Following the whirlwind response to their latest earworm ‘Jellyfish’, anthemic punk-rockers Slowly Slowly are backing up the momentum with the announce of a national single tour. After premiering on triple j and swiftly finding the stage at Good Az Friday performing Like A Version, ‘Jellyfish’ has proven to be one of the most commanding tracks of the year. Currently sitting at #2 on the most played tracks currently spinning on triple j, the reveal of the headline tour continues to see Jellyfish fever take over the country.
“We are so pumped on this tour,” says Slowly Slowly frontman Ben Stewart. “We have been in some exciting, but scary situations lately with the RHCP supports, Like A Version and the arena tour with Amy Shark – we can’t wait to blow off some steam with some headline shows. Melbourne winter sucks, we are coming in hot for a visit to try some new material out.”
The first taste of new music since their revered 2018 LP St. Leonards, ‘Jellyfish’ seizes Slowly Slowly at their most vulnerable and uninhibited. While toying with some meaty questions on love and existential dread, the track is all the while playful, lighthearted and downright catchy. With Stewart’s masterful lyricism front and centre as always, ‘Jellyfish’ makes for a masterful release.
Slowly Slowly will kick off the Jellyfish single tour in July by holding down the Splendour In The Grass stage, before they take to the usual capital city suspects as well as Adelaide, Hobart, Canberra and Fremantle. Joining the tour as support comes Perth punks Sly Withers and Canberra indies Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers.
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JELLYFISH NATIONAL TOUR DATES
w/ special guests Sly Withers + Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers
Sunday July 21 – Splendour In The Grass, Byron Bay
Saturday July 27 – Hobart Brewing Co, Hobart
Thursday August 1 – UC Hub, Canberra
Saturday August 3 – The Corner Hotel, Melbourne
Friday August 9 – The Triffid, Brisbane
Saturday August 10 – Lion Arts Factory, Adelaide
Saturday August 17 – Crowbar, Sydney
Saturday August 24 – Mojos Bar, Fremantle
Beloved Melbourne outfit Alpine have returned! Today is the release day for their insanely-catchy new single, ‘Dumb’. To celebrate their long-awaited comeback, the band have dropped the video for ‘Dumb’ (directed by Marie Panguard) and announced a string of headline shows across June/July in Castlemaine, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Sydney & Brisbane.
The song came together during a Melbourne winter after keyboardist Tim Royall had returned from a trip to Japan, invigorated by the house and disco of the clubs and bars of Tokyo and Osaka. ‘Dumb’ is as playful as it is sophisticated, as nostalgic as it is modern, a balance that Alpine have always managed to strike with ease.
Lyrically the song is about being devoted to someone who isn’t devoted to you.
In lead singer Phoebe Baker’s own words, “It’s about how we can encourage our romantic imagination to a point of ignorance. Hopeless optimism on a ship of sinking love. There is a somewhat perverse enjoyment found when flirting with someone when ultimately you know it’s going to hurt. There are elements of play to be found within the slow dissolve of a relationship. Satisfaction can still be gained in the midst of an ending.”
Primarily ‘Dumb’ is about how someone can make you speechless and nonsensically talkative at the same time.
‘Dumb’ follows the release of the band’s first two albums, Yuck (2015) and A Is For Alpine (2012). A is for Alpine peaked at #1 on iTunes and #11 on the ARIA Album Charts, and was awarded iTunes “Alternative Australian Album of the Year” and The Age EG “Australian Album of the Year”, while Yuck was released to rave reviews, debuting at #16 on the ARIA Album Charts and featuring radio hits ‘Foolish’ and ‘Damn Baby’.
‘Dumb’ marks the start of an exciting new chapter for the Melbourne band. Catch them on the road this June/July – tickets on sale now!
The Chemical Brothers are bringing their world-renowned live show to Australia this October & November. The No Geography Live 2019 Tour will have special guests, the iconic Australian duo, The Avalanches (DJ Set) and will be stopping in at Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
These run of shows will be their first in Australia since 2013. There is only one show in each city, so get organised before tickets are on sale!
The Chemical Brothers will hit Brisbane’s Riverstage on Thursday 31 October, before heading to The Dome, Sydney Showground on Saturday 2 November and Melbourne Arena on Tuesday 5 November.
The Chemical Brothers, Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons, have sold more than 12 million albums and six million singles worldwide over the course of their illustrious career. They have had six #1 albums in the UK, and were the first electronic act ever to receive a Grammy, taking home Best Rock Instrumental Performance for ‘Block Rockin’ Beats’ in 1998. They’ve since taken home three more Grammys.
The Chemical Brothers’ ninth studio album No Geography has just been released through EMI Music Australia. The follow up to 2015’s Grammy-nominated Born In The Echoes (the band’s sixth consecutive #1 album), it features the three blistering singles ‘Free Yourself’,‘M.A.H.’, and ‘Got To Keep On’. No Geography has been hailed as their finest album since 1999 classic, Surrender.
The songs were road-tested in their 2018 live set, including two sold-out shows at Alexandra Palace – their biggest UK headline shows to date – and honed in DJ sets around the world.
‘Got To Keep On’ has been at the heart of The Chemical Brothers’ live shows over the last year or so, and will continue to feature alongside classics from their 25 year career as the band take on dates in the US, Europe, and the UK before landing in Australia in November.
The Chemical Brothers’ visuals have always been central to their music, and this record is no exception. Already live favourites, ‘Got To Keep On’, ‘Free Yourself’, and ‘M.A.H.’ (for which the video was shot at their recent sold-out London shows at Alexandra Palace) contain visuals created by Adam Smith & Marcus Lyall. Eight years since they last performed live in Australia, The Chemical Brothers are set to return with a show that’s become a more dynamic and relevant experience than ever, both sonically and visually!
No Geography is a return to the conditions that spawned their early hits. They built a studio within a studio, a tiny room filled with gear that had sat gathering dust in Tom’s attic for the last twenty years. Using the equipment with which they recorded the bulk of their first two albums, they found the freedom to create music in a way they hadn’t for years, embracing randomness and jagged edges, building songs around vocal samples like the snatches of dialogue they found in the late ‘60s experimental Dial-A-Poem project. Several tracks feature vocals from Norwegian artist Aurora and Japanese rapper Nene also makes an appearance.
The Avalanches (DJ set) will be joining The Chemical Brothers as special guests for all dates. The iconic Australian duo are considered to be one of the most influential acts in dance music, with their debut record Since I Left You (2000) laying a blueprint for sample-based music in the 21st century, before their long-awaited 2016 follow-up Wildflower once again blew the world away.From intimate clubs to headline slots at some of the world’s biggest festivals like Splendour In The Grass, Primavera, and Creamfields, The Avalanches’ DJ sets are lauded as masterpieces in a realm of music flooded with imitators. The Avalanches are the perfect accompaniment for fellow dance legends The Chemical Brothers.
Don’t miss out on tickets to the past, present, and future of electronic music, The Chemical Brothers. They won’t last long.
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THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS
NO GEOGRAPHY LIVE 2019
AUSTRALIA
OCTOBER & NOVEMBER 2019
With special guests The Avalanches (DJ set)
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The new album is made up of 11 new tracks including singles Longshot and 2ALL.
‘The Balance’ follows 2014’s platinum-certified debut, ‘The Balcony’ and Top 10 ARIA Chart successor ‘The Ride’, including lead single ‘7’, which hit Gold status in Australia last April.
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July 19 – Spin Off Festival, Adelaide
July 20 – Splendour In The Grass, Bryon Bay – Sold Out
July 22 – Hordern Pavilion, Sydney
July 23 – Civic Theatre, Newcastle – New show added
July 25 – Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne
July 28 – HBF Stadium, Perth
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Psychedelic Porn Crumpets are taking 2019 by the horns! Announcing a new single in ‘Bill’s Mandolin’, a new album in ‘And Now For The Whatchamacallit’, their largest national Australian tour to date as well as a highly anticipated appearance at SPLENDOUR IN THE GRASS, new UK/European tour dates, international festival dates, a worldwide signing to Marathon Records and Australian signing with Caroline Australia, the Perth rockers have laid down the gauntlet for another busy, fruitful year.
The band’s new single, ‘Bill’s Mandolin’ comes at a perfect time for Psychedelic Porn Crumpets. The band, having enjoyed sold out tours through the UK and Australia, have solidified themselves as more than just the Australian buzz export. Eight sold out shows through the UK, plus an impressive debut tour of the US encompassing fourteen shows and a splash at SXSW have turned Psychedelic Porn Crumpets into a strong formidable force on the international stage. Rotation and airplay support for recent releases by Triple J and BBC Radio 1 have bolstered the band’s approach and has extended their reach. The band has carved out a space all their own, and their new single reflects the strength and dynamism continuing to flourish within their ranks.
LISTEN TO THE NEW SINGLE ‘BILL’S MANDOLIN’ HERE
Taken from the band’s forthcoming record, ‘And Now For The Whatchamacallit’, ‘Bill’s Mandolin’ is another slice of manic Psychedelic Porn Crumpets fury. A continuation of the musicianship fans have seen grow and bolden over the band’s last year of releases, this new single positions them more than ever as a band ready to explode with exciting energy. “When we were in the U.K on our last tour I was given my Grandad’s old mandolin/lute thing which I remember playing as a kid. It was such a nice gift that I had to take back to Australia, the only problem was it didn’t have a case and we had an entire tour in front of us which spanned most of Western Europe plus Australia. I carried it through plenty of customs, slept with it, took it out to pubs, navigated the streets of Amsterdam and passed out with it. It became the tour emblem and once I got back to Perth I felt like I’d done the old girl justice. I wanted to write an Ode to Bill and the travels with the mandolin that summed up the tour and sounded as chaotic as the adventures that ensued.“ Jack McEwan, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets
The band’s third studio album, due out May 31st, marks an exciting new chapter for Psychedelic Porn Crumpets. Recorded between Jack McEwan’s bedroom and Tone City Studios in Perth, mixed by Michael Jelinek (Gunns) and mastered by John Davis (Gorillaz, The Killers), And Now For The Whatchamacallit is representative of the band’s huge developed sound, and is their most anticipated release yet. “The original concept was to take a 1930’s carnival that had been re-imagined for future generations, a collage of Punch and Judy, Carousels and coconut shy’s that progresses in musical concepts and travels with the listener. Then as we started traveling I was swept off into my own kind of circus, the odyssey of touring life. Large nights out, larger characters, drunken recollections of foreign cities and rabbit hole-ing into insanity (kindly illustrated by Quentin Blake)”. Psychedelic Porn Crumpets
Spurred on from international successes through the UK and the USA, where they performed at SXSW for the first time and sold out shows in both LA and New York, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets returned home to Australia in fine form, sights firmly set on tackling The Great Escape in the UK next. Sharing a blistering live show with fans at home and abroad is something the band is well versed in, and taking to the coveted stage at Splendour in the Grass this July is another tick off an extensive bucket list. Ahead of their Splendour appearance, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets are hitting the road for their biggest Australian headline dates in June supported by RAAVE TAPES, including a massive homecoming show at Perth’s Astor Theatre.
The band’s upcoming 20 date international tour will see Psychedelic Porn Crumpets also perform at a selected run of festivals including the UK’s Y Not Festival and Truck Festival, while also supporting Interpol in Germany this May and hitting the Summersonic Festival in Tokyo and Osaka in August.
This massive tour news also coincides with Psychedelic Porn Crumpets signing with Marathon Records for global territories while working with Caroline Australia on a domestic front. Marathon Records, home to the likes of Honeyblood, Jagwar Ma, Jen Cloher and Courtney Barnett, represents some of the world’s most exciting and diverse names, making this new partnership with Psychedelic Porn Crumpets one made in heaven.
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets are lapping up the road-dog lifestyle through 2019, with extensive tour dates locked down for Australian and British fans. If the band’s last runs of shows through each territory were anything to go by, these tickets won’t be hanging around long!
PSYCHEDELIC PORN CRUMPETS AUSTRALIAN TOUR DATES
Saturday 27th April Gumball Festival Hunter Valley
Wednesday 12th June Lion Arts Factory Adelaide
Thursday 13th June The Triffid Brisbane
Friday 14th June The Croxton Bandroom Melbourne
Saturday 15th June The Factory Theatre Sydney
Friday 21st June Astor Theatre Perth
Sunday 21st July Splendour In The Grass Byron Bay
PSYCHEDELIC PORN CRUMPETS WORLDWIDE TOUR DATES
Friday 10th May The Great Escape (Patterns) Brighton UK
Saturday 11th May The Great Escape (Aussie BBQ – Dive Bar Beach Stage) Brighton UK
Monday 13th May Wedgewood Rooms Portsmouth
Tuesday 14th May The Boileroom Guildford
Wednesday 15th May Clwb Ifor Bach Cardiff
Friday 17th May Stereo Glasgow
Saturday 18th May The New Adelphi Club Hull
Sunday 19th May O2 Academy 2 Leicester
Tuesday 21st May The Shipping Forecast Liverpool
Wednesday 22nd May Voodoo Belfast
Thursday 23rd May The Grand Social Dublin
Saturday 25th May All East Points London
Sunday 26th May Yes Fest Manchester
Tuesday 28th May La Bulle Cafe Lille
Thursday 30th May Ancienne Belgique Brussels
Friday 31st May Best Kept Secret Festival Hilvarenbeek
Tuesday 4th June Palladium Koln
Supporting Interpol
Wednesday 5th June Schlachthof Wiesbaden
Friday 26th – Sunday 28th July Truck Festival Oxfordshire
Friday 26th – 28th July Y Not Festival Derbyshire
Friday 2nd August Krach Am Back Festival Beelen
Friday 16th – 18th August Summersonic Festival Tokyo & Osaka
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With Splendour in the Grass now completely sold out, Live Nation is pleased to announce that this year’s festival headliners CHILDISH GAMBINO and SZA, alongside fellow Atlanta hip-hop sensation RUSS, will each play a run of headline sideshows across the country. With the annual Byron Bay festival selling out within a matter of hours, fans will need to move swiftly to secure tickets to some of this year’s most anticipated festival sideshows.
Clowns highly anticipated new record Nature/Nurture is OUT NOW and as you may have guessed, the gang will not be waiting long to take these tunes to the stage across Australia and abroad!
Ahead of their highly anticipated second album Langata, electronic dance trio Crooked Colours have released another cut from the record, Hold On, out now. The simmering track follows previous hit singles I’ll Be There and Do It Like You, and is another piece of the enigmatic puzzle that is Langata. The trio, consisting of members Philip Slabber, Leon De Baughn and Liam Merrett-Park, have revealed that the album will be out on May 17, with preorders available now. The group have also announced the tracklist for the record, available below. Tickets to the upcoming Langata national tour are moving quickly, with a second Melbourne show being announced for May 26 after the first sold out within days, and shows added for Canberra, Wollongong and Newcastle. Joining Crooked Colours on the headline dates will be fellow triple j faves Nyxen and Kayex.
Returning to Australia for the annual Splendour In The Grass festival, Catfish And The Bottlemen have announced they will play headline shows in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, along with being recently announced on Adelaide’s Spin Off festival.
Prepare yourselves as two of the finest international heavy exports, Born Of Osiris & Chelsea Grin team up for a huge national co-headline Australian tour joined by homegrown talent Diamond Construct this June.
Born Of Osiris’ latest album The Simulation [Sumerian Records] debates the idea of Simulation Theory – which posits that reality and existence as we know them to be are merely a computer simulation. Of course, The Matrix explored such a possibility in 1999, while Elon Musk espouses this hypothesis as gospel for 2019. Born Of Osiris preserve such humanity within a torrent of destructive poly-rhythmic riffing, chaotic vocal transmissions, and synth disarray. The Chicago quintet are Ronnie Canizaro [lead vocals], Joe Buras [keys, synthesizers, vocals], Lee McKinney [guitar], Nick Rossi [bass], and Cameron Losch [drums]. Not only have they performed on stages with Judas Priest, Rob Zombie, Bring Me The Horizon, and more, but they also landed four consecutive entries on the Billboard Top 200.
Chelsea Grin, from Salt Lake City, Utah are currently signed to Rise Records and have released two EPs (Chelsea Grin in July 2008, and Evolve in June 2012) and five full-length albums! The band named themselves after the infamous torture maneuver known as the Glasgow smile or “Chelsea grin”. Chelsea Grin keeps the listener engaged in a unique onslaught of technical and aggressive riffage. Chelsea Grin have been featured on a large number of European and American music festivals which include Vans Warped Tour, Download Festival, With Full Force and many more.
Diamond Construct have spent the last 6 months touring around Australia alongside Alpha Wolf and Justice For The Damned in December & Thornhill in April, growing as performers, and putting their sounds into new ears and making new fans. As the year continues, the heavy outfit from Taree are hungry to get back on the road again, as they are gearing up to release their debut album in May and show the world what Diamond Construct are all about.
This is a must see tour for all heavy fans. Mark this Wednesday 10 April, 10am local time into your calendar as tickets go on-sale via www.tickets.destroyalllines.com.
Thu 20 June: Soundlounge, Gold Coast
Sat 22 June: The Brightside, Brisbane
Sun 23 June: Newcastle Hotel, Newcastle 18+
Mon 24 June: Crowbar, Sydney 18+
Tue 25 June: The Basement, Canberra
Thu 27 June: Corner Hotel, Melbourne 18+
Fri 28 June: Lion Arts Factory, Adelaide Lic AA
Sat 29 June: Amplifier Bar, Perth 18+
Wednesday 10th April @ 10am Local Time