Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan Tour

This is very exciting news - I had to share that Mark Lanegan (of Queens of the Stone Age fame) and Isobel Campbell (of Belle and Sebastian fame) will be coming out to Australia for Splendour in the Grass and also doing their own sideshows!

Here is one of their earlier tracks. Have been waiting for this for a long time!

The Subterranean

(image source: screen capture of The Subterranean)

Andy has written some articles for our friend Daniel who has just started a blog called The Subterranean - it's a pop culture blog looking at film, literature and music. Daniel is an awesome writer and has some very interesting articles on there (I especially enjoyed the look at the Dracula movie interpretations).

Daniel is exploring the Cut-up technique in variety of genre's including literature, art and music.  He asked Andy to write up some articles on Hip-Hop producers and give a selection of songs they had worked on.  If you don't know much about Hip-Hop or which artists to listen to these articles give some awesome examples - I must admit before I met Andy I didn't know alot of Hip-Hop artists (I was in the alternative, metal, indie catagory) but he has introduced me to some amazing music - some of my favourite musicians and music is now from Hip-Hop.

Anyway if your into Hip-Hop or interested in learning more check out these articles written by Andy:

  

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Soundwave

I have been a little distracted lately and not much work happening due to Soundwave finally arriving to town. This has possibly been the best festival I have been to in years and alot of planning has gone into organsing my parents to come visit to babysit so my partner andy and I could make it along for the day! ( we were excited to say the least).

By far my favourite of the day was Queens of the Stone Age followed by High on Fire and Monster Magnet plus a little Slash on the side doing Paradise City.

Here is a little contribution from Andy - the set list for Queens:

• Feel Good Hit of the Summer
• The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret
• 3's and 7's
• Sick Sick Sick
• Burn the Witch
• Little Sister
• No One Knows
• Go with the Flow
• I think I Lost my Headache
• Monster in the Parasol
• Misfit Love
• Song for the Dead (encore)

But I do have a few new things in the pipe line so stay tuned!

Big Day Out

If I didn't believe in karma before well i definitely do now. It just so happened that a few weeks ago my partner and I were going to go see Cat Power as our Christmas present to each other and I couldn't wait.  Then that night our daughter wouldn't go to sleep and we ended up giving the tickets away at the last minute to some friends.

Then somehow the cosmos took pity on us and we managed to score some tickets to the Big Day Out at the last minute!  We saw Iggy and the Stooges, Primal Scream and my favourite of the night Grinderman.  So lets just say if you put good things out there to other people its sure to come back to you at some stage!

Here were my favourite tracks of the night (obviously not from the big day out!):

Iggy Pop - I wanna be your dog

Grinderman - Honey Bee

The Dead Weather

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Check out the awesome new ablum cover for the Dead Weather AND the video clip to their new single "Die by the Drop" - love the look of it.

Inspiration - Massive Attack

Last night I saw Massive Attack and they were fantastic! Which inspired me to post about the artwork of 3D the founder of Massive Attack. He has previously done the artwork for Unkle on their boxset for Warstories - also fantastic.

If you get a chance to see them live in Australia go!

Places I wish I could be

(image source via the Toothless Cat)

Paul Romano recently had an exhibition at the Toothless Cat a gallery in Philadelphia and it would have been so cool to go check it out. Someone should bring his work out to Australia for an exhibition. The above artwork was done for the front cover of Mastodon's album Leviathan (one of my favourite bands - coming out in January!! woohoo) which I think is some of his best work.