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CONVERGE TO TOUR AUSTRALIA IN MARCH

December 19th 2006 10:37

Converge: They might look like dorks, but they can fuck you up

Salem Massachusetts's kings of insanely technical metallic hardcore are comin’ over to our neck of the woods in March 2007. Speakin’ of necks, ya better start doin’ some preparation exercises now or yours is gonna get snapped.

Below are some live videos of Converge from Youtube so ya know what you’re in for. SEE vocalist Jacob Bannon prance around in shorts and what look like slippers. SEE the guitarist and bassist swing their instruments around and hit themselves in the face. SEE members of the band stage-dive mid-song, only to get back on stage in time for the end. SEE fat kids jump off the stage and crush the audience like falling boulders:

”The Saddest Day” Live originally from Petitioning The Sky (1998)

“Locust Reign” Live originally from Poached Diaries (1999) split with Agoraphoric Nosebleed

“Concubine” Live originally from Jane Doe (2001)

”Heartless” Live originally from You Fail Me (2004)

Converge put out a new album this year, No Heroes, which is said to be even tighter and more vicious than previous outings. If someone out there knows me and wants to spend money on me, they can buy me this for Christmas. While I may not know a helluva lot about this band, I can safely say that if You Fail Me (2004) and the above clips are any indication, this is going to be an intensely emotional and venomous show.

I don’t really do the mosh thing anymore, and I actually think I’m too much of a pussy to be at this show, but I will try and go anyway. I get the feeling that emos might like Converge: not the mopey little ones with the hair over their eyes but the huge tattooed ones with curtain rods through their lips, the ones who pull kickboxing moves at gigs? Take along some padding, and perhaps a crash helmet, and this should be quite the experience.

Below are the dates:

Perth: 18 March; Amplifier
Brisbane: 21 March; Club 299
Sydney: 22 March; Manning Bar
Adelaide: 23 March; Fowlers
Melbourne: 24 March; Corner Hotel
Melbourne: 25 March; Corner Hotel (ALL AGES)

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REGULATIONS: SWEDISH HARDCORE BAND TOUR AUSTRALIA

November 24th 2006 07:42

Look like punk band. Smell like punk band. Maybe you are Regulations.

Hardcore punk band Regulations hail from Umeå in the north of Sweden and they’re bringing their speedy tempos and catchy stripped-down songs to our shores in a few weeks. And when I say hardcore, I don’t mean metalcore or emocore or bloody applecore. I mean HARDCORE: the way that Black Flag, the Dead Kennedys, and your momma used to play it.

Poster for Regulations' upcoming Aussie tour: Punk fuckin' rawk

Umeå is known for its hardcore scene, most notably the band Refused. Regulations play it straighter and safer than Refused, but recruited that band’s Dennis Lyxén for production of their full-length debut Regulations (2005). It’s an album full of raw ‘n’ rowdy, singalong numbers with all the youthful exuberance that ageing punkers like Henry Rollins and Jerry Only just can’t seem to muster these days (probably because they’re old bastards).

Below is a live video of Regulations with appropriately aweful sound quality. I can't guarantee that the sound quality will be any better at the actual show, but punk rock isn't about sound quality; it's about freedom, man.

Regulations “Anna's Eyes” live.

I’ll hazard a guess and say that they’ll be playing tunes off this album as well as stuff from their highly collectible 7” releases. It’s sure to be a kickass show with a good ol’ fashioned circle pit and police cracking people’s skulls. It’ll be like 1980 all over again, except I’ll be twenty-six instead of a newborn baby.

The dates are:

Brisbane: 8 December; Jubilee Hotel
Sydney: 9 December; Sanderingham Hotel, Newtown
Adelaide: 14 December; Enigma
Melbourne: 16 December; Arthouse

You can contact Regulations at regulations@spray.se for t-shirts and pins and all kinds of shit.

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MODEST MOUSE TOUR AUSTRALIA IN DECEMBER & JANUARY

November 16th 2006 03:00

Modest Mouse: Apparently their name has something to do with Virginia Woolf and the working class. Go figure.

Probably the best band to fit the ‘indie’ tag for quite some time, Washington State’s Modest Mouse will be bringing their white-trash, angular pop to our shores around the new year. Never mind that the band has one of the most pissweak names in rock history, I’ve gotta feeling this is gonna be a rockin’ good show.

Here are some Youtube goodies: live performances from Modest Mouse to whet your appetites.

Modest Mouse “Float On” live on Craig Kilborn (whoever the hell that is)

Modest Mouse “Bury Me With It” live on Last Call (whatever the hell that is)

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Modest Mouse “Ocean Breathes Salty” live on Late Night With Conan (I know this guy, he’s the barbarian, right?)

Those clips are tunes from their last album: 2004's Good News For People Who Love Bad News. Despite what some die-hard fans might tell you, its a wonderful trip through dreamy indie pop; shout-along Pixies-style anthems, southern-fried funk; and lurching, Waitsian carnivale. I’m sure they’ll be playin’ plenty of tunes off that album, and their other masterworks like The Lonesome Crowded West (1997) and The Moon & Antarctica (2000), as well as showcasing material from their new album We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank, which is slated for release early next year. Add to that the fact that legendary Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr will be joining the band, and what ya get is something approaching the best indie rock happening in these parts since the original lineup of Dinosaur Jr toured here earlier this year.

The band are appearing at the already sold out Falls Festival, but have graciously decided to do side shows for their first voyage to the land of Oz. Modest Mouse seem to have quite the following though, and I’ve gotta feeling this show’s gonna sell out quickly. Get in fast. Below are the dates:

Melbourne: 29 December; The Palace

Lorne: 30 December; Falls Festival (SOLD OUT)

Marion Bay: 31 December; Falls Festival (SOLD OUT)

Brisbane: 2 January; The Tivoli

Sydney: 3 January; Enmore Theatre

Busselton: 6 January; Sir Stewart Bovell Park

For more details, check out the news at Sony BMG

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HOW YOUR BLOG CAN LEAD TO WRITING OPPORTUNITIES

November 10th 2006 12:00

I have some important news about how your blog can lead to writing opportunities.

This isn’t so much music news as it is shiny happy Hellvis news. I had a meeting on Wednesday night with local street press mag Tsunami and I’m going to be doing CD reviews for them, and possibly later down the line: gig reviews and interviews. Sweet

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DIRTY THREE: AUSTRALIAN INSTRUMENTAL ROCK TRIO INCITES RIOT IN CHINA

November 2nd 2006 05:00

The true People's Liberation Army of China

Despite playing folk and classical-tinged (mostly) instrumental music with violin, guitar, and drums, I have always thought that Melbourne’s Dirty Three were ROCK with a capital RRRIOT. There’s something feral and unhinged in their music that puts them up there with bands like the Stooges, the Birthday Party and Nirvana. Even though they sound nothing like any of those bands, there’s a danger to their music that puts them shoulder-to-shoulder with these most fiery of rock demons in my book. And this news from Pitchfork just supports my suspicions.

During their recent tour of Asia, a riot occurred at a gig the band performed in Shanghai at the Yun Feng Theatre owned by the People's Liberation Army. People’s? Liberation? My ass! How can you claim to be for the liberation of the people and then quash their right to culture and good ol’ rock ‘n’ roll

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DON’T NEED YOU: NEW RIOT GRRRL DOCO

October 23rd 2006 10:20

'Us punk rock whores don't need you' - Bikini Kill

Forget the namby-pamby, prepackaged girl power of Alanis Morrisette and Courtney Love. The true Riot Grrrl movement was started in Olympia and Washington DC about 15 years ago by a number of truly independent-minded, female-dominated bands who weren’t in it for the money. Riot Grrrl was more than just a musical movement: it was a DIY underground revolution of fanzines, activism, and network building that gave a platform to many unique voices who otherwise may never have been heard.

Don’t Need You: The Herstory of Riot Grrrl is a new documentary by Kerri Koch, featuring interviews with key players in the movement such as Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna, Sleater-Kinney's Corin Tucker, Bratmobile’s Allison Wolfe, and token male Ian Mackay of Minor Threat and Fugazi. There’s also plenty of rare archival material to get Riot Grrrl geeks everywhere salivating

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TOM WAITS (FOR NO MAN): NEW TOM WAITS MP3s

October 16th 2006 08:18

"I don't have a drinking problem / 'cept when I can't get a drink"

Tom Waits is, without a doubt, my favourite male vocalist in this whole miserable world. From his early-‘70s days as a barroom piano troubadour to the clanking junkyard weirdness he discovered after marrying his longtime wife and collaborator, Kath Brennan; Waits is Bob Dylan for the weird, the morose, and the generally hunchbacked and lopsided. The guy’s got everything: poetic lyrics, a unique grainy voice that says so much about the human condition, and the rocks to produce more and more experimental music the older he gets.

Pitchfork have a number of exclusive MP3s from Waits’s upcoming 3 CD set of rarities and new material entitled Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards (due for release on November 21 2006 on the Anti label). Although the arrangements seem a lot more straightforward and accessible than some of his most recent material, Waits sounds as cranky and gravely as ever, and I can’t wait for this’un to hit the shelves (Yes, I still ‘buy’ music from a ‘record shop,’ especially when it’s by an ‘artist’ who I feel has the ‘integrity’ to deserve my money

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