May
29
Spunk! and EMI are proud to announce the forthcoming album from songwriter and singer Holly Throsby. The album, ‘A Loud Call’, follows on from 2006’s ‘Under The Town’ and Holly’s 2004 debut, ‘On Night’.
Recorded in Nashville with engineer and producer Mark Nevers [Lambchop, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy], the album includes performances from a handful of very special guests including members of Lambchop, Palace and The Silver Jews. Holly’s long-time band members, Bree van Reyk [drums and many instruments] and Jens Birchall [cello, bass, mandolin], also feature prominently.
‘A Loud Call’ is as stunning as it is embracing -a warm romance of an album where bare folk meets with dreamy bright pop songs and lilting back-porch dirges. Pastoral and nautical imagery and succinct observations -from the everyday to the fantastic -are delivered with Holly’s distinctive phrasing and lyrical twists and turns.
The album features 11 songs including ‘One Of You For Me’, originally found on Holly’s 2007 EP of the same name, and the forthcoming single ‘A Heart Divided’, which will be available for download from iTunes come May 24. ‘A Loud Call’ will be released on July 5 through Spunk!/EMI.
May
29
The Vines - He’s A Rocker (single)
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By Courtney Awesome.
What the fuck happened to the vines? I remember when Highly Evolved came out and I was soo pissed my brother got it for his birthday and I didn’t. Jokes on him because I stole it anyway, so sucked in Jeremy. You also got the Kings of Leon one but you didn’t give a fuck about them either. What a fucking shame.
Anyway I remeber thinking Craig was such a bad ass because im pretty sure I saw him smoking pot in Rolling Stone even though at that point in my life I had no idea what pot was. I loved The Vines. I listened to them for hours on a cassette tape I had made by taping shit off of Rage that was simulcast on Triple J. Sounds like ages ago, but in reality I was just a total melvin and also ‘orphan Annie’ poor. I’m pretty sure I had Bowling for Soup and N.E.R.D on that tape so I wouldn’t exactly rely on my 14 year old musical taste.
This new Vines track is pretty much a piece of shit. That dude left and joined Youth Group right? Well its healthy to say they were fucked from the start then. I have a Youth Group t shirt because I liked like one song but then they like killed Marissa on The OC to the other single. You fucks, you ruined it for yourself.
Craig’s voice is intolerable, so are the lyrics, and the flat, boring, dude you were never like Nirvana ‘yeeeeaaaahs’ are just shit and dated filler. There is no edge and I really don’t think it will resonate with the previous market because like 20 better bands have already come along and done what they did better and didn’t go crazy and shit.
I think they did a dj set at Oxford Art Factory on the weekend but I missed it because I was too busy being an actually bad ass rocker and trashing my hotel room in Kings Cross. (n.b- it was a Formula1 room so technically it was already trashed) not pissing around playing other dudes music because I am aware how much mine sucks.
I give this 4 awesomes out of five, because Craig is still kinda cute, but he needs to hire like Linda Perry or some shit.
May
29
After selling out almost every show on their national Other Voices, Other Rooms album tour, THE GETAWAY PLAN are getting ready to embark on their largest headline journey yet. The Where the City Meets The Sea Tour -named after their latest hit single -will run from June to August, taking in seventeen cities and regional centers around the country.
THE GETAWAY PLAN’s debut album Other Voices, Other Rooms (released in February of this year) was greeted with an overwhelming response from the fans and industry alike. Triple J made it their feature album of the week and record crowds flocked to the band’s in-store launches at JB HiFi in Melbourne and Utopia Records in Sydney. The album debuted at an incredible #14 on the National ARIA Charts and #1 on the AIR Independent Charts, surprising many by remaining in both months after it’s release. The band’s first national tour in support of the album sold out in all but one venue, with hundreds of fans turned away from the capacity venues, and hugely energetic responses from the crowds within. The band has since played national support to Millencolin (US) and will embark on Kisschasy’s ‘Skins and Bones’ tour in May / June.
After the success of the album’s first single Streetlight on Triple J and Channel V, THE GETAWAY PLAN have successfully crossed over with their second single Where the City Meets the Sea. The track is now firmly on rotation at Nova and was one of the most played songs on Triple J so far this year – meanwhile it’s highly engaging video has been in the Top 10 most played songs on Channel V for over a month, and has clocked up over 50,000 plays on YouTube and MySpace. The official release date of the single is June 7, when it will be available in all good digital and record stores with exclusive b-sides.
With THE GETAWAY PLAN in line to become one of Australia’s greatest success stories, tickets for the Where The City Meets The Sea tour are sure to sell out. Catch THE GETAWAY PLAN in all their glory and while you can still say you we’re there before the take over.
WEDNESDAY 16 JULY – Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle (NSW) 18+
Tickets from www.bigtix.com.au and at the venue: (02) 4962 2459
THURSDAY 17 JULY – Hoey Moey, Coffs Harbour (NSW) 18+
Tickets from www.boomtown.oztix.com.au or 1300 762 545, the venue on (02) 6652 3833, Park Beach Music on (02) 66523725, Coffs Music (02) 6652 1641 or www.offbeatoperations.com.au
May
29
Bliss N Eso - Flying Colours
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By Courtney Awesome.
This album is a bad omen from the very beginning. from the shitty cover art and packaging that look like they were ripped from a shitty screamo band in 2005 to the retard intro, god knows what inspired that but i hope whatever did dies a fucking hateful death. I like hip hop. Like, hip hop with black dudes and bitches and hoes but not some suburb trash from some shit Aussie ‘burb.
What do they really have to pass on as a message to the youth of today? Fuck all. which is deemed pretty appropriate by today’s samples. I was impressed with the checking of an entourage character and some other random shit but other than that it was just faggoted try hard crap with track names such as ‘$5 steak’ and ‘destiny lane’ shit dudes more like destiny, lame.
If there is nothing worse than bad hip hop, wait to you see its puffer vested body on the picture on the flyer I got with it. Puffer vests. What the fuck? That’s about as gangster as licking strawberry milk off a dudes waxed chest. Not unless you are P. Diddy faggs.
The intro part and the break mid cd were so fucked up because firstly, I thought i had gotten the wrong cd, which I was psyched for, only to be proven wrong, and secondly, with the mid cd break- you fucks tricked me. I thought that shit was over, but oh no, there was more. More awful crappy fucking try hard Aussie hip hop.
Anyway, Bliss n Eso are touring in heaps of shit places like Lismore and Gippsland (where the fuck is that?) this month.
This cd will end up on heavy rotation due to misinformed faggots who take their shirts off during verbal arguments & little girls who get felt up in the school yard and wear fake bape.
Bliss n Eso will surely make it into the hottest 100 because more than one hipster faggot will vote as a joke because they love the cool, safe irony of Australian hip hop.”
I give you three awesomes out of five and an ‘A’ for effort.
May
26
This article has been one of the hardest to write for me. The reason it’s incredibly tough to write is because I’m not a quitter, I really don’t like to give up on things.
So why now?
Well it’s actually quite a simple reason, dollars. Basically I’m With The Band is costing too much to run on a weekly basis and the return is no where near enough to keep the website going.
Currently the website costs about $15 a week to keep up and running, this includes the hosting, postage of CDs and assorted things to my reviewers, and phone calls to organise photo and review access to events we cover.
This doesn’t sound like much at all, but please note that it doesn’t include time!
Time is an important, and expensive thing, these days and I’m With The Band has grown to the point that it actually requires someone to work on it almost full time, ie. 30+ hours per week. Up until now I’ve just been putting the hard work in and trying to grow I’m With The Band to the point where the advertising revenue would be enough to employ someone. For a while the numbers were growing in terms of daily hits and page views (we’re currently receiving around 50,000 hits per month) but the advertising dollars from Google Adsense and our affiliate advertising never amounted to more than $7 a week.
To run the website and to hire someone to work full time I’ve worked out that it will cost me around $500 a week, that leaves me $493.00 out of pocket per week! OUCH!
So where to now?
Well I will continue to keep the website up and running until mid-June continuing to publish the reviews and press releases that I receive in the hope that someone will come along and dump some dollars in my lap, a corporate sponsor perhaps? Failing that I’m With The Band will stop publishing new articles and will remain as it is until the hosting runs out early next year.
If any businesses are reading this and would like to talk about getting involved with I’m With The Band as a sponsor then send me an email (mathew.packer@gmail.com).
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