Our New Releases
Sue Ray – Red Roses
P1-43 April 2012
“She has the sort of rare voice - deep, dark, gorgeously emotive, and molasses-rich that stirs something within the listener and never quite lets go. She gets under your skin and stays there. If you’re a fan of the likes of Brandi Carlile or Laura Cantrell, give Sue Ray a listen; chances are you’ll emerge from the experience an unequivocal convert to her passionately original brand of alt-country”
4 ½ Stars, “Red Roses” 2011 - Heidi Maier - Tom Magazine
The Gin Club – LIVE
P1-41
CD. Vinyl available too.
It's been two years since the release of Deathwish, the band's critically acclaimed fourth album. The band have continued to cement their reputation as an unmissable live act with a series of tours, including last year's winter shows with feted Melbourne goth-soul outfit Harmony, as well as a memorable series of Christmas shows featuring another visit from Swedish multi instrumentalist Ola Karlsson. They have also been busy with other projects - along with the usual jobs/kids/mercenary careers, Ben Salter and Ola Karlsson both released their debut albums, while Gus Agars and Dan Mansfield toured with Tex Perkins and You Am I respectively. Now The Club are set to release their first live album, appropriately titled The Gin Club Live. Funded via crowd sourcing site IndieGoGo, the album has been assembled from a stockpile of live recordings that the band have amassed over their eight year history, and includes performances at The East Brunswick Club in Melbourne, Brisbane's Troubadour, and Hobart's The Brisbane Hotel, to name a few.
WE ALL WANT TO – You Used To be Funny Flexi Disc 7″
P1-41SP
The awesome new single from WE ALL WANT TO, on limited edition flexi, with free digital download code!
Buy digital on its own here.
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The Long Player Sessions – A Celebration of Classic Albums
May 8, 2012
If there is one thing that has long represented the pinnacle of a musician’s career, it’s ‘the album’. More than just a collection of tunes, the past decades have seen albums become cultural institutions. From Sgt Peppers… and Dark Side of the Moon, to Purple Rainand Nevermind classic albums have become one of our most loved – and most debated – music obsessions.
Staged across three separate nights in June, July and August 2012, each Long Player Session find two Brisbane bands performing a classic albums that is close to their heart from start to finish…plus a few of their own.
Shows confirmed to date are:
SATURDAY JUNE 23: POWERHOUSE VISY THEATRE
TEXAS TEA perform Paul Kelly’s ‘Post’
SUE RAY performs Nina Simone’s ‘My Baby Just Cares for Me’
SATURDAY JULY 21: POWERHOUSE VISY THEATRE
SILVER CIRCUS perform “The Velvet Underground & Nico”
RATTLEHAND perform You Am I’s ‘Hourly Daily’
Details on the final Long Player session – to be staged on Saturday August 18 – will be announced soon.
Tickets ($30) for the June Long Player session are on sale now and available here.
“Paul Kelly is one of Australia’s great storytellers and one of Texas Tea’s most significant influences. Post, Kelly’s first solo album, is said to be somewhat of a concept album with its recurring themes of addiction. The record showcases Paul Kelly’s incredible talent for locality-based stories (featuring tracks such as Adelaide and From St Kilda to Kings Cross). The subject matter and low-fi / minimalist production lends itself superbly to the Texas Tea aesthetic.”
Texas Tea
Children Of The Revolution
April 1, 2012
Chris and Johnny from Halfway will join the line up of Childen Of The Revolution at the Visy Theatre @ Brisbane Powerhourse on Sat April 21st.
Get some fire in your belly as a diverse set of some of Brisbane’s finest songwriters come together to celebrate that most powerful of musical moments – the protest song. From folk music to rock and hip-hop, songwriters have for centuries used music to take a stand, and inspire others in the process.
And this unique night at the Brisbane Powerhouse Visy Theatre will carry on that tradition as some of our finest artists deliver their take on classic songs that have, themselves, become part of our history.
New WE ALL WANT TO!
March 28, 2012
The new WE ALL WANT TO single You Used To Be Funny is out now. We hope you like it. If you do you can grab the song now, here, freeeeeee!!
Or if you wanna be a goody goody be our guest: itunes
INLAND SEA announce THE QUIETEST MUSIC FESTIVAL and 7” release
March 16, 2012
Before Inland Sea head to shores far, far away, the band will bring to you the very special, First Annual Quietest Music Festival.
The twilight event will feature all 6 musical side-projects within the 10 member band, playing acoustically throughout the warehouse space and finishing up with a full amplified set by Inland Sea. There will also be bake sales, a sausage sizzle and DJ sets by Triple J Roots ‘n’ All presenter Sarah Howells and the mysterious Zhang Zhang Dance.
Gold Coast need not feel left out, as the band will be heading down their way with a special preview show at The Loft which will mark the release of a limited edition 7 inch vinyl with two new songs.
After some love in the NME and radio play on BBC radio 1, the UK has beckoned and Inland Sea has responded with an intense 2 week tour, appearing at The Great Escape festival and dates throughout the UK.
The Giants of Science are back!
February 21, 2012
Brisbane’s self-proclaimed kings of riff based intelligent hard rock (IHR) music, Giants of Science, are returning for some shows and a little recording.
Giants have been peddling their particular brand of rock’n'roll for much longer than is healthy, but like all good vices they are hard to kick, except when passed out on your floor.
Their music is a blend of frenetic rock, monstrous riffs and shoegazer atmospherics, all tied together by vocals that can swing from a demented croon to a gut busting scream in the space of a verse. It is a sound which led Dave Grohl to hand-pick Giants of Science as support for the Foo Fighters QLD flood benefit gig in March 2011. Other supports of note include Swervedriver, DKT/MC5, Radio Birdman, Mudhoney, Rollins Band, J Mascis, Mark of Cain, Powderfinger, You Am I, Front End Loader, and A Perfect Circle. Honestly.
Giants of Science have recorded and released two studio albums (The History of Warfare and Here is the Punishment), one live album (Live at the Troubadour) and two EPs (“Blueprint for Courageous Action” and “Sisters”). Now, 2012 sees them lurch once more onto the stage and into the studio, in what could only be described as a series of frivolous acts of masochism. It hurts being this good.
CATCH GIANTS OF SCIENCE IN FEB/MARCH!
SAT 25th FEB – The Beetle Bar, Upper Roma Street, Brisbane - 1am slot. w/Dollar Bar, Microflora, Captain Moonshine and The New Young Liberals
FRI 2nd MAR – The Retreat, Brunswick, Melbourne w/ Damn Terran
SAT 3rd MAR – The Old Bar, Fitzroy, Melbourne, supporting Dollar Bar, w/The Peep Tempel & Mass Cult
FRI 9th MAR – The Patch, Wollongong, w/Shifter, Bruce! & Handlebar
SAT 10th MAR – The Square, Sydney w/Lomera, The Turps & Skinpin
May 8, 2012