Teen Archer/UV Race/Dead Farmers - Birmy this Sat the 8th!

Batrider - Beaks Tour

The last time i saw Batrider was in New Zealand at Camp A Low Hum. I also went to karaoke with them the night after with some of Love Connection and Milk Teddy. They are a pretty fun bunch. Sarah belted out a wild Mariah Carey number.

Batrider have lived in Melbourne, Wellington, London and i have a feeling they've been hanging out in Adelaide recently.

Lately i've been listening to more Batrider, Love Of Diagrams, The Drones, Milk Teddy and The Clean. Getting softer as the winters kicked in i suppose.

I haven't been to the Lithuanian Club before so i'm keen to check it out. Also Pets With Pets and Woollen Kits are supporting which is rad!

I know that X is going over to the US for the Chaos In Tejas festival and having a send off show with the UV Race on the same night at Ding Dong Lounge. I hate Ding Dong so i think Batrider takes my vote for this one.

Top 5 Blogs

Okay so i'm gonna say some stuff about my favourite music-download blogs.

http://lenoise.blogspot.com/
These guys have such a cool vibe and a nice layout too.
I would definitely like to party with this bunch.
It's a big call but i think if i was stranded on an island with just 1 blog, it would be Le Noise.
Always posting good stuff- lots of garage and pop goods.

http://ongakubaka.blogspot.com/
This is run by 2 music nerds, Dan and Steve.
I think i'm more into Steve's uploads but Dan's are cool too!
I sent them an email a while back with some Australian recommendations and they posted 3 of them in no time. Still don't know how they found The Stabs album online.
This blog has been going for ages so scroll through and happily burn out your internet.

http://teenagelobotomies.blogspot.com/
This is a really incredible blog.
I've definitely burnt out my internet because of these guys.
Lovor and Mike do really rad mixes too.
Oh and i think Mike is the biggest Jay Reatard fan in the world.

http://jiyva.blogspot.com/
I found this when searching for info on The Twerps.
He's put up some really interesting stuff.
If it weren't for him, i might not know some of my current favourites.
Patrick likes Australian music and i owe him a mix cd.
I will make good on my promise. Eventually.

http://icoulddietomorrow.blogspot.com/
This is a really unpredictable blog.
Never know what they'll post next.
This is similar to Ongakubaka in that it's been going for a while.
They have over 450 posts of pure gold!

KING KHAN & BBQ OZ INVASION!

The almighty King Khan returns to Australia in June with his partner in crime (and grime), BBQ, in tow. Hand picked by Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson to perform at this years VIVID festival in Sydney, The King Khan and BBQ Show will also make one special stop off at The Corner Hotel in Melbourne.

A performance by The King Khan and BBQ Show is an awesomely surreal experience; a stunning music machine, playing incredible original hits that never end. Orgiastic, anarchic, hypnotic and personal. Blowjobs and blood, pick-ups and puke, dancing and laughing.

So KK and BBQ tickets a "SELLING FAST!" which means, if you ain't got yo ticket yet- you best be headed to THE CORNER site and throwdown the $$. I didn't go to KK and The Shrines because King Khan without BBQ is something i don't wish to experience. They are peanut butter and jam. Oh and to you people that haven't got tickets yet, Royal Headache and Woollen Kits are supporting..!

PBS is bringing them out so to say thanks- flip the dial to 106.7FM or hit http://www.pbsfm.org.au/ to scope out some good tunes!

Pissing On The Mainframe Presents #1!

FACEBOOK EVENT

UPDATE NEWS!! + THIS SATURDAY!!!!!!

Hey buds, been super busy with a new job. I actually have to acknowledge that i haven't done shit all on this blog for a while and if you care- i'm sorry! So guilty...

Anyway, i got a bunch of interview ideas and a new mix lined up.

Stay tuned!!

Oh and at the end of today i will have the flyer up for the FIRST...EVER...PISSING ON THE MAINFRAME Presented show, #1!!

I'll spoil it now and let you know who's playing...

RUSSIAN ROULETTES
RICHIE 1250 & THE BRIDES OF CHRIST
CONSTANT MONGREL
ABSOLUTE BOYS

+ ME and SOMEBODY SPECIAL(???) DJ'ing 1-3am!!!

OLD BAR,
Saturday May 15th

-z

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SATURDAY!

CAT FOOD PRESS - 289 LYGON ST

PLAYING TIMEZZ-
8.30- 9.00- JESS SHULMAN (OMGZ, SHES SO GOOD! I THINK I LOVE HER)

9.15-9.45- MR DNA (ORGANIC VEGAN SPITS FROM THE GUY WHO BROUGHT YOU CHILI, HIP-HOP AND 4.20)

10.00-10.15- THE GRAND DEBUT OF ROCCO ROSSO, SOON TO BE EVERYONE'S FAVOURITE PARTY KID, PROMISE!!!!

10.30- 11.00- TEHACHAPI (WHAT A GREAT BAND!!! THEY ARE SO GOOOOOOD)

11.15- 11.45- MADONNA (MAD-ON-HER, GET GACKED WITH EVERYONE'S FAVOURITE REGGAE PILL PARTY)

12.00-12.30- WIL WAGNER AND THE SMITH ST BAND (BECAUSE NOTHING IS PERFECT)

PISSING ON THE MAINFRAME DJS FILLING THE GAPS BETWEEN BANDS

IF YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET THERE, IT'S TRAM NUMBER 1 OR 8 DOWN SWANSTON STREET, AWAY FROM THE CITY. GET OFF AT STOP NUMBER 123, OPPOSITE EAST BRUNSWICK CLUB. ADDRESS IS 289 LYGON STREET.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118848051465738

Late Arvo Sons tonight at The GB

Ooga Boogas and Jensen Tjhung @ Hell Gallery

Rowland S Howard trailer and The Golden Age Of Bloodshed

RSH Trailer from Ghost Pictures Pty Ltd on Vimeo.



Rowland S. Howard - 'Golden Age Of Bloodshed' from Ghost Pictures Pty Ltd on Vimeo.

This footage is from Rowland's last show at the Prince Of Wales on October 29th, 2009. It was the launch of his last album "Pop Crimes". I was smart enough to get a ticket for this and Rowland and band were flawless despite his ill health. This was filmed with 5 camera's around the venue so i'm hoping it will make for a live dvd in the near future. On the few times i saw Rowland he would always make me laugh with his incredibly dry sense of humour. I wish i'd had the chance to see more of him.

Tribute article on Mess + Noise collected by Trevor Block

This Saturday at Fitzroy Bowls Club!

GALEFORCE

Go to this after the Mountain Fold #4 launch at Curtin House

Sydney! Kitchen's Floor/Bed Wettin' Bad Boys/Holy Balm - Friday 17th

Take a bunch of coin to this as Nic of R.I.P Society will have copies of Royal Headache, Bed Wettin' Bad Boys, Kitchen's Floor 7"s and you can pester him about the new Dead Farmers LP!

Also, keep in mind that Saturday the 17th is International Independent Record Store Day (Fuck you JB-Hifi), which means you gotta go to Repressed, Egg, Red Eye, Utopia and Beatdisc and buy stuff to keep em going.

Mountain Fold #4

Mountain Fold is the single best music publication coming out at the moment. 

Issue #4 features:
- Marco Fusinato
- Alastair Galbraith
- Tim McGee
- Royal Headache
- The Twerps
- Tyvek

The launch will feature:
-The Twerps (Live)
-Mikey Young (E.C.S.R) (DJ)
4PM
Level Six, Curtin House
252 Swanston Street
MELBOURNE

Record Store Day At MISSING LINK!

The little writing says
 PLUS VINYL SALE.
    10% OFF ALL STOCK (EX. TIX)
    GIVEAWAYS AND GENERAL FESTIVITIES!
    STORE OPENS 10AM. BANDS START 12:30PM

If you don't go you're a poser-

If you live in Sydney- Hard Ons, Nunbait + Chinese Burns Unit. Friday 16th!

Ray Ahn, Johnny Good Times and the Sando.
I WISH i could be at this...
Oh and dudes the new Hard Ons record is coming out in a few weeks.
It's called "Alfalfa Males Once Summer Is Done Conform or Die."
Go to Unbelievably Bad to read a recent interview with Blackie.

Digger & The Pussycats/Teen Archer/DJ Pissing On The Mainframe...

So coming up this friday at Old Bar:

Digger & The Pussycats
Assassination Collective
Teen Archer
Buried Horses
+ Me and Jack Petty are play tunes till 3am under the moniker of Dj's Pissing On The Mainframe.
Come down!

              


Chesshire Cat Design

Yah Yah's Record Fair, Redux

Yeah yeah, Yah-Yah's is doing another record fair!!

It was pretty sick last time with Bruce Milne(Au Go Go/The Tote), Dan Stewart(Stained Circles/UV Race/Straight Jacket Nation), Richie 1250(Stone Love on PBS), Mick from Off The Hip....etc

ANYWAY, go to this and get some good bargains... and stick around for Spencer P Jones of the Beasts Of Bourbon!

$2!

Last time i got:
Dead Farmers 7"
Carbonas - Frothing At The Mouth 7"
Lamps/Haunted George - Split 7"


It's BACK!  After hundreds of people kicked down the doors of Yah Yah's in February to snap up bargains and rarities, the CRATE DIGGER RECORD FAIR is returning to allow vinyl junkies to get their fix on Sunday 11th April at 2pm. We've got all the same stallholders as last night plus a bunch of newies, with stalls over three rooms (so there's more space and more stalls too). So get down early to get the hot records before anyone else, then stick around for a few drinks and catch Spencer P Jones & The Escape Committee at 6pm as they rock the house and help y'all settle in for the night. Entry is $2 before 5pm and free thereafter. See youse there. 

$2 ENTRY, doors 2.00pm
Band starts 6pm / FREE ENTRY

Circle Pit: The Exhibition

I have never seen this band but i'm really curious about them all of a sudden.

Circle Pit: The Exhibition - Friday April 9th at: 

Somewhere Gallery 

Level 2, The Royal Arcade

314 Little Collins St
Facebook Event

I don't know what to expect with this show of theirs really but i heard Circle Pit will be playing at some point.

It goes from 6-8pm

Here's some words on it,

"Circle Pit is the creative relationship between Angela Bermuda and Jack Mannix. This relationship takes on many creative forms: music, film, painting, song, conversation - the product of an intense and deep partnership that goes beyond friendship.
Stadium glory, rock and roll personalities, the journey from the gutter to the stars and back again are the main inspirations for the second solo exhibition by Circle Pit in Melbourne.


Fueled by the personal mythology they seek to create, Jack and Angie have collected artifacts, artworks, conversations, memorabilia, mail, records, film and more to construct a kind of universe all their own, and in doing so adding to the ever-changing, ongoing legacy that is Circle Pit."

Anthony Lister - You Call That A Back Rub?

Anthony Lister has a new show on at:
Metro Gallery
1214 High St, Armadale.

It's been open for about 2 weeks but the opening is on Wednesday the 7th at 6pm.

The last Lister show resulted in my old house mate getting super loose and spent the night in the drunk tank.

http://www.anthonylister.com/

Stained Sheets Issue 3.1, never say d.i.y

Stained Sheets is 3.1 is being launched on thursday at:
- Sunshine & Grease
- 9 Queens Parade, Clifton Hill.
- Stained Sheets

Think Special Art - Magnus Mctavish

Magnus' exhibition "Think Special Art" is on Friday April 2nd at: 

66 Maltravers Rd, Ivanhoe. 7pm. B.Y.O

Go to http://mags1.net/ 

Then email for his phone number and buy a piece before they all sell

R.I.P Drunkdriver

To quote PopJew from her post about the recent news of Drunkdriver breaking up,

"Unfortunately, this amazing band has come to an untimely end based on reasons I have no desire to repeat nor the will to comment on. But one thing's for sure, I loved seeing Drunkdriver and the world of music will miss them."

I've been caining the Born Pregnant LP, the Fire Sale 7" and mostly the Knife Day 7". I'm really keen to hear this new record which was supposed coming out April 14th on LOAD Records but they have since decided not to release it. Head to Mishka Blog to get the scoop then head to Washington City Paper to read about Load's recent decision. I'm really bummed to hear about the band breaking up. Can't help but think it's only a matter of time till Pygmy Shrews suffer the same fate. Really wish i'd had the chance to see Drunkdriver.

-I found this interesting, Kevin from Pink Reason said this on their facebook,

"If you happen to be privy to the controversery surrounding the band Drunkdriver, you should know that I support both Jeremy and the band and if you do not, please, add Pink Reason to your list of bands to boycott, we do not want your business."


This seems to be happening to a few of their records at the moment...

Happy Hate Me Nots

Happy Hate Me Nots were a Sydney band that didn't ever receive much commercial success. A 2CD collection of songs was released on Feel Presents in 2006. This band should do some reunion shows soon. I found a link for a download of one of their albums. Post a comment if you want me to find it again.

HAPPY HATE ME NOTS

Okay sports fans, go to SHOTGUN SOLUTION to download some of the early singles by the band. I know i did. Enjoy!

BEN FROST - CONFESSIONS OF A MODEL CITIZEN

Ben Frost is a Sydney based artist. He has a new show opening tomorrow at Gorker Gallery in Fitzroy, Melbourne. His work is tongue-in-cheek and often shocking with use of common logos and well known advertising examples. Juxtaposing good and bad with sex and violence, humour and criticism.

To check out more, go to http://www.benfrostisdead.com/

E.C.S.R - Rush To Relax

This is fast becoming my favourite E.C.S.R song

Puerto Rico Flowers

John Sharkey III of Clockclean er has a new band called Puerto Rico Flowers

This should be interesting...

PBS FM, tonight 2-6 AM

Me and my buddy Ruby are gonna be on the radio tonight on

PBS - 106.7FM

We'll be playing tracks, shooting the shit and playing it off legit.

Call the station and say hi or request a song even on:

03 8415 1832

Wednesday at OLD BAR, yeah dude

Tonight (Wednesday March 17th) i'm Dj'ing at the Old Bar with Jimi O Crack.

Bands playing are:

Wil Wagner & The Smith St Band
Breaker Morant
Chaos Kids
Jess Shulman

Put down the sangria and come stare at me from a dark corner.

now i'm leaving my house to go drink free liqour at ACCA.

Wooden Shjips

After performing at Golden Plains over the weekend, the Wooden Shjips played a set of songs at PBS in Collingwood. I was doing some volunteering when they came in so i took a few photos.

Also, you can listen to their set here > http://www.pbsfm.org.au

- You just have to register as a new user to PBS then go to the LISTEN LIVE page, then click on RADIO ON DEMAND and go to the show CITY SLANG and enter MARCH 10th 2010.

The Hellmenn

Sydney's finest, The Hellmenn have decided to put out a cd of rare and unreleased recordings. This looks fantastic. I noticed it on display at Missing Link when i was asking about the Royal Headache 7"(which! is STILL on it's way...). So anyway, this cd looks like it'll have a lot of love in March.

Here's what Missing Link have to say on it,

"Second, and very exciting for us, the first release on our new reissue label JUNKYARD RECORDS has hit the shelves! Sydney's HELLMENN have a legendary reputation for their high volume, high energy, ear bleeder live shows and vinyl platters, and this Thermo Nuclear Sonic Burn Out CD compiles tracks from 87-93, including their first 2 EPs and various rare and unreleased tunes. This is very exciting for us, especially considering we just put the GOD CD on the shelf last week! Great to see Australian r'n'r from that period getting it's due!

JUNKYARD is a reissue label we run out of the store now that is primarily focused on digging through the refuse of Australia's vinyl past and making certain forgotten and neglected moments in our rich history get bl'asted again!"

The band is doing 1 show only at Monster Session- (if only i could afford to do the trip to Sydney and see this...)

Check out the Monster Session line-up:

BUY TICKETS(!)

Lou Barlow instore today at Missing Link

Mr. Lou Barlow of Sebadoh/Dinosaur Jnr fame is playing a free show today.

Missing Link, 5pm!

He's also playing some tunes at some point during Golden Plains....

Golden Plains Festival March 6-8

Golden Plains festival is this weekend in Meredith

This is the 4th Golden Plains festival and it's looking like it'll be pretty rad.

If you were planning to come to Melbourne this would be a good time as theres heaps of sweet shows on.

This years line up:

Saturday, March 6

2-2.05pm Opening Ceremony
2.05-2.40pm Royal Headache
3-3.45pm The Crayon Fields
4.05-4.45pm Clairy Baby Browne And The Bangin Rackettes
5.05-5.45pm Monotonix
6.15-7:05pm The Big Pink
7.35-8:45pm Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra
9.15-10.35pm Pavement
11.05-12.25am Dinosaur Jr
12.35-2am Andee Frost
2-3.30am Ransom
3.30-6am Scattermusic Sound System
6-10am Silence Wedge

(Interstitial soundtrack by Mohair Slim and Brain Children)

Sunday, March 7

10.10-10.45am Super Wild Horses
11-11.15am Why Music Is Good For Your Brain
11.20am-12:00pm Jack Ladder
12.20-1.10pm Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard
1.40-2.30pm Wooden Shjips
2.50-3.40pm Space Invadas
4.05-4.55pm Nashville Pussy
5.25-6.25pm Dirty Projectors
6.55-7.45pm Tame Impala
8.15-9.30pm Calexico
10-11pm The Cruel Sea
11.30-12.30am Midnight Juggernauts
12.45-2am Opulent Sound
2-3am Gaslamp Killer
3-5am Optimo
5am Silence Wedge
1pm Gates Close

DICKHEAD POLICY:

"Essentially this is a self-policing policy whereby 'the dickhead' is not celebrated at the festival. Dickheads or people involved in dickhead behaviour will usually find that a solid citizen will firmly but politely inform them that their dickhead behaviour is not admired or appreciated. The Dickhead will usually realize they are being a dickhead and pull their head in. If not, our Helpers or Staff or even Security might make a discreet intervention.

So if you are a Dickhead, this festival isn't for you."

Kitchen's Floor 7" tour