing, recording, putting it all together to release his musical opus. The 10 new tracks on the record were written by Thorpe and have been brought to life with the help of some of great musical names including Ian Moss, Brian Cadd, Connie Mitchell, Vanessa Amorosi, Melinda Schneider, Egypt’s Tawadros brothers, Venezuelan-born flautist Pedro Eustache, Sydney violinist Richard Tognetti and the great Mick Fleetwood. Legendary Australian actor, Jack Thompson also features as the narrator on two of the album tracks. All up, Tangier brings together dozens of musicians from different cultures, orchestras, choirs and other worldly sounds into a genuinely modern Thorpe sound.
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18 Aug 2010 :
Aussie hip hop trio Bliss N Eso’s latest album RUNNING ON AIR has knocked Eminem from his six week reign at the top of ARIA Album Charts. It is the band and Illusive’s first ever number one album making the debut doubly special for all involved. Currently on a sold out Australian tour the band are gearing up to announce a US tour very soon. Previous releases Flying Colours (2008) debuted at #10 and won the boys an ARIA Award, while Day of The Dog (2006) reached #43. Bliss N Eso’s fourth album release, Running On Air, has earned rave reviews from critics.
“This is a career defining album; an album by which every new hip-hop release in this country will be judged, and deservedly so.” The Vine
“The Aria award winning crew have crammed enough hits on this album to crack the international market wide open.” Triple J Music Reviews
“Running On Air is a rocket that never runs out of fuel.” MX
Running On Air (Illusive) is available to buy now. Find out for yourself why it rushed to #1 this week and why many are predicting Running On Air will be one of the standout albums of 2010.
UPDATE
Less than two weeks after release, Bliss N Eso’s new album Running on Air has gone Gold. The LP currently holds the #1 position on the ARIA Album Chart, ending Eminem’s six week run in the top spot – making it one of only four Australian albums to reach the top of the chart in 2010. Radio anthem Down by the River, and their brand new single – Addicted – both make appearances in the ARIA Singles Chart.
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17 Aug 2010 :
The Frontier Touring Company is proud to announce Silversun Pickups will be performing a one night only, exclusive headline show on September 28th at The Corner Hotel in Melbourne.
The Los Angeles quartet has been flaunting their music across the United States, including recent appearances at Coachella and ACL Music Festival. They will be returning to our shores next month as Birds of Tokyo’s Special Guests and are also due to play Gosford’s Coaster Festival, however their headline show will be exclusive to Melbourne.
Silversun Pickups has been winning fans over with their enchanting breed of shoe-gazing indie rock, dreamy melodies and passionate refrains. The band’s 2006 breakthrough debut album, Carnavas, delivered popular indie hits “Lazy Eye” and “Well Thought Out Twinkles.” Their most recent offering, Swoon, features the muddy guitar fuzz and free flowing Eno-esque soundscape that Silversun Pickups has distinctively claimed and carved out as their own.
Silversun Pickups have garnered international attention with their individual musical style, opening for the likes of Wolfmother, Snow Patrol, Kaiser Chiefs, Placebo, Muse and Foo Fighters, receiving astounding reviews along the way:
‘One of the best things about Silversun Pickups as a live band is how tight they sound during even the most impromptu of bleeding-bass endings; their presence is felt ’til the very last second of the very last note.’ – NME
‘Musically, they are all very tight and show great proficiently. Bassist Nikki Monninger plays some very driving bass lines and keeps the songs flowing, but the best part is when she sings, her soft sombre, backing vocals adding another dimension to front man Brian’s melodic tones.’ – Altsounds.com
This intimate headline show will be a real treat for Melbourne music fans and is an event not to be missed, be sure to get in early for this one!
Frontier Members presale commences 2pm AEST, Wednesday 25th August and closes 2pm AEST, Thursday 26 August. General public tickets on sale from 9am local time, Friday 27th August.
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16 Aug 2010 :
Melbourne’s Little Red have announced a massive headline tour in support of their forthcoming new album Midnight Remember.
The sophomore album’s undeniable lead single Rock It has already taken the nation’s airwaves by storm and anticipation for this next chapter in the Little Red story is sky high. Underpinned by a sly disco bass hook and spry piano, Rock It mimics the experience of the summer nights that you don’t want to let go of, even when night turns to day. It has become the band’s most successful single to date and is already being mentioned in media circles as one of the singles of the year.
Produced by Scott Horscroft (Panics, The Presets), Midnight Remember’s collection of tunes still drip with energy and heart-on-the-floor honesty in true Little Red style, but there is also an undeniable technical jump into a hyperspace that takes the band well into the modern age. You are as likely to hear echoes of Phoenix to The Pogues, early U2 to MGMT, with lashings of Bob Dylan and his erudite prose seeping through. Midnight Remember is unquestionably a quantum leap in songwriting and production. That is not to denigrate the band’s scorching 2008 debut album Listen to Little Red – a landmark debut record that crashed the ARIA Top 30, spawned radio singles Coca Cola, Witchdoctor and Misty I, made countless critics’ Album of the Year listings and catapulted the band from the backblocks of Melbourne to a must-have fixture on any major music festival in Australia and sold out headline tours around the country.
Accompanying Little Red on this 'Midnight Remember' tour will be special guests Sparkadia. Sparkadia are poised to release the first single of the new album, “Talking Like I’m Falling Down Stairs” and return to Australian stages, as guests of Little Red, for the first time since their sold out Auf weidersehen tour in April 2009. “Talking Like I’m Falling Down Stairs” is, in typical Sparkadia form, a melody and hook ridden excursion into ‘odd pop’, and one that teases and harkens to a coming record brimming with excitement.
Hot on the heels of Little Red’s monstrous Splendour in the Grass performance and national single launches that sold out in advance, tickets for this run of dates are sure to fly out the door.
*“It’s almost impossible to wait until their second album is released” FasterLouder
“Damn they were fun, and gee it’s hard to not look forward to the new album” Beat
“Little Red gave an exciting sneak peak of what’s to come in their upcoming sophomore album, and all I can say is that I can’t wait to hear more!” Music Feeds *
MIDNIGHT REMEMBER – RELEASED SEPTEMBER 10
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12 Aug 2010 :
Maori singer/songwriter Maisey Rika, has one of Aotearoa's (New Zealand's) most impressive lead vocal style, fused with her honest and thought invoking messages.
Since the early age of 13, Maisey began singing on stage and in the studio at a professional level. Maisey’s first recordings brought her to stardom with “E Hine”, a classic collection of Maori traditional songs. “E Hine“ went double platinum and also won “Best Maori Language Album” at the New Zealand Music Awards. Maisey was also nominated for “Best Female Vocalist” in 1998 at just 15 years old.
Maisey, now in her 20's, has released 2 albums both charting in NZTOP40 and gaining critical acclaim. Since then Maisey has toured the world performing in such countries as Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, Indonesia and Australia.
Recent live performances have put her alongside Dave Dobbyn, Hinewehi Mohi, Australian Idol - Stan Walker, 5 time U.S.A Grammy award winners “The Blind Boys of Alabama” and many more well known musicians/artists. Maisey also had the honour to represent Aotearoa in Tokyo performing in the Giant Rugby Ball promoting the 2011 Rugby World Cup and in Taiwan on behalf of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade at the NZ Business 'Discovering New Horizons' Gala.
In 2009 Maisey was awarded the 'Best Maori Female Solo Artist Award' at the Waiata Maori Awards and nominated for 'Best Maori Songwriter'. She was also a nominee for the prestigious APRA songwriting 'Maioha Award' for her song 'Repeat Offender'.
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31 Jul 2010 :
Mushroom Music is proud to announce the signing of husband and wife team Dave Graney and Clare Moore. From their beginnings in Adelaide via Melbourne via London post-punk band The Moodists, Dave and Clare’s creative partnership has spanned countless projects including Dave Graney 'n' the Coral Snakes (during which the self-proclaimed ‘King of Pop’ won an ARIA for Best Australian Male Artist); the country-flavoured R&B act The White Buffalos; a series of acclaimed solo albums including the double album Hashish and Liquor where the two were responsible for a disc each, and various soundtrack work for ABC documentaries as well as the motion picture Bad Eggs. Expect an album of re-recordings of their extensive body of work on Liberation in 2011.
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29 Jul 2010 :
APRA (the Australasian Performing Right Association) is proud to announce the finalists for the 2010 APRA Silver Scroll Award; New Zealand’s most prestigious award recognising outstanding creative excellence in songwriting and composition.
From a list of 20 songs released earlier this month, the songwriters and composers of New Zealand – the 7,500+ APRA Members – have chosen their songwriting champions for 2010.
RUNNING THROUGH THE FIRE (STORM) BY ANIKA MOA [MUSHROOM MUSIC]
SAY GOODBYE BY RUBAN & KODY NIELSON (MINT CHICKS) [MUSHROOM MUSIC]
A New Dialogue by Julia Deans
Autumn by Matthew Hope, Jonathan Pearce, Reuben Stephens & Alexander Freer (Artisan Guns)
Young Blood by Aaron Short, Alisa Xayalith & Thom Powers (The Naked And Famous)
Anthony Healey, Director of NZ Operations for APRA, says “The world changes rapidly but the one thing that is constant is a great song. It all starts with the song. Lyrics and melodies that stay etched in your mind. These five songs are wonderful examples of this.”
Not only are the finalists chosen by their peers, their works will be performed by their peers. Under the tutelage of Music Director Karl Steven (Supergroove, The Drab Doo Riffs), unique renditions of each of the above songs will be performed at the invite only APRA Silver Scroll Awards on Wednesday 8 September at the Auckland Town Hall.
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28 Jul 2010 :
Mushroom Music has launched its social network presence via Facebook and Twitter.
The social networks will connect us to our artists and friends within the industry as well as providing a tool to promote our music within the film and television and advertising communities.
Authored by our newest addition to the Mushroom family, Jo Sandow is updating stati as we speak. So, why not introduce yourself by following or liking here:
Follow us on Twitter
Like us on FacebookThe new sites will be accompanied soon by a blog.
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27 Jul 2010 :
Dan Parsons is a 22 year old singer/songwriter from Brisbane. He released his debut ‘Old Brown Shoe’ in 2007 and then was absorbed by a new musical world of peers and influences and a desire to create different type of music. Bravely scrapping his next lot of release bound recordings he started from scratch and after 6 months of demoing and experimenting he was ready to go. With the help of Melbourne producer John Castle and collaborator James O’Brien [The Boat People] the intelligent pop/rock songs of Dan Parsons are here in his album ‘FIRESTARTER’.
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24 Jul 2010 :
Following the release of their new single ‘Golden Sky’, Sydney’s The Holidays will be hitting the road again this August for a series of East Coast shows.
The line up for the ‘Hazy Shade Of Winter’ tour also consists of Brisbane’s Hungary Kids Of Hungary and New Zealand’s Artisan Guns.
The Holidays, featured in NMEs ‘Buzz’ section this week, have just announced that their much anticipated debut album will be titled Post Paradise. The album was produced by the band and mixed by Tony Espie (Cut Copy, Avalanches, Midnight Juggernauts). It is scheduled for release late September (through Liberation Music) and features 'Moonlight Hours' and current single 'Golden Sky', who's Moop Jaw directed video has just hit TV. Stay tuned for upcoming remixes by Brooklyn’s Alan Wilkis (Phoenix and Yeasayer) and label mates, The Temper Trap.
THE SHADY HAZE OF WINTER TOUR – AUGUST – 2010
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FRI, AUG 6 THE ZOO, BRISBANE
SAT, AUG 7 COOLANGATTA HOTEL, COOLANGATTA
FRI, AUG 13 OXFORD ART FACTORY, SYDNEY
SAT, AUG 14 CAMBRIDGE HOTEL, NEWCASTLE
FRI, AUG 20 EAST BRUNSWICK CLUB, MELBOURNE
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22 Jul 2010 :
Mushroom Music has just completed supervising the new Australian Feature Summer Coda (written/directed by Richard Gray and staring Rachel Taylor and Alex Dimitriades). Summer Coda will premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival on the 4th August and will follow with a theatrical release around Australia on 21st October. The film features songs from Liam Finn, Amaya, Special Patrol, Dan Sultan, Custom Kings, The Stems and Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros. Liberation Music will be releasing the soundtrack album.
For more information and to view the trailer visit: http://www.mushroommusic.com.au/licensing/film/
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