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)
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)
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)
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)
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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LEADFINGER
Stewart ‘Leadfinger’ Cunningham has been playing rock'n'roll since 1985 when he was a young lad...after lots of gigs, songs and albums with rock bands like Brother Brick, The Proton Energy Pills, Asteroid B-612, Yes Men and then power-pop stuff with Challenger-7 he has decided to do something different and that is where you will find him with his new band called Leadfinger (pronounced Led-fin-ger) Following the great tradition of Scottish-born Aussie musicians like AC/DC, The Easybeats, Men at Work and James McCann, Leadfinger was born in Glasgow, Scotland and emigrated to Australia when he was 3 years old. He had heard that the music scene was happening over in Australia and that the weathe ... (READ MORE)
PENNY IKINGER
PENNY IKINGER electric guitaristsingersongwriter from Melbourne, Australia. Released her debut solo album ELECTRA on DENIZ TEK'S label CAREER RECORDS (USA) on CD in 2003; and on BANG! RECORDS (Basque Country, Spain) on vinyl in 2006. Recorded at HOTHOUSE, Melbourne and produced by PENNY IKINGER & engineer CRAIG HARNATH, ELECTRA appeared on Top Ten lists for 2003 in America, Canada and Australia. PENNY IKINGER toured America, Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand between 2003 - 2006.......... ELECTRA: "Incredibly cool femme fatale laid-back noise by Australian guitar beauty...Ikinger's voice and amazing guitar work makes this one helluva piece of female rock" Lowcut (USA) Top Ten Album 20 ... (READ MORE)
POWDER MONKEYS, THE
THE POWDER MONKEYS ...... This is WAR , baby, a Rock'n Roll war against the grim purveyors of slick- dick commercial shtick and when the smoke clears and the last call sounds, you better be clear about which side you're on! Are you part of the problem , or part of the solution? The Powder Monkeys are playing for keeps.- they don't fuck around, and neither should you. Real rock'n'roll is in short supply these days, and there ain't no room for wimps , geeks or limp wristed creeps here! ... (READ MORE)
PROTON ENERGY PILLS, THE
Finally after many years of effort and waiting, The Proton Energy Pills music is going to be available in the digital age on Bang! Records. The original recordings by the Proton Energy Pills were only ever issued on vinyl records on Australian label Waterfront Records in 1990 and they have never before been released on CD until the Bang! Records release “Rocket To Tarrawanna”. This great release will also contain extra tracks and live recordings by this seminal Australian Band.
The following spiel is taken from the excellent compilation CD called Tales From the Australian Underground which was released in 2006 on Tim Pittman's Feel Presents Record Label.…"The Proton Energy Pills were an ... (READ MORE)
ROWLAND S HOWARD
Rowland S. Howard has been involved in creating & documenting innovative, unique music since the mid-1970's, all the while cultivating an unmistakable guitar sound, and a habit of writing music & lyrics that are simply to die for.
From writing for various punk fanzines in his native Australia as a teenager, to writing the wildly popular "Shivers" whilst in The Young Charlatans, to becoming an integral part of influential bands like The Birthday Party and Crime & The City Solution... On to forming his own band, These Immortal Souls, with Genevieve McGuckin, Rowland's brother Harry Howard, and drummer Epic Soundtracks. Although they only released two full-length LP's (1987's "Get Lost (Do ... (READ MORE)
SACRED COWBOYS
SACRED COWBOYS: The Sacred Cowboys' frontman is Garry Gray (lead singer/lyricist), who as a member of the 'Negatives' ('77/'79) and the 'Reals' ('75/'76) was a pioneer of indie music in Melbourne.
"I have been fortunate as a musician. Throughout my years as an artist I have worked with the best musicians on the scene. In the Reals and the Negatives, I worked with Chris Walsh, Ollie Olsen and Mick Holmes. In the early Sacred Cowboys, Janis Friedenfelds, and Mark Ferrie. In the late 80's , Stephan Fidock joined the group on drums. In the 1990's and 2000's, Penny Ikinger and Spencer P Jones worked with me in the group. Ash Wednesday in the late '80s and 2000's.... Some of the great sounds ... (READ MORE)
SALMON
SALMON is looming.
What is Salmon?
SALMON is five guitarists…generating scrap-yards full of metal for two drummers to belligerently pound, slam and flam their way through!
SALMON is 8 individuals of iconic stature wildly shape-throwing and shredding their way through the biggest barrage of demonic power-chords known to human kind.
SALMON does it tough!
In SALMON nothing gets in the way of what counts.
In SALMON what counts are the RIFF and the BEAT…. played heavy.
What about songs you ask?
SALMON doesn’t need your puny songs!
Songs are for propping up weak riffs and lame beats that can’t stand on their own.
SALMON has scientists working round the ... (READ MORE)
SCIENTISTS
The Scientists went through many incarnations in their 9 year history but are remembered mostly for the lineup that existed from 1981 to 1985. Kim Salmon, Tony Thewlis, Boris Sujdovic and Brett Rixon together had the peculiar chemistry that produced the classics, Swampland, Happy Hour, the Blood Red River mini LP and We had Love. With a sound that was swampy, primal and modern-urban all at once - as much in the tradition of rock and roll and punk rock as it was a rejection of those things, the Scientists’ formula was as universal as it was specific to their own experience. They were about what it was like to be young and living in modern times in an Australian urban/suburban environment. The ... (READ MORE)
SCOUNDRELLES, THE
The Scoundrelles are an occasionally swirling group of London musicians who were originally brought together to record Tony Thewlis’s demos for the Scientists’ LP “The Human Jukebox”. The band went into hiatus whilst Thewlis returned briefly to Australia and hijacked various Scoundrelles tunes for The Interstellar Villains. Since then, like on Mission Impossible, the files of certain Scoundrelles have been pulled together to perform and record whenever the planets are in misalignment and something needs to be done about it. Their self-released, debut CD “Organic Molecules In Action”, recorded at Toe Rag Studios by Liam Watson, is available from Amazon or CD Baby. A new album “Atomic Batterie ... (READ MORE)
SEMINAL RATS
Picture this.....It's a hot mid-summer nite in some sleazy, run down Melbourne pub. Once upon a time, this place was the epicentre of the Victorian Rock 'n' Roll scene, with a crowd so hip that if you didn't hang out there, you were virtually non-existant. Nowadays, tho', the clientelle consists of a room full of middle aged cross dressers, failing dismally at hiding their 5 o'clock shadows with liberal doses of foundation cream, and a group of obnoxious suburban drunks, who've relocated from the downstairs bar for the sole purpose of trying to pick up some of the afore mentioned patrons. The beer is over-priced and tastless, and at various times during the night you may ask yourself, "Why o ... (READ MORE)
SLAPPERS, THE
SPENCER P. JONES
Spencer P. Jones - not only someone with a string of solo albums under his belt but over the past 20 years or so Spencer has been a constant in the Australian music scene, from early obscure inner city scufflings with THE EMOTIONAL RETARDS and CUBAN HEELS, to the hilarious psychedelic cabaret of THE NORTH 2 ALASKANS and the gold status cowpunk incontinence of THE JOHNNYS. Spencer is more widely know as a founding member / guitarist with THE BEASTS OF BOURBON. He has also worked as guitarist sideman to PAUL KELLY, LYDIA LUNCH, ANDRE WILLIAMS, and JEFFREY LEE PIERCE. Not to mention his own solo-project bands, SPENCER P. JONES ND THE ESCAPE COMMITTEE, and SPENCER P. JONES AND THE LAST GASP. 200 ... (READ MORE)
STU THOMAS
A very brief biography about…THE STU THOMAS PARADOX
STU THOMAS has worked with some of Australia’s greatest bands.
He joined Kim Salmon & The Surrealists on bass in ’95, and worked his way around the globe with Kim Salmon in: The Surrealists, The Business, The Scientists & Kim’s solo band.
At present, Stu divides his time between fronting THE STU THOMAS PARADOX, and playing Baritone guitar for Dave Graney & Clare Moore featuring The Lurid Yellow Mist.
Stu’s first album is “Devil & Daughter”. It excavates a deep well of sounds centred around nylon-string guitar and baritone voice. Featuring duets with guest chanteuses, it recalls the spacey days of Nancy & Lee, Lou Reed & ... (READ MORE)
TIGER BY THE TAIL
It’s long been believed in psychological circles that guys can’t express their deepest emotions. They fall in love, they fall out of love, girls break their hearts, friends fuck them over, and they’re left staring blankly at the floor like monkeys whose bananas have just been taken away.
But imagine, for a minute, that four such heartbroken monkeys were given instruments as a replacement. These instruments aren’t new to the monkeys. Dave Thomas, for example, had been witnessed dextrously swinging his guitar around his neck by the strap – while screaming, too, no joke – in live Bored! performances for years. He also had a manic race round the lion’s den with another seminal Geelong band, ... (READ MORE)
VOYEURS, THE
WALLBANGERS, THE
"Over the last few years I have, from time to time, come up with a riff or a piece of music which I broadly thought of as rock or felt wouldn't fit with the other song based material I was working on. I kept storing these away and often thought of doing something with them. By the time Bang! approached me about putting together a one-offl EP for them I had about 6 such pieces. It seemed like the obvious thing to do with this material. As a special limited release and considering the kind of thing Bang! are often associated with it seemed perfect for this stuff.
So I went out and found a couple of people to collaborate with on the lyrics. I wrote two of the song lyrics myself but it' ... (READ MORE)
YES-MEN, THE
The Yes Men were a garage rock band from various parts of Australia. We recently released our debut album "Prosody" on the White Jazz label internationally (vinyl too), and on Stolen Records in Australia.
The album was recorded at the old and new Birdland Studios in Melbourne in 98-99 and was engineered by Mike Alonso.
We have released a 7 inch single "Fratricide" on the 007 label in Noo Yawk, and also recorded the Radio Birdman song "Anglo Girl Desire" for NoMango Records Birdman tribute album "Flattery".
The band consists of former and present members of God, Brother Brick, the Guttersnipes, Asteroid B612, Tumbleweed, Proton Energy Pills, the Freeloaders and Terabethia (t ... (READ MORE)