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Music Australia - August 2006

Pure Evil Trio

August 31st 2006 08:09


The Pure Evil Trio (sometimes referred to as just 'Pure Evil' are a noise/thrash/hardcore band based in Sydney. Sometimes they play songs, sometimes they're a bit more experimental. They're talented guys.

BAND MEMBERS
Aaron - vocals, guitar
Abe - bass, vocals
John - drums

The members have played in many other bands, including Charcoal Human, Iron Sausage, Suicidal Rap Orgy, The Splinter Orchestra, Things Fall Apart,, World on Welfare, Cerebral Posse and the Spitz. Guitarist Aaron also owns/operates Paint It Black, an independent record store in Newtown. John also lives at/runs Maggotsville, an 'underground' space for bands to play at in Sydney.


They've played down in Melbourne a couple of times and toured New Zealand around mid-to-late 2005.

DISCOGRAPHY
This is Our Music (2005) 12"

As far as I can tell they don't have a website or myspace (I think they're against myspace).

Paint It Black - Aaron's record store.
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Repressed Records - Ravi

August 30th 2006 07:51
I'm gonna do something a bit different today.
I asked Ravi from Independent Penrith record store 'Repressed Records' for some Top 5s, so here they are...

Australian Releases!



1. Radio Birdman – Radios Appear (Awesome rock/punk frantic and urgent as hell, easily one of the best bands of the initial punk movement in both Australia & the world)


2.The Saints – (I’m) Stranded (Same as above, The Saints blew a lot of the U.K & U.S bands of the time out of the water.)

3.Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Abattoir Blues/ Lyre of Orpheus (I usually don’t like double albums as there is a lot of filler, but both discs on this album are great. However Lyre of Orpheus is clearly the better of the two. Awesome stories and songs, Nick Cave is one of Australia’s best song writers.)

4. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Murder Ballads (Brutal, bloody and sinister. 10 songs about murder and mayhem make this album a classic. Featuring appearances from the likes of PJ Harvey and Shane MacGowan is also a bonus.)

5. Toe to Toe – Tao (This albums was one of the first hardcore punk albums I heard. Tao is short, fast & loud making it an essential Australia hardcore release in the days before every single band in Australia played ‘hardcore’.

International Releases!

1. The Flaming Lips – Soft Bulletin (This album is unbelievably brilliant. Songs such as ‘Feeling Yourself Disintegrate’ & ‘Suddenly Everything Has Changed’ convey so much emotion. The Flaming Lips have gained a reputation as a gimmick band due to their live performances with weird props and costumes; however nothing could be further from the truth. Anyone who thinks that they are simply a gimmick band should listen to this album.)

2. Refused – The Shape of Punk to Come (This album is now eight years old and yet no other band has caught up it. Song to Fan The Flames of Discontent was a good hardcore album but TSOPTC was simply a great record for any genre. Songs such as ‘Liberation Frequency’ & ‘Summer Holidays Vs. Punk Routine’ represent some of the best songs in the modern day punk scene and who can forget the first time they heard ‘New Noise’. I truly believe that in twenty years kids in the punk scene will be talking about Refused in the same way people talk about The Clash or The Ramones at the moment.)

3. The Smiths – The Queen is Dead (Extremely witty, extremely wimpy, and extremely depressing. The Smiths were great and with lyrics such as “Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking
When I said I'd like to smash every tooth
In your head” it is hard to not fall in love with this album. Morrissey & Marr at their very best.)

4. Fugazi – Thirteen Songs (Now I know this isn’t an album so much as a collection of E.Ps but it was the first Fugazi CD I bought and therefore holds the highest ranking place amongst their other albums in my collection. Frantic and urgent sounding this CD is terrific, great bass, great guitar, great vocals and great songs make this a great album. Now that I am thinking about it I feel like revising the list of albums so far to include The Argument and Repeater. Hardcore kids need to forget Minor Threat and buy Fugazi albums!)

5. Belle & Sebastian – If You’re Feeling Sinister (A lot of the things I said about ‘The Queen is Dead’ apply to this album as well. I like the fact the Belle & Sebastian do not just have a couple of lines of lyrics and repeat them over and over; they have a lot of story based songs which I also dig.)


Top 5 live performances

This is hard because I don’t really go to that many gigs and quite often can’t remember the ones I have been to.

1. The Flaming Lips @ Hyde Park London 2006. (Awesome show, Wayne Coyne danced around in the bubble over the crowd, a guy proposed to his girlfriend on stage, lots of epic songs and it was just plain fun. Highlights included ‘Race for the Prize’ & ‘Do You Realise’.)

2. AFI @ The Roundhouse UNSW 2003. (I was really into AFI at this time and although I don’t remember too much about this show I remember I really enjoyed myself and would not stop talking about it for the next few months.)

3. Hot Snakes @ The Annandale Hotel 2005 (This show was intense, right from the opening. They opened with ‘I Hate The Kids’ and the intro to the song made my ears throb. The cover of Drive Like Jehu’s ‘Laua’ was also amazing. They broke up shortly after this show and I can’t wait to see what the members do next.)

4. Dillinger Escape Plan @ The Gaelic Club 2005. (The time before when DEP toured I couldn’t go as I was broke and really behind in uni, from what I hear that show was amazing as well. This show was unreal; from the opening song right until the end they assaulted our ears. Calculating Infinity was the first DEP record I heard, I hated it straight away and it didn’t get another listen for months and months. However I now think Calculating Infinity and Miss Machine are awesome and by the time of the 2005 tour I was a massive fan. The fact that they didn’t do an encore was also great; I really get sick of bands doing encores as it is often included in the set list and standard procedure.)

5. ISIS @ The Koko London 2006. (There is a million other gigs I would like to include, everything from shitty local Penrith gigs in 2000 to things like Mindsnare, T(I)NC, Tiger Army, Belle & Sebastian, Will Haven & The Beasts of Bourbon. However you asked for five and as this was one of the last gigs I went to it remains on my mind. Isis played every track from Oceanic and as an encore they played some of Panopticon. The sound was great and the band was incredibly tight. )

Repressed Records - myspace. Check it out for all the latest releases, instores and general music nerd news!
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Huntsman

August 29th 2006 11:01


Hear some songs (listen to the second song in particular, it's rad)...
Huntsman - click on the blue writing to hear songs.

Huntsman are a Sydney-based punk rock trio that formed in 2003. They've been through a string of drummers since their start, recently losing Ben Brady (previously of Badanga, Offset and The Hassle Brigade, and no doubt some other bands I can't remember) a few months ago. Now they've got a brand new drummer and are looking to release their first EP soon.

CURRENT MEMBERS
Bruz - Vocals, guitar
Adrian - bass, vocals
Mick - drums

The band members come from a variety of popular Sydney punk and hardcore bands... Toe to Toe, Last Nerve, Muta, No Apologies and Irrelevant.

Their EP is (according to their myspace) going to be called 'It's Just Four Songs' (but this could be them just being smartarses for all I know, last time I saw the band the singer, Bruz, was saying some pretty funny shit on stage. Though he was at the tail end of a bucks night and was probably pretty wasted, so that might have something to do with it). Anyway, the EP is being released by Missing Link records and will probably come out towards the end of this year.

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Stereo City

August 28th 2006 10:36


To hear two songs


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Thematics

August 25th 2006 13:05


Thematics is a weekly show on the community radio station 2RRR FM in Sydney. Each show is based on a particular theme... like, one show might be all songs about death, or all songs that are covers, or a special that focuses on a particular genre (like Australian grunge for example). Each show goes for 2 hours and a wide variety of music often gets played - from hardcore, grindcore, punk, ska and reggae to pop, gabber, doom, ambient, jazz and even spoken word


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The Vines

August 24th 2006 12:43
The Vines
The Vines - Homesick video clip. Click to watch.


Aw yeah, I reckon everyone knows who the Vines are! I'm gonna write about them anyway cause I don't mind them and I think a lot of the Vines-knocking that goes on is just a case of tall poppy syndrome. Their first album is killer


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Rex Banner

August 23rd 2006 08:45
Rex Banner
Rex Banner at the Sandringham Hotel in Newtown


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Boom Crash Opera

August 22nd 2006 05:15
Boom Crash Opera are a Melbourne-based pop/rock band who formed in 1985. They were signed to WEA records shortly after forming and came to fame via a string of increasingly popular singles, culminating in the top 10 hit 'Onion Skin' in 1989 and the corresponding double-platinum album 'These Here Are Crazy Times'.
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Filmclip Banned!

August 21st 2006 06:37
Snog
Snog - Crash Crash - click to watch


This is a film clip by internationally famous Australian electro outfit Snog, which has allegedly been banned by the ABC


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Cog

August 18th 2006 05:17
Cog
Cog


MP3s... (right click and save to download


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Capt'n My Capt'n

August 17th 2006 04:41
Captn
Capt'n My Capt'n, Newcastle hardcore


Some songs


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Backy Skank

August 16th 2006 05:42
Backy Skank
Backy Skank at the Vic on the Park, taken a few years ago.


Hear some catchy Backy Skank tunes


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ROFL

August 15th 2006 05:07
rofl
ROFL


ROFL are a crazy thrash/chaotic hardcore band from Sydney. They rule. I'd love to put up a link to an MP3 or something but they don't really have a webpage or a myspace or anything (they used to have a myspace but I haven't been able to locate it for a while so I think it's gone now


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Unpaid Debt interview

August 14th 2006 05:33
Unpaid Debt
Unpaid Debt, Damo is first from the left


Interview with Damo, drummer for Sydney punk band Unpaid Debt


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Casino Rumblers

August 11th 2006 05:16
casino rumblers
Casino Rumblers


Hear some tunes


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Kampei Interview

August 10th 2006 05:07
Video of Kampei - playing the song 'Credibility', click to watch.

Interview with Rhys (Guitar) and Kirsten (Vocals) from fun Sydney punk band Kampei


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The Porkers

August 9th 2006 04:00
The Porkers
The Porkers, porking for some 20 years now!


Music


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The Nation Blue

August 8th 2006 06:53
The Nation Blue
The Nation Blue, supporting Sparta, photo from their website


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Skulker

August 7th 2006 04:40
Skulker
Skulker single, 'Hej'


Skulker are a pop-rock band based in Sydney. I think they originally came from around the Epping area. They formed in 1994 whilst they were all at high school with each other and I think they might be currently gearing up to release something new or at least start playing shows again soon


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The Brazen Hearts

August 4th 2006 06:18
brazenhearts
The Brazen Hearts


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Australian Crawl

August 3rd 2006 06:15
Aussie Crawl
Australian Crawl's first album


It was only a matter of time before I got around to this great Australian 80s rock band. Along with Midnight Oil they were one of the first proponents of iconically Australian rock. Formed in 1978 by Melbournites James Reyne and Simon Binks (both previously of the band Spiff Roach), the band would go on to have a string of hit singles and Reyne himself would continue with an illustrious solo career


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Run Amok

August 2nd 2006 06:02
Run Amok
Run Amok, at the Basement in Brisbane, supporting Lagwagon


Music (right click and save to download


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Perish The Thought

August 1st 2006 07:11
Perish The Thought
Perish The Thought


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