Keyword results: Post-punk
On Two Sides
If a transition from mass-ear interest in New Wave guitar groups towards the synth and lo-fi undergrounds of yore has long been in the offing, only now does it seem at tipping point both at home and abroad.
Widespread exposure and acceptance of home recording auteurism has left young Heads hungrier for hard-sound experimentalism in pop than ever - pushing demands on new tunes excitingly high, far beyond textbook understandings of the New York / Manchester post-punk axis towards more cosmic strands in Kosmiche Musik, concrete sound, psychedelic punk and all manner of culturally dispossessed activity.
Near Your House EP launch
What:
Near Your House EP launch
Where:
The Great Britain, 447 Church St, Richmond
When:
Sat May 10, doors 9pm
How much:
Free!
Win:
OMG we have a copy of the EP to give away. To enter, email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line ‘eyeshadow is not a shortcut to disco punk'
Description:
When you love a band this much, writing up their shows becomes a new kind of challenge: a quest, in fact, to be quoted in their press releases. So, here goes: Near Your House are the antidote to every other band who puts ‘post punk' in their MySpace genre listing then slaps effects over their lyrics like it's as easy as stealing their sister's eye-shadow.
Event: Launch
Stimulus: E
Artefacts EP
If their debut is anything to go by, Tic Toc Tokyo have some exciting times ahead. Artefacts sees their tribal-infused post-punk styling expertly merged with no-wave inclinations, making for one tidy little package indeed.
‘Colour of Place' launches proceedings - disjointed guitar riffs and percussive beginnings grow then kick with confidence.
The Futureheads
If you thought acappella vocal techniques were strictly for community-based singing groups, in which both sexes match their Explorer socks and garish knits with a sense of pride, its time to let these British post-punkers teach you a thing or two about doo-wop. The four members of The Futureheads are blessed with pitch-perfect voices delivering spat-out vocal harmonies, as if Gang of Four became a barbershop quartet (in fact Gang of Four's Andy Gill produced the album).
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