Local Music News
Nick Allbrook Leaves Tame Impala
Monday, May 20 2013
Tame Impala bass player Nick Allbrook has left the band. A statement on the official band Facebook on Saturday announced that Allbrook would be d…Read News
News In Brief: Tiny Ruins, Primitive Calculators, Wood & Wire
Monday, May 20 2013
– Just off an 18-date European tour, New Zealand songwriter Hollie Fullbrook – a.k.a. Tiny Ruins – has released a new EP on CD and 10” vinyl that’s exclusive in physical form to the Spunk Records website in Australia. (It’s out digitally via iTunes, and in…Read News
Tours In Brief: Alpine, Seja, Kirin J Callinan
Friday, May 17 2013
– Last year’s video clip for Alpine’s breathy single ‘Gasoline’ – directed by Kris Moyes of ‘Way II War’ and other Kirin J Callinan-entwined infamy – had subtitles, snowy mountains and a furry monster. The new clip for the same song has, um, dancing. Yes, Alpine have visually repackaged ‘Gasoline’ to coincide with a national US tour sup…Read News
Forthcoming: Laura Imbruglia
Friday, May 17 2013
What: What a Treat by Laura Imbruglia. When: June 7 through Ready Freddie/MGM. Key notes: Third album from Melbourne singer-songwriter, following 2006’s Self-Titled and 2010’s The Lighter Side Of…. Produced by Simon Grounds (Teeth & Tongue, Laura Jean). Includes the si…Read News
Gigs In Brief: Los Tones, Library Siesta, Naked, Damn Terran
Friday, May 17 2013
– New Band Alert graduates Los Tones are zipping down to Melbourne this weekend to pack three gigs into just two days. That includes an afternoon stop at Gasometer, a night one at the Pacific Islands-themed LuWOW and a support slot for New Zealand oddity Lightning Tape Wolf. The ga…Read News
Premiere: TV Colours ‘Beverly’
Thursday, May 16 2013
It’s taken Canberra’s TV Colours six years to make a debut album, thanks partly to scrapping two completed versions along the way. But now at last we have ‘Beverly’, the first single from Purple Skies, Toxic River. The album’s centrepiece, it crackles with noise-saturated density and barked-from-afar lyrics before hit…Read News
Festival News: Vagabond, Moduluxxx, FWMF
Thursday, May 16 2013
– Hoped to be a winter alternative to Splendour in the Grass, Kangaroo Valley’s inaugural Vagabond Music Festival is a camping event spread over the Queens Birthday long weekend (June 8-10) on a farm that was formerly a fruit orchard. The line-up includes Fishing (pictured), Guineafowl, The Bedroom Philosopher, The Money Go Round, Apes,…Read News
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Nick Allbrook Leaves Tame Impala
Tame Impala bass player Nick Allbrook has left the band.
A statement …
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News In Brief: Tiny Ruins, Primitive Calculators, Wood & Wire
– Just off an 18-date European tour, New Zealand songwriter Hollie Ful…
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Track By Track: Loomer
Ahead of a vinyl reissue with new cover art, singer-guitarist-keyboard…
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Tours In Brief: Alpine, Seja, Kirin J Callinan
– Last year’s video clip for Alpine’s breathy single ‘Gasoline’ – dire…
