DUCKTAILS

Happy October!
Sound Summit 2009 starts today, which is incredibly exciting.
To get your ears and eyes ready for the big weekend to come, take a look at this most excellent clip for ‘Landrunner’ by Ducktails. Ducktails (USA) will be performing at the This Is Not Art showcase gig at the Cambridge Hotel on Friday October [...]

OPENING NIGHT

Only two days to go until Sound Summit 2009 jumps into action!
This Thursday, October 1, join Sound Summit and our This Is Not Art festival buddies for This Is: This Not Art 2009, the official opening event for the tenth This Is Not Art and Sound Summit. Sound Summit favourite Cleptoclectics will be performing a [...]

THIS WEEK!

Not long now until Sound Summit 2009, with everything starting up this Thursday, October 1!
The entire This Is Not Art festival program is now available for download in pretty shiny PDF format – check it out. And of course, Sound Summit’s program is shaping up to be very exciting, too!
A reminder that tickets for the [...]

CALYPSO TO ACID: A QUA MIX

Qua made Sound Lab a mix. We’re lucky enough to have a sneak peek at it – download it here.
See Qua (including Super Melody + guest drummer Pivot’s Laurence Pike) at the Friday Night TINA Showcase at The Cambridge Hotel, alongside Ducktails (US), Pumice (NZ), Rosy Parlane (NZ), Free Choice Duo (Vic), Jim Cuomo (US), [...]

NEW WEIRD AUSTRALIA

In borrowing terminology, NWA shrinks the notion of distance between genre, taste, Australia’s own vastness and the world. Neither popular nor alternative, one genre nor another, NWA represents a new breed that find refuge in the space between us, played out in realtime around a renewed Newcastle.
This year’s festival presents the inaugural collaboration between Sound [...]