Australian crowds will have their first opportunity to experience Japan’s best, premium high-energy garage rock band when The Fadeaways make their debut on these shores in July 2024.
The Fadeaways have been wowing punters in their homeland since forming in Tokyo in 2005. Sharing a mutual love of ‘60s garage punk, ‘70s punk and trash, Toyozo (vocals and bass), Assman (guitar) and Ozzy (drummers) quickly established themselves on the tight-knit and fanatical Japanese underground music circuit.
This July 2024, prepare to be swept off your feet as Japan's high-octane garage rock sensation. Don’t just take our word for it. Here’s an eyewitness account:
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Expat Aussie fuzz 'n' beats rocker Dez Dare is returning home from the UK for shows to celebrate the release of his fourth album, "A Billion Goats. A Billion Sparks. Fin."
The media release is worth reproducing verbatim:
On past records Dare has fought beasts and beats alike, waging a fuzz war and tackling the biggest topics the world has to face; Doom scrolling, capitalist demagogues, a passionate dislike of the beach in summer. On this record he leaves the sardonic frustration behind for sarcastic existentialism, zeroing in on the big philosophical questions, and the pedantic shards of nonsense that make up our existence.
Piling up the synths, noise boxes and guitar pedals, Dez set about building a soundscape of noise and ideas around the nature of reality, time, and how we interact with them. From the music you would play in your last moments, to the reverse Darwinism of modern society, to arguing with time itself, and very boring people talking at you, all is covered here for the aspiring existentialist.
Dez Dare is self-produced Darren Smallman (ex-Low Transit Industries, Warped, The Sound Platform) and he's three decades producing music, releasing and touring bands, and doing live sound. A product of the coastal Victorian city of Geelong, he was introduced to the DIY punk and rock scene at 15.
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The three-piece Pink Monkey Birds saving a place for Mick Harvey.
Kid Congo Powers has announced former Birthday Party and Bad Seeds member Mick Harvey will be joining his Pink Monkey Birds on bass for this month’s Australian tour.
“Haven’t played (together) besides guest spots since Bad Seeds days,” a gleeful Kid Congo tweeted earlier today.
Kid Congo and his band are releasing their fifth long-player “ That Delicious Vice“ on In The Red Records on 19 April to coincide with the tour. “Wicked World” is the video single and features Los Angeles punk icon Alice Bag.
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Former Celibate Rifles guitarist Kent Steedman has teamed with onetime Vanilla Chainsaws frontman Simon Chainsaw for an incendiary project called Bullet Tram. The first result of the partnership is a dirgey, bluesy track called “Bought The Lie”.
Simon, who sang the vocal, says: “’Bought The Lie’ was inspired by the famous Hunter S Thompson quote: ‘The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side’.”
Since the passing of Damien Lovelock and the end of the Rifles, Kent Steedman has embarked on a solo career and has a growing back catalogue of projects, including Deep South and Radio KSG. He also records and tours with Midnight Oil’s Jim Moginie.
Simon Chainsaw started Vanilla Chainsaws in Sydney in the 1980's with a sound that was a thick roar of layered guitar chords that was reminiscent of Husker Du.
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French label Rogue Records has jumped aboard The On and Ons powerpop express.
Seizing on the Sydney band’s rating by “Little Steven’s Underground Garage” listeners as the Ninth Coolest Band In The World for 2023 (no mean feat), Rogue has released two of their singles on a seven-inch vinyl single.
“Looking Out Of A Mirror” b/w “Hey, What’s Going On?” showcases facets of The On and Ons’ rocking and jangle-pop qualities and is a stellar addition to their catalogue.
Of course a previous single on US label Get Hip and CD albums plus an EP on Aussie imprint Citadel should already be in your collecrtion.
For the uninitiated, The On and Ons are a vehicle for the songwriting of former Screaming Tribesmen and Kings of The Sun guitarist-vocalist Glenn Morris and the consummate playing and harmonies of bassist Clyde Bramley (Hoodoo Gurus) and drummer Brian Morris.
They recently added former Died Pretty keyboardist John Hoey to the ranks and you can sample and secure your single here.
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It’s going to be a special afternoon when the I-94 Bar presents Kit Identity (aka Bruce Warner of ground-breaking Sydney punk band Thought Criminals) at Sydney’s MoshPit Bar on Sunday, May 26.
The Thought Criminals were one of Australia’s most influential and enterprising punk bands to spring from the febrile Sydney scene. They formed in late 1977, and disbanded in late 1981, leaving three albums in their wake, all on their own Double Think label.
Bruce now lives in Perth and has been active in ViviKit, a duo with fellow former Thoughtie and Do Re Mi member Stephen Philip, and as a solo artist.
He’ll showcase songs from his most recent solo album, “Kit Identity With The Cosmic Zooclouds”, and some Thought Criminals classics.
Support will come from Sydney’s most exciting postpunk protagonists, Rubber Necker, playing the closing set.
Opening act Wiz and The Trailler Trash Boys, a self-proclaimed supergroup comprising members of the Celibate Rifles, Buffalo Revisited, Filth and Bosom, will be playing a selection of songs about love, hate and drugs. The gig is $15 at the door and runs from 2-5pm, with Kit Identity playing the middle bracket.
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After a year of celestial alignment and astral preparation, the Sydney rock veterans of Jupiter 5 are unleashing their debut album "5th From The Sun" upon an unsuspecting universe.
This dazzling 13-track masterpiece is a protopunk-garage-meets-rifferama-psych explosion that will shake the foundations of your reality!
The launch party for this otherworldly odyssey takes place at Marrickville Bowling Club on Friday, May 3, marking Jupiter 5's first planetary descent since their last in-the-flesh appearance in July 2023. Tickets are here.
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Born from a necessity to combine a succulent Chinese meal with swampy garage rock’n’roll, The Silver Dragons (named after a retro Chinese restaurant in Umina on NSW Central Coast) formed at The Link & Pin café in Woy Woy after singer, Anton Hughes, was asked to support Sydney alt-country star Adam Young.
Over a year of gigging the band has morphed into a garage/guitar-pop/fuzz/rock band and has just issued its debut recordings as a digital four-song EP.
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Sick of hearing about the collapse of big ticket festivals (especially that steaming pile of shit called Pandemonium Rocks where the line-up is being stripped of headliners as we speak but is still selling tickets and being falsely advertised?) Well, here’s some better news.
The New Christs are headlining an all-day, multi-band bill in Newcastle this month for the ridiculously cheap door price of 30 bucks.
HellNation 24 is at the Lass O’Gowrie Hotel in Wickham on Saturday, April 13, kicking off at the ungodly hour of 11.30am.
There are loads of out-of-towners and local acts to make a weekend stay worth your while and tickets are going here.
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