Deerhunter - Live at the Wireless on JJJ Mon Aug 3

Triple J will broadcast their live recording of Deerhunter from their recent tour, this Monday 3rd August at 8pm, and repeated at Sunday 9th August at 5pm.

Here are the photos they captured at the show:



If you're not in Australia, you can still tune in by streaming them on the net.
Mon Aug 3, 8.00pm AEST (Sydney time)
Sun Aug 9, 5.00pm AEST (Sydney time)

SYDNEY - Julian Plenti album launch @ Purple Sneakers tomorrow night!

New Love Of Diagrams mp3 - Look Out

“Recalls the early work of British shoegazers Ride, Swervedriver and other luminaries from Creation Records circa early ’90s… Simultaneously urgent and laid-back, which is quite a feat to pull off.”
Mess & Noise

“The new album is due out soon… and is sure to be a monster of biblical proportions”
Inpress

“An explosion of guitars, resurrecting the dense sounds of American indie-pop circa 90-94”
Beat

“Highly recommended listening”
Rave

So we can all safely say that everyone has fallen in love with Love Of Diagrams' track Forever, the first single taken from the upcoming Nowhere Forever

You can grab a copy of the album on August 21, but for those still salivating for some fresh LOD in the meantime, we bring you Look Out.

Staying true to form, the track has all the fuzzed out guitars, feedback and pummeling drums that you would expect from this much loved Melbourne three piece.

Look Out [mp3]

New Friendly Fires video for brand new song Kiss Of Life

Friendly Fires blew everyone away at Splendour, well those who were lucky enough to cram themselves into the tent to see catch them!

And just in time for their debut, sold out tour of Australia, the band have released a brand spanking new single Kiss Of Life.

Here's the video, featuring Ed Mac's signature hip shimmying moves.



Friendly Fires play:
TONIGHT! Tue 28 Jul - Sydney, Manning Bar w/ Miami Horror & Yacht Club DJs - SOLD OUT!
TOMORROW NIGHT! Wed 29 Jul - Melbourne, Prince Bandroom w/ Miami Horror & Yacht Club DJs - SOLD OUT!

New Atlas Sound album and mp3

Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox is back with a new release under his solo guise, Atlas Sound, for another round of ethereal pop genius with his second solo album, Logos.

Whilst its predecessor (Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel, 2007) was a record of fragile beauty and acute experimentalism in comparison to the often volatile bluster of Deerhunter, Logos has a far more rooted pop sensibility.

A draft version of the album leaked on the internet last year. Understandably, Cox was not happy Jan! In fact he almost abandoned the project but thank goodness he didn't.

Bradford says, "My last album was a bedroom laptop type thing. Very introverted. Logos is an album that was recorded all over the world. It's not about me. There are collaborations with other musicians. The lyrics are not autobiographical. The view is a lot more panoramic and less close-up. I became bored with introspection. This was also the case Deerhunter's Microcastle LP, which was written during the same period."

At its heart is ‘Walkabout’, a collaboration between Cox and Noah Lennox (Panda Bear) put together whilst he was on tour with Animal Collective in Europe. Combining their love for tape loops and doo-wop, the track lifts the hook from The Dovers’ classic 1966 garage track ‘What Am I Going To Do?’ to form a glorious summertime jam.

Walkabout [mp3]

Elsewhere Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier also lends her vocals to the kaleidoscopic motorik number, ‘Quick Canal’.

The tracklisting is as follows:
'The Light That Failed'
'An Orchid'
'Walkabout' ft. Noah Lennox (Panda Bear)
'Criminals'
'Attic Lights'
'Sheila'
'Quick Canal' ft. Laetitia Sadier (Stereolab)
'My Halo'
'Kid Climax'
'Washington School'
'Logos'

Read more of Bradford Cox's interview with Stereogum about Logos here.
Logos is out in October through 4ad/ Remote Control

New Cave Singers album and mp3 Beach House

Matador have announced the second album from Seattle’s Cave Singers is due in August. "It is entitled ‘Welcome Joy’ and adds a world of color and nuance to the already great songs from their 2007 debut. The trio of Peter Quirk, Derek Fudesco and Marty Lund were joined on this record by Amber Webber (Black Mountain, Lightning Dust) and Ashley Webber (Lightning Dust). They recorded the album at The Hive in Vancouver with Colin Stewart.

Our first MP3 is the gorgeous, brooding, building Beach House":

Beach House [mp3]

Welcome Joy is out in August through Matador/ Remote Control.

Peaches video mini-doco and speaks to Wound Media

Over at peachesrocks.com, Peaches has been speaking with Wound Media.

And in case you missed it there is also a video featuring footage from the very earliest days of Peaches career. Click the picture below to watch!



I Feel Cream is out now through XL/ Remote Control.

The Dirty Three's Warren Ellis talks shoes, socks and beards

We here at RC always have time to catch up on what the Dirty Three's Warren Ellis has been up to.

Pitchfork recently reported on the upcoming 2-disc film anthology release of Ellis and Nick Cave's film scores.

And Ellis also recently penned this Things I Have Learned piece for The Quietus including:

"Beards and women never get on"
"You don't want to look like a mod"
"Warren Ellis might be the Imelda Marcos of the Bad Seeds"

read the rest here

One can rest assured Ellis can now be considered a reputable giver of fashion advice following his appearance on the Sartorialist.

America discovers Blue Roses

While Blue Roses' self-titled debut record was released here back in April, the album only just comes out in the US next week.

Pitchfork recently gave the track I Am Leaving 8/10 and best new music and Stereogum pegged her as a Band To Watch. So it's the perfect opportunity to play catch up if you missed this gorgeous LP the first time around.

Blue Roses is 21 year old singer Laura Groves and a shifting cast of musicians.

The self-titled debut album finds Laura’s haunting voice arranged amidst rich and varied instrumental textures. At heart Groves is an old-school songwriter and storyteller. From soaring folk to dramatic peaks, it’s a personal and heartfelt self-produced debut.

The album was recorded in Laura’s tiny home town of Shipley, in Yorkshire. Much of it was recorded in a piano shop, using a Steinway destined for a local hotel, because she “couldn’t afford to actually buy one”. One track features a choir of friends recorded in a local café. Else where living rooms and local churches were turned in to makeshift studios.

It’s a compelling and warm introduction to a major talent already getting series coverage in the UK music press, and a must for people who love Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, New Buffalo, Joanna Newsom and Bjork.

It’s a stunning mix of fragile, heartfelt songs full of fairytale lyrics delivered with tender, snowflake-like delicacy.

Witness for yourself:







Blue Roses is out now through XL/ Remote Control.

Sydney: Ned Collette & Wirewalker in your town tomorrow night!

Hello friends,

We're about to go where none of us has ever gone before - on a Tiger Airways flight. To Sydney. We've been there before although it does seem a while since we flew - usually it's the world's worst coffee and pies in Holbrook for us, then turn left at the Hopetoun.....

But this weekend - tomorrow night to be exact we're playing our first Sydney show since last September, and we're doing it at The Factory Theatre, which by all accounts is enourmous, so if you're a Sydneysider on this list or know any, please come on down, so to speak.

Also on the bill are the excellent Wifey, and in the middle spot Sui Zhen. Doors are at 7.30 for an 8.30 start and we'll be on just after 10pm. We'll be previewing a whole bunch of stuff off the new album as well as playing some ear-poppingly re-arranged versions of old news.

You can buy tickets now online or by calling the box office on (02) 9550 3666. They are $15+bf. Or $18 on the door, unless it sells out, which it wont.

NED COLLETTE & WIREWALKER

SUI ZHEN

WIFEY

FRIDAY JULY 17

THE FACTORY THEATRE

105 VICTORIA ST, MARRICKVILLE

SYDNEEEEEEY!!!!

Stay tuned for news about a mega-benefit at the Tote July 26, the latest on the album (yes it is finally finished, and almost christened), and more for the rest of the year.

Cheerio,

NC&W

www.nedcollette.com

Black Cab Melbourne single launch this Friday

A few weeks ago we blogged Black Angels, the first taste from Black Cab's forthcoming third ablum Call Signs.

The track is a tribute to ‘70’s tragic singer song-writing genius Judee Sill, one of Geffen Records earliest signings whose life ended in the late ‘70’s in drug hazed obscurity.

This Friday the band will launch it as a double single with another track from the album, entitled Rescue.

BLACK CAB
Rescue/ Black Angels double single launch
Northcote Social Club
supported by Wellyn and Queens Head (side project for Danny from Sub Audible Hum).
Pre-sale from venue website $10 + bf or $12 at the door if available.
The first 150 pre-sales can take their pick of either of the bands first two albums!

Call Signs is due out July 31 through Laughing Outlaw.

Wolf & Cub free Adelaide gig this Thursday

This Thursday 16th July sure is turning into THE free gig night.

A quick reminder that Wolf & Cub wrap up their mammoth national album tour for Vessels with a free Triple J presented show at the Gov.

Triple J present:
WOLF & CUB
The Scare & Calling All Cars
Thu 16th July @ Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, Adelaide
Doors open 6.30pm
First band on 8.00pm

A whole bunch of live footage from their Brisbane show was recently uploaded on You Tube:





You can check out more on their YouTube Channel

St Helens free all ages live instore at Polyester Records Melbourne city this Thursday

St. Helens Play Live Instore @ Polyester Records
6pm this Thur 16th July @ City Store (288 Flinders Lane)

St. Helens will be playing live at Polyester Records city store at 6pm this Thursday. The album has been receiving amazing reviews all around town and already touted by many that it will feature in end of year favourite album lists.

All Polyester Records instore shows are free and all ages are welcome!

“one of the best local debuts in recent times” The Age ****

“a timeless world” Sydney Morning Herald ****

“razor sharp guitar interplay and bitter-sweet, intertwining vocals” Triple J

“Heavy Profession is a rock record proper, romantic and drunk on poetic absolutes like all good bleeding heart music should be.” Threethousand

Heavy Profession is out now through Dot Dash.

The Horrors on Nylon TV

Behind the scenes at The Horrors photoshoot for Nylon Magazine.



Primary Colours is out now through XL/ Remote Control.

New video from The Veils - Begin Again

Reportage style video for the last track on Sun Gangs made by Sean Gratton, New Zealands hottest young video director.



Sun Gangs is out now through Rough Trade/ Remote Control.

2 more Jenny Lewis videos for you

Jenny Lewis' latest album Acid Tongue has been out for a while, but 3 videos for tracks from the album have just surfaced. Last week we blogged Black Sand.

Here she is recording Carpetbaggers with Elvis Costello, up on Pitchfork



And celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton has the exclusive on the clip to See Fernando. Click here to watch:



Acid Tongue is out now through Rough Trade/ Remote Control.

Another new Jay Reatard mp3 Wounded

Yet another new track from the forthcoming Watch Me Fall album by Jay Reatard, due out in August!

Here is Wounded, which Matador say "wraps layers of Tall Dwarfs-ish acoustic guitar around a typically complex Jay song structure. In two and a half minutes it builds to an ironically celebratory refrain. We challenge you to get this one out of your head after listening to it a couple of times."

Wounded [mp3]

Watch Me Fall is out Aug 15 through Matador/ Remote Control.

New Kid Harpoon mp3 and video

“Exceptional” – NME
“He has the seeds of something special” – The Independent
“Dreamy imagery sparkling with passion” – The Sun

It’s been over a year since Kid Harpoon released any new material. Since then, he’s been in Los Angeles with producer Trevor Horn working on his debut album.

The first fruits of these sessions, which included musicians who have worked with Bob Dylan, Dean Martin and Elvis Presley playing on the record, is this limited edition single ‘Stealing Cars.’

Debuting Kid Harpoon’s more refined, fuller sound, ‘Stealing Cars’ sees the singer-songwriter develop the lo-fi acoustics of earlier songs and transform them into a rich, textured sound as demonstrated here.

Stealing Cars [mp3]

The single will come backed with the exclusive new track ‘Don’t Cry On Me.’ Kid Harpoon will also be playing an instore at Pure Groove on the day of single release.



Stealing Cars is out July 20 through Young Turks/ XL.

New Times New Viking mp3, album on way

Times New Viking have a new album on its way. According to Matador, the Columbus based trio delivered their second album for the label on VHS tape and if this first mp3 taster is anything to go by, it's going to be packed with more lofi pop goodness.

No Time To Hope [mp3]

The release date for the new album, Born Again Revisited is yet to be announced.

New Yo La Tengo live footage

As we mentioned last week, Yo La Tengo have a new record coming out this September. It is called 'Popular Songs' and you can hear the first single Periodically Double Or Triple here.

You can watch the band perform another track "Nothing To Hide" from what will be the band's 12th album, on French TV here. It's YLT at their noisy best.



Popular Songs is due out September through Matador/ Remote Control. Can't wait!

New AC Newman live album out now

Surprise! AC Newman has dropped a live album on us and it's out today through iTunes only.

It is called "Live From Montreal" and was recorded 12th March 2009 at the Sainte-Catherine Apple Store.

Tracklisting is:
1. There Are Maybe Ten or Twelve
2. Miracle Drug
3. Like A Hitman, Like A Dancer
4. Prophets
5. Secretarial
6. The Heartbreak Rides
7. The Palace At 4 A.M.
8. All Of My Days And All Of My Days Off
9. Submarines of Stockholm

It's an iTunes exclusive so if you want to hear it, head overe there.

Wolf & Cub play free hometown Adelaide show for JJJ next week

Wolf & Cub are playing a free show for Triple J next Thursday 16th July at the Governor Hindmarsh in Adelaide.

Details from the Triple J site:

White Stripes rarity exclusives available via subscription

Third Man Records, Jack White's label, has launched an online subscription service which will give members access to pre-sale tickets, T-Shirts, rare vinyl and rare videos only available to subscribers.

The subscription service is called The Vault and will be available for all Third Man Records projects which are mainly Jack White's various bands ie White Stripes, Raconteurs/ Saboteurs, Dead Weather.

It will be a two tiered system - premium and platinum membership, the latter also getting access to an exclusive Third Man 12" LP, 7" and tshirt every 3 months. For those interested in the platinum membership which comes with extra goodies for a higher fee, if you sign up before July 21 you'll receive a double album of The White Stripes LP Icky Thump featuring an exclusive MONO mix, 180 Gram Vinyl and customized artwork. For more details check here.

To launch The Vault, Jack White wrote a blog entry - read it here.

The Big Pink announce debut album

[image from under the radar]

From 4ad:

As recording starts to come to a close out in New York, The Big Pink have revealed the title of their forthcoming debut record, due September.

Speaking to 6Music, Milo Cordell discussed how A Brief History Of Love came to be the title for the release.

"Every song is a love song to some degree, about every different aspect of love.

"The good, the bad, the boring, the exciting, the dreams, the nightmares, the whole thing and I guess that’s what encompasses the whole album, and we have a song called ‘A Brief History Of Love’ so it’s apt."

Currently still recording out in Manhattan with various production teams, Milo declared the heritage of the studio where they were recording had been crucial to the way they had gone about putting the album together.

"It’s been great doing it in New York, being in Electric Lady. We recorded it in the same room as Combat Rock by The Clash."

Partner Robbie Furze also revealed certain dimensions to their sound were developed as a result of them making the most of the studio.

"We’ve got Bowie’s piano, the one that he played on, we’ve actually got on our record.

"There’s a couple of slower ones that we don’t play live," Furze added. "We actually wrote a new song out in Electric Lady which came very quickly in that room.”

As part of our monthly mailout we have another competition for you to enter, this time with the chance to win one of the copies of the band's Japanese EP release, This Is Our Time. To be in with the running to win sign up to the 4AD mailing list.

More details on the record and the much-anticipated video for 'Stop The World' expected shortly.

In the meantime here is more to intrigue you:

Jay Reatard live on The Daily Habit

Last week we told you about Jay Reatard's upcoming album Watch Me Fall, due out Aug 15.

Jay performed two tracks from the album recently on Fuel TV's The Daily Habit. First up was the single It Ain't Gonna Save Me (we blogged the mp3 last week too), plus another newie, My Shadow.





Watch Me Fall is due out August 15 through Matador/ Remote Control.

The Big Pink interviewed in The Guardian

The Big Pink are still working away at their debut record, meanwhile their second single Stop The World was released last week.

The Guardian Newspaper recently caught up with Robbie and Milo. Read the interview here.

My buddy valentine
They pretend to be gay, get tunes from noise and are suddenly hot enough to record at Jimi Hendrix's studios. What planet did the Big Pink come from, asks Alexis Petridis. [read more]

Stop The World single is out now through 4ad/ Remote Control.

New Jack Peñate album released + video Be The One

When he was last here Jack Peñate was, by his own admission, a kid. A south London bedroom-boy-with-acoustic-guitar. He ducked, he dived, he played the Rhythm Factory, rockin’ the scenesters. And rockin’ the charts: his debut album, 2007’s top ten Matinée, went gold; the single, Torn On The Platform, entered the charts at Number 7. Good stuff, but not great stuff. Not stirring, take-your-head-off stuff. Jack knew this. But the truth didn’t hurt; it liberated him.

So for his second album Jack decided to rip it up and start again. Totally start again. Total honesty, absolute vision, complete control.

The result is Everything Is New , a soul record. Recorded over twelve intense months in producer Paul Epworth (Bloc Party, Friendly Fires)’s own west London home studio, Everything Is New is a giant musical leap forward from this 24 year old Londoner’s acclaimed debut album.

Everything Is New is a technicolour record full of experimentation and possibility. Featuring the blissed-out house grooves of first single Tonight’s Today and swaggering soul of anthemic new single Be The One, the album fuses Peñate’s wide-eyed pop songwriting with the music he’s always loved and lived, successfully bringing Brazilian Tropicala, Krautrock, New Orleans marching bands, Bashment, Afrobeat, lo-fi Hop Hop, Gospel, Reggaeton and Phily Soul into the mix over a nine track record that delights and surprises at every turn.

So here it is. Nine tracks. No filler. An ambitious, timeless, lo-fi soul record. Everything Is New.

Tracklisting:
1. Pull My Heart Away
2. Be The One
3. Everything Is New
4. Tonight's Today
5. So Near
6. Every Glance
7. Give Yourself Away
8. Let's All Die
9. Body Down

And here is the video for Jack Peñate's new single Be The One, out now.



Jack Penate's new album Everything Is New is out now through XL/ Remote Control.

1998: mutant swinger from Mars landed and Jack White had a bowl cut!

Going around the blogs today is footage of Mutant Swinger From Mars - a scifi spoof filmed in 1998, but screening for the first time at the San Diego Comic Con next month.

Making a cameo in it is a young Jack White looking very different to how he does today. Wouldn't have picked it if someone didn't point it out to me!



More details over at Pitchfork.

The Horrors Glastonbury photo diary

The Guardian asked The Horrors to document their time at this year's Glastonbury in a photo diary. The band provided some beautifully arty shots, but somewhat baffled by them, The Guardian contributed captions of their own.



Click here to see the rest.

Love of Diagrams launch 7" in Melbourne and Sydney

Last month we blogged a taster of Love Of Diagrams forthcoming album Nowhere Forever.

The track Forever will be launched as a 7" in Melbourne this weekend, and Sydney next weekend.

Be sure to catch the shows to hear more from the band's forthcoming new record Nowhere Forever.

Melbourne: Sat July 4th at The Tote w. The Twerps and Chris Smith
Sydney: Fri July 10th at Spectrum w. Songs

Discovery album out July 10, stream it now on nme

The Discovery album is out in just over a week. We blogged a couple of tracks a month ago but you can now listen to the whole thing over at NME.

Discovery is the recording project of Rostam Batmanglij and Wes Miles, friends who began recording together in the summer of 2005. One year later they had committed themselves to their respective bands, Vampire Weekend and Ra Ra Riot, but nonetheless continued to record together when they both found themselves in the same city.

The project is many things: it’s partly an attempt to realize Wes’s concept of a band where everyone plays synthesizers, and of Rostam’s concept for an album where handclaps keep the backbeat instead of snares drums. It’s an embrace and also a commentary on the pop music of the past decade, of booming 808 bass and jittery sixteenth note high-hats; Elements of European electronic dance music skittering in double-time over steady R&B.

If soul music is secularized, sexualized gospel, Discovery is an attempt to see if soul music can survive being plasticized, roboticized, quantized, chopped, and finally, screwed. The album features Rostam and Wes each singing half the songs and guest vocals from Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig (on ‘Carby’) and Dirty Projectors’ Angel Deradoorian (‘I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend’)

The tracklist for ‘LP’ is:


You can read an interview they did with Pitchfork here.

Discovery is out July 10 through XL/ Remote Control.

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New Elvis Perkins In Dearland video Chains, Chains, Chains

Check out the video for "Chains, Chains, Chains" off the self-titled Elvis Perkins In Dearland album.



Elvis Perkins In Dearland is out now through XL/ Remote Control.