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Songs-of-the-Third-and-Fifth Ten years after their last album, to say Adelaide's The Mark Of Cain still conveys a wrecking ball punch is like saying China has a lot of people. TMOC occupies the space where hardcore, punk and metal collide and makes unique with a lyrical heaviness that makes listening to Black Sabbath a Sunday walk in the park. This is a band that projects more menace in the space of nine songs than most manage over as many albums.

Details: By The Barman; 05 January 2014; Hits: 5306

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bratt-farrar Look, it's a punk rock record with some funny little new wave songs thrown in. You were expecting prog rock? It's also a bedroom album by Dean Agostino, one-half of Digger and The Pussycats, so that should tell you right there that it's pretty fucking good, OK? DIY rules!

Details: By The Barman; 05 January 2014; Hits: 6208

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Even if Radio Birdman were the sum of its parts, the solo output of its members surely deserves more than the cursory consideration many have been prepared to give. Case in point is this album. Deniz Tek has built a formidable body-of-work outside the framework of

Details: By The Barman; 05 January 2014; Hits: 9116

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deniz tek detroit cover Neil told us that rust never sleeps. On his fourth solo band studio album, Deniz Tek acknowledges as much, examining the oxidation that’s all around him in clinical detail. Relationships and places go under the microscope and are dissected - like a scalpel through a heart - with keen precision.

Details: By The Barman; 05 January 2014; Hits: 6468

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mediumrare The last non-sellout in a line of powerful, soulful, R&B-influenced rock singers from the '60s, Scott Morgan's had a lot of notoriety the last few years, since the world of Rockdom at large belatedly discovered the joys of Sonic's Rendezvous Band, the late-seventies Dee-troit "supergroup" that he fronted in tandem with (and later in opposition to) ex-MC5 guitarist Fred "Sonic" Smith.

Details: By Ken Shimamoto; 05 January 2014; Hits: 6745

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scottmorganalive After the run of great records with The Solution, Powertrane and The Hydromatics, Scott Morgan thought it was time to make a solo album. Thus the former singer and guitarist of the legendary Sonic's Rendezvous Band (and even before that, The Rationals) gathered around him some of the most respected musicians of the Motor City and pulled out an album that oozes black music and emotions out from every note.

Details: By Roberto Calabro; 05 January 2014; Hits: 6270

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MoshPit, St Peters, NSW
- June 21 (3pm)

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Spitting Chips
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+ Jupiter 5 + The Sugar Beats
Marrickvile Bowlo, NSW
- July 11
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Henri Herbert with Ezra Lee
Australian Tour
JUN
14 - Moon Dog Wild West, Footscray, VIC
15 - Tom Katz, Sorrento Portsea RSL, Sorrento, VIC

New Christs
w/ Tumbleweed
Hamilton Station Hotel, Newcastle
- June 21

Pete Ross & The Sapphire
+ Looch Lewis & The Press Gangsters
Marrickville Bowlo
June 22
(4.30pm - free)

The Blowers
JUN
20 - Shotkickers, Melb
21 - Trash Cult, Bendigo
09 - Grace Emily, Adelaide
10 - The Cumby, Port Adelaide

Sick Fizz
(album launch)
+ The Owen Guns
+ The Jane Does
The Duke, Enmore, NSW
- Aug 2
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The New Christs
UK and Europe Tour
AUG
13 - Night ´n Day, Manchester UK
14 - Stereo, Glasgow UK
15 - Oslo, London UK
16 - Edonè, Bergamo IT
17 - Flog-On Plen Air , Firenze IT
19 - TBA Bologna IT
21 - Shake Club, La Spezia IT
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28 - Relache, Bordeaux FR
29 - Festivalle Tobalina, Quintana Martin Galinde ES
30 - 16 Toneladas, Valencia ES
31 - Stereo, Alicante ES
SEP
2 - Sala Upload, Barcelona ES
4 - Sala El Sol, Madrid ES
5 - Sala Milwaukee, El Puerto de Santa Maria ES
6 - Hogaza Rock, Alfacar ES

Cherie Currie
Australian Tour
with Hot Machine
SEP
5 - Rosemount, Perth
6 - Crown and Anchor, Adelaide
11 - The Corner Hotel, Melbourne
12 – Sydney Crowbar
13 – Brisbane Crowbar
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Dead Kennedys
Australia and NZ
SEP
16 - Auckland, Powerstation
17 - Wellington, Meow Nui
19 – Melbourne, Northcote Theatre
20 - Brisbane, Tivoli
24 - Perth, Astor Theatre
26 - Adelaide, The Gov
27 - Sydney, Metro Theatre
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The Jesus Lizard
Australian Tour
OCT
15 - The Croxton, Melbourne, VIC
17 - Liberty Hall (ex Max Watts), Sydney, NSW
19 - Crow Bar, Brisbane, QLD

4ZZZ presents
“ZED 50”
Ther Saints ’73-‘78
+ Regurgitator
+ Tropical Fuck Storm
+ Full Flower Moon Band
+ Big Noter + Butterfingers
+ Screamfeeder
+ Nice Biscuit + Party Dozen
+ Frangipanis + Dancingwater
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