Johnny Streetlight gets le vinyl treatment in France

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24 June 2017

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“Johnny Streetlight”, that stellar album from Sydney’s best kept rock and roll secret, Chickenstones, is getting a release on vinyl, thanks to French label Basil Records. If you don't remember it coming out or want to know what the fuss is about, we reviewed it here.

To celebrate, Chickenstones will play a special show at The Music Lounge in Brookvale, Sydney, on July 21 with psych-punk veterans The Young Doctors and Thomas Keating. They'll also debut their new filmclip. Show-offs!

• pitshark
• chickenstones
• young docteurs
• johnny streetllght

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Super Natural - Jim Jones & The Righteous Mind (Hound Gawd Records)

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By The Barman

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24 June 2017

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You really don’t want to read another review masquerading as a song-by-song description of an album you’ve never heard? Good. You’re not going to get one.

Drop your preconceptions, too, if you’re a fan of the late great Jim Jones Revue.They’ve been dead and buried for close on three years. His other bands, Black Moses and Thee Hypnotics, have been decomposing in their graves for much longer than that. 

• garage
• jim jones revue
• garage soul
• jim jones and the righteous mind
• hound gawd records
• garage blues
• thee hypnotics

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Slights Still Unspoken - Voigt/465 (Guerssen)

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24 June 2017

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There was a time when sharp divisions ran like Pacific Rim fault-lines between underground musical factions in Sydney. 

One one tectonic plate stood the Radio Birdman-influenced, leather-clad, guitar warriors steeped in ramalama-fa-fa-fa and the Stooges, on the other an esoteric bunch of people making sounds with synthesisers and other assorted machines. Picket lines were established and few crossed them, unless by accident or if no-one was looking.

• avant garde
• sydney
• radio birdman
• pere ubu
• voigt/465
• can
• kraughtrock

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Let’s Get High b/w One Last Chance - The Neighbourhood Strange (Strange Recordings)

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24 June 2017

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Imagine if the West Coast Flower Power era had happened, not in the City by the Bay but in the middle of England. Within spitting distance of Stonehenge. Only it wasn’t so trippy-dippy and folkish, and had a nasty streak to its sound. Cue: The Neighbourhood Strange and this, their second double A-sided single.

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Rosalita! - Thee Wylde Oscars (Off The Hip)

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24 June 2017

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Let’s not beat around the bush: This is a cracker of a record and the best garage rock album to land in these parts so far in 2017. 

“Rosalita!” (the album) leaps out of the speakers from the get-go with the surging crash-bang-wallop of “Seven Inch Record” and doesn’t let up for 11 more songs. “Rosalie!” (the song) might be an obvious crib of Ricky Nelson’s/The Allusions’ “Gypsy Woman” but who cares? When it’s good as this, stealing’s not a crime - except if you’re Led Zeppelin. 

• garage
• garage soul
• wylde oscars
• rosalita!

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X-Citations: Best of X and Rarities Vol 1 - X (Radio Rock)

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24 June 2017

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Whatever your view about recent and current line-ups of the band (and there are naysayers of the Rilen-less version), X in their prime were The Real Deal. On a good night, no other act in Australia could match them for raw intensity with an underlying musicality.

There was something dangerous about X and it wasn’t just the lunatics that followed them, leaving a trail of smashed glasses, broken furniture and self-inflicted flesh wounds behind them.

That’s why the 40-year anniversary package of “X-Citations Vol 1” is so welcome. Picking up on the earliest days of X - the four-piece with Steve Lucas on vocals and Ian Krahe on guitar - and pushing through to the end of original drummer Steve Cafeiro’s tenure, this vinyl collection of 14 songs serves as a perfect reminder - or an introduction for the unaware - to their unique music.

• ian rilen
• steve lucas
• cathy green
• steve cafeiro
• x band
• x-aspirations
• x-citations

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Stems announce tour to mark debut album's 30th birthday

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19 June 2017

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The Stems: Four-fiths of the 2017 touring version. That'd be Dom Mariani, Ash naylor, Dave Shaw and Julian Matthews

• tour
• australian
• citadel records
• dom mariani
• the stems
• At First Sight Violets are Blue

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Europe-first release for new Penny Ikinger CD single

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16 June 2017

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She’s been called “fuzz queen, sonic chanteuse and primal mistress of dark folk” and Europe is getting a brief opportunity to come up with more superlatives for Melbourne's Penny Ikinger and her unique brand of rock and roll this Northern summer.  

Penny is promoting a CD single “Gin No Suzu” b/w “Ride On Cowboy” (that's the cover art at right), from her forthcoming album with a short series of dates in Spain and France, the peak of which will be appearances at Andoaingo Rock Jaialdia in Spain (June 17) and as part of Fete de la Musique at Petit Garage in Paris, France (June 21.)

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• wet taxis
• radio birdman

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Ain't no Saints like these Aints

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By The Barman

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16 June 2017

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On the 40th anniversary of the release of The Saints’ classic album ‘"(I’m) Stranded"’, founding member, guitarist and songwriter Ed Kuepper will revisit the material performed by that seminal Australian band.

 

Originally spawned in the early '90s, The Aints sought to bring justice to the sound and attitude of the original Brisbane-based band, capturing their energy and iconic onstage presence.

• saints
• ed kuepper
• peter black
• the aints
• paul larsen
• alister spence

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