For the first time ever, SNOUT on vinyl, who’d a thunk it! Nineties pop maestros SNOUT return from the blue to reissue their classic album ‘Circle High and Wide’ on vinyl and digitally on all the usual platforms on Cheersquad Records & Tapes. Pre-order the album now! The first 100 copies are on blue vinyl and set aside for pre-order people only. Get ‘em while they’re hot! Releases date is June 28, 2019.
CHEERSQUAD presents…
Friday 14th June
The Aardvark, Fremantle, WA
w/ special guests
Friday 21st June
Kalamunda Hotel, Kalamunda, WA
Friday 28th June
The Eastern, Ballarat, VIC
w/ New Rock Syndicate (Japan), Thee Cat Burglars and Broad Arrows
Friday 28th – Saturday 29th June 2am
Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy, VIC
Saturday 28th June
The Espy Basement, St Kilda, VIC
w/ special guests
Sunday 30th June
The Old Bar, Fitzroy, VIC
w/ Cakefight, Thee Cat Burglars and Thee Cha Cha Cha’s
Perth Power pop trio Rinehearts celebrate the release of their new album this June!
With an overall sound best described as a cross between The Replacements and Reigning Sound, Rinehearts have been delivering catchy tunes since forming in 2016. Long-time friends Guitarist and Vocalist Ben Ward, bass player Mitch Long and drummer Ross Di Blasio’s raw sound and memorable melodies quickly gained the attention of U.K label No Front Teeth Records who put out the band’s first 7” EP ‘Try Your Luck’ in December that same year.
Fast forward 12 months, and after trialling and refining new songs with local audiences, the band once again settled into Ross’ living room to record their debut album ‘Can’t Do Nothing’. The end result is 11 tracks that seamlessly bounce from one to the next, with distinct influences ranging from the sound of the latest single ‘You Don’t Have To Lie’, to 60s Stems/Byrds inspired numbers like ‘Can’t Seem to Help Myself’ and ‘Oneway Road’ to the undeniably captivating lead single and title track from the album ‘Can’t Do Nothing’.
Rinehearts album ‘Can’t Do Nothing’ is available here
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This Friday May 24 at 6PM, Rocksteady Records is stoked to host an instore packed with melodic muscle as Sydney songsmith NICK CRAFT unleashes his debut solo album ‘Minerva’.
Perhaps best known as songwriter, musician and front person for the psychedelic rock band Sidewinder, Nick is hitting Melbourne for a series of gigs with Paul Dempsey at The Gasometer Hotel (Wed May 22 – Sunday May 26).
This performance is free, wheelchair accessible and all-ages are welcome
This event will be taking place on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nations. We pay our respects to elders past and present, and we acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.
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Nick Craft is supporting Paul Dempsey for a 5 day run of sold out shows at the Gasometer Hotel in Melbourne.
Perhaps best known as songwriter, musician and front man for the psychedelic rock band Sidewinder, Nick recorded ‘Minerva’ with his brother and former band mate, Martin. The brothers formed Sidewinder as teenagers in the 90s, before releasing several acclaimed albums, and constantly touring the Hume Highway live circuit and as a fixture on festival line-ups including The Big Day Out and Homebake.
This record marks the first time they have worked together since Sidewinder, this time in very different capacities. Martin took on the roles of producer and arranger, taking Nick’s lyrically-driven songs performed on an estate sale nylon strong guitar into a new realm with his understated and sophisticated string arrangements. These arrangements were recorded with a crack squad of musicians in Los Angeles, using players who are more used to working on film soundtracks or with high profile artists such as Father John Misty, Quincy Jones or Brian Wilson.
The first single from the release is ‘No Silver Lining’, which Nick suggests is: ‘a song that does its best to argue that we should maintain our optimism, even in the face of a world that suggests optimism never pays off. It’s somewhere between a love song from an optimist to a pessimist, and a work of self-help, depending on what time of day I listen to it…’
For this song and the remainder of the album Nick has drawn on a diverse and disparate array of influences. Of his musical influences, he says: ‘While I don’t think I’ve been a slave to any one example, I’ve certainly drawn on the canonic examples of Leonard Cohen or Nick Drake, trying to drive a deep and reflective channel with my lyrics, and move them as close to poetry as I’m able to do… which is perhaps odd, given that I started off in music wanting to work in the My Bloody Valentine tradition of wanting to obliterate the lyric…’
‘I’ve also been inspired by the quiet examples of singers who’ve laboured in obscurity and quiet domesticity–like Sibylle Baier singing into a tape recorder after work just for herself, or Anne Briggs who chose to live a life away from the microphone…’
Tracks from ‘Minerva’ will be accompanied by videos edited from old films that have lapsed out of copyright: ‘In the case of No Silver Lining, it’s shows a woman waking up, removing a skull from a cupboard and throwing it out of the window, only to find it’s returned to the same place. Which is pretty much a good analogy of the circuit this song is trying to break…’
‘Minerva’, the 9-track debut album from Nick Craft is available from Bandcamp and online retailers.
Money For Rope are off to Europe for shows in Germany, Austria, Switzerland & the UK to celebrate the release of their album Picture Us.
16th May Cafe Galao Stuttgart DE
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17th May Club Stereo Nurnberg DE
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18th May Manic Str. Parade Munchen DE
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20th May John Montagu Innsbruck AT
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23rd May Boston Music Room London UK
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24th May Dot to Dot Fest Manchester UK
25th May Dot to Dot Fest Bristol UK
26th May Dot to Dot Fest Nottingham UK
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28th May Ziegal Oh Laco Zurich CH
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29th May Coq D’or Olten CH
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30th May Grabenhalle St. Gallen CH
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1st June Way Back When Festival Dortmund DE
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3rd June Tsunami Club Koln DE
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4th June Monarch Berlin DE
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6th June Molotow Hamburg DE
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7th June Ostpol Dresden DE
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8th June Orange Blossom Special Festival Beverungen DE
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An EVEN gig is a rare beast these days; as Ashley Naylor once wrote and often sings, life gets in the way. So let us rejoice one and all at this announcement of a few EVEN shows coming up very, very soon in mid March.
EVEN’s latest album ‘Satin Returns’ is still out there setting records for the EVEN group as it’s gained their best reviews and highest sales of anything released by the band to date. Be sure to grab yourself a copy from the band’s website.
EVEN are big fans of Sydney band THE LAURELS and have been trying to do a gig together for quite some time now and finally it’s going to happen! Thursday 14th at the Factory Floor in Marrickville. Bewdy! Get your tickets through SABO. Melbourne poptarts SMALLGOODS will be special guests of EVEN at the Gaso on Saturday 16 along with DJ Jane Gazzo and on Sunday 17 at the Evelyn, RocKwiz Orkestra member CLIO RENNER plays the role of special guest along with Money For Rope drummer Christoper Ray on the steel wheels as DJ Spikey Boy. Ticket links below. See you at the bar.
EVEN THIS AUTUMN
THURSDAY 14th March
Factory Floor
Marrickville (NSW)
With guests THE LAURELS
Doors 8pm
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SATURDAY 16th March
The Gasometer
Collingwood (VIC)
With guests THE SMALLGOODS + DJ Jane Gazzo
Doors 8pm
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SUNDAY 17th March
Evelyn Hotel Rooftop
Fitzroy (VIC)
Kid friendly show, under 12s free
With guests CLIO RENNER + DJ Spikey Boy
Doors open 3pm
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Album #2 from Melbourne surf, soul, garage punk rock band MONEY FOR ROPE is called “Picture Us” and was recorded, produced, mixed and mastered by the band themselves in a house by the sea in Victoria, Australia over summer ’15/’16.
This track, “Actually”, was the first track written for this record. We started it staying in a small Air BnB flat in Berlin owned by someone who worked for a music products company; there was an upright piano in a beautiful first floor apartment in an old building. We could spend our evenings in the middle of a hot summer heat wave playing battery amps and piano with the windows wide open listening to the sounds of Kruezberg below. We would wander around the city late at night, wondering how we became fortunate enough to be here, when the secret to ourselves was, just that we had always wanted to.”
“Picture Us” is set to be released March 2019 on German label Haldern Pop Recordings and Australian label Cheersquad Records & Tapes, with distribution in the UK by Forte & in the US by Cobraside.
Perth power pop trio Rinehearts have announced the release of their forthcoming single ‘Can’t Do Nothing’ and the companion video, set to be released through Cheersquad Records & Tapes on Friday December 7.
With an overall sound best described as a cross between The Replacements and Reigning Sound, Rinehearts have been delivering catchy tunes since forming in 2016. Long-time friends Guitarist and Vocalist Ben Ward, bass player Mitch Long and drummer Ross Di Blasio’s raw sound and memorable melodies quickly gained the attention of U.K label No Front Teeth Records who put out the band’s first 7” EP ‘Try Your Luck’ in December that same year.
This undeniably captivating latest single ‘Can’t Do Nothing’ is the band’s first new material since the EP release and is the title track from their forthcoming debut album, set to be released early 2019. The companion video was shot and edited by the band in November 2018 at Musgrove Studios Western Australia. ‘We shot the video on an old school Sony Hi8 camera that was fished out of a skip bin that was brand new in the box. It’s been a fun camera to use and has some cheesy in-camera effects that we messed around with.’
IMMIGRANT UNION launch ‘New Win’ single and video
Australian alt/country/psych collective Immigrant Union have announced the release of their forthcoming single ‘New Win’ and companion Video, set to be released through Cheersquad Records & Tapes on Friday December 7.
Not a band to sit on one particular sound for more than an album, Immigrant Union’s self-titled first record was very much cemented in Americana music, while their second album ‘Anyway’ continued to contain similar elements but featured a large shift in song-writing style and instrumentation.
The band’s yet to be released third album ‘Judas’ is arguably their most ‘different’ album to date. It still has slight tinges of Americana but generally the band describe it as ‘some weird ass rock album’. It’s also the first record that includes Ben Street and Paddy McGrath-Lester who joined founding members Brent DeBoer from The Dandy Warhols, Melbourne musician Bob Harrow and vocalist Peter Lubulwa after Courtney Barnett and co had to split due to Courtney blowing up in a huge globally massive way!
‘New Win’ is the first taste from the forthcoming ‘Judas’ album due for release in early 2019, and ‘is a song about the best times in life being squandered by not realising at the time how great they were and regrettably letting them slip away. Looking back, you feel you must have been insane to have not recognised how good you had it and vow to never make those same mistakes again.’
With that in mind, the band decided to make a video about Bob converting to Mormonism. Makes sense right?
Part one of the video shows the monotony of preparing for a good time. Grab some friends, grab some beers, order some pizza and settle in for an evening of weapons grade gum flapping.
Part two features some unexpected guests, and later, Bob’s reckoning. With a bit of a buzz on, Bob’s not only looking for some light-hearted philosophical nonsense, he’s looking for an epiphany. Just when he thinks he’s got it all figured out, he’s reminded that his new direction in life requires a few sacrifices. Is Bob willing and able to make those sacrifices? Will he turn his back on his hard-partying ways and take on a life of meditation, sobriety, and self-reflection? Or are there some sacrifices too near and dear to his very identity that he is unwilling to give up? Only Bob knows the answers to these hard questions.
Watch the clip for Immigrant Union’s brand new, smash hit single, ‘New Win’, and you too will know what Bob becomes. And what may become of Bob….
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Tuxedo, the new collaborative album by Jasmin Kaset and Quichenight will be a fully visual album. Over the coming months Jasmin will release a video for every track on the album. Here are the videos released so far.
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