Yep!

Here's to AIR nominations for Best Independent Artist and Independent Album of the Year Award for DAPPLED CITIES and their album Zounds!

This adds to their already massive chance at an ARIA for Indie release, too. There's more to announce this week. Keep listening!

Yep, the lovely enigmas have offered up their track 'Colours' off of their current release, The Music Of Chance.

You'll soon find it all over the place, at Those Wall, Your Ears and White Hart Lane, but right now there's a nice little message up on Who The Bloody Hell Are They?  Cheers guys!

http://whothehell.net/archives/6368

Yep, here's the link.  Get your bad ass under 18 selves down to grab one here

http://www.metrotheatre.com.au/events/2009/12/09/patrick-wolf-licensed-all-ages

OK, so maybe they're a little bit sweaty, but have any of you seen more amazingly sensitive footage of this band than this?

http://pitchfork.com/tv/#/episode/2043-grizzly-bear/1

How good is the transistor radio sound effect or those stained glass windows. Simply amazing. We can't wait until this band arrive later in the year. Let's hope the acoustics get somewhere close to this holy site's ones.

Honestly, what's not to love about this new song from White Rose Movement called "The Stairs"

This is just a demo of it on their myspace site, we're putting out the finished version next month. Awesome.

http://www.myspace.com/whiterosemovement

There is nothing better than a talking dog...

The For Carnation: Self Titled (2000)

When this album was released it was one of the strangest sounding things I'd ever heard. It still is. Track 4, Snoother, comprised of sub sonic dub bass rumbles and half singing, half breathing from Brian McMahon. The man that practically invented the genre post rock with Slint. Find this self titled record if you've never heard it and put it on just as the sun is breaking at about 4am. It is about as close as someone has come to Twin Peaks in song. I've searched long and hard for music as paranoid and claustrophobic as this for a long time. No one has done it yet.

jw

I've been thinking about the past  9 years or so in music. Thinking about the albums decline, the media's involvement with hype bands and the digital revolution and it's going to be fixed for people to make experience music in an entirety. So over the next few weeks I'll be writing about some of albums that I think have stuck around as the next somebody became something before disappearing into nowhere again.

Godspeed You Black Emperor: Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antenna's To Heaven (2000)
Released in 2000 this record was for me and still is the best record of it's particular genre. It encapsulated everything that was post rock, epic, doomey, droney, loud, slow, offense and long long long. I remember at the time, they were touted as the next Nirvana. The saviors of music. I wish they had been and then all popular music had sounded like this instead of the Killers. I love Godspeed You Black Emperor and daydream that one day they will do shows again and come to Australia.

just to let you all know we have set up our comments section for the blog now, sorry for the delay. this of course means you can let us know if you like what we're saying and showing you. we'd love to hear you thoughts on music and beyond. get into it.

while we have you, we were wondering, what do you speak n spell readers out there think about this. if you've had a library book for 5 years or more because you forgot to take it back, is it still stealing? sorry, having existential crisis about our souls etc....

oh also, how awesome is it that we have the new tracks from fionn regan. that's kind of rhetorical actually, no need to speak unless you want to...!

ciao

Castratii is finally out. If you're interested in a new Sydney project from some people you may or may not know. Click here and buy some digital madness to your hearts content.

jw

Sure, it's taken me two weeks to post something here. But what can I say, I'm a man who likes to choose his words carefully. With that in mind, this is what I've come up with...

I love Sleeping States. His new album "In The Gardens Of The North" is a godsend.

I also love our latest release by a Sydney based trio called Castratii. I’m allowed to say that because I mean it. This video/song also has me falling into a trance - Hell's teeth, it's some powerful pop-juju...

josh

I had this thought while driving home yesterday. The music world in 2009 can be summarized by the Dark Crystal. Maybe I've been spending too much time in my car, or not sleeping enough? Maybe I'm crazy? Anyway, I actually think its pretty simple. One side the Skeksis (industry) and the other the Mystics (artists). Two very different races that used to be one, kind of like music in the 50's. Split down the middle when the Crystal cracked. I kind of think as the crystal cracking was the birth of file sharing. I guess we're all just waiting for a gelfling to come along and repair the Crystal and put it all back together again.

Labels want to invest and artists need investing in.

In other news, we just released the debut ep from a new Sydney based project called Castratii. Its pretty close to home for some of us... Hope you like it

These guys aren't on our label. I just think they're brilliant and this clip is fucking amazing. Give them your love already Australia.

This seriously blew my mind. It just defies sense to me. Hope you enjoy it as much we did!

Skullsquadron are one of my favourite Sydney bands ever. So I'm pretty chuffed to be releasing their debut 3 track ep in a few weeks. Check out this cover art too. It's killer! Skullsquadron rule.