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Uh-Huh
What:
Uh-Huh
Where:
The Corner, 57 Swan St, Richmond
When:
Fri Mar 28, doors 8pm
How much:
$15 at the door
Win:
We have a double pass to give away. To win just email win@threethousand.com.au with subject line "Yuh-huh, Uh-huh, Nuh-uh, Uh-uh"
Description:
Respond to a question with “Uh-Huh” and you’re agreeing with “sure,” “of course,” or “alright!” Add an ‘n’ to say, “Nuh-Huh” and the meaning of your expressive grunt is turned on its head. This response, as lazy as a convulsive exclamation, can pretty much mean anything with the right tone.
Event: Bands
Stimulus: C
Ghosthorse and Stillborn
It's been three years now since CocoRosie's debut album, La Maison de Mon Rêve, set the indie world on full-blown freak alert. Such abashed eccentricity quickly found the kooky, Brooklyn sisters Bianca and Sierra Casady at the vanguard of a nascent freak-folk movement, sharing stages, and beds, with the likes of avant-folk artists Devendra Banhart.
Music Recommenders
High Fidelity has nothing on Music Recommenders. Combining forty leading independent record stores from around the world it pools their collective knowledge to make sure your mix tapes always get you laid.
‘The Recommenders' include Brett Grossman and Brian Smith from Reckless Records (Chicago), Tatsuya Yuki from Mona Records (Tokyo) and Sascha and Torsten from Hard Wax (Berlin).
The End Of History
No one makes mix-tapes anymore, but if they did, anything by Fionn Regan would be a good addition. In fact, we can pretty much guarantee that a track like ‘Put A Penny In The Slot' would have your beloved-to-be drawing love hearts around your initials during biology.
Fionn's only 25, but his sincere, storytelling style has been compared to Young, Woody Guthrie and John Lennon, and basically sounds like Bright Eyes if he didn't whinge so much and told more stories.
Vessels
Although it's described as ‘great music to punch cones to' by certain street press, Wolf & Cub's debut album Vessels is more intelligent and dynamic than uni students on a couch after a bucket-bong.
Admittedly it's dark, and has moments that will make you sway (‘Hammond'), but all in all it is probably more likely to make you dance (‘This Mess', ‘Rozalia Bizzare'), than pass out.
So This Is Goodbye
There are more ways to reference house music than a collar-up pink Industrie shirt, a faux-hawk and a pinger up your bum.
Junior Boy's second full-length So This Is Goodbye finds a similar blend of electronic and indie to say Hot Chip, or perhaps less obviously, Erlend Oye.
With cascading synths, and 90's dance music throwbacks, So This Is Goodbye has picked apart a past that is still a bit close to home and offers up the best bits garnished with enough present-day to make it palatable.
Animal Bells
Indie pop groups doing Beach Boys harmonies are nothing new. In fact Brian Wilson influenced pop has become a sub-genre of sorts.
The Crayon Fields are Australia's finest exponents of this wall-of-harmony vocal style and where many bands lack songs in the quest for aura, every song on this disc is worthy of a sing-along.
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