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Two live performance from
legendary psychedelic group Tully
at the Sydney Town Hall in 1969 and 1970 have been released by Chapter
Music ... frontman for The Drones Gareth Liddiard, will
release his as yet titled solo debut album on 1 October.The album is being
recorded at Havilah, the same rural Victorian retreat that spawned the
previous Drones release of the same name ... Anne
Kirkpatrick and Bill Chambers, two of Australia’s
most respected musicians, have joined forces to record (and jointly
produce) a duet ‘Here We Are’ as the first single from Anne Kirkpatrick’s
upcoming career spanning album ‘Annethology’, released August 27.... Six-time Golden
Guitar winner, Melinda Schneider
for her sixth studio album, has recorded her first concept album “Melinda
Does Doris” A Tribute To Doris Day with producer Chong Lim …Sydney
dance act The Potbelleez are due
to release a second album titled Destination Now on October 22. Paul Mac.
Known for his work with The Dissociatives and Itchee & Scratchee, Mac
has produced the new album along with Justin Shave, most known for his work
with Darren Hayes of Savage Garden .... The Verses will release their debut studio album ‘Seasons’ on
August 13. Ella and Jesse Hooper, (formerly of multi-platinum recording act
Killing Heidi) recorded the album in the US earlier this year with producer
Mitchell Froom (Crowded House, Paul McCartney, Latin Playboys) and world
class musicians including Elvis Costello's rhythm section of Pete Thomas
(drums) and Davey Farragher (bass) and Jackson Browne's guitarist Val
McCallum ... The Yearlings are
releasing their fourth studio album titled ‘Sweet Runaway’. Robyn Chalklen
and Chris Parkinson have been writing and performing together for nine
years ever since their first encounter at The Tamworth Country Music
Festival ...The Dingoes were
united on stage last year for the first time in 30 years to be inducted
into ARIA Hall Of Fame. As a result
the four gathered at guitarist Kerryn Tolhurst’s studio in Tucson,
Arizona and a new album titled ‘Tracks’ featuring ten new song sis being
released August 6th ...Kasey
Chambers has announced a
September release for her first solo album in four years. ‘Little
Bird’ was co-produced by Kasey and her album band “The Millionaires” (Jim
Moginie, Jeff McCormack, Shane Nicholson, John Watson, Bill Chambers and
Nash Chambers) and recorded at Nash’s Foggy Mountain Studio ... Jimmy Barnes is releasing his 16th
solo album, ‘Rage & Ruin’ in August with all 12 songs co-written by
Jimmy. It was recorded earlier this year with a line up of L.A session
musicians, and produced by again by Don Gehman, who produced, amongst other
Barnes releases ‘Soul Deep’ and the recent
‘The Rhythm And The Blues’ .... 90’s pop star Gyan’s latest album ‘Superfragilistically’ was four years in
the making and amongst the musical pals who contribute are long-time
collaborators James Cruickshank (The Cruel Sea) and Tim Gaze (Tamam
Shud)... Dog Trumpet's fifth album release ‘River Of Flowers’ is the
result of three years writing and recording by the brothers Reg Mombassa
and Peter O'Doherty at their Big Brain Studio... Following their ARIA
Nominated debut “Land Of The Powerful Owl” The Wilson Pickers are set to release their new album “Shake it
Down” on July 2nd. The Wilson Pickers are a collaborative, interstate
effort from some of Australia’s finest rising songwriting and musical
talents including singer/songwriter Sime Nugent and multi instrumentalist
John Bedggood from Melbourne (VIC) with Ben Salter (of The Gin Club fame),
songwriter/composer Danny Widdicombe, and singer/songwriter Andrew Morris
from Brisbane ... The eagerly
anticipated debut album from
Washington ‘I Believe You, Liar’ was recorded in the back yard shed in
the home of co-conspirator and collaborator, John Castle's parents in
Melbourne over a period of months this year ... Auckland
based indie-rock quartet Artisan
Guns have released their
sophomore EP ‘Hearts’ recorded succinctly in just under a week at the
studios of New Zealand music legend, Dave Dobbyn .... It’s only taken
thirteen years, but Melbourne balladeers Cordrazine, featuring the voice of Hamish Cowan, is releasing its second album. The new
album Always Coming Down is released on August 13 and will be available
only from the Rubber Records digital store as a limited edition numbered CD
and as a download ....
Another
Stone Alone
Angus Stone released a
solo album before the recent second Angus and Julia Stone release ‘Down The
Way’. Now it’s Julia’s turn. She’s just wrapped up recording her
still-untitled solo effort although working titles
include ‘Winter on the Weekend’ and ‘The Memory
Machine’, both of
which are songs on the album.. Inevitably there’s an overlap between
the brother and sister’s work alone and together. The opening song from ‘Down
The Way’ ‘Hold On’ is one of two tracks originally intended for Julia’s
album. The single from ‘Down The Way’,
‘Big Jet Plane’ appears without Julia’s voice on Angus’ ‘Lady Of The
Sunshine’ project. Julia Stone wrote and recorded the ten songs featured on
her album late last year while living in New York. Another solo Julia
track ‘This Love’ recently
featured on the soundtrack for the film The Waiting City, starring
Joel Edgerton and Rhada Mitchell. No release date for Julia Stone’s has
been scheduled. Meanwhile Angus and Julia are booked together to
play shows in the UK and Europe until December. (July 30)
Gunners manager sues Angels pair
The
Angels’ guitar-playing brothers John and Richard Brewster are being sued by
former Guns N’ Roses and great White manager Alan Niven, claiming
authorship of songs the Brewsters have been performing aside from their
Angels’ activities. Niven’s claim in the California Central District Court
also asks for the return of two guitars, a Gibson 335 and an American
Fender Stratocaster with a maple neck. His association with the Angels goes
back to 1988 when he was involved in securing the band an American record
release, as Angel City, Then in 2001, according to Niven, after a family
breakdown, he recruited Rick Brewster to the US to help him record some
songs he had written. It was then agreed that Niven would supply the
Brewsters with songs “on spec” This coincides with the time The Angels
found themselves without singer Doc Neeson. The Brewsters and the remaining
Angels subsequently started performing in their own right as The Angels
Band. As the Brewster Brothers they have released two studio albums,
presumably involving songs Niven claims involvement in. Niven's lawyer,
Eric Bjorgum, said: ''This is not something that Mr Niven took lightly, nor
is he happy to be involved in litigation with former associates and
friends. We understand the reputation of the Brewsters and their
contribution to music. But at some point Mr Niven was entitled to
appropriate recognition … He would also like to be able to perform and
market his own songs, but a shadow is cast across them now.'' (July 10)
Watch out! Avalanches!
Ten years since the
release of the Avalanches' ‘Since I Left You’ the follow-up may finally be on the way.
We’d given up hope after the 2006 incident when their record company
apparently rejected the album brought to them, and almost immediately
retracted that report to say they were happy with what they’d heard so far.
The Avalanches have had a good excuse for the delay of course. We’d been
told that 3,500 samples had had to be cleared in the making of ‘Since I
Left You’. Samples have been even harder to come by legally since then. In
May 2009, the Avalanches posted an image on their MySpace page which
confirmed that work was in progress -the drawing of a rainbow falling into
a dustbin had the brief heading, "Clearing samples". Then nothing
more, until this week when the Avalanches' web developer informed us
that "I hear Ariel Pink is
recording some guest vocals for it and once those are done, the album will
be finished (!).Ariel Pink is a Los Angeles based avant-garde
musician Under that MySpace dustbin image, the "samples" comment
has disappeared. The plot thickens. (June 11)
Music
for the environment
Coinciding with World Environment
Day (June 5) more than 100 Australian artists have thrown their support
behind www.soundemissions.com.au a website
specifically created for the Australian music community (including fans)
that provides solutions and relevant information and tips to avoid, reduce
and offset carbon emissions. Artists including John Butler, Missy Higgins,
Powderfinger, Grinspoon, Cat Empire, Clare Bowditch, Mark Seymour of
Crowded House, Something For Kate’s Paul Dempsy Daniel Merriweather, The
Living End, Tim Finn and others, as well as promoters and event producers,
through the website are airing how the music industry is finding
environmental solutions to the global issue like offering fans carbon
offset tickets, event tickets with built in public transport, car pooling
services, container recycling systems, biodegradable and recyclable food
and drink packaging and alternative power sources such as biofuel
generators and solar power stages and cinemas.(June 3)
Vegas naturals
Already the first ever Australian
singing group to have a longstanding show in Las Vegas “Smokey Robinson
Presents Australia's Human Nature – The Ultimate Celebration of the Motown
Sound,” has been extended for two years, to continue at the Imperial Palace
Hotel & Casino through May of 2012. The show performs six nights a
week. (May 17)
Tumbling
back
Perhaps flushed back into life by
the success of Wolfmother eighties longhaired rock “slackers” Tumbleweed
have made their reunion permanent, with more shows and has started writing songs new album, their first since 2000’s
‘Mumbo Jumbo’. After a chequered
history with many ups and downs
including several band line-up changes, the band finally broke up in 2003
and its members formed several acts including Richie and the Creeps,
Monstrous Blues, Leadfinger and the Pink Fits but later last year the
original line-up – singer Richard "Richie" Lewis, bassist Jason
Curley, guitarists Lenny Curley and Paul Hausmeister and drummer Steve
O'Brien – reformed for a string of reunion shows, including this
year’s Big Day Out. (May 7)
Local and/or general
*Snowman
has begun work on a new studio album with Aussie producer Aaron Cupples.The
Perth band will record and work with Cupples in their adopted city of
London. The as yet titled album will be the band’s third studio release.
Cupples has produced records for
fellow Australian artists The Drones, Paul Kelly, Dan Kelly and the Alpha
Males, and Subaudible Hum.
*Shihad
hve signed to Roadrunner for the release of their next album in Australia
* Already more than three years in
the making Jebediah has been
back in the studio with Dave Parkin working on a new album
* After nine years and three full
length studio records Sydney hip hop
group Kid Confucius has decided to split
* When Flying Nun’s founder
Roger Shepherd bought back the company last year Neil Finn and his wife and a business partner bought a quarter
share each.
* Devendra
Banhart told triple j that he and Wolfmother’s
Andrew Stockdale are about to make a record together.
* Youth Group will
take a break from recording and performing for the next 12 months.
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