Tag: "Northcote Social Club"

David Bridie Reveals Album Launch
0 Comments. 153 Views. Posted 14 May 2013 @ 9:44am.
One of the most distinctive voices and songwriters in Australian music, David Bridie has announced a new album, Wake, and a national tour in celebration.  For the first time in 15 years, Bridie’s Not Drowning, Waving co-founder John Phillips will also join him on the album tour, along with Dave Folley.  Read More
The Mix CD Social
0 Comments. 1 Views. Posted 10 May 2013 @ 5:38pm.
Swap CDs and socialise for the second time round when the Mix CD Social returns in June. The evening of songs and sharing will feature the melodies of Georgia Fields, the electro-acousitc offerings of Spender, surf rockers The Blue Bottles and all girl marching band The Red Brigade. Guest DJs will include Josh Earl, Jen Cloher and Pikelet's Evelyn Morris. Bring a CD to swap in the musical lucky... Read More
Horrorshow to Launch New Single
0 Comments. 1 Views. Posted 10 May 2013 @ 4:24pm.
Leading up to the release of their highly anticipated third album, hip hoppers Horrorshow will launch their new single 'Unfair Lottery' at the Northcote Social Club in June. The latest offering from lyricist Solo and producer Adit gets a little philosophical. It aims to probe the collective psyche as it explores the idea of privilege. The pair were nominated for an ARIA for their 2008 debut Grey... Read More
Kirin J Callinan Announces Album Tour
0 Comments. 254 Views. Posted 8 May 2013 @ 10:49am.
After a long gestation period, Kirin J Callinan is set to unleash his debut album this July. And to celebrate, he's hitting the road for an international launch tour. After a pair of excellent solo preview shows at The Grace Darling, Kirin will return in full band mode to showcase material from Embracism.   Support on the night comes from Standish/Carlyon.   Check out the clip for the... Read More
Palma Violets Announce Melbourne Splendour Sideshow
0 Comments. 260 Views. Posted 6 May 2013 @ 9:25am.
Already set to tear up the 2013 Splendour In The Grass, NME darlings Palma Violets have announced a headline Melbourne appearance. With the release of 180 earlier this year, the band have established themselves as one of England's finest psychedelic-garage exponents.   Palma Violets' Australian visit will follow on from a London support slot for a lil' old band called The Rolling Stones.... Read More
Q&A: Bored Nothing vs Gung Ho vs Step-Panther
0 Comments. 324 Views. Posted 2 May 2013 @ 10:30pm.
BORED NOTHING ASKING GUNG HO Have you ever seen a show called Seinfeld? How good is Seinfeld? It's awesome, I'm glad you like it too. Good for you, Jack!   What's your favourite pizza topping, do you ever need to get half and half or are you guys closer than that? Supreme always goes well. Except the pineapple. If there's anyone cool with pineapple on the pizza they're out of the band.... Read More
Q&A: Daniel Champagne
0 Comments. 115 Views. Posted 30 Apr 2013 @ 1:56pm.
Ten bands everyone should know about: Jeff Lang, Siskin River, Max Savage, Bob Brozman, Jamie Pye, Tom Richardson Project, Chase The Sun, Jay Fraser, The Flaming Lips & Jake Shimabokuro.   Nine food items that you need to make a kickarse dinner party: Big breakfast dinner party with appropriately themed background music: bacon, eggs in all possible formats, mushroom, tomato, onion,... Read More
Twerps Announced For Monday Night Mass
0 Comments. 345 Views. Posted 30 Apr 2013 @ 12:39pm.
Going from strength to strength in recent times, Northcote Social Club's weekly Monday Night Mass provides a free showcase of some of ol' Melbourne town's finest musical talent. Next instalment is a doozy, with merry guitar pop bandits Twerps making their first headline appearance for the year - following on from their gracing of the Laneway Festival lineup. They're busy beavering away at their... Read More
Q&A: Brightly
0 Comments. 390 Views. Posted 30 Apr 2013 @ 11:59am.
Define your genre in five words or less: Incredibly enthusiastic electronic folk.   If you could assassinate one person or band from popular music, who would it and why? Aw, everything has a place, doesn't it? Plus assassination is pretty aggressive. Couldn't we just start by taking away their microphone and work from there?   Why should everyone come and see your band? Because there... Read More
Oh Mercy Announce Final Melbourne Shows For 2013
0 Comments. 252 Views. Posted 24 Apr 2013 @ 1:39pm.
Oft-lauded champions of Australian songwriting Oh Mercy have announced their final headline shows for the year before making a start on their new LP. Oh Mercy frontman will also open for the full band in solo modeAlexander Gow will perform solo, playing songs from Privileged Woes, Great Barrier Grief and some new songs and rarities, while being joined on stage by different special guests each... Read More
Footy Announce Album Launch
0 Comments. 142 Views. Posted 24 Apr 2013 @ 1:31pm.
Minimal duo Footy have announced a headline show to celebrate the launch of their full-length debut. Mobile Cemetary showcases the underground pop meanderings from the rising electronic piano two-piece. The LP will be released on Friday May 3 through Lost & Lonesome.   Rounding out the stellar bill at Northcote Social Club will be Pearls, Mad Nanna and The Backstabber. Read More
Money For Rope Announce Melbourne Show
0 Comments. 313 Views. Posted 19 Apr 2013 @ 4:09pm.
Old mates Money For Rope have announced their first Melbourne headline show since selling out the Ding Dong Lounge in late 2012. A six-piece comprised of two drumkits, two guitars, keys, a bass guitar and four voices, the guys have already played alongside Tim Rogers & The Bamboos, Saskwatch along with appearances at Golden Plains and Boogie. Read More
Baptism Of Uzi Announce EP Launch
0 Comments. 209 Views. Posted 18 Apr 2013 @ 8:56pm.
An oft-lauded live outfit around ol' Melbourne town, Baptism Of Uzi have announced the 10" EP release Stray Currents.  To celebrate the EP's launch, the band will hit up a decent-sized headline show to melt a few minds with their tasty wares.   Garnishing pristine pop smarts with a touch of breezy psychedelia, Baptism Of Uzi create a wall of sound quite like no other. Read More
Ainslie Wills
0 Comments. 105 Views. Posted 17 Apr 2013 @ 5:09pm.
The kind of voice that lives in the lungs of Ainslie Wills doesn’t soar out of every strong vocalist – just as skills in penning bright-as-coals tracks or a spot at Melbourne’s VCA don’t come in everyone’s mailbox, either. The charming Wills sounds like a nightingale but that sound is delivered with the strength and conviction of a queen, and she’s just as effortlessly sweet and forthright as her... Read More
The Murlocs Announce Headline Tour
0 Comments. 191 Views. Posted 17 Apr 2013 @ 1:14pm.
Melbourne rock 'n' roll dynamos The Murlocs have annoucned a headline tour in support of their new single Rattle The Chain. Gaining well-deserved attention after barnstorming appearances at Meredith and Harvest last year, The Murlocs have gone on to support the likes of Steve Malkmus + The Jicks, Earthless, Gary Clarke Jr and Thee Oh Sees.   Rattle The Chain is the first taste from The... Read More
Q&A: Shaun Kirk
0 Comments. 145 Views. Posted 11 Apr 2013 @ 5:48pm.
Ten bands everyone should know about: Tony Joe White, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Tedeski Trucks Band, Blind Boys of Alabama, Gary Clarke Jr, Buddy Guy, Jurassic 5, Kim Churchill, Rodriguez.   Nine food items that you need to make a kickarse dinner party: Babybel cheese, gozleme, bananas, dim sims, butter chicken, jalapeños, spinach, avocado, American mustard   Eight possessions that... Read More
Q&A: Battleships
0 Comments. 128 Views. Posted 11 Apr 2013 @ 5:40pm.
Name: Jordan Sturdee.   Define your genre in five words or less: Feelings, beards, cheap flights, vibes.   Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? Argh I have no idea – hopefully like something want to hear, but not too close to what they’ve already heard. We channel Keane, Radiohead, Blur, The Boxer Rebellion.  ... Read More
Beaches Announce Album Tour
0 Comments. 368 Views. Posted 10 Apr 2013 @ 2:23pm.
Beaches have announced a tour to coincide the launch of their new album She Beats.  The psych rockers have spent this five year interim refining their sound with a score of international tours and impressive support slots for acts like Roky Erickson and Deerhunter. Now the girls return to their hometown to play a headline show.    Update: After selling out their first show, a... Read More
Pez Announces Back In The Game Tour
0 Comments. 221 Views. Posted 5 Apr 2013 @ 1:35pm.
Melbourne hip hop MC Pez has announced his first national headline tour in three years. Pez's Back In The Game Tour is the rapper's first opportunity to unveil tracks from his sophomore album, including current single The Game. Pez's debut album A Mind Of My Own was release almost five years ago. Read More
Vance Joy
0 Comments. 258 Views. Posted 1 Apr 2013 @ 11:11am.
If you’re reminiscing about loves lost, or lamenting a current unrequited torment, do yourself a favour – don’t watch Vance Joy’s film clip for his latest single From Afar. Or do watch it, I dunno, maybe you need a good cry. The point is it is one of the most heartbreaking, soul wrenching, tear-draining clips you’ll see if the one you love is looking the other way. Visually, it sets the... Read More
Spit Syndicate
0 Comments. 239 Views. Posted 28 Mar 2013 @ 11:41am.
“Australian music is incredibly healthy at the moment. And I’m saying that as a fan: don’t let anyone tell ya different.” Nick Lupi is feeling good about the future. The Sydney-sider is one half of hip hop duo Spit Syndicate, who are about to release their third album. Sunday Gentlemen follows two critically lauded albums on Obese Records and three separate mixtapes. They’ve steadily... Read More
The Snowdroppers
0 Comments. 254 Views. Posted 21 Mar 2013 @ 10:00pm.
The five-year interval between albums from Sydney’s The Snowdroppers will finally cease on Friday March 22 with the release of Moving Out Of Eden. Singer of the rugged four-piece, Johnny Wishbone, explains that following the release of debut album Too Late To Prey the group faced a dilemma about the appropriate direction to pursue. “It was the end of 2011 and I was really worried... Read More
Deap Vally
0 Comments. 296 Views. Posted 21 Mar 2013 @ 9:49pm.
They’re sexy, they’re sultry and they’re the embodiment of all that was debauched and depraved in ‘70s rock. Los Angeles two-piece Deap Vally – drummer Julie Edwards and singer/guitarist Lindsay Troy – are no tribute band or novelty act. They play driving, hard rock and perform it with an energy that feels like they might kick you in the face and plant a giant kiss on you on your way to the... Read More
Matthew E. White Announces Melbourne Show
0 Comments. 401 Views. Posted 21 Mar 2013 @ 3:20pm.
Making the most of his Australian debut, Matthew E. White will be performing a headline Melbourne show alongside his appearance at Vivid LIVE. Dealing in a comfortingly familiar yet unique brand of soul, White has earned acclaim from critics and collaborated with the likes of Bon Iver, Sharon Van Etten, Megafaun and The Mountain Goats. Read More
Ironing Board Sam
0 Comments. 223 Views. Posted 19 Mar 2013 @ 2:58pm.
Billed as the ‘Eighth Wonder Of The World’, Ironing Board Sam has played electronic blues for the past six decades. During those years he has lived through segregation, the Civil Rights Movement and was in the same hotel when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.  Despite his talent and success, he didn’t sign to a label. Hitting financial lows, he was introduced to Music Maker Foundation... Read More
This Will Destroy You
0 Comments. 201 Views. Posted 15 Mar 2013 @ 12:12pm.
A promise to avoid genre jargon was made with guitarist, Jeremy Galindo of atmospheric doom-gazers, This Will Destroy You. But without the ability to illustrate lyrical interpretations of this Texan instrumental band, it’s all up to the listener to provide a worthy enough description for your imagination. Post-rock, ambient, noise, apocalyptic and minimalist are more titles that drone themselves... Read More
Moon Duo
0 Comments. 139 Views. Posted 14 Mar 2013 @ 2:01pm.
San Francisco is such a special place. Throughout its storied history, The City By The Bay has been at the vanguard of pivotal events in cultural shifts. The Beat Generation, the hippie movement, the Summer of Love, Timothy Leary’s Human Be-In, the psychedelic swirlings of the ‘70s, the glory of the Gay Pride Movement – you name it, it probably happened in San Francisco first. It’s only fitting... Read More
Benny Walker
0 Comments. 187 Views. Posted 14 Mar 2013 @ 11:54am.
Benny Walker’s got me wishing I was a river girl instead of a beach girl. There couldn’t be a better promo for the sweet small town delights of Echuca-Moama than this young guitarist’s straight-up lyrics, tender vocal timbre, and video clips of him and his mates passing beers across a boat that glides along the twinkling ochre waters of the Murray. They’re also doing something sporty out the back... Read More
Chance Waters Announces Album Tour
0 Comments. 148 Views. Posted 13 Mar 2013 @ 2:55pm.
Sydney's Chance Waters will be celebrating the release of his critically acclaimed Sophomore album Infinity, with a national tour kicking off this March. The album, which debuted at #54 on the ARIA charts, was one of the artist's many triumphs last year. Nominated as 'Unearthed Artist of the Year' in the 2012 j Awards, his video for second single Maybe Tomorrow was voted #7 in the 2012 rage... Read More
The Barons Of Tang
0 Comments. 257 Views. Posted 8 Mar 2013 @ 10:28am.
After roughly six years of steady local and international touring and a couple of intriguing EPs, Melbourne seven-piece punk/ world music conglomerate Barons of Tang have just completed recording their debut full-length record. Bassist Julian Cue explains that they didn’t feel ready to make an album until now but, having gathered a more defined idea of how to present themselves on record, he’s... Read More
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