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LATEST RELEASES
Joe
McKee, the former front-man of Snowman,
will release his debut solo album Burning Boy on 25 May 2012 viaDot Dash / Remote Control. Snowman released two albums out of Perth with the
band touring around Australia several times. The band relocated to London
where they gigged and slowly pieced together their third album Absence. McKee,
back in Perth with a collection of songs recorded with long time
collaborator Dave Parkin in Perth, Burning Boy was
written in various countries over a three year period, all over the globe.
Gossling's new
EP ‘Intentional Living’ is due for release on April 20 and includes the
single 'Wild Love' “Wild Love” which was co-written with Dann Hume (Evermore, Lisa Mitchell). Gossling (Helen Croome),
currently featured on the 360 hit ‘Boys Like You’ hails from country Victoria ..
Originally released in November Bic Runga’s
4th studio album ‘Belle’ is due for Australian release on March 12. Bic Runga is one of New
Zealand’s most iconic musicians, ‘Belle’ is her
first album of new material in 5 years.
Tame Impala drummer Jay Watson’s
other band Pond releases its
fourth album ‘Beard Wives Denim’ through Sydney label Modular. It was
recorded over two weeks in a ramshackle farmhouse in Western Australia.
Sam
Sparro makes
his return in May with his second album ‘Return To Paradise’. He spent two
years writing and says: “I changed direction at least 2-3 times,
completely. I started doing more rock oriented stuff, then I went in a pop
direction and then through the process of scrap booking stuff that was
inspiring me I ended up with an album that was influenced by music from
1978 to 1984."
Julia
Stone’s second
solo album entitled ‘By The Horns’, is scheduled to be released this coming
May. Released beforehand is an EP containing 4 new and previously
unreleased tracks, 2 of which feature The National’s Bryan Devendorf on drums.
The Original Aztecs - Tony Barber, Vince Melouney,
John 'Bluey' Watson and Colin Baigent – an
instrumental band formed in 1963 before they were joined by singer Billy
Thorpe have now teamed with 70s hit singer Harry Young to record an album
called ‘AT The End Of The Rainbow’, with new versions of some of their hits
with Billy, songs from the era and a couple of new songs.
Grinderman might be finished, but
violinist Warren Ellis still has Dirty
Three. The instrumental trio – made up of Ellis, Jim White and Mick Turner
and Warren Ellis - are set to release 'Toward the Low Sun', their first
album in six years on March 5, 2012. Warren Ellis says the band's eighth
studio album is pitched as a "punk avant-garde art-jazz record".
Of the record, “Dirty Three has always been about the way we play together
and feed off each other. We wanted this one to be a return to the more
improvised and instinctive approach of the earlier recordings.”
Everyone’s favourite musician Ashley Naylor – of Even and many
other tours of duty notoriety – has released his debut solo album ‘High
Hopes’. There was a solo EP in 2006 and – apart from Even he’s played with
Paul Kelly and Stephen Cummings and Spiderbait’s Kram. What you see and hear is a
talented musicians who loves music.
Pip Brown, better known as Ladyhawke, has revealed details of the
follow-up to 2008’s wildly successful self-titled debut..
Ladyhawke scored acclaim and awards from all over
the world, including six New Zealand Music Awards, two ARIAs, and nominations
at the Brits, NME Awards and MTV Australia Awards. Called ‘Anxiety’ the new album was recorded in
France and at home in New Zealand
earlier this year by producer and long-time collaborator Pascal Gabriel The
singer recently showcased new album material at a series of intimate gigs
including London’s 100 Club, Sydney’s Phoenix Bar & Melbourne’s Tote.
David
Campbell’s latest release
Let’s Go, focuses on the 80s featuring covers of tunes by the likes of
Wham, Dexy’s Midnight Runners, and The Style
Council
Perth-born folk/pop Felicity Groom releases her debut
album Gossamer on Spinning Top through Inertia. The album features plenty
of guest musicians, including members from Tame Impala, The kill Devil
Hills and Jebediah.
Almost four years since the
release of their debut album “Other Voices, Other Rooms”, Melbourne four
piece The Getaway Plan release
“Requiem”. The band toured full time on the back of their debut album
before six sold out shows at Melbourne’s Hi-Fi
venue in June 2009 – shows which seemed to be the band’s final ever
performances; however just recently, the band announced they would be
performing on the bill at the 2012 Big Day Out, as well as performing their
own headline shows in 2011. The band announced that their hiatus had ended
in November 2010.
Inspired by everyone from Muddy
Waters to Jeff Buckley, Billie Holiday to Bruce Springsteen Sydney
songstress Lani Lane’s debut album ‘To The Horses’
has been eagerly anticipated. Working as a florist, she financed the
recording of the album over a year, although she calculates it actually
took exactly four days, essentially just Lani and
the band. Tim Rogers, Aiden Roberts (Belles Will Ring), Jez
Mead and Ashley Naylor (Even) lend a hand.
Almost exactly a year to the day since
performing together for the very last time
Powderfinger release, Footprints – The Best
of Powderfinger 2001-2011 the follow-up to Powderfinger’s
first “best of” compilation, the multi-platinum Fingerprints – The Best
Of Powderfinger 1994-2000, which was released
in 2004. The album picks up the Powderfinger
story from the release of the band’s fifth studio album, Vulture Street
(2003). Footprints also features two
never-before-heard Powderfinger songs.
Melbourne garage rockers the Fearless
Vampire Killers - Seán Ainsworth on vocals
& rhythm guitar, Jacob McGuffie on bass
guitar, Justin Olsson on drums and Al Marx on lead guitar - release their
debut album ‘Batmania’ has been produced by Lars Stalfors (The Mars Volta) and engineered by Michael
Badger at Melbourne’s Soundpark Studios.
‘Adversities’, the second album from NZ hard rockers Cobra Khan features guest
appearances from Craig Radford frontman of iconic
New Zealand Punk Rock band Sticky Filth as well as guest vocals from Sonya
Waters (White Swan Black Swan), and a guitar solo performed by Ryan Thomas
(ex-Somerset and Lord Of Tigers).
In the 90’s D.i.G.
(Directions In Groove) were an unusual blip of the Australian music
radar, not just a group embracing, recording and performing a hybrid of
jazz and hip-hop, but very successful at it, selling over 50,000 copies of
their debut album, and being recognized with industry awards and within the
international jazz scene. The band’s first album in 13 years ‘Clearlight’ will be released in October.
‘New Start Again’, is the debut album by Melbourne foursome Dick Diver, recorded with Eddy
Current Suprression Ring’s Mikey Young
at an old homestead in country Victoria.Guitarists
Rupert Edwards and Alistair McKay’s songwriting
has been compared favourably to their Go-Betweens heroes Forster and
McLennan while
bassist Al Montfort’s punk pedigree (UV Race,
Total Control, Straightjacket) and drummer Steph
Hughes (Boomgates, Children Collide) gives
that poetic songwriting a rough musical edge.
Tim
Freedman is giving The Whitlams a rest. Tim’s first album in six years sees
him front a new band called Idle – which he seems to have been – allowing
him to in typically tongue-in-cheek fashion to name the band’s album
‘Australian Idle’. It’s two girls and three guys,
Tim sharing the load with two other bandleaders Melbourne’s Heath Cullen
and Newcastle’s Amy Vee. On bass is
the renowned Zoe Hauptmann while Dave Hibbard is on drums. Noted for both
the romance and irony in his songs, the prospect of two female singers
seems like something worth looking forward to hearing.
To coincide with the international
release of Washington’s ‘I
Believe You Liar’ the singer, now based in America, is offering her
Australian fans an 8 track EP titled ‘Insomnia’ which the singer suffers
quite regularly. All of the material from Insomnia was written in the
12 manic months following the release of ‘I Believe You Liar’ in Australia.
Washington was initially planning an album, but she
now that project had “Gone to God”. Had to get it out of my system. Now it’s
gone.”
Sydney-based trio Cameras’ first full-length album
‘In Your Room’ is due for release in October 28. Cameras consists
of trio Eleanor Dunlop (vox/keys), Fraser Harvey
(vox/guitar/bass) and Ben Mason (drums). Cameras
formed in 2008 . After airplay support from Triple
J (Aus), BBC 6 Music (UK) and KCRW (US), earlier this year, Cameras were
invited to tour Australia, opening for Roxy Music with Bryan Ferry. ‘In
Your Room’ was recorded at 301 Studios in Sydney with Mike Morgan, who
plays live guitar in the band. Mastered at Air Studios in London by Ray
Staff (Muse, David Bowie, Nick Cave).
For over a decade multi-award
winning DJ/producer Bulletproof
has been the leading name in New Zealand drum and bass, as a performer and owner
and manager of NZ’s Cyanide Recordings. The next step in his own career a
major label deal with EMI which means the release of his latest album ‘Dub
Me Crazy’ on both sides of the Tasman.
Formerly with The Models and since
the 90s a television and radio presenter, James Valentine has recorded - The Power and The Passion
– ‘ Standards From the Great Australian Songbook’ - songs by Midnight Oil, The Divinyls, The Church, The Triffids
and Crowded House in “
a
laid back, jazz-infused style using only the tenor saxophone, the piano,
the double bass and the drums.
Buffalo
were Australia’s first and most
legendary heavy rock band, and featured David Tice on vocals. Tice
subsequently joined London pub rockers The Count Bishops. Mark Evans was AC/DC’s bass player from March 1975
to June 1977, starting with the second album ‘T.N.T.’. Tice and Evans have
now joined forces as ‘Brothers In Arms’, with a self-titled album on Lungata
Records through MGM Distribution.
Sydney post-punk collective Ernest Ellis & The Panamas
release Kings Canyon the follow up to their critically acclaimed 2010
debut, Hunting. September 23rd 2011. The band have been working hard over
the past three years, gathering a dedicated fan base thanks to their
consistent delivery of solid live shows and support slots for the likes of
Florence and The Machine, Jamie T, Pajama Club
(Neil Finn) and The Jezabels.
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