Friday, May 28

HEY!!!

GOT TWO INTERVIEWS COMING UP ON THE SHOW THIS WEEK!!!
That's this Tuesday June 1....

Rhys of Fourth Floor Collapse is gonna have a chat about their latest album From The Cold. And Edo, who's usually seen out front of Gelbison will be filling us in on what Nations By The River is all about - that's his new collaboration with brother Nadav, Luke Steele of Sleepy Jackson and Ohad Rein, who have an album on the way called Holes In The Valley. Listen in yo....

Stay tuned cos there's a whole lot more on the way including some of the kids featured on Shake Yer Popboomerang Volume 2.... soon y'all.

Tuesday, May 25

Playlist for today

Minimum Chips: Black (Islocal compilation)
End Of Fashion: Anything Goes (Rough Diamonds/Anything Goes single)
The Casinos: Drive Me Home (City Lights 7")
Paper Tiger: One Drop Short (single)
No Through Road: Bandaids (Monkey On A Rock LP)
Richard Easton: Coffin (Two Thousand Demolition Songs LP)
The Woods Themselves: Watch It, Coach (The Woods Themselves LP)
Grand Silent System: Champion (single)
Spider Goat Canyon: Moment In Time (Shades Of Joy LP)
Ides Of Space: Reinventing Dream (Seeping Fractures LP)
Tonjip: Coolite (single)
Lazy Susan: Top Of Her Goodbye (Never Better LP)
Starky: Breakdance Glove (Mirror Signal Manoeuvre LP)
Hoodoo Gurus: Sour Grapes (Mach Schau LP)
Cockfight Shootout: Step In Line (single)
Degrees K: Worth It (single)
TZU: Bold Digger (Position Correction LP)
MKB: Positive Minds Attract (Onanothernote EP)
Good Buddha: Tightn (Futurhistrix LP)
Baseball: When Man & Machine Work As A Team (Gods and Stars Priests and Kings LP)
Bird Blobs: The Straight + Narrow (Make Mix Tapes Not War compilation)
The Casanovas: Break Your Heart (The Casanovas LP) PBS FEATURE ALBUM
The Suits: Girl (Shake Yer Popboomerang Volume 2 LP)
Eskimo Joe: I'm So Tired (A Song Is A City LP)
Small Knives: Damaged (Rain On Tin LP)
Tamas Wells: We'd Play You At Checkers (Shake Yer Popboomerang Volume 2 LP)


Recommended gigs this coming week....

TONIGHT!! TUESDAY MAY 25
Mustang + Devil Rock 4 @ The Tote (Tight Arse Tuesday!)

WEDNESDAY MAY 26
The Vines + Youth Group + Treetops @ The Forum

THURSDAY MAY 27
Hoodoo Gurus + Spiderbait + Peabody @ The Palace
Tonjip + The Forgotten Ways + The Morning Birds @ The Green Room
The Suits + I [Love] Space + Ides Of Space @ The Espy - Front Bar

FRIDAY MAY 28
Hoodoo Gurus + Spiderbait + Peabody @ The Palace
Registered Nurse @ Pony 2AM
Gaslight Radio @ The Tote
Baseball + New Season + The Stabs @ The Rob Roy (also on Studio Five Live on PBS 7PM Thursday)

SATURDAY MAY 29
The PBS HEADWEALTH HARDCORE HELLRAISER with Blueline Medic + No Grace + Tricity + Horsell Common + Threshold + Day I Die + Cadence + Behind Crimson Eyes @ The Tote
End Of Fashion @ The Evelyn
Bird Blobs + Love Like... Electrocution + Snap! Crakk!! @ The Rob Roy
Eskimo Joe + Betchadupa + The Avenues @ The Hi Fi Bar
High Pass Filter @ Ding Dong
Grand Silent System + Casinos + Silvernight Drive @ The Espy

Tuesday, May 18

Playlist for today

Dollar Bar: Cute Gurls Have The Best Diseases (Journey To The Centre Of Attention EP)
The Royal Dave Graney Show: All Our Friends Were Stars (The Brother Who Lived LP)
Tim Rogers & The Temperance Union: The Mess (Spit Polish LP)
Dan Kelly & The Alpha Males: Lutheran Hall (Sings The Tabloid Blues LP)
The Vines: Winning Days (Winning Days LP)
Rocket Science: Sex Call (Eternal Holiday LP)
The Casanovas: Here's To It (The Casanovas LP)
Jet: Lazy Gun (Get Born reissue LP)
Fourth Floor Collapse: Sun (From The Cold LP)
The Restless: Can Of Worms (The Restless LP)
The Rectifiers: Levy (Levy EP)
The Redsunband: Cigarettes (Sleep Forever single)
Speedstar: There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (Unbreakable single)
Night Hour: Kids Don't Sell Their Hopes So Fast (Current Works Volume One EP)
Night Hour: Vibrations In Air (Current Works Volume One EP)
Dappled Cities Fly: Be Engine (Shake Yer Popboomerang Volume 2 LP)
The Zebras: Cunningham (Shake Yer Popboomerang Volume 2 LP)
Vanlustbäder: War Of The Worlds (Power Makes Sense EP)
The Presets: Let's Go (Blow Up EP)
Cut Copy: Going Nowhere (Bright Like Neon Love LP)
The Casinos: City Lights (City Lights 7")
City Lights: Every Single Day (Escape From Tomorrow Today LP)
Jihad Against America: Terrorism Is The New Black (live recording from Make Mix Tapes Not War compilation)
Ruck Rover: Matinee Saturday (No Hints No Clues No Lies LP)
The Woods Themselves: Georgie Boy (The Woods Themselves LP)
Gareth Edwards: Parrots (Make Mix Tapes Not War compilation)

Plus interview with special guest Josh Pyke of Night Hour and An Empty Flight.


Recommended gigs this coming week....

TONIGHT!! TUESDAY MAY 18
Mustang (Tight Arse Tuesday residency) @ The Tote
Dave Graney @ The Old Bar

THURSDAY MAY 20
Your Wedding Night + Origami + The Camels @ The Espy - Front Bar (free entry)

FRIDAY MAY 21
Midstate Orange + Smallgoods + Tranquilizers @ Revolver
The Sailors + Chucky Monroes + The Seedy Three + Dollar Bar + DJ Adalita @ The Espy
City Lights (album launch) + The Cops + Hovercrafts + The Kits @ The Tote
Vanlustbäder + The Rumours + The Cyclones @ The Rob Roy
Tim Rogers & The Temperance Union + Nick Barker @ The Corner
Good Buddha @ The Evelyn

SATURDAY MAY 22
Legends of Motorsport + Jihad Against America's last show @ The Tote
Cut Copy + The Presets @ The Espy (Gershwin Room)
Tim Reid (acoustic) + Ruck Rover + C-Minus Project @ The Rob Roy
Fourth Floor Collapse + Night Hour + Ash Naylor (Even) + Dirty Little Secret @ The Green Room
Crayon Fields + Dollar Bar @ Pony
Ed Kuepper @ The Corner

SUNDAY MAY 23
Night Hour + The Camels + Second Dan @ The Tote
The Fold + Tugboat @ The Old Bar

MONDAY MAY 24
APRA Awards

Tuesday, May 11

Playlist for today

Purplene: Swords Down (Purplene LP - out May 17)
Gentle Ben & His Sensitive Side: I Can't Hurt You (The Beginning Of The End LP)
Vanlustbäder: Scorcher (Power Makes Sense EP)
The City Lights: Escape From Tomorrow Today (Escape From Tomorrow Today LP)
Jape Squad: Heather's Head (Breakfast With Jape Squad LP)
Your Wedding Night: Gimme Head (Your Wedding Night EP)
Snap! Crakk!!: Neon Lights (Make Mixtapes Not War Compilation 2CD)
Sneeze: Svÿchers Dü (Just The Blues Sped Up LP)
Digger & The Pussycats: Save Yourself (Young Tight & Alright LP)
The Specimens: Get On Top (single)
The Ross Orbit Stack: Trouble (single)
Jebediah: Worlds Away (First Time single)
Ruck Rover: (It's) Untitled (No Hints No Clues No Lies LP)
Youth Group: Rosie And The Sea (Skeleton Jar LP)
Ides Of Space: Don't Expect Too Much (Sleeping Fractures LP)
Night Hour: Vibrations In Air (Current Works Volume One EP)
Hueco: Superfine (3650 Jours EP)
Machine Translations: Bee In A Cup (Venus Traps Fly LP)
High Pass Filter: N.C.O. (Soft Adventure LP)
Via Tania: Lightning & Thunder (Under A Different Sky LP)
Fur Patrol: Into The Sun (Collider LP)
Richard Easton: Ballad Of Betty Cole (Two Thousand Demolition Songs LP)
Small Knives: Bob's Blues (Rain On Tin LP)
Eskimo Joe: Car Crash (A Song Is A City LP)
At Sea: Your Collarbone Is Extending (Malfunctioning Teleprompter LP and Make Mixtapes Not War Compilation)
City City City: Days Like Levin (Dawn And The Blue Light District LP)


Recommended gigs this coming week....

TONIGHT!! TUESDAY MAY 11
Mustang (residency) + Sin City @ The Tote (cheap beer night!)

WEDNESDAY MAY 12
Rose Tattoo + The Specimens + Dung @ The Prince Of Wales

THURSDAY MAY 13
Splendid + Via Tania + Emily Ulman @ The Rob Roy
Midstate Orange + Disaster Plan @ The Espy - Front Bar (free entry)
The Dumb Earth @ The Tote

FRIDAY MAY 7
High Pass Filter + City City City @ Revolver
Your Wedding Night + Snap! Crakk!! + Always Viviano + Lakes @ Ding Dong
'Wild About You' CD & book launch with The Cants + Town Bikes + The Double Agents + Ian D Marks + The Mystaken + Thee Pink Stainless Tail + DJ Malibu Maria
Love Outside Andromeda @ The Evelyn
Spidergoat Canyon + Dr Invisiablo + Start Burning + What A Day @ The Duke Of Windsor

SATURDAY MAY 8
Grand Silent System + At Sea @ The Ding Dong
Small Knives (launch) @ The Rob Roy

Sunday, May 9

Hello comrades!

Just wanted to let y'all know that coming up on May 18 is an interview with Josh Pyke, the guy behind Sydney outfit Night Hour. He has released a super little EP called Current Works Volume One - the lead track from it is Kids Don't Sell Their Hopes So Fast which has won him quite some fans and airplay. He'll be bringing the Night Hour live show (featuring members of Josh's other band An Empty Flight) to town in May. Here are the dates....

Saturday May 22 Night Hour + Fourth Floor Collapse + Ash Naylor (Even) + Dirty Little Secret @ The Green Room
Sunday May 23 Night Hour + The Camels + Second Dan @ The Tote

And what the hell.... if you're reading this from Brisbane Night Hour will be joining my buddies at the Depot for a show with Screamfeeder on Thursday May 27. Go!

Tuesday, May 4

Playlist for today

Disaster Plan: Age Of Consent (Reality Correctors 1 Through 12 LP)
Night Hour: Kids Don't Sell Their Hopes So Fast (Current Works Volume 1 LP)
Purdy: 3 Friends To The Stars (Fairytale Insurance LP)
City City City: Year In (Dawn And The Blue Light District LP)
Speedstar: Unbreakable (Forget The Sun, Just Hold On forthcoming LP)
Ruck Rover: Rearrange Your Face (No Hints No Clues No Lies LP)
Machine Translations: Simple Life (Venus Traps Fly LP)
Gentle Ben And His Sensitive Side: Falling (The Beginning Of The End LP)
The Casanovas: 10 Outta 10 (The Casanovas LP)
Streetkid Vandal: Cool As The Dead (Cool As The Dead EP)
The Suits: Last Plane (forthcoming LP)
City Lights: Pictures Of You (Escape From Tomorrow Today LP)
Ides Of Space: Past Midnight (Sleeping Fractures LP)
Cut Copy: Going Nowhere (Bright Like Neon Love LP)
Prettyboy Crossover: Snowdrop (Always Buildings, Always Cities LP)
Baseball: Fire In My Throat, Fire In My Heart (Gods and Stars Priests and Kings LP)
The Panics: Southern (Crack In The Wall EP)
Small Knives: Flashlight (Rain On Tin LP) PBS FEATURE ALBUM
Folding For Air: Are You Afraid Of Heights (Are You Afraid Of Heights EP)
Tamas Wells: Broken By The Rise (A Mark On The Pane LP)
Vegas Kings: It's Alright (For Those That Came In Late LP)
Dan Kelly And The Alpha Males: River O Tears (Sing The Tabloid Blues LP)

Plus interview with special guests Gabby and Carla of the Town Bikes.


Recommended gigs this coming week....

TONIGHT!! TUESDAY MAY 4
Mustang (residency) + Six @ The Tote (cheap beer night and 8PM start)
Rui Pereira (The Drones) + James McCann (The Lowdorados) + Mike Noga (The Soldiers) @ The Rob Roy (free entry and 8PM start)

THURSDAY MAY 6
Bit By Bats + Baseball + Kickface @ The Espy - Front Bar (free entry)

FRIDAY MAY 7
Vegas Kings @ Pony (2AM)
Disaster Plan + Crayon Fields + Ill Bravados + Folding For Air @ The Rob Roy
The Sailors + Digger And The Pussycats + Vegas Kings + The Clappers + DJs The Tomato Brothers (from Dynamo) @ The Tote

SATURDAY MAY 8
Tamas Wells (A Mark On The Pane album launch) + Guild League @ The Rob Roy
Big Heavy Stuff @ The Evelyn
The Suits (album launch) + The Hovercrafts + The Rumours + Neon @ The Duke Of Windsor
The Specimens (single launch) + Cockfight Shootout + Blacklist + Vegas Kings @ Revolver (first 50 payers get a free CD!)

Monday, May 3

Tyranny Of Distance debuts tomorrow!!

Special guests will be the Town Bikes, a dancing combo who have graced loads of stages all around town recently. Carla and Gabby will both be in the studio to tell me what they've been up to and you can expect all the best new australian music that hasn't been heard enough. So stay tuned after Jacob's Coolin' By Sound!!