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You Am
I release their much anticipated eighth studio album Dilettantes
on September 13. The band’s long-time producer Greg Wales produced
the album .... Ash Grunwald will release a new album, Fish
Out Of Water, later this year. The album was produced by Grunwald
and Countbounce from TZU .... Sophie Koh will release her
much anticipated second album 'All Shook Up', on August 9. Koh
has teamed with producer and musician J Walker on her new record
....The Drones' fourth album, Havilah, in store September
20th ... Xavier Rudd's seventh album Dark Shades of Blue
is released in Australia on August 16th. Described as Loud and
psychedelic, Dark Shades of Blue highlights was mixed by Joe Barresi
(Tool, Queens of the Stone Age) ….‘…And Then Tomorrow Came’ is
the highly anticipated 3rd full length album from Melbourne hip
hop duo Muph & Plutonic.... As well as re-releasing the
classic 'Face to Face' the Angels are releasing a DVD/CD
comprised of never before released live concert filmed at La Trobe
University Melbourne in 1979, a bonus interview, and CD of the
same live concert …Original AC/DC singer Dave Evans will
release his new album 'Judgement Day' in July. The album fills
a 5-year gap since the release of 'Sinner' in 2003. Evans recorded
'Judgement Day' in Brisbane with producer Mark Tinson .... Something
With Numbers return with their new album 'Rngineering The
Soul'' on September 6 .... Magic Dirt's new album
'Girl' was recorded at Birdland Studios.... The Spazzys new
album, Dumb Is Forever. was recorded in the US with producer Charles
Fisher (Savage Garden, Hoodoo Gurus and more) ….The fourth Rocket
Science album is calleed 'Different Like You' ....independent
Melbourne folk-rock-orchestra Lamplight have released their
self-titled second album ... Beautiful Hum” is the debut
album from Brisbane Rock band Small Mercies... NZ's Elemeno
P spent the last half of 2007 in hiding, recording their third
, self-titled album in a self-built home studio ... .Titled ‘Book
of Lies’, the new End Of Fashion album will be released
in September. This time around, they recorded in their hometown
of Perth with Australian Producer Magoo (Midnight Oil, Powderfinger,
Regurgitator), who co-produced their first EP ....
Stephen Cummings forthcoming album will be called 'Happiest
Man Alive' ... The Lurid Yellow Mist.featuring Dave
Graney and Clare Moore is releasing a new album on Illustrious
Artists in June. It's called "We wuz curious" ...
COme back
again
The Badloves
are the latest band to announce a reunion, following comebacks
from The Models, CDB, and in New Zealand, the Headless Chickens.
Badloves singer
Michael Spiby plans to get back together with most of the band's
former members for performances starting in September, and there
may even be a another album. Inspired by seventies roots rockers
like the Dingoes, The Badloves quickly established themselves
as one of Australia's favourite live attractions, backup with
their debut album 'Get On Board'.
The Models
- featuring Sean Kelly and James Freud - will play two shows in
Melbourne and Sydney in September to coincide with the band's
30th anniversary. Joining them for these shows are another legendary
reformed band from that era The Reels. The Models started out
as an experimental alternative band who shared stages (and a single)
with Nick Cave's Boys Next Door, and became 80s pop heroes scoring
a national No.1 hit with 'Out Of Mind Out Of Sight'
Vocal CDB
took 'Let's Groove to No.1 in 1995. Gary Pinto, Andrew De Silva,
Brad Pinto and Danny Williams have reunited and will soon release
`The Funk Sessions`. CDB recorded two albums in the 90s but broke
up after the release of `Lifted` in 1997 after Gary Pinto left
the band.
Kiwi rock
act Headless Chickens, fronted by former NZ Idol judge Fiona McDonald,
have announced they will reform for the Homebake Festival in Sydney
on December 6. The band released three albums.(August 18)
Stars on
the move
In one of
the biggest Australian music shake-ups in years manager John Watson
is moving his stable of artists - Silverchair, Missy Higgins,
Little Birdy, Kisschasy and Paul Mac - from EMI to Universal.
Watson's Eleven record company joins Modular records (Wolfmother,
Cut Copy, The Presets) and Dew Process (Powderfinger, Sarah Blasko,
The Living End) at Universal giving the company by far the most
impressive local music roster. Until the Living End joined Dew
Process for their latest album they were also distributed through
EMI. Universal also releases the Ralph Carr managed family of
artists including Kate Ceberano, Vanessa Amorosi and Carl Riseley.
The Eleven team join Universal on September 1. In another corporate
move former George singer Katie Noonan has shifted from Warners
to Sony BMG. (August 5)
Juggernauts
and the hip hop legend
After conquering
the legendary Glastonbury festival last month, Melbourne indie
electronic trio the Midnight Juggernauts continue their assault
on the world with more live performances and plans for a new EP
of remixes, including one from hip hop pioneer Grandmaster Flash.
The band's 'Into The Galaxy' will also feature remixes from UK
outfit Metronomy, French producer Danger, Architecture in Helsinki,
Parisian outfit Chateau Marmont and New York's Shychild . The
EP will be released internationally on August 11 on a limited
edition 12" while Australian fans will have access to the release
through iTunes. (July 17)
Local and/or
general
*The Datsuns are in the final stages of their 4th studio
album.
*The Drones
have signed a management deal with Sydney- based Bill Cullen of
One Louder Management (Paul Kelly, End of Fashion, Sarah Blasko).
*The
Butterfly Effect have already named the album they have just
started recording. Due for release in September the album will
be called 'Final Conversations Of Kings' …
* .Tthree years since Savage's 'Swing' was riding high
in the Kiwi charts the track is about to get a new lease of life
after being featured in last year's hit comedy 'Knocked Up'.
We can
get together
Ben Lee is
recording with Missy Higgins, and Silverchair's Daniel Johns is
writing songs with Luke Steele of Sleepy Jackson. In a post on
Bee Lee's myspace.com/benlee the singer has revealed that he and
Missy Higgins have recorded two tracks towards his next album.
"My good buddy Missy Higgins came by the studio to hang out and
added a sweet vocal hook to 'I Love Pop Music'. She sounds great
on the track. Its the most political song I've ever written'.
Missy also appears on a track called 'Yoko Ono'. In a separate
online posting on Silverchair's website it's been confirmed that
"Silverchair's Daniel Johns and The Sleepy Jackson's Luke Steele
have been writing and recording songs together over the past few
months". The plans for those sessions is not yet clear. (July
4)
Jet and
Iggy are Wild Ones
Jet have collaborated
with Iggy Pop at the Hit Factory Studios in Miami on a new version
of Johnny O'Keefe's 'The Wild One' for an upcoming tribute album
to the Australian rock pioneer. It coincides with the Australian
Recording Industry Association (ARIA) choosing 'The Wild One'
as the moment to celebrate for the 50th anniversary of rock and
roll in Australia. There are those who argue that "I'm The Wild
One" wasn't first, that there were previous events in Australian
rock and roll history. It wasn't even JOK's first release. But
'The Wild One' IS the moment when Australian rock left its mark
for all time. It was O'Keefe's national breakthrough. Buddy Holly
and the Crickets were on tour in Australia, heard 'I'm The Wild
One' and drummer Jerry Allison recorded a version as 'Real Wild
Child'. Jerry Lee Lewis also recorded it for an album and it was
THAT version Iggy Pop remembered in 1987, not realizing the tribute
he was paying Australia's original rocker hero. 'Real Wild Child
(Wild One)' had become part of rock and roll's fabric, not just
in Australia but internationally. -Ed.Nimmervoll (June 30)
Que Sera
Sera
Was Normie
Rowe officially drafted into the Australian Army in 1967 or was
it done as a publicity stunt? That question has hung over the
singer for decades, ever since an incident after his return from
Vietnam. While he was trying to rebuild the career that had been
pulled out from under him Normie Rowe's car was pulled up by a
policeman who, on examining the singer's licence, informed him
that they shared a birthday but he, the policeman, had not been
called up. The whole issue surfaced again this month when Herald-Sun
writer Alan Howe revisited the story. As a result of Howe' "revelation"
Army historians in Canberra confirmed that Normie's birthday February
1 had indeed not been drawn at the official ballot, which that
year had not been public. This seemed to confirm the suspicion
that Normie Rowe had been called up for who he was, in an attempt
to influence public opinion about conscription and the unpopular
Vietnam War. But then more digging into the Army archives revealed
that there was a supplementary ballot when Normie's birthday WAS
drawn. This scenario was possible because Normie had been in England
when he was supposed to register, which made him subject to a
separate ballot of people in a similar situation. But the waters
muddied again when Alan Howe spoke to the son of the army public
relations officer who had claimed he was the one who came up with
the idea of drafting Rowe to serve in Vietnam in 1967. Lt Colonel
Beverly Coultman-Smith told his son in the months before he died
in 1978, aged 61, that it had been his idea to have a PR coup.
Grant Coultman-Smith, now a sergeant in the Victorian police force,
told Howe, "Dad asked me that if I ever saw Normie to apologise.
"It was on his conscience. He believed in fairness." But apparently
it wasn't on his son's conscience. He kept silent for 30 years.
(May 29)
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