Jaguar Love get nailed

Nine Inch Nails have handpicked Jaguar Love to be their sole support act for their Melbourne and Sydney shows next week. Both bands will be playing at the Soundwave Festivals with Jaguar Love playing also playing sideshows in Melbourne and Sydney with Minus The Bear.

Originally forming in Seattle, Jaguar Love (Cody Votolato and Johnny Whitney of Blood Brothers and Jay Clark from Pretty Girls Make Graves) soon up and moved to Portland where the ferociously creative and once-noisy musicians added incredibly catchy melody to their songwriting. The result is their debut album Take Me To The Sea, a collection of 10 songs that are as surreal as they are anthemic. Oh, and they’re a little bit glam too.

TOUR DATES
Sat 21 Feb - Brisbane, Soundwave Festival
Sun 22 Feb - Sydney, Soundwave Festival
Mon 23 Feb – Sydney, Campbelltown City Hotel w/ Minus The Bear
Tue 24 Feb – Sydney, Hordern Pavilion w/ Nine Inch Nails
Wed 25 Feb – Melbourne, Festival Hall w/ Nine Inch Nails
Thu 26 Feb – Melbourne, Next! at Brown Alley w/ Minus The Bear
Fri 27 Feb – Melbourne, Soundwave Festival
Sat 28 Feb - Adelaide, Soundwave Festival
Mon 2 Mar - Perth, Soundwave Festival

Highways of Gold

Jaguar Love touring in Feb/Mar 09

Jaguar Love are guitarist Cody Votolato and singer Johnny Whitney from the Blood Brothers, along with Jay Clark from Pretty Girls Make Graves (guitarist then, now drummer, multi-instrumentalist and producer).

These ferociously creative and once-noisy musicians have now added incredibly catchy melody to their songwriting, as heard on their debut album Take Me To The Sea.

They're set to bring their heavy-duty glam moves and crunchy, addictive hooks to Australia for the first time in February/March touring with the Soundwave Festival.

Soundwave Festival 09 Dates
Sat 21 Feb - Brisbane, RNA Showgrounds
Sun 22 Feb - Sydney, venue TBC
Fri 27 Feb – Melbourne, Melbourne Showgrounds
Sat 28 Feb - Adelaide, Bonython Park
Mon 2 Mar - Perth, Steel Blue Oval

Highways of Gold


myspace.com/jaguarloveband

Matador download sampler

US label Matador have released a new Intended Play download sampler featuring a track from each of their current acts including Fucked Up, Jay Reatard, Lou Reed and A.C. Newman.

The sampler is a musical mixbag, from A.C. Newman’s jewel-like pop songscapes to the majestic neo-punk of Fucked Up to the crystalline depths and heights created by Shearwater to a track from Lou Reed’s painstaking, thoughtful, first-ever performance of his controversial classic album Berlin.

Download the 13 track .zip file: Matador Intended Play Fall 2008

1. A.C. Newman There Are Maybe Ten Or Twelve [NEW AND UNRELEASED. mp3] (from Get Guilty, due out late January)
2. Belle and Sebastian The State I Am In (BBC Version)
3. Jennifer O’Connor Here With Me
4. Shearwater The Snow Leopard (Remastered) from Rook)
5. Lou Reed Caroline Says, Pt. II (Live) (from Berlin: Live At St. Ann’s Warehouse, due out November 4)
6. Mogwai The Sun Smells Too Loud
7. Fucked Up No Epiphany (from The Chemistry Of Common Life)
8. Jay Reatard An Ugly Death (from Matador Singles ‘08)
9. Jaguar Love Humans Evolve Into Skyscrapers (from Take Me To The Sea)
10. Pavement Cataracts (from Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence Ed., out Dec 6)
11. Brightblack Morning Light Oppressions Each (from Motion To Rejoin)
12. Times New Viking Call & Respond (from Stay Awake, out Nov 15)
13. Condo Fucks What’cha Gonna Do About It?