Keyword results: Rock
Ceduna, the Sand Pebbles
Like a scene out of Oliver Stone's sixties psyche-crapfest The Doors, last summer Melbourne's Sand Pebbles trekked out into the desert with a bag full of 'shrooms and kicked out some jams motherfucker! And they ended up there during Melbourne's hottest heat-wave in years. Um, oops. Hydrate dudes.
Ceduna is their recorded result, an album of trippy, pummeling SoCal classic rock, all swooning four-part harmonies and noodling guitars.
Talkshow Boy
What:
Talkshow Boy
Where:
The Tote, 71 Johnson St, Collingwood
When:
Tues Jun 17, 8pm
How much:
$4
Description:
Filling The Tote with this much experimental art rock could be as dangerous as letting a goldfish fly a plane, but that's probably all the more reason to go and see what could happen. Telepathetic are new around here and would appreciate it if you heckle supportive ‘wooots' while they make their debut.
Event: Bands
Stimulus: A
All Hour Cymbals, Yeasayer
Do you know what a hippie is?
With their headscarves and hand bells, communal chanting and four-part harmonies, Yeasayer have a lot in common with west coast burnouts like Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles, or ELO. But they also share similarities with fellow skinny-jeaned loft-lurking Brooklynites TV on The Radio, Grizzly Bear, and Dirty Projectors.
The Bravery
What:
The Bravery
Where:
Corner Hotel, 57 Swan St, Richmond
When:
TONIGHT! Thurs June 5, doors 8pm
How much:
$42 +BF from here
Win:
We have some prizes. Winner: a double pass to the show tonight and an album. Runner up: an album! To enter, email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line ‘if I had played my first show at The Stinger club, things would have been different'.
Description:
These characters are from the LES, NYC, they started their band in 2002/03 and used to stand outside Tower Records all day handing out burned CDs, so they have every right to say they make post-punk-influenced dance rock and not have you look at them sideways. Their second album, The Sun and the Moon is out now.
Event: Bands
Stimulus: E
Air Guitar
Dave Hickey is the love child of Hunter S. Thompson, Lester Bangs, Giorgio Vasari, Anais Nin, Mark Twain, Hannah Arendt, Susan Sontag and, still skimping on his alimony, Lenny Bruce. To wit, he is: promiscuously inclusive, as humanly warm as pee-pee on denim, smarter than a dagger, as serious as your life and funnier than a muthafucka.
Widows Walk
With earmarks of Cabbalistic ritual, smacky trips, mind-rattling confusion, Spider Vomit are a passport to the northernmost hills of Melbourne's band underground; a place where the sun hangs low, blood flows in rivers and the air is a heady mix of free-rock spirit and heavy drugs. Recent live performances of quasi-religious power have hinted at the group's diabolical pleasures, but this debut EP's heavy dose of psych-riffing, swampy rhythms and vocal invocations of evil fun is better than audiences could possibly expect.
Mood Patterns
Here's a hit of sunshine to spark up your day like a doobie. Mood Patterns is the debut full length from Belles Will Ring, the Blue Mountains' answer to The Byrds. The five-piece recorded the album at lead singer Liam Judson's parents mountain-home-come-studio, and it's packed with enough soaring ‘60s harmonies and chiming guitars to float on for weeks.
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