ASTEROID B612
Through a seven-song set, Asteroid B612 played some of the loudest, dirtiest rock that some of the people in the room this evening had ever seen, judging by the looks of sheer terror that were seen on a couple of faces. Calling the Asteroids loud is probably a bit of an understatement, actually: when guitarist Johnny Casino first begins his thunderous playing, the effect is felt in the hairline as well as the gut. It can't be a good thing for a band to play so loudly that it seems your follicles could be expiring in fright, but it sure feels good, and by the end of the set it seems that the rapidly-swelling crowd are thirsty for rock, and lots of it. With a vocalist that leaves the stage bef ... (READ MORE)
BAKELITE AGE, THE
With members from such diverse bands as SNOUT, THE MEANIES, THE EGOS, THE TOMORROW PEOPLE, DUNG, ROSS MCLENNANS WISHBONE KNEES, DAN BRODIE AND THE BROKEN ARROWS, GOLDEN SHOWER, THE BREADMAKERS, and THE CURLY WURLYS, you'd expect THE BAKELITE AGE to sound like a dogs breakfast...but NO....they don't........sound like a dogs breakfast. They sound like a chicken and champagne breakfast....that is..if you were to substitute Chorizo for chicken and Sangria for champagne.
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BEASTS OF BOURBON, THE
Some records should not be taken lightly. This one is the real deal, an unexpected gift from the gods. This is a brand new Beasts Of Bourbon album, recorded and mixed in three days in the Melbourne winter of 2006. It's their first album of new songs in nine years. And it will kick your arse.
LITTLE ANIMALS arrives against considerable odds. Last time Tex Perkins, Spencer Jones, Charlie Owen, Brian Hooper and Tony Pola made a record, its title turned out to be succinctly prophetic. At the end of '97, GONE saw them off on the longest hiatus of the Beasts' 23-year tenure, for reasons best unasked or forgotten.
"There was a while when it was best not to see each other," says Tex. " ... (READ MORE)
BLACK PONY EXPRESS
For more than three years, Melbourne-based Black Pony Express have been honing their sound and gathering a loyal following around Australia’s premier indie venues and through extensive interstate tours.
Recorded over 10 months in 2005, Love in a Cold Place is the band’s first full-length release. It contains 10 crafted tracks of melodramatic Australian pop, with influences as diverse as Augie March, Tom Waits, Sparklehorse and Pink Floyd. Members include Justin Cusack (vocals/guitar), Greg Bukshteyn (guitar/organ), Lilith Lane (piano/vocals), Cliffy Davis (bass), Katrina Morgan (violin) and Alan “The Mallet” Murphy (drums).
Engineered and co-produced by Simon Grounds (Underg ... (READ MORE)
BLOODLOSS
BORED!
I first discovered Bored! when they were still called White Noise – it was early ’87 (I think?!) and I’d been hanging out in an indie record store in Geelong (for a year or so) called Missing Link. I’d become good mates with the guy who ran the shop (Dean Bateup of ‘Behind The Magnolia Curtain’ fame) who totally turned me onto The Stooges (thank god!) – one fateful day he told me about a local band that was playing Stooges covers in their live set – he knew the lead singer and told me to go and introduce myself to him at a gig. So I went along one night to the Telegraph Hotel (in North Geelong) and saw them – they absolutely blew me away – they were fucking awesome- they played Stooges & MC5 ... (READ MORE)
BORIS SUJDOVIC
Bands Bio:
The Exterminators (w\ Mark Demetrius, John Dowlings and Rod Radalj).
The Invaders (w\ John Dowlings, Rod Radalj and Kim Salmon).
The Scientists. (w/ Kim Salmon, Tony Thewlys, Bret Rixon, Leanne Chock...).
The Beasts Of Bourbon. (Spencer P Jones, Tex Perkins, Kim Salmon, James baker & Brad Shepherd...).
The Dubrovniks (w\ James Baker).
Black Dirt.
Boris Sujdovic (Solo stuff).
BRIAN HENRY HOOPER
Before Brian Hooper and His Band, Brian pursued his musical vision with The Voyeurs - a loose line up of interchangeable alternative rockers - whilst steadfastly searching for those musicians who might be capable of sharing his mind-set. After auditioning and playing with most of the people in the Melbourne music scene Brian decided to discard the idea of a ‘democratic band’. “The whole idea of a democratic band didn’t work. Everyone having input was utterly hopeless,” Brian recounts. Brian believed a new, despotic style of songwriting and leadership was called for. Taking up the lead guitar and the microphone, Brian set about finding the rest of his new band.
...to pass through the di ... (READ MORE)
BUTCHER SHOP, THE
The Butcher Shop was the project developed by Tex Perkins, at the same time as Beasts Of Bourbon, in the late 80s.
In this band, the artist showed his wildest, brutal and sonic side, walking amont swamp blues and grunge (before the name "grunge" existed for music)
In this sonic adventure Mr. Tex Perkins was surrounded by several musicians, such as people from Lubricated Goat, Beasts Of Bourbon (Spencer P. Jones) or the American musician Kid Congo Powers (The Gun Club, The Cramps, Nick Cave & Bad Seeds...) among others.
Here you will find, among other wonders, the original version of the song which became a hit afterwards with Beasts Of Bourbon, "hard for you".
This edition compil ... (READ MORE)
CELIBATE RIFLES, THE
The Celibate Rifles were formed in 1978 by friends at a suburban Sydney high school. Their first full album "Sideroxylon", was released in April 1983 by HOT Records, showcasing eleven original songs full of energy, wit and disrespect for fashion. 1984 was spent recording a number of singles and also releasing their second album "The Celibate Rifles" (aka "5 Languages") to critical acclaim, containing some of the bands most requested live songs to this day. During 1985 and 1986 the band toured extensively, saw their first two albums compiled for release in the USA and the UK ("Quintessentially Yours" and "Mina Mina Mina"), and also released a third album "The Turgid Miasma Of Existence". Crit ... (READ MORE)
CHROME CRANKS
The Chrome Cranks started life in Cincinnati, Ohio, the hometown of singer-guitarist Peter Aaron and guitarist William G. Weber, in 1988. For the first two years the group was pretty much a band in name only, kicking around basement and loft rehearsal spaces with ever-changing lineups. The outfit’s first gig was as an opener for Pussy Galore (ironic, since PG drummer Bob Bert later joined the Cranks); at this point the bass-less quartet featured a different vocalist and Aaron on guitar only. Soon after, the group’s direction began to shift from more melodic material to the darker, blues-based sound the Chrome Cranks would become known for. Aaron took over as vocalist, the band added a bassis ... (READ MORE)
DEVASTATIONS, THE
It has been a little over two years since the release of the Devastations' acclaimed self-titled debut - an album described by Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs in Mojo magazine as "the best thing I've heard all year", and named the best debut of 2004 by Rolling Stone Germany. The greater part of that time has been spent in Europe, using Berlin as a home base, touring the continent several times, from Helsinki to Sarajevo and most places in between. And now Devastations - vocalist/bassist Conrad Standish, guitarist/vocalist Tom Carlyon and drummer Hugo Cran - return with a sophomore effort, Coal, delivering on the promise of their debut, displaying assurance, subtlety and widened scope. Formed ... (READ MORE)
DIMI DERO INC
H I S T O R Y
2002- the first Dimi Dero "solo" album "Good Morning Monsieur Edvard" is released.
Since then, the band played clubs & bars regulary in France, sometimes sharing the stage with people like ***the DRONES***, ***the DUM DUM BOYS***, ***TAV FALCO***,*** BEASTS OF BOURBON*** or the ex-***PENTHOUSE/HYPNOTICS*** guys of *** BLACK MOSES***.
In 2004, "Greetings From Trauma", the first album released by the band as such, received rave reviews in the press, just like "Good Morning Monsieur Edvard" had.
A single and a couple of participations for various compilations went along.
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R E C E N T S -- E V E N T S
The band has reco ... (READ MORE)
DINGOS, LOS
KENT STEEDMAN - Guitar & Bass
JOHNNY CASINO - Guitar
MICK POOLE - Guitar & Bass
TIM CHILLINGWORTH - Drums
GORKA DINGO – Voice
DRONES, THE
Having spent much of 2005 and 2006 touring the US and Europe in support of their Australian Music Prize-winning album ‘Wait Long By The River And The Bodies Of Your Enemies Will Float By’, The Drones mark their return to Australia with the release of their much-anticipated third album, Gala Mill.
Recorded in a mill on an isolated 10,000 acre farm on Tasmania’s east coast, Gala Mill is an album full of extremes - moments of stark, ghostly beauty are set against outbursts of the dark, intense noise for which the band is renowned. The album’s sense of place is palpable - barking dogs and birdsong are heard between tracks, and the island’s history and atmosphere resonate through the songs ... (READ MORE)
FIVE DOLLAR PRIEST
RON WARD (Speedball Baby) on vocals, percussion, harp
NORMAN WESTBERG (Swans, Heroine Sheiks) on guitar
GEORGE PORFIRIS (Heroine Sheiks) on bass
PATRICK HOLMES on clarinet
BOB BERT (Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore) on drums
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FLAMING STARS, THE
THE FLAMING STARS are a garage band. That's garage as in loud guitars, valve amps, cheap electric organ and trashcan drums. They play live in the studio, live on the radio and live on stage. Formed in December 1994, they have regularly filled venues such as The Garage, and the LA2, and venues around the country, as well as playing sell-out tours around Europe, Japan and the US.
“... manages to conjure the Jesus and Mary Chain, ‘50s swamp rock, and nights spent guzzling cheap wine and leaning unsteadily against a jukebox...”
The Village Voice, November 6th, 2001
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Joe Whitney – drums
Huck Whitney – guitar
Max Décharné - vocals, keyboards
Mark Hosking – ... (READ MORE)
GREEN MIST, THE
The Green Mist is a veritable ‘Australian super group’ assembled by music veteran Julien Poulson (Moler, Jen Cloher & The Endless Sea) who, while on a sabbatical back in his native state of Tasmania, had a chance encounter with Brian Ritchie of Violent Femmes fame. The two started collaborating and The Green Mist began to form.
With a line-up featuring renegades such as Beasts of Bourbon’s Spencer P Jones, and the rest of The Violent Femmes appearing in the mix ‘Mariachi style’ adding distinctive acoustic rhythms. Charlie Owen adds his finest slide guitar, Helen Cattanach and Rosie Westbrook add bass, while Westralian chanteuse Tracy Redhead shares vocal duties with Poulson. The Green ... (READ MORE)
GUN CLUB
The Gun Club were a rock band from Los Angeles in the 1980s and 90s, led by the flamboyant singer, ex-rock critic and Blondie fan Jeffrey Lee Pierce. They were one of the first bands to blend punk with blues, country, and other American roots musics.
The band was formed by Pierce and Kid Congo Powers and initially called the Creeping Ritual. They went through several lineup changes before settling on "The Gun Club," a name suggested by Circle Jerks singer Keith Morris.
Kid Congo left before the first album to join The Cramps but would return for Las Vegas Story, and he was replaced by Ward Dotson. Other notable members include bassist Rob Ritter and drummer Terry Graham, who had ... (READ MORE)
GUTTERVILLE SPLENDOUR SIX
GUTTERVILLE SPLENDOUR SIX is the band from Perth, Australia in the late 90s where THE DRONES came from.
The sound is clearly what The Drones came up with afterwards. A brutal amalgama of electricity, distortion, feedback and desperation drinking directly from the fountains of The Scientists and The Birthday Party.
Guided by Gareth Liddiard´s guitar, Gutterville Splendour Six show the slow, loud and nasty melodies, fronted by the complex and tortured lyrics which afterwards have become the identifying stamp of The Drones.
Among other band members, and besides of Gareth Liddiard, we find other The Drones members, such as Rui Pereira, as well as members of what years after came to be The ... (READ MORE)
HOSS
Joel formed Hoss in the late 80's with Scott, Mick Webber and Todd McNeair. The first album Guzzle was released on Au-Go-Go in 1990. The first single Green came out on Grown up Wrong. The second album You Get Nothing LP in 1992 on Dog Meat Records . Cave Me In CD, Dog Meat Records. 1993 saw Bring on the Juice CD, Dog Meat Records. Gentle Claws,EP, 1993 Dog Meat Records. Every Day Lies CD, Dog Meat Records 1995. The Godess Has Time, Wigwam Records B side Toad 1999. Do You Leave Here Often CD, Mongrel Records in 1998. 7inch Tiredest Man Awake B side Token Kiss (live), on Death Valley Records in 1993. 7inch Jack Of Grubs B side Lip From Lip 1994 on Hell Yeh Records/Dog Meat Records.7inch A Nice ... (READ MORE)
HUGO RACE & THE TRUE SPIRITS
The True Spirit was always conceived as a collective more than a band. Hugo Race walked away from the multiple divorce of garage art rockers The Wreckery convinced of that, and into the freewheeling sample-heavy sessions of his first solo album Rue Morgue Blues which although featuring most members of the Wreckery had an experimental, electronic sound (supported by the production of Not Drowning Waving guitarist John Phillips). Armed with a debut album, Hugo moved to London in '89 and then on to Berlin where a new True Spirit line-up formed around Hugo's solo gigs at the X'n'Pop all night bar on the Mansteinstrasse; slide guitarist Rainer Lingke from Die Haut, drummer Chris Hughes who had ... (READ MORE)
IAN RILEN & THE LOVE ADDICTS
Ian Rilen would have achieved lasting notoriety if his only claim to fame was as the founding songwriter for Rose Tattoo who left because the bands choice of music wasnt hard enough.
Then he had to go and form X and unleash a strain of high-energy music so visceral and basic that it almost defies description.
For three decades, clutching only a bunch of street-level songs and a weathered bass or six-string guitar for protection, the mercurial Rilen has been an indestructible figure on the Australian music scene.
He's now charting his own unique musical path, with solo shows and gigs fronting his raw yet melodic long-time band, The Love Addicts.
Ian Rilens musical hist ... (READ MORE)
JAMES McCANN
Beginning in the South West Australian backwoods town of Albany, an old port town, coastal, big trees, big granite rocks, where your options were fishing, shearing, surfing or playing music, or occasionally all of the above, James started writing and performing locally in pubs at the age of 15 while still in high school and the writing was on the wall.
From Albany, James made his way north to Perth, again forming bands and performing around the city and in rural locations, recording a few demos. But the frustration of isolation encouraged James's move to Sydney at age 22, where he formed, wrote and performed in bands such as Harpoon, Nunchukka Superfly, and Lowdorados, playing constant ... (READ MORE)
JEFFREY LEE PIERCE
JERRY TEEL & THE BIG CITY STOMPERS
Like A runaway train on a rusty track....or as smooth as a milk cows moo while being milked at 5:00am on a cold day in Hell , we give you The Big City Stompers.
Jerry Teel , who fronts The Big City Stompers, wasn't only the driving force behind the seminal 1980s NYC punk-a-billies Honeymoon Killers (though best remembered as the band that fathered Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - were important in their own right long before ) , Little Porkchop and The Knoxville Girls, but was also a member of Bosshog and The Chrome Cranks. While Jerry sings and plays guitar, The Stompers include his lovely and talented wife Pauline Owens Teel on vocals and cha chas, long-time house bassist for the ent ... (READ MORE)
JOEL SILBERSHER
Bands Bio:
GOD
SABOTAGE
HOSS
TENDRILS
MELOMAN
JOEL SILBERSHER
DARK HORSES
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KILL DEVIL HILLS, THE
Alex Archer : violin , clarinet, vocals
Brendon Humphries: vocals, acoustic guitar
Justin Castley: bass
Lachlan Gurr: mandolin, banjo, vocals
Stephen Gibson: stand up drums, vocals
Steven Joines: electric guitar, vocals
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KIM SALMON & The GUYS From MUDHONEY
In 1995 during the grunge boom, when Steve Turner had a break from MUDHONEY, KIM SALMON was invited to join the band in Seattle.
So Kim Salmon accepted the invitation from his friends and flew from Australia to Seattle to check whether the experience was viable and worthy.
After a while and even though both parts agreed that their ways had to departure in different directions and they split in a friendly way, they left a piece of gem on the way.
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KIM SALMON & THE SURREALISTS
LEADFINGER
LEADFINGER is the nom de plume (and band name) for Stew Cunningham, a fixture on the Australian underground rock and roll scene for nigh on 20 years. As guitarist and songwriter for the pre-grunge Proton Energy Pills, Detroit inspired Asteroid B-612, the explosive power trio Brother Brick or the Replacements-inspired, ragged pop of Challenger 7, the Leadfinger visage has been at or close to the axis of some stunning Rock Action. 2011 sees the release of We Make the Music, the third Leadfinger album released by Bang! Records, it follows on from 'The Floating Life' (2007) and Rich Kids (2009).