‘AT THE END OF THE DAY (LIVE)’ BY PHIA Phia has been making waves in Europe since relocating to Berlin roughly 12 months ago. More recently Phia was invited to perform at Portland’s Warsaw Music Week alongside acts like Hercules and Love Affair and Planningtorock. Pretty huge. – – – ’1963′ BY HEAVY BEACH How [...]
Nice New Noises is a monthly round-up of interesting new music we’ve picked up on while slaving our lives away in front of our computers. ‘FIGHTING KING’ BY AINSLIE WILLS What a voice! This is my favourite song at the moment. ‘Fighting Kind’ is the opening single taken from the band’s debut album due for [...]
BUCKLEY WARD So Pretend is the highly anticipated second album from Buckley Ward, and has already given us a corker title track. ‘Into the Darkening Blue’ is the new single which accompanies a zombie apocalyptic themed video shot in North Melbourne. PRESIDENT ROOTS The spanking new single by Morning Peninsula’s roots music masters, President Roots. [...]
We here at Show Off have a bit of a soft spot for film. Despite the advances in digital technology over the past ten years, which have in effect rendered the format impractical for all but the most dedicated users, there is something (well a lot actually) said for the medium’s romance. The grain, the [...]
MICHAEL ROTHER (NEU! HARMONIA, KRAFTWERK) Presenting music by NEU!, Harmonia and selected solo works in a world premiere performance with special guests Dieter Moebius (Cluster, Harmonia) and Hans Lampe (NEU!, La Dusseldorf). Australian music enthusiasts will be lucky enough to experience an unprecedented meeting of great musical minds with heavyweights of Krautkrock and German experimental [...]
One of the many great things about being a professional fankid (aka publicist) is having the opportunity to talk to (and occasionally share funny cat videos with) artists you truly admire. Such was the case with my recent online chat with Melbourne-based freelance photographer and artist Lauren Bamford during which, she answered our patented (patent [...]
With a longstanding interest in the emotive power of art and a passion for music, Sydney-based director Emma Tomelty first popped on the Show off Services’ radar with her dreamily sublime rendering of Dead Letter Chorus’ ‘Yellow House’. Her most recent film clip was an all dancing affair for hip hop agent provocateur Hermitude ‘s [...]
Foxx on Fire have made a very excellent music video for their new single ‘March Into The Sun’. What do the band have to say about the video? “It was filmed in the mystical hills of West Cork in Ireland, it is the perfect location for transcendental hide and seek!” – – – ‘March Into [...]
The music video for ‘Lo-Fi’, the first single to be lifted from Sophie Koh’s highly anticipated long player, Oh My Garden is as energetic as its soundtrack. An all singing and (occasionally) dancing affair set in the most unlikely of locations, the video for ‘Lo-Fi’ capitalises on the song’s upbeat vibe and effortless charm. Directed [...]
Deserters present their rockin’ new single Lemon Kicks – a slice of pop/rock heaven with irresistible hooks, sugar-coated with classy vocals by songwriter Luke Thomas and Elly-May Barnes, in her debut appearance with Deserters. Mixed by Victor Van Vugt (Nick Cave, P.J Harvey, The Panics) in New York, Lemon Kicks is also accompanied by a [...]
Turns out it means A LOT! We recently had a chat with Amelia Schmidt from Godel Design & Marketing about increasing the SEO qualities of our website. Amelia had a whole bunch of nifty ideas and while she was blowing my mind I thought “shit, bands and artists need to know this stuff”! Amelia was [...]
The double-barelled assault of Melbourne’s Slow Chase continues unabated with the release of ‘Algernon’. The second single from their upcoming Blind Spot EP shows that the two-piece know their fair share about riffs and hooks. Rocking a Stones-esque strut and a rolling groove, ‘Algernon’ drips with attitude and hints at vice. Contrary to the four [...]
“Filmmaking is kind of like organising a massive party with no budget… a party full of three-year-olds who could hurt themselves,” laughs, Natasha Pincus, founder of Starkraving Productions and director of possibly the year’s most shared film clip, Gotye’s ‘Somebody I Used To Know’. Hovering at the 7,700,000 view mark at the time of posting, [...]
The first track to be taken from Texture Like Sun’s forthcoming debut album, due in 2012, ‘Bottle’ has been a long time coming. Recorded over the course of a year in both Darwin and Melbourne, ‘Bottle’ was produced by Countbounce (TZU’s Pip Norman) who has previously worked with Urthboy and Ash Grunwald. The video for [...]
We said that ‘Black Tooth’ was music to rob banks to, well, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s next single, ‘Dead-Beat’ is the soundtrack to the pre-heist party. ‘Dead-Beat’ encapsulates King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s unique and celebratory brand of menace. The second single to be taken from the band’s forthcoming EP, Willoughby’s Beach, [...]
Melbourne band Gosteleradio return in September 2011 with their self-titled EP. Following on from well received debut album, 2010’s ‘Great Deeds Against the Dead’, this EP showcases the evolving songwriting skills of a band described as ‘a mix of London psychedelics and Californian sun’. The EP was primarily recorded in one day in June 2011 [...]
Jimmy Hawk has built a reputation as one of Melbourne’s most evocative songwriters. His debut album, Echo Park, released early in 2010, showcased Hawk’s deft re-imagining of the folk genre and earned widespread acclaim. Proving that he is as prolific as he is inventive, October sees the release of his second album and the first [...]
Geelong five-piece, The Frowning Clouds will be launching their latest single ‘All Night Long’ with two very special headline shows in Melbourne and Sydney this September. ‘All Night Long’ is blessed with jangling guitars and a jaunty beat and is the first single from the band’s upcoming upcoming long player, the follow-up from their 2010 [...]
‘Here’s The Girl’, the first single to be taken from Melbourne duo Harmless’ upcoming debut album, Water Feature, is a shining example from the more delicate side of electronic music. Collaborators Cesar Rodrigues (Blue King Brown) and Monty Mackenzie (Cleverhorse) have weaved together a heady mix of traditional instrumentation, found sounds and loops into this [...]
No Excuses by showoffservices To celebrate the release of her new EP ‘Anywhere There’s You’, Amaya Laucirica and her band embark on a tour throughout October taking in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. The EP contains two unreleased songs and two live tracks from Amaya’s latest critically lauded album ‘Early Summer’ which took out JJJ’s [...]
It’s only fitting that the film clip for Kate Vigo’s latest single, ‘You’re Haunting Me’, is as equally charged as its soundtrack. ‘You’re Haunting Me’ sees Vigo working again with Kess Broekman-Dattner, who directed her MusicOz Music Video of the Year winning ‘The Way That You Are’ in 2010. Captured by cinematographer Katie Milwright, ‘You’re [...]
It’s been awhile between drinks for Melbourne’s sunny-psychedelic wonder kids Gostelradio. This September will see the band release their self-titled EP, recorded by Nao Anzai in a single day at Smiley McSlidey rehearsal studios in East Brunswick. The leading track ‘Odyssey’ is a smooth progressive wash of Beach Boy like harmonies and flowing pop sensibilities. [...]
Spookyland is the moniker under which 19 year old Sydney folk singer Marcus Gordon performs and records. In support of his acclaimed debut E.P, ‘Killin One Bird With Two Stones’, the oddball troubadour performed extensively across Australia’s east coast as a one man show. All the while developing an itch to unleash his pulpy cowboy [...]
The following post was written by Melbourne musician Andrew Keese on the recent article published by The Age and written by Kim Salmon. The Age article here. It was very easy to misread Kim Salmon’s recent opinion piece in The National Times. A superficial skim gives the impression that here is nothing more than a [...]
Jimmy Hawk & The Endless Party are set to release their spankin’ new album towards the end of THIS year. SOS are super stoked to be working along side the band and with their management at A Northern Soul. Check out the promo video below to hear some of the band’s new material.
To mark the release of their long-awaited sophomore effort, Yearlings, this August 26th, Dead Letter Chorus announce select dates across the country in celebration. Kicking off this September 16th at Perth’s Speakeasy @ The Villa, the band will pay a visit to Melbourne’s Northcote Social Club on September 30th before a sure to be happy [...]
With the release of their sophomore album, Yearlings, sophisticated indie/pop outfit Dead Letter Chorus have marked a compelling stage in their evolution. On a sonic journey they’ll take you, via a sound honed over three releases now, to a musical space they’ve made their own. It’s a space they’ve been aiming for since their inception [...]
Some handy notes on all things band photography. Written by Jade Bonus. It is a well-worn cliche that a picture tells a thousand words. Now the thing about cliches is that they are just that because they are sort of true. When it comes to press shots this cliche is not only true but pretty [...]
Sharing the LOVE feels good, right! For the past three months I’ve done a few music publicity talks to emerging artists. It’s been fun. I’ve found that loads of DIY artists and bands are capable of running their initial publicity and promotional tasks. Below I have put together a basic step-by-step publicity planning guide / [...]
Saturday: My alarm clock goes off on Saturday morning, 8:30am. The night before I dropped into The Workers Club to checkout The Kins album launch. It was a great show and totally packed! Anyway, back to me dragging myself out of bed…. I had roughly 30 mins to get my sorry ass in the city [...]
Receiving new music is the best part about being a Melbourne based music publicist. Sure we get sent some shockers but this week has brought with it some excellent submissions. The Commas A song called ‘Bottle’ popped into my inbox this morning and after one listen I was pretty blown away. Besides a very green [...]
The first single from Melbourne psychedelic surd rock garage-punk superstars King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s upcoming EP, Willoughby’s Beach, ‘Black Tooth’ is two minutes and thirty seconds of music to rob banks to. ‘Black Tooth’ opens with a burst of machine gun guitars before replacing the fury with some old fashioned malice in the [...]
