The Mess Hall have been announced as the surprise winners of this years Australian Music Prize, beating a strong field of contenders which included the likes of Midnight Juggernauts, The Devastations and Architecture In Helsinki. They join the esteemed companionship of Augie March and The Drones as...
With her acclaimed second album, Somewhere, Anywhere, now released in America and Canada, where she’s been recently touring with Broken Social Scene and Stars, New Buffalo gets back to basics with a series of intimate solo piano shows for her next Australian tour. New Buffalo’s Sally Seltmann, who c...
I feel bad for Laura Jean tonight. Not because she isn’t good (she’s actually much better than merely good) but because this is apparently a receptive crowd by her standards. “Thank you for being such a lovely audience,” she says, a picture of earnest gratitude, “I can really feel the energy coming ...
To follow up the release of her second album, Somewhere, anywhere, New Buffalo’s Sally Seltmann takes to the road in late April for a national tour. Support for the first three shows, in West Australia, comes from Institut Polaire, while Laura Jean will be on the remaining bills. The Norfolk, Frema...
A piano is a solitary instrument. It won’t travel with you, which means no jamming on the tour bus or quick sketches chucked on file. You have to sit with it, and pay it your full attention. Somewhere, anywhere is the sound of that focus, a 35-minute conversation between Sally Seltmann and her piano...
In record stores this Saturday, the highly anticipated Somewhere, anywhere is the second album from New Buffalo, a.k.a. Sally Seltmann. You can check out two cuts here from the follow-up to 2004’s acclaimed The Last Beautiful Day, but to whet your appetite here’s Sally’s personal rundown of the trac...
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