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Howard and Rudd must be kicking themselves. Grazillions of hard-earned tax dollars wasted on campaigning, promising, advertising, and Not A Small Amount Of Smearing. The economy, the environment, border control (really? Again?), workplace agreements - all these huge issues and we're as excited about this election as we were about Peaches "Gonzo" Geldof's arrival and departure . And after all that, all they really needed to do was launch a website with a countdown and some crazy fluro lettering. Rookies.
In more local news, Arcade Fire are coming (squeal.), Hope Street Markets were inspiring and we took photos, and bogon moths are disgusting and everywhere and we hate them and want to rip their heads off and stick them onto pins and wave our new blood-soaked moth-head flags in the faces of other disgusting moths as a form of warning. |
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| Ged
Beckland, one of the founders of BusStopKnobs, recounts
his inauguration into the world of crude bus-stop graffiti in Liverpool
in 1969: "It was hastily
drawn and looked like a cactus. The balls such as they were, looked
like Desperate Dan's chin. My mam caught me staring and gave me a
clip around the ear. I've been smiling ever since."
The release date is TBC, but they're still calling out for submissions....
It's the excuse we all needed to bring our digital cameras into public
toilets. C=8TATION |
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You've read
The Book. You've seen
The Film. Now you can buy the T-Shirt. Helvetica,
the cool-kid of the Sans Serif family, turns the big 5-0 this
year and nerds the world over are celebrating with reckless
abandon and font-inspired shenanegans. Typeface-Identification-Tournaments
and the like. Happy Birthday Helvetica. Happy birthday to you
and your slanted stroke cuts, your well-defined capital 'G'
spurs, your distinguishable and pleasing glyphs on the 'R' and
the 'A'. Nicholas Martin, the man behind the
ConsumeHelvetica campaign, says, "I make Helvetica
Tees because I love the fact that only about 2% of people understand
what the shirts are about." Join the 2%. |
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| Nowadays
it seems you can point at any band and say "look who just erupted
on the scene!!", only to have them buying a suit and sitting
behind a desk before you even get to the exclamation marks.
Expatriate and the Cops might not be considered
veterans on the music scene, but kudos to them for staying decent
for more than two years. They're touring nationally right now
with one of our favourite live acts the Seabellies, whose
instrument-swapping, melodica-playing antics we're sure we'll
be writing about in another two year's time. If you missed the
Sydney shows, or had a preposterously tall person in front of
you the whole time, we have some signed CDs for you to enjoy
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| Sydney's
Jefferton James claims he got into design for two
reasons: to distract people from what a terrible speller he was, and
also because it seemed to maybe be the best way to maybe meet Sarah
Blasko somehow. We think he's selling himself a bit short.
His interest in music-art was borne out of the artwork of Stanley
Donwood for Radiohead's Kid A - "I
loved the fact that he had visualized so accurately the mood of that
album. Something he did was like giving that album an extra vocal
track." Scroll down for more. |
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FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS
For
anyone into intellectual hilarity, non-intellectual farce, and/or
random bursts of
well-executed
music
genres by mostly-hairy comedians (eg. Anyone into
the
Boosh). They call themselves "New Zealand's fourth
most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy
folk duo". We're not sure how long it'll take for this to get
huge in Oz, but a bit of pre-emptive quoting never hurts. Find
it on YouTube. |
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MY KID COULD PAINT THAT
Palace Cinemas |
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From 18 October
When Marla Olmstead was four she was having her debut exhibition featured in the New York Times to serious international acclaim, and selling her paintings for tens of thousands. Ever sceptical we just returned from her website to check it out for ourselves and as it turns out, the kid paints good. This film documents her swift ascent into the arts, raising questions along the way about exploitation, the media glare, and the meaning of modern art itself. When I was four I was sitting in a puddle of avocado on the kitchen floor playing with my toenails. If any one wants to commission a documentary about that, get in touch. |
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PLASTIC PALACE ALICE The Vanguard |
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17 October
We have so many good things to say about this Melbourne band. Their online bio lists glam-art-rock, country ballads, pop anthems, cabaret, Krautrock, digi-rock, post-punk and "the soundtrack to your worst nightmare" as just some of the genres they dabble in. In terms of comparisons, their high-rotation 'Empire Falls' sounds like what would happen if you threw Arcade Fire, David Bowie and Oscar Wylde into a cauldron... a cauldron of sexy. They have a string section, an alluring website, and their presser describes them as "perversely literate pirates of the high arts". If that wasn't enough for you demanding bastards, they put on an astounding live set too. |
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WAIKIKI HIP Wharf 2 : Sydney Theatre |
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From 09
October
In August we ran a giveaway to this year's Wharf 2LOUD Push
program. Usually we'd be done with the editorial support, but
the plays were so good that we asked them for tickets to one
from last year too. Waikiki Palace was enough
of a hit in 2006 that they've given it a second run with a second
play, Hip Hip Hooray - both written by Lally
Katz, directed by Chris Kohn and fused
together in a double bill of comedic invention. Rather than
trying to summarise both in 100 words, we'll pinch from the
presser and direct you to
the site: "As a team Lally and Chris create worlds
that are extreme yet true, bizarre, ridiculous and poignant."
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MORE JEFFERTON JAMES |
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| After inspiring by a John Columbus gig, Jefferton James went home, drew the music, and later showed it to the band. They loved it, and he was quickly pinched up by a number of other local bands to contribute to posters, fliers and albums. His nostalgic and whimsical story-book style has featured on posters and covers bands like Cuthbert and the Night Walkers, Bridezilla, Dead Letter Chorus and John Columbus. "I feel blessed that I have got to work mainly with bands that I am crazy about.. it makes it a hell of a lot easier to listen to a bands music and fall into their world and then try and draw what you see there" He hasn't met Ms. Blasko yet but we wish all him the best. |
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| This is one of Team Throw Shapes' most anticipated 2007 releases, but we'll try to be objective. While there are moments of carefree alt-rock, the overall mood here is of loss and contemplation - listening to it with a hot sun and a blue sky is a bit out-of-step, but it's Autumn in America. Cease is just as sophisticated, considered and balanced as 2005's Everything All The Time, but perhaps less lofty and with arguably (we argued..) more ballads. Any Wincing-era Shins fans will appreciate Bridwell's sweetly-tortured vocals and the twisty-turny melodies. We heart Sub Pop. (SH)
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IRON AND WINE The Shepherds Dog |
| The bearded devil of modern folk presents his third LP - this time with subtle hints of African folk influences, a bit of electronica, and a healthy dosage of experimentation (in 'Carousel' Sam Beam runs his voice through a vocoder to make his voice waver as though singing underwater). The addition of 7 other members replaces the scarcity of previous albums with layers of instrumentation, giving The Shepherds Dog a richer sound to previous releases; but it's an uncluttered complexity that keeps it in line with their typical style. We really heart Sub Pop... (AP) |
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AKRON/FAMILY
Love Is Simple |
| To describe this as mere folk would be to pigeonhole the unpigeonholable. Suffice to say they've contributed to Canadian Post Rockers Do Make Say Think's latest release, so if you're into that sort of thing. There are banjos, synths, noisy bits, spacey quiet bits, skronky parts, 4 part harmonies and some parts which have an almost tribal, hedonistic quality. We imagine they recorded this while dancing round a campfire, chewing on peyote and smearing each others' naked bodies with clay. Like Animal Collective, it's challenging, but in a very good way. (AP)
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YELLE Pop Up |
| Yelle barely speaks a word of English - her lyrics are co-written with Grand Marnier and make for pretty dodgy English translations like 'cuizinier with your little sex surrounded by red hairs'. But who listens to lyrics these days? The album is packed with danceable bubblegum electro, complimented by Yelle's suggestive French singing that is hard to resist. While she's poppier than her Justiced, Digitalised and Daft Punky counterparts, this album is fun enough to have a shelf life well into summer. (AP)
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THE PANICS
The Cruel Guard |
| Like
The Devastations, The Go Betweens
and Augie March, The Panics
have an aptitude for telling uniquely Australian stories with
each song. 'Don't Fight It' is getting continuous airplay across
community stations, but bear in mind that it's probably the
cheesiest of the album's offerings. The album's opener 'Get
Us Home' does the band more justice, with swirling strings that
build momentum through the song and demonstrate the experience
and talent of the band. If the rest of the album was as strong,
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THE PAPER SCISSORS Less Talk More Paper Scissors |
| The Paper Scissors are an incredibly tight live band, and are brilliant performers. "We Don't Walk" & "Yamanote Line" are the stand outs on stage and this translates to the album, with the sing-along choruses and infectious bass lines. Love aside, it's a struggle to listen to this album the whole way through - similar to their debut E.P. That voice, while so instantly recognisable, and laced as it is with such aching energy, actually becomes the band's predicament. This album just seems to strain your ears and in turn, sadly loses your interest. (GM)
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