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  • dictators-saturdayOkay.  True story; this.  I’m in Red Eye Records, Sydney, cruising the racks.  Trying to find that new audio kick.  I chance upon this item.  Surely, I have every damn thing the Dictators ever released.  What is this thing?  A cursory glance at the back cover says it came out in 2008.  I reach for my mobile phone and jump to the I-94 Bar for the good word and there isn’t one to be had.  There is no frigging review.   Clearly, I had better rectify this situation.

  • midnight crisis nycEverybody's heard the rumors about a seedy gang of leather clad strangers seen obscenely strutting up and down the boardwalk, right around the time that all those teenagers started going missing from the amusement park and comic book shop, on the shore, like some ageless, ’80s hellraisers, who refuse to die. 

    Some believe those kids joined some hard partying Ricky Kasso hesher-cult, many have even claimed some second hand knowledge of a fire flickering batcave filled with opium den antiques and gypsy tapestries and a big blacklight poster of Jim Morrison, reptiles abounding...

    I, personally, suspect it's all just a big conspiracy theory, the stuff of urban myth, bored kids with overactive imaginations, who have spent to much time watching zombie-hunter shows on cable, reading that "Twilight" book series, and chatting about Slenderman and Bigfoot and Anne Rice stuff, online. 

  • viva It's rare that you find a disc with which you can't find even insubstantial fault. The Dictators, live and amped-up, are simply one of the best things on this musical planet. If you had to come up with something to balance the lavish praise we and fellow Tators fan-atics are spouting about this, it might be that the contemporary tunes on "Viva" manage to sound exactly like their studio cousins. And that's supposed to be a bad thing?

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Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds
Australian Tour
APR
+ Kim Salmon’s Smoked Salmon
18 – Corner Hotel, Melbourne, VIC
+ Zig Zag
19 – Theatre Royal, Castlemaine, VIC
+ TBA
20 – Lion Arts Factory, Adelaide, SA
+ Little Things
21 – Rosemount Hotel, Perth, WA
+ Kim Salmon
24 – Republic Bar, Hobart, TAS
+ Loose Fit
25 – Oxford Art Factory, Sydney, NSW
+ The Stress of Leisure + Arugula
27 – The Zoo, Brisbane, QLD

I-94 Bar Records presnts
Jupiter 5 
"Fifth From The Sun" CD Launch
+ Simon Chainsaw & The Liberators + Primo Mofo
Marrickville Bowling Club
- May 3
Tickets

Pilots of Baalbek
“By The Seat Of Our Pants” Tour
APR
19 – The Baso, Canberra  + Voodoo Space Acid Kings + Rawrus Tongue
20 – Link and Pin, Woy Woy with Chimers + DVNTS 

The Tommys
+ The Mods
+ Sorry Jimi
Retreat Hotel, Brunswick VIC
- Apr 21 (3-6pm)

Joeys Coop
10th Anniversary Show
Camelot Lounge, Marrickville
- May 4
Tickets

The Skids Australian Tour
MAY
2 - Brisbane, The Triffid
3 - Sydney, Manning Bar
4 - Melbourne, Max Watts
10 - Adelaide, The Gov
11 - Perth, Rosemount Hotel
Tickets

I-94 Bar presents
"You Only Think Twice
An Afternoon With Kit Identity"
Kit Identity 
(Bruce Warner ex-Thought Criminals) 
+ Rubber Necker 
(playing middle set)
Wiz & The Trailler Trash Boys
MoshPit Bar, Enmore, NSW
- May 26
(2-5pm)

Radio Birdman
“Birdman 5-O!”
JUNE
+ Civic
21 – Croxton Bandroom, VIC
22 – Croxton Bandroom, VIC
23 – The Gov, Adelaide
+ TBA
28 – The Triffid, Brisbane
29 – The Triffid, Brisbane
+ HITS
JULY
5 – Manning Bar, Sydney  - SOLD OUT
6 – Manning Bar, Sydney  - SOLD OUT
7 – Manning Bar, Sydney
+ Hard-Ons

The Fadeaways
Australian Tour
JULY
Thu 11- Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. VIC
Fri 12 – The Tote, Collingwood, VIC
Sat 13 – The Crowbar, Leichhardt, NSW
Sun 14 – MoshPit Bar, Enmore, NSW

The Stems
40th Anniversary Australian Tour
AUG
24 – Corner Hotel, Melbourne
25 – The Gov, Adelaide
30 – The Zoo, Brisbane
31 – Manning Bar, Sydney
SEP 
5 – Freo Social, Fremantle
Tickets here

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