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Archive for April, 2012

Apr30

Bitter End tour supports announced

by Bomber on April 30th, 2012
Posted In: Bitter End, Blkout, Resist Presents, Upcoming Tour

Supports have been announced for the upcoming tour from San Antonio’s Bitter End alongside Perth’s Blkout. Expand this post for a reminder of the dates and check out the local openers at each stop. Tickets available at the door for each show.

Apr30

Video Clip – DZ Deathrays – ‘Dollar Chills’

by Bomber on April 30th, 2012
Posted In: DZ Deathrays, New Release, Upcoming Tour, Video Clip

With their album launch tour wrapping up in WA this week, DZ Deathrays have released the latest video clip from their debut full length album ‘Bloodstreams‘. This time around it’s for the track ‘Dollar Chills‘. Expand this post to watch the clip and re-cap the remaining tour dates.

Apr30

Splendour In The Grass Sideshows announcement

by Bomber on April 30th, 2012
Posted In: Secret Sounds, Splendour In The Grass

Missed out on tickets to Splendour In The Grass in Byron Bay? Secret Sounds have now announced a host of sideshows in Sydney and Melbourne. Tickets will go on sale Friday May 4th at 9am. Expand this post for the details.

Apr30

D.I. Wireless interview Frank Turner

by Bomber on April 30th, 2012
Posted In: Blue Murder Presents, Bombshell Presents, Interview, Upcoming Tour

About six years ago, Frank Turner would text his mates to make sure they were coming to see him play down at the pub that weekend. About two weeks ago he played London’s Wembley Arena, and sold it out. This week Frank returns to Australia, beginning with solo shows in Darwin, Alice Springs, Cairns and [...]

Apr30

Impiety add three headline shows to Australian tour

by Bomber on April 30th, 2012
Posted In: Direct Touring, Goatwhore, Impiety, Ruins, Upcoming Tour

Singapore’s Impiety have announced an additional 3 headlining dates on top of their Australian east coast tour this July supporting Goatwhore. The three headline shows will take place in Perth on June 29th at Amplifier Bar, the Happy Yess in Darwin on June 30th and Squatters Arms in Adelaide on July 1st. Tickets are still [...]

Apr29

Interview: Pennywise

by Bomber on April 29th, 2012
Posted In: Interview, Pennywise

Just prior to last week’s release of the new Pennywise album, Deborah Konopnicki caught up with guitarist Fletcher Dragge to chat about the new album ‘All Or Nothing‘, the effects bringing a new singer into the band brings and a bunch more. ‘All Or Nothing‘ is out now via Epitaph Records, and judging by the [...]

Apr29

Milo is back in a new throbblehead

by Bomber on April 29th, 2012
Posted In: Aggronautix, Descendents, New Release

At long last, Milo – the charismatic front man of Descendents – is once again available in Throbblehead form. Milo V2 is limited to 2000 numbered units, stands at 7 inches tall, and is made of a lightweight polyresin. Accurately sculpted right down to the signature glasses, and new Descendents tee with bitchin’ pant-grabbin’ stage [...]

Apr29

On The Record: Toy Boats

by Bomber on April 29th, 2012
Posted In: On The Record, Toy Boats

‘Diamond Teeth‘, the new EP from Byron Bay’s Toy Boats was released a couple of weeks back now, and the launch shows have been taking place in record stores around the country for the past two weekends. We caught up with Hugo Costin-Neilson this week to tell us a little more about the EP via [...]

Apr29

The Hotseat: Greg Sanders of Emperors

by Bomber on April 29th, 2012
Posted In: Emperors, The Hotseat

Perth’s Emperors recently released their new album ‘Stay Frosty‘. Produced by Dave Parkin (Jebediah), ‘Stay Frosty‘ is 35 minutes of noisy pop at it’s best, played by a band unashamedly stuck in their own bubble of musical influences. Emperors first made their mark on the Australian music landscape when they were ‘Unearthed’ by triple j shortly [...]

Apr29

The Hotseat: Chris Cresswell of The Flatliners

by Bomber on April 29th, 2012
Posted In: The Flatliners, The Hotseat

It’s just a few weeks now until Canadian outfit The Flatliners return to Australia alongside mates Anti-Flag and Strike Anywhere for their seven show jaunt around the country. Tickets are selling well as expected, if you don’t have yours, don’t leave it too long. This week in The Hotseat we caught up with Chris from The [...]

Apr27

Gyroscope announce hometown benefit show

by Bomber on April 27th, 2012
Posted In: Gyroscope, Upcoming Gig

Headline shows for Gyroscope have been few and far between in 2012 thus far. But a call to arms for an incredible cause has hit home with the band and they will return from hibernation to play their first hometown headline show of 2012. Taking place at the Rosemount Hotel in Perth on Friday June [...]

Apr27

Splendour In The Grass sells out in record time

by Bomber on April 27th, 2012
Posted In: Splendour In The Grass

It took just 43 minutes for Splendour In The Grass to sell out this morning, the fastest in the festival’s history. Time to sit with fingers crossed for more sideshow announcements now. On the topic of the festival, Nice and Ego, the duo that put together ‘Hottest 100 Songs in 6 minutes‘, return to the [...]

Apr27

What’s In The Box this week?

by Bomber on April 27th, 2012
Posted In: New Release, What's In The Box?

This week we cast our eyes over the much talked about Blueline Medic tribute release ‘Shuffle And Scrape‘ from Poison City, we also take a listen to local outfit Bateman’s EP ‘Ultra Violence‘, the long overdue full length from Melbourne’s These Hands, and a first peek at the debut album from Strangers via the first [...]

Apr27

Roussemoff to launch new live EP next week

by Bomber on April 27th, 2012
Posted In: Deep Heat, New Release, Roussemoff, Upcoming Gig, White Walls

Minimalist psychadelic doom trio Roussemoff will launch the physical version of their live EP ‘R(live.01)‘ at Melbourne’s Toff in Town on Tuesday May 1st, with support from White Walls and Deep Heat. The EP in question is a run of handmade / handprinted CD packages (ink printed on recycled brown card with acetate liner notes, [...]

Apr27

Dividers launch ‘A Long Winter’ EP tonight in Sydney

by Bomber on April 27th, 2012
Posted In: Chainsaw Hookers, Dividers, Easy Company, EMPRA, New Release, Upcoming Gig

Sydney outfit Dividers will launch their new EP ‘A Long Winter‘ tonight with a free show at the Lansdowne Hotel in the city. They’ll be joined by locals Easy Company and The Great Awake. Melbourne’s Empra come up for the show and Perth’s Chainsaw Hookers are a late addition to the bill. You can stream the EP [...]