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News Arts Guide Beat Eats Electronic Industry Hip Hop Metal Punk Cat Power Parcels Oh Pep! Strawberry Fields Paul Kelly Tex Perkins Profiles Hopkins Creek Electric Blues Collective World Vegan Day Live Album of the Week Singles of the Week Album Reviews Gig Guide

Editor’s note With Tom Parker My predecessor Gloria has left behind a warm chair but a mountain of expectation. She embodied what it was to be a passionate, intellectual, know-a-lot editor and I can only do my best to assume her heightened post. As the clock shifts, daylight is officially being saved and the first brushes of summer are upon us. What beckons is exhilarating – the Melbourne underground remains fertile during winter but blossoms like a spring rose during summer.

We will be greeted by open-air parties, park shindigs and raucous Sunday sessions.

It’s time to revel companeros, and dance because the sun isn’t going to sleep. Festivals are awakening, and soon there won’t be a weekend without a one-day, two-day or three-day extravaganza. Someone chuck on ‘September’ by Earth, Wind & Fire because excitement levels are brimming like a Mentos chemical reaction.

For our 1647th edition, we’ll invite you to two phenomena, Hopkins Creek and Docklands Blues Music Festival while also uncapping more of what Strawberry Fields, World Vegan Day and Darebin Music Feast have to offer. Then there’s Cat Power, the masterful goddess who gets plenty of love this week, adorning the cover and the precipice of our Singles column. Time to party, my friends.

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News The Kooks Lock In 2019 Melbourne Show Alongside a string of Australian festival appearances including Beyond The Valley, Origin Fields and Lost Paradise, The Kooks have upped the ante and revealed they’ll also be taking on three whopping east coast dates. It comes after the release of the indie-rock juggernauts’ fifth studio album, Let’s Go Sunshine, in August, which has spawned the certified earworms ‘Four Leaf Clover’ and ‘Chicken Bone’. Taking to Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane as part of the headline tour, The Kooks will hit Festival Hall on Thursday January 3. Tickets are on sale now through Secret Sounds.

Nai Palm

Polish Club

Sahara Beck

Polish Club have unleashed their first track for 2018, and it’s a bloody good time, entitled ‘Clarity’. A bold, brash belter thoughtfully dripping in groovy soul-funk vibes, it comes alongside the announcement that the Sydney two-piece will also be taking on a national headline tour to celebrate the track. Polish Club continue their international assault across Europe and the UK throughout October and November, before they hit Melbourne’s Gasometer Hotel on Saturday December 15, with Heaps Good Friends, Wing Defence and Sweater Curse in tow as support.

Following the astonishing release of her soaring art-pop banger ‘Here We Go Again’, 22-year-old singer-songwriter Sahara Beck has locked in a string of headline shows for November. Beck has had a stellar rise to stardom of late, including taking home first place for the track in the US-based Unsigned Only Music Competition – which saw over 6,000 entries from across 95 countries. She’s supported the likes of Paul Kelly and Ball Park Music and taken on coveted stages including BIGSOUND, Bluesfest and Falls Festival and will now roll into Melbourne as part of her headline tour, playing the Grace Darling Hotel on Saturday November 3.

Drunk Mums

Eagles

Rowdy rockers Drunk Mums have unveiled a stack of dates for November and December to celebrate the release of their upcoming record Urban Cowboy. Off the back of a massive run around Europe with their Denim and Leather EPs, the Mums have employed New York’s Dirty Fences support for their Australian tour. Drunk Mums will hit Geelong’s Barwon Club on Thursday November 29, Ballarat’s Karova Lounge on Friday November 30, as well as Melbourne’s Yah Yah’s on Saturday December 1 and Cherry Bar on Sunday December 2. Urban Cowboy drops on Friday November 9 on Pissfart Records.

Seminal rock outfit the Eagles have announced they’ll be bringing their world tour to Australian shores in March 2019. The Eagles are responsible for writing and recording two of the three top selling albums of all time – their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 and Hotel California records coming alongside Michael Jackson’s Thriller in the top spots. They’ve also amassed six Grammy Awards and a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction throughout their impeccable career. Marking the first time that they’ll have touched down in Australia in four years, The Eagles will take over Rod Laver Arena on Tuesday March 5.

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Sonic aGender: A Weekend Talking Gender, Sound And Narrative

Wednesday 10th October 8pm:

Wine Whiskey Women: Brooke Taylor & Emily Daye Thursday 11th October

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Ben Carter & James Mcq Friday 12th October

Traditional Irish Music Session 8:30pm: Little Lord Street (duo) 6pm:

Saturday 13th October

Ceili Allstars 9pm: Nardia Rose Band

Jen Cloher

Sonic aGender is the weekend of events sparking conversation around inequality and accessibility within the music sector.

Acclaimed musician Jen Cloher will open the event with a keynote address on Friday October 19, while participants will also have the opportunity to engage in open round table discussions with some of the city’s best music-makers including Jenny McKechnie (Cable Ties), Romy Vager (RVG), Alice Skye and more. On Saturday October 20 the Thornbury Picture House will screen a host of classic music videos alongside a Q&A, before Sunday October 21 closes the weekend out with an all-ages day party at Thornbury Bowls Club. It all comes as part of Darebin Music Feast, and you can find more details via their website.

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Bona Fide Travellers 6:30pm: Tracey Barnett (WA) 4pm:

Tuesday 16th October

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A massive roller skating and house music-infused party is coming to Melbourne this month, with food and drinks galore set to ensure that everyone can roll merrily into the night. Going down in the underground car park of an inner-north housing commission estate, this event looks to break down social barriers and invest profits back into the community.

London-based Afro-house heavyweight Zepherin Saint will helm the music proceedings, alongside others and it’s all going down at 44 Harmsworth Street, Collingwood on Saturday October 20 from 3pm until 11pm. Tickers are $10/$5 conc. on the door.

From the legendary team behind The Food Truck Park comes the 2018 instalment of the Seaside Street Food Festival. After a roaring reception in 2017, a new fleet of food trucks are set to roll into the Frankston Waterfront arena to dish up their goodies for the five day affair. While the full lineup is still yet-to-be-announced, those with wagging tongues can rest easy knowing the likes of Sam’s Woodfired Pizzas, O Tuga Tastes of Portugal and Sweet Mistake are among the crew coming in this year. The Seaside Street Food Festival goes down at Pier Promenade, Frankston Waterfront on Wednesday October 10 and Thursday October 11 from 5pm-10pm and Friday October 12 to Sunday October 14 from 11am-10pm.

Nickelback

Bleeding Knees Club

Nickelback are slated to hit Melbourne in February next year, marking their first time Down Under since 2015. Though they often collect the attention of trolls – even taking home NME’s award for Worst Band in 2003 – Nickelback have amassed some incredible accolades since their inception in 1995, including Grammy nominations, American Music Awards, a Canadian Walk of Fame induction and the title of Billboard’s ‘Top Rock Song of the Decade’ for their 2001 smash ‘How You Remind Me’. Their forthcoming Australian appearance will feature American heavy metal supergroup Bad Wolves as support and will take over Rod Laver Arena on Saturday February 16.

Gold Coast garage-punkers Bleeding Knees Club have locked in a headline run around the country celebrating their sophomore full-length album Fade The Hammer. The release marks their first album recorded with a full band, so there’s any bet this live run is going to see Bleeding Knees Club at their bombastic best. The 15-date tour will feature support from Sydney garage-psych act Crocodylus, while the Victorian shows will also boast DIY punk up-and-comers Concrete Lawn. Bleeding Knees Club will roll into Karova Lounge, Ballarat on Thursday December 20, before playing an all-ages afternoon show at Fitzroy’s Oh Jean Records on Friday December 21 and The Tote that night.

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Mumford & Sons Announce 2019 Melbourne Show As part of their whopping sixty-date world arena tour, folk-rock heroes Mumford & Sons have revealed that they’re set to make their way to Melbourne in January.

It comes as the four-piece celebrate the upcoming release of their fourth studio album Delta, recorded over the last two years with Paul Epworth who’s worked with the likes of Adele, U2 and London Grammar. Wildly successful blues-soul artist Michael Kiwanuka is set to support the tour, which will come into Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Tuesday January 22.

Delta is out on Friday November 16 on Dew Process/UMA. Pre-sale tickets are on sale from Wednesday October 10 and general sale starts on Friday October 12 via Secret Sounds.

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Hands Like Houses (SOLD OUT)

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Mr. McClelland’s Finishing School 10th Birthday!

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Peter Murphy (Bauhaus) — Sat 27 October —

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Mesa Cosa, Moody Beaches, The Quarters & Hot To Rot

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‘Hypnotised’ feat. Husky, Leah Senior & Sunbeam Sound Machine — Fri 30 November —

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Psycroptic & Orpheus Omega

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Kamelot

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Yaeji (SOLD OUT)

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Taking Back Sunday

Melbourne Underground is a techno-loving collective championing the underground scene. Formed out of the belief that underground techno should be cost effective and accessible to all, the brand eventually plan to branch out into a record label and a booking agency, but for now, they’ll kick things off with a bunch of events for like-minded techno-lovers.

Their first ‘Sessions With’ event will go down on Saturday December 8 in North Melbourne, featuring some of the best underground techno DJs from Melbourne in session all night long. Then, ‘In Bed With’ will take the helm as the must-attend after party, going on at a secret location all day long. Keep an eye on Beat for more details.

Taking Back Sunday will have been around for a blistering two decades in 2019, and they’ve locked in an anniversary tour to celebrate. Pioneers in emo, post and alt-rock, the Long Islandnatives have a mammoth catalogue under their belt – including certified Gold records, Tell All Your Friends (2002), Where You Want To Be (2004) and Louder Now (2006) – and are even set to release a 21-song strong collection album entitled Twenty in January. Making their long-awaited return to Australian shores for the celebratory tour, Taking Back Sunday will hit 170 Russell on Friday January 11.

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So Pop

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Gary Og

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Set to take on a live audience The Songroom is the staple Channel 31 music show dedicated to celebrating and showcasing both emerging and established artists.

In an average episode, the featured artist will share the juicy details of their creative process and play some tunes. Upping the ante for their third season, the show has announced that they’ll be filming with a live audience, and you’re invited. Head along as an audience member on Tuesday November 27 at Northcote Social Club (with Gawurra and William Crighton featuring), Tuesday December 4 at NSC with Clare Moore, Dave Graney and Rudely Interrupted and on Friday December 14 at Theatre Royal with Liz Stringer, Tim McMillan and Rachel Snow. For more information check The Songwriters website.

A massive ‘90s throwback party is coming to Melbourne Prepare for the ultimate ‘90s nostalgia hit as the So Pop concert series makes its way to Australia this summer. ‘90s favourites including Aqua, Vengaboys, B*Witched, Eiffel 65 and more will take the stage to perform cult party classics including ‘Barbie Girl’, ‘Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!!’ and ‘C’est La Vie’, ensuring the ultimate trip down memory lane. The So Pop concert series will roll into Melbourne Arena on Saturday February 2 and tickets are on sale on Tuesday October 16 via Ticketek.

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A Quiet Evening of Dance A tribute to a modern ballet hero

A Quiet Evening of Dance is the not-so quiet, oh-so jaw-dropping dance event taking to the 2018 Melbourne International Arts Festival. Taking its inspiration from modern ballet pioneer William Forsythe, this bold work offers fired-up, urban-inspired ballet at its best. One of the pivotal figures in the contemporary dance world, Forsythe is best known for his 30-year career with Ballet Frankfurt and later, The Forsythe Company. He’s now a highly sought-after choreographer, artistic advisor and educator and continues to push the language of ballet more than ever. A Quiet Evening of Dance plays from Wednesday October 17 until Saturday October 20 at the Arts Centre’s State Theatre as part of Melbourne International Arts Festival.

The Last Note

The 2018 Greek Film Festival Opens This Week

Comedy

The 2018 Greek Film Festival arrives this week, with an opening gala slated to go down at The Astor on Wednesday October 10.

Award-winning drama The Last Note (dir. Pantelis Voulgaris) will helm the festival, which tells the true story of political prisoner Napoleon Soukatzidis’ (Andreas Konstantinou) almighty dilemma – face execution, or choose someone to take his place and be saved. Further films on the program include dramas Rosemarie and Jamaica, classic comedies I Love Karditsa and Loafing and Camouflage and a screening of selected Greek/Australian shorts. The 2018 Greek Film Festival runs across Palace Como and The Astor cinemas until Sunday October 21 and you can find more details via the festival website.

Offering a roaring bunch of comedians for you to lap up all for free, Lido Comedy goes down every Tuesday at Lido Cinema’s Jazz Room. Past faces to grace the stage include Corey White, Jacqueline Misfud, Ben Knight and 2016 RAW comedy winner Danielle Walkerand the next batch will come in on Tuesday October 16 from 7.30pm.

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Just a Boy, Standing in Front of a Girl

Catch this darkly comic masterpiece before it closes From Melbourne playwright Jane Miller comes a contemporary take on a classic tale. Finishing its residency at La Mama this week, Just a Boy, Standing in Front of a Girl follows J and M as they fall in love and try to hit the road in search of fame and fortune. Touted as a parable of the patriarchy, this is a masterful local work you’ll want to get around while you can. La Mama staple Beng Oh directs Just a Boy, Standing in Front of a Girl until it closes on Sunday October 14. Show times and tickets are available via the La Mama website.

Rigg Design Prize

The 2018 exhibition opens this week The triennial Rigg Design Prize offers the highest accolade in contemporary Australian design, and the 2018 shortlist exhibition is set to open this week. The exhibition features a host of outstanding purpose-built works from studios across the country, each responding to the prompt of “domestic living”.

Featured studios include the likes of Flack Studio, Hecker Guthrie, Amber Road, Arent & Pyke, The Society Inc by Sibella Court, Danielle Brustman and more, who are each in the running for the $30,000 prize. The winner will be announced on Friday October 12 and you can visit the exhibition at the Ian Potter Gallery from 10am daily until it closes in February.

Entry is free.

1000 Doors

The Melbourne Festival event makes its mark 1000 Doors is the 2018 Melbourne International Arts Festival offering that’s made absolute waves. The seemingly neverending labyrinth of halls and screens has collected praise for the way it offers a sense of endless possibility, whilst piquing curiosity, wonder and questioning. From the brains behind the acclaimed House of Mirrors series, this is a truly spell-bounding installation that you’ll want to get around. Catch 1000 Doors at the Arts Centre from 10am to 10pm daily until Sunday October 21. Tickets are $10 at the venue.

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Teta Mona

Let’s unpack Melbourne’s BYO side to dining.Teta Mona, down Brunswick East way, offers honest and jazzed-up Lebanese food that’s affordable and fun. Their meals present in lovely wooden bowls, each dish vastly differing from the next, and bringing along a pairing beverage of your choice is welcomed. Although, I would recommend a Rose’ which works well with the array of flavours offered at Teta Mona.

For food, go with their tasting menu, showcasing all corners of their eatery at just $39 per person. This includes two small [like house dips or sautéed spinach], two medium [like spiced beef or haloumi and feta envelopes], two mains [like stuffed zucchini or slow-cooked lamb], and one dessert platter featuring an array of traditional sweets. As perhaps you’ve gathered, this is designed to share.

Gravel Pit

This weekend, Sydney noise merchants Gravel Pit are in town, bringing their unique band format to the Catfish on Friday and the The Burrow on Saturday. If ordinary guitar bands don’t really excite you, I urge you to give these guys a chance – their live shows are especially intense. Sitting somewhere between punk and experimental avant-garde, it’s a sonic assault that throws up sounds you’ve likely never heard coming from a live band before. Go check ‘em out.

Tiamo

Walk a tad further down Lygon Street and you’ll find one of Melbourne’s most renowned Italian restaurants, Tiamo. Lygon Street is no stranger to a lively eatery where the atmosphere sprawls onto the sweet European streets and Tiamo champions this best. Find a time you’ve passed a quiet Tiamo, you’ll have me shocked. My top picks are their Tortellini in Brodo (chicken broth with spinach and meat-filled tortellini) and their Scaloppine al Vino Bianco (veal medallions in a white wine sauce with fresh vegetables). Who could slurp spaghetti without a generously topped glass of red wine (Sangiovese is a must) or a Peroni Red if you prefer. Rathdowne Cellars are just down the road and have all you need.

Octave One

This Saturday at Federation Square, Living Room Festival is happening, featuring live techno originals Octave One from Detroit, UK DJ/producer and Ibiza legend Paul Woolford, Ejeca, Enzo Siragusa, Boogs, Market Memories, Luke Vecchio and Georgia Bird. The festival is living room themed – couches, rugs, lamps and all the comforts of the home, underneath the Melbourne skyline for the biggest house party ever. Tickets are still available, find them at Eventbrite. Kicks off at 12pm.

Shanghai-Village 100 Keyboards

Now head to the CBD, and to China Town – the longest, most continuous Chinese streetscape in the western world, and possibly the longest strip of BYO restaurants too. Simply select your wine, sake, or take my recommendation and bring a cold beer (exactly the crisp compliment needed with heavy Chinese flavours), and choose almost any restaurant you like. Shanghai-Village is without a thought top of my list.

Although you may have to line up for a short while, their dumpling plates of 15 pieces for just $7.50 is worth the line.

My favourite dish is their beef dumplings in chilli oil soup, and luckily for you, you’re in the heart of late-night bottle shops.

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From Wednesday October 10 to Saturday October 13, Stable Music and the Substation are hosting 100 Keyboards as part of Melbourne International Arts Festival. Japanese sound artist Asuna has reshaped the experimental music scene in Japan. His landmark work 100 Keyboards is a sitespecific listening experience in which 100 cheap plastic keyboards play the same key, generating an undulating sonic harmony both mesmerising and mysterious.

Kicks off at 8pm each day, grab tickets and more info at www.festival.melbourne.

STUDY SHOWS AUSTRALIAN GEN Z’ERS ARE CATCHING UP WITH MILLENNIALS IN LIVE MUSIC ATTENDANCE

According to a new study by promoter and venue owner Live Nation, Australia’s Gen Z (aged 13 to 22) are fast catching up to Millennials (23 to 39) for concert and festival attendance.

65% of Gen Z, in the study, had attended an event in the past year, compared to 70% of Millennials. The study found attendance drops as people get older: only 51% of Gen X (40 to 49) attended in the 12 month period.

The Power Of Live: Global Live Music Fan Study For Brands looked at consumers in eleven countries. The others were United States, Canada, China, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, United Kingdom, Scandinavia, Germany and France. It studied the behaviour of 22,500 fans aged from 13 to 65; and 2,008 of these were from Australia.

Australian respondents put music as one of the top things that defines them as a person (#2 right after ‘my pastimes’). For 62% of respondents, one of the most memorable experiences was a live event. 76% maintain that the moments that give them the most life are live experiences. 1% of Australians (compared to 10% global) say sex gives them more of a thrill than live experience.

What draws them to events is bonding; it’s spontaneous and allows them to be themselves. Their emotional intensity at these events is high: 70% rate it at 8, 9, or 10 on a 10 point scale. It’s more than what they get from sports experiences, streaming music, or playing video games.

The general consensus from all countries is that the live experience is far greater than the actual concert. 63% of Australians make a purchase specifically for the event.

56% plan a get-together around the concert. They spend an average of $151 at the show. 73% document the event. 58% share their experiences on social media.

The study suggests people crave live experiences in our increasingly digital world due to a trend called ‘sensation deprivation’. The study found that 73% of participants want real life experiences rather than digital. “Of course, digital life isn’t dying off - but after a decade of all that posting, pinning, tweeting, snapping, and streaming, people are tapped out,” the study reads. “They now recognize the importance of the physical world to their quality of life and are recalibrating their lives with more intention.”

Aussies have a reputation around the world for being early adopters of technology and for supporters of live music and new talent. But Australia has fewer live music attendees than the rest of the regions Live Nation studied, coming in #10 out of 11 regions – surpassing Japan (51% attendance) and trailing Canada (65% attendance) and the U.S. (65% attendance).

A snapshot of the average Australian live music enthusiast is someone with an annual income of $78k, 65% chance to be to be part of a global, online community, and five times more likely to be considered influential in their social circle.

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Hip Hop WITH JULIA SANSONE

Kendrick Lamar and Anderson .Paak

A long awaited collaboration between Anderson .Paak and Kendrick Lamar has finally landed with the release of ‘Tints’, loaded with funk and 80s boogie; it’s a taste of what’s to come for .Paak, with his forthcoming album, Oxnard. Produced by .Paak and Om’Mas Keith, it is reminiscent of .Paak’s 2016 album, MALIBU and is the perfect track to get you grooving in the warmer weather. .Paak promised in a recent interview Oxnard would be filled with sprawling psychedelic grooves, and is the album he dreamed of making in high school, when he was listening to Jay-Z’s The Blueprint, The Game’s The Documentary and Kanye West’s The College Dropout. You can catch Anderson .Paak when he headlines this year’s Falls Festival as well as a groovy Melbourne sideshow at Festival Hall on January 10.

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WITH LOCHLAN WATT

The often-forgotten city, Perth, is feeling the love thanks to the two-day music festival, Origin Fields, celebrating its 12th year of success in 2018. Held over Sunday December 30 and 31, West coasters can rejoice with the new addition of hip hop, electronic and pop acts, including a mix of international artists and Aussie faves. Joining the likes of Khalid, Migos, Pendulum and Duke Dumont out in WA is M.I.A, Denzel Curry, Chase & Status as well as DJ Fisher, who just took the 2018 Listen Out festival by storm. On the lineup punters can also look forward to Cardi B, Winston Surfshirt, Sampa The Great and Keys N Krates. The lineup hits Langley Park over New Year’s Eve.

Months ago, I wrote a column where I combined my interest in the collectable trading card game Magic: the Gathering with a weekly heavy metal column - a concept once executed seemed so obvious, and so well received I was surprised I didn’t do it sooner. Nefarious orcs slinging spells against deadly ghosts - interdimensional heroes warring with soulless aliens hell bent on destruction - almost everything about the cards, from the art to the stories, covers what it means to be metal as fuck. So I’m going to write a column about hypothetical metal bands named after Magic cards again, but this time I’m doing it specifically with cards from the brand new Guilds of Ravnica set - Ravnica being a central yet deeply troubled plane in the Magic multiverse, where guilds with diverse interests battle amongst each other.

Surrounded by secrecy and manipulation, House Dimir is barely known to even exist. If a Dimir card were to be turned into a metal band, it would surely be Nightveil Predator.

They would play bleak, yet razor sharp black metal. There exists some copies of their Watery Grave demo somewhere, but who knows where to find them - you certainly can’t track the band down on social media and ask them either.

Swiftblade Vindicator is a champion creature of the Boros Legion - a guild of zealous righteousness who fight for justice with fire and light. I reckon it could also make a pretty badass name for a socio-political, old school thrash metal band. Invoice me and/or Wizards of The Coast later.

The Golgari Swarm live underneath the city of Ravnica and embrace life and death as though they were one and the same. Underrealm Lich is a super cool mythic rare card that I pulled at the pre-release last weekend that gives you a lot of options for controlling your draw step, and putting cards into your graveyard. The text of the card reads ‘You’ve strayed, overworlder’ and is kind of spooky. I think someone could name an undead obsessed death metal band after this guy.

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Xavier Mayne

Inspired by the likes of The Weeknd, Frank Ocean, Post Malone, Kid Cudi and The Internet, this week’s local artist spotlight is on Xavier Mayne from far North Queensland, who blends instrumental production and hooks with raw, lyrical flow. Teaming up with life-long friends CHASE ATLANTIC, the artists have released Mayne’s debut single, ‘SHLEEPIN’, which tells the story of the artist’s isolated mind during a difficult period in his life. The rapper is now back with his second single, ‘Understand’, featuring Goon Des Garcons and Jay Cooper; a down-tempo groove revolving around the concepts of sexual tensions and emotional attachment. 2018 brings exciting things for Xavier Mayne, with upcoming collaborations and tours in the works.

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Guilds of Ravnica

Golgari Swarm

Sampa The Great

Punk

The constituents of the Selesnya Conclave sure are hippies. These elvish motherfuckers love trees and nature, and I reckon they’d really get down with the pan pipes and traditional violins of Nordic folk metal bands like Eluveitie.

Worldsoul Colossus would be the card to represent Selesnya in heavy metal form. It’d probably be big and powerful, but kind of lame and inoffensive.

The Izzet League are chemists and electricians obsessed with science. Ionize is a super cool card that counter targets any spell for one blue, one red, and one colourless mana, and then deals two damage to that spell’s controller. I thought Ionize was such a perfect metal band name that I had to check if it already existed - turns out they’re from New York, and while they’re not anywhere near as good or technical as Meshuggah or Karnivool, you can tell they want to be, so there’s that.

Steve Soto

O Sunday February 15, 2015, one of the greatest punk shows in Melbourne took place in Collingwood. It was a rare moment where everything fell into place to deliver a stellar lineup of classic Aussie punk bands.

CJ Ramone, bassist for The Ramones from 1989 to 1996, was meant to be supporting NOFX on their Australian tour.

For whatever reason, that tour didn’t happen for him, but he now had a new album that needed promoting.

About a year earlier, I had toured Adolescents through Australia and Steve Soto, who played guitar in CJ’s band and Bass in Adolescents, recommended that he contact me after that supporting tour fell through. Out of all the ex-Ramones members touring, CJ was the most relevant.

It was clear after I had my initial announcement that CJ had made many friends on the Ramones run back in the ‘90s, because classic Aussie punk bands were approaching my partner and I to play with him. Normally I was the one approaching them.

All the shows were amazing (Hard-Ons played in Canberra, Area 7 played in Footscray), but the last Melbourne show will probably be the highlight of my whole life as a promoter. The support bands for The Bendigo Hotel just fell in place.

Shy punk band from Perth (ex-Japan), Mach Pelican, were easy to see the influences of, but to me they were one of the best Australian bands going - catchy, simple and fun. It turns out they were extremely tight. I had contacted them to play with CJ, but due to busy work commitments (they now own Japanese restaurants) they couldn’t play.

The Meanies were asked to play the first Melbourne gig, but could only do the Sunday at Bendigo Hotel. Cosmic Kahuna and 12FU had agreed to play - our lineup was full.

Weeks later, Mach Pelican told us they were free to play on the Sunday if we wanted them. Of course we did. I was eager to get the poster out there.

The beautiful thing about CJ Ramone and Steve Soto is their willingness to talk about the past. Hanging out with them was like being around a live music documentary. They would talk with anyone and everyone around them. CJ surrounded himself with great people, and was one of the most rewarding tours I have been a part of.

There’s one thing that people will remember from this show; the bloody heat. It was 34°C that day, but if you asked anyone else they’d probably say it was 50. The Bendigo Hotel was an oven. I remember the sweat coming from every band that played. I remember K-Rock from Mach Pelican refusing to take his leather jacket off until it became too much for him.

None of this would’ve happened without influential punk musician Steve Soto. Without him, I never would’ve toured with Adolescents or CJ Ramone. Even Clowns owe some European success to Soto introducing their agent.

Steve wasn’t just helping shape punk rock in the early ‘80s; he was your mate. He remembered everyone by name.

Sadly on June 27 this year, Steve Soto passed away in his sleep. The punk rock world shared memories and mourned the loss of one of the greats. Steve had worked so hard on the new Adolescents album, so the band continued the shows that were booked as he would’ve wanted.

My highlight gig is a few hundred people crammed into The Bendigo Hotel, on a 35 degree Summer Sunday the best punk rock gig Melbourne had seen for quite some time.

RIP Steve Soto!

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Cat Power

By Sosefina Fuamoli

Deep-seated at the heart of American indie-rock music, there exists the almost mythological treasure trove that has become Charlyn Marshall’s (AKA, Cat Power) body of work. The release of the acclaimed Moon Pix album was the first step of the Cat Power journey for many, though for a whole new generation of fans, the intoxicated draw of her songwriting was first experienced in 2012, with the album Sun. Over the years, Marshall’s songwriting skill and musical identity has both strengthened and diversified with time and experience. Currently preparing for the release of her new album, Marshall - and fans - anticipate the tenth Cat Power studio record: Wanderer.

The singles that fans have been delivered so far (‘Wanderer’, ‘Woman’, ‘Stay’) have been strong in their presentation, yet Wanderer shines as a whole for its great sonic contrasts, as well as Marshall’s defiance; in both her writing and vocal performance.

Where other Cat Power albums are known for a somewhat cathartic channelling of pain, Wanderer is built on ideas of hope and possibility, taking a road less travelled in search of redemption, or emotional enlightenment.

“I think it serves a purpose,” Marshall says of Wanderer. “There are some things I needed to release.

Songs are like a mystery inside my mind, you know?

There were some things I needed to release to help me as a human, as a woman.”

Wanderer is the result of some years’ work of writing and recording between Miami and Los Angeles. Marshall notes the impact her son had on her work as a musician, and how integral he was to the formation of this record.

“Having my child, or maybe having his soul in my body, carrying around someone’s soul in your body may link you with some sort of divine synergy,” she ponders. “I am much more grounded and extremely self-protective and protective over my life.

My intention while recording this album was one of complete protection and security of personal space; protection of the intention of goodness.”

Bringing Rob Schnapf into the fold to help produce Wanderer allowed Marshall to relinquish some of the already heavy workload she had taken upon herself,

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and also allowed for a strong, new dynamic to thrive.

“If I hadn’t left Miami, my comfort zone, and gone to mix somewhere else, I probably wouldn’t have recorded the song ‘Wanderer’, because it was so personal,” she remembers. “It was more of a meditation. I wouldn’t have recorded ‘Stay’; that whole recording was just a soundcheck, basically. He had been recording and I didn’t know.”

“My ex-label was calling him and asking if there were hits and he kept that information from me. He didn’t tell me, and I didn’t find out until recently.

He upheld his integrity as an artist too. Working with him, it was like being in his house. It was so comfortable.”

The importance of finding beauty in nuance was crucial for Marshall on Wanderer and in Schnapf, she found a comrade.

“He did a lot of work with Elliott Smith, who was a friend of mine,” she explains. “He understands the elegance of simplicity, you know? That’s really important.

“It was similar with Lana,” Marshall adds, reflecting on her relationship with Lana Del Rey, who features on ‘Woman’. “When she asked me to go on tour with her, there was an understanding of, ‘Hey, we’re a team’. That’s what we’re meant to do.

We’re meant to relate. If you see an old man who’s just broken down on the bus corner crying, we’re meant to put our hand on his shoulder and ask him if he’s okay or if he needs help, you know?”

Speaking openly about how this process differed from creating Sun six years ago, Marshall vividly recalls the external pressures put on her to deliver a career-defining album.

“For this record, I had the pressure on me again,” she admits. “I knew there was pressure to do a hit record. When they asked for it and when they

returned it and said it was no good, that I needed to change it - I worked very specifically on this record.

I had clearly visualised my path of recording this record right after my little boy was born.”

“Sun was so overpowering. It was so dominating.

I worked so hard to make sure that I created and formed sound and words with integrity. It’s so hard, because the idea of a ‘hit record’ just doesn’t make sense to me. Fame and wanting to be famous, I’m not comfortable with how absurd and how pointless that is.”

Within the bounds of previous Cat Power releases, there is a gorgeous, albeit haunting, quality; the mark of a songwriter that flits cleverly between elegant warmth and painful vulnerability. Wanderer holds this quintessential Cat Power quality dear, while also navigating a more mature creative landscape that has only formed itself from time spent slowing down, and appreciating each of life’s experiences; both good and bad. Many would argue that music is a remedy, and for Marshall, it has always been a crucial medicine.

“There are things we all need to get free from and music helps,” she says. “I didn’t talk to people when I was younger. I didn’t talk to journalists, no one wanted to interview me about my songs. Over these years, I’d meet people who would say, ‘this song helped me’. That (music) also saved my life a long time ago.”

“Fame and wanting to be famous; I’m not comfortable with how absurd and how pointless that is.”

Wanderer is out now through Domino Records. Cat Power is coming to play Zoo Twilights on Saturday February 9, 2019.

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Parcels

“I think we’re really trying not to get stuck in a pattern, that’s when it all gets boring, so every song we’re trying to look at it a different way.”

It’s morning in Berlin and Parcels are enjoying a brief moment of quiet between tour dates.

Although, keyboard player Patrick Hetherington admits they’ll spend the majority of their downtime rehearsing for the next run of shows.

Since moving from Byron Bay to the German capital on a whim at 18, the five-piece have become accustomed to a constant state of flux.

“It’s very tiring emotionally and physically,” says Hetherington of the band’s gruelling touring schedule. “But it doesn’t matter how tired we get every night, even if it’s 10 minutes before we go on stage, the energy just drags us back and we’re right there. We haven’t ever lost that energy yet.”

“I definitely prefer the studio life myself, but I think you need the live side to balance it out because I would lose my mind if I was in the studio all the time,” he says.

Four of the five-piece met during high school. At just 13 years old, they dabbled in an array of different groups between themselves, until eventually four became five when guitarist Jules Crommelin entered the picture, and Parcels was born.

Though the members’ individual forays into making music were vastly different to the electronic retro-pop sound they now employ – their previous efforts having ranged from metal to folk – Hetherington says the varying genres of their past endeavours each found their place in Parcels’ sound.

“It was the point for all of us where we started listening to groovy, funk music, disco music and classic soul, and we kind of really bonded over that. We also started trialling electronic production which was kind of a really modern, new thing for us,” he says. “Once we combined that love for disco

and funk with this new style of production we kind of came to this sound.

“And then we take from everything else; we took the vocal harmonies, stuff we’d been using in folk music for the last few years, and we took the groove stuff, which comes from that metal music.”

After landing in Berlin as teenagers fresh out of school, Parcels quickly drew attention with their sound; attracting a record deal with Parisian indie label Kitsuné before being sought after by Daft Punk. The latter resulted in the collaborative track ‘Overnight’ and spurred the quintet further into the spotlight.

The band are yet to release their debut album and with all eyes now on them, the prospect of doing so grows a little more intimidating, though the added pressure only fuels their determination to succeed.

“The hardest part was just starting the album and coming off this kind of buzz that we’d created.

There were all these people talking about us and talking about Daft Punk,” says Hetherington. “The first song that came after that was ‘Bemyself ’, which was kind of a statement about that which gave us all the confidence to move forward.”

“I’ve been pretty impressed by the way we’ve shut out everyone and everything. We’ve just done it for ourselves. When we first started there was this slight feeling of pressure and nerves, also from ourselves – the biggest pressure has always been coming from ourselves.”

Although the change in scenery has inevitably influenced Parcels’ sound - Berlin’s deep club scene, led by techno and electronica, leaking into the band’s creative peripherals - they are adamant in continuing to extend themselves beyond any one genre or sound on their forthcoming self-titled debut album.

“We didn’t really want to push it into one direction yet, says Hetherington. “Each song is just a moment, it’s usually individual coming from one of us – one experience we’ve had or one emotion we’re having – and we’re trying to put that into a song.”

“I think we really trying not to get stuck in a pattern, that’s when it all gets boring, so every song we’re trying to look at it a different way.”

Parcels is due for release on Friday October 12 via Because Music / Caroline Australia. Catch Parcels at 170 Russell on Monday January 14.

BY KATE STREADER

Oh Pep! Oh Pep! have been busy since their 2016 release Stadium Cake, spending most of their time traversing the world on tour or songwriting. They have since returned from life on the road, taking time to record their latest album, I Wasn’t Only Thinking About You...

“It became this surreal thing, being nomadic was normalised,” says Olivia Hally (The ‘OH’ in Oh Pep!) with a chuckle. “There was a point where all I could think about was four people in a van!”

The constraints of constantly being on the road did little to affect Oh Pep!’s signature style of writing intimate songs from their lives and relationships. “I think there’s a point where life happens regardless of what’s going on with the music,” says Hally about putting together new tracks. “There was a point where we had to come home and process all of that.”

But the songwriting process never works in such a linear fashion.

“The songs were written between 2015 and 2018,” Hally explains. “25’ was written, well the start of it, was written at the beginning of Stadium Cake; I remember the power went out and we were broke, so that became the second verse.

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“I think there’s a point where life happens regardless of what’s going on with the music.” bomb cyclones and I was the naive Australian who was walking through the city whilst no one else was outside.”

Hally believes that this latest album has allowed the duo to experiment more with their sound, while ensuring it still has those key Oh Pep! elements.

“I think it’s definitely consolidated the Oh Pep! sound; the song structures are simpler but they sound like Oh Pep! songs,” she says. “Because I write for so many people there’s a line where I realise it’s an Oh Pep! song; if it’s got this emotional thing going on, then I give it to Peppy to talk about and we head into studio.”

I Wasn’t Only Thinking About You... was produced

by Joel Quartermain, who they worked with at all stages of the creative process, best known for his work with Eskimo Joe. “We had ideas, the feel of it, or really fleshed out demos, and [ Joel] would kind of work with what we had or change it. He definitely added heaps of energy to it.”

“All these songs come from a very genuine emotional place and [then] the creation of the songs become very practical. That’s why we like working

with Joel, because he’s very fast and he gets it done, then we switch over to an emotional-banshee mode,” Hally laughs. “I don’t think that’s the right way to explain it, but the emotions switch on and off again.”

Towards the end of the production process Oh Pep! tested their tracklist before deciding on the final product.

“We had this little concert and we blindfolded everyone and played all the new songs, just taking away all other senses, so people couldn’t judge based off any visuals or other people’s reactions.”

“I think we made the audience feel as awkward and vulnerable as we did last week,” Hally says, referring to the two album release shows they played in Melbourne and Sydney. “We felt a real mix of being very comfortable on stage because we knew most of the crowd, but also terrified.”

The duo are sure to hit some raw emotions with the album release, and their tour coming up later this year.

BY SCOTT HUDSON

I Wasn’t Only Thinking About You… is out Friday October 26 through ATO Records. You can catch Oh Pep! at The Corner Hotel on Saturday December 1.

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Strawberry Fields

By Zachary Snowdon Smith

It’s true that Strawberry Fields is bigger this year than ever before, with a lineup of 92 acts performing along two square kilometres of riverfront outside Tocumwal, Victoria. But the music festival should be more than merely big, insists co-director Tara Benney.

“You should be able to sit on a tree stump and stare at light hitting the river for three hours and just bliss out,” says Benney. “That is an essential part of it, though it’s not necessarily on the program. The point of this festival, for us, is not to just build three or four giant stages that people stand around at all weekend. You can do that anywhere in the world.

There’s nothing special about that.

“You can do so much more interesting stuff at a festival. That’s where you really have the opportunity to change people’s lives, by not giving them what they expect. People might come here for a big DJ or a big band, and then find themselves drinking samurai-style tea at two in the morning or at a workshop doing an ice immersion bath with a bunch of complete strangers.”

Heading up this year’s lineup is Detroit techno producer Carl Craig, along with Americana ensemble Dirtwire, hip hop artist Hoj and a laundry list of musicians and DJs from around Australia, Europe, South America and Japan. Moving into a new, larger space has given the festival an opportunity to open a variety of new stages, from ‘The Grove’, where party acts like Hiatus Kaiyote and Nightmares on Wax will perform, to ‘The Village’, a more low-key space combining live performance with art displays and shiatsu massage.

Workshops will run the gamut, from hula hooping and meditation, to crafting workshops; teaching attendees how to make dreamcatchers, macrame plant hangers and screen-printed tees.

Benney hopes that this year’s Strawberry Fields will be a chance to push back against the increasing commodification and wastefulness of music events: selfie sticks are on the banned items list, alongside fireworks and illicit drugs.

“The scene that we grew up in, you drove into the middle of nowhere, and half the time, you wouldn’t know what was happening,” says Benney.

“It was raw. It was about coming out into nature for a transformational experience, not to be on Instagram, not to carry your phone around the whole weekend, not to compare yourself to other people, but to open yourself up to new experiences with a positive mindset. These days, festivals in general, whether they’re what people perceive as commercial or what people perceive as underground, are consistently being dominated by quite a superficial energy. That’s something we really want to move away from.”

Attendees looking for a breather between jams can retreat to the tea lounge, a placid space overseen by tea master Hannah Dupree, former proprietor of the Storm in a Tea Cup cafe. Dupree will provide free tea, ranging from traditional matcha to oolong, and other Asian varieties.

Strawberry Fields’ tea lounge provides a more social and engaging alternative to the chill-out stages found at other music festivals, says Benney.

“Believe it or not, for someone who runs a festival, I don’t like to stay up all night and go from blasting stage to blasting stage,” says Benney. “This is a space you can go to be engaged, rather than just

sitting on the dirt and listening to some ambient beats. It’s a space that you go to spend time with your friends, spend time with some strangers, drink some delicious blends of tea and kick it, but in an engaged way, not in a passive way.”

This year’s festival has been engineered to help attendees make new friends and have unexpected experiences, on top of the expected music and workshops, says Benney.

“If you talk to someone on the tram in Melbourne and they don’t know who you are, they’ll think you’re crazy, but, at a festival that’s completely fine,” she says.

“We want to leverage that openness to try to feed people some new information. We’d like to give them some kind of inspiration they can take away into their lives, the other 362 days of the year.”

“People might come here for a big DJ or a big band, and then find themselves drinking samurai-style tea at two in the morning or at a workshop doing an ice immersion bath with a bunch of complete strangers.”

Strawberry Fields will take place from Friday November 16 to Sunday November 18 outside Tocumwal, Victoria.

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Paul Kelly There are many words to describe Paul Kelly, but one that seems particularly fitting is ‘prolific’.

The singer-songwriter is an Australian music legend, having first performed in little old Hobart back in 1974. Since then he’s had a staggeringly successful career, with over forty years of industry experience under his belt, and more than 20 studio albums to his name. His latest, titled Life Is Fine, was released just last year, with another on the way already.

Nature is a celebration of the natural world, and Kelly’s love of poetry. The twelve-track record is a compilation of poems close to Kelly’s heart, by poets he’s ong admired, such as Gerard Manly Hopkins, Walt Whitman, Sylvia Plath, and others.

“I first read Gerard Manly Hopkins at school, and I love his density and the use of his imagery, and his adventurousness in language,” says Kelly of the late English poet. “He sort of made up compound words and loved alliteration. It all seemed interesting to me as a teenager to see that words could be pushed and pulled around in that way.”

Often described as a lyrical poet himself, putting poetry to music is nothing new for the singer. Six years ago, he was involved in a project with the Australian National Academy of Music, where he first combined the two mediums.

“I worked with a classical composer and we put poems to music,” Kelly explains. “Before that I’d never thought it was possible to, for me anyway, to put poems to music. I thought having the words first would be too restrictive for the music, but I was just completely wrong. After I’d done that, I just got into the habit of every now and then; if I liked the poem, I’d put a tune to it.”

This newfound way of songwriting resulted in

his album of Shakespeare’s works, Seven Sonnets and A Song, as well as inspiring last year’s Life Is Fine, and now, Nature.

“It’s become another way for me to write songs.

Sometimes I write my own words, and sometimes I just use other people’s words; it’s all sort of mixed in together now. For me there’s not a great distinction between those songs I write with other people’s words and those ones I write with my own. They’re just different ways of writing songs, as far as I’m concerned.”

Making Nature even more special for Kelly is the fact that it was brought to life by some of his close friends and family, including his daughters Madeline and Memphis Kelly.

“I love the sound of their voices together,” he says thoughtfully. There’s something about family singing together, the way the voices sort of blend, that you can only get with a family.

“To me (it’s special) they sing on this record, which Vika and Linda also sing on, because Vika and Linda were kind of like their mentors. They’ve been part of the family and my daughters really look up to them a lot and are influenced by them a lot. So, I’m

very pleased to have them both on the same record.”

The album also features the vocals of Alice Keith, another friend of Kelly’s, and Kate MillerHeidke, whom he’d never worked with before.

“It’s funny, because I’d been trying a song out with different singers and it didn’t quite work. I went to Alice (Keith) and asked, ‘do you want to have a go singing this chorus?’ and Alice said, ‘why don’t you get Kate? Kate Miller-Heidke?’. It was a really great handball from Alice and I thought Kate was perfect for it. Sort of right in her range, and with that ethereal quality I was looking for.”

With the album release around the corner, and the Making Gravy concerts lined up for another year, Kelly shows no signs of slowing down. At 63 years old you might think he’d be ready to hit the brakes on his musical career, but music is simply an extension of who Kelly is.

“I don’t think I’ll stop,” he says assuredly. “I play music when I’m not playing in front of people, it’s the same as what I do at home, so it’ll always be there one way or another.”

“Not that I regret the many collaborations, but possibly I’ve spread myself thin.

I plan to do a lot less, even though there are two projects in the pipeline.”

Trying to pigeonhole Tex Perkins is a senseless task; as Australia’s most restless rock’n’ roll songwriter, his near forty year career has traversed swamp, funk, folk and more, perverting tradition at every turn.

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Nature is out Friday October 12 via EMI Music.

You can catch Paul Kelly at Making Gravy on Friday December 14, at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl.

BY GRETA BRERETON

Tex Perkins

At 53 years of age, Perkins doesn’t know the meaning of the word hiatus - but a memoir published last year has made him ponder life’s pace in a time of loss.

When Perkins chats to Beat, he’s sitting in his country NSW home’s comfiest chair. He hasn’t had breakfast yet, a detail that tugs at him during our phone call. Perkins, member of Australia’s most lauded rock groups The Beasts of Bourbon, The Cruel Sea, Tex, Don & Charlie is promoting yet another new group - this time Tex Perkins and The Fat Rubber Band with long-time friend Matt Walker, playing at the upcoming Heart of St Kilda concert, a fundraiser to help feed the homeless in what he calls his “chosen home”.

The Heart of St Kilda is hosted at another location close to Perkins’ heart - the Palais Theatre.

In 2014 the singer ran for state government as an independent candidate in Albert Park, purely to secure funding for the increasingly decrepit venue from incumbent Labour member Martin Foley.

“It was a form of electoral blackmail to influence policy making,” Perkins says.

As soon as the Palais had funding committed, Perkins dropped out of the race, satisfied with what had been done, albeit not completely (“They spent $25 million and the backstage is exactly the same!”).

“For me there’s not a great distinction between those songs I write with other people’s words and those ones I write with my own. They’re just different ways of writing songs, as far as I’m concerned.”

Musing on the “physicality” of the Palais leads Perkins to happily regale plenty of gig tales, many of which appeared in last year’s memoir, Tex. The career retrospective unexpectedly caused the singer, perhaps for the first time, to take stock of his relentless career.

“Not that I regret the many collaborations, but possibly I’ve spread myself thin. Maybe it’s my age, maybe it’s that book...I plan to do a lot less, even though there are two projects in the pipeline as we speak,” he laughs darkly.

The songwriter might have outrun his prolific tendencies if it weren’t for this year’s tragedy; two original Beasts of Bourbon members and lifelong friends Brian Hooper and Spencer P. Jones, passed away in April and August respectively.

“When Spencer was still here, the idea popped up after Brian [Hooper]’s benefit [concert] off the amazing strength Brian and Spencer showed by doing that gig. It seemed like anything was possible at that point, and we all said quick, let’s all get into a studio.’ Brian died a week later.”

“The idea was then to get Spencer on tape one last time. We managed to get one song out of him but we recorded ten other songs with a completely

different version of the band, and now we have that project,” Perkins explains.

“Beasts of Bourbon was a band I started with Spencer, and I really feel now that he’s gone it’s not quite the Beasts of Bourbon as we knew it.”

Almost forty years ago, Perkins departed home at 17, the spectacle of rock’n’ roll bedazzling him in his chaotic first group, The Dum Dums. Songwriting however, quickly trumped Perkins’ showmanship in The Beasts of Bourbon. Asked what flicked the switch, he doesn’t quite know how to answer, instead offering a Spencer anecdote.

“I had this song on the first Beasts of Bourbon record called ‘Evil Ruby’. It was just a bunch of lyrics and I expected it to be like a lot of the songs I had written up until then... I lived with Spencer Jones at the time, we’d often get together in the lounge room and I’d write out these lyrics...The final lines were ‘So the moral of this story, if you don’t want to end like Dan, forget that girl and take that train’ but I didn’t have a final line. I paused and he yelled ‘And leave for Vietnam!’ and I went ‘fuck yeah!’”

BY JOSHUA MARTIN

Tex Perkins and the Fat Rubber Band play the Heart of St Kilda October 23rd at the Palais Theatre.

Tickets are available via Sacred Heart.

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MUSIC

Kalyani

DRMNGNOW

MUSIC

Where are you from and what influence has this had on your music? I am a Pyemairrenner woman which means my family is from North Eastern Trouwunna/ Tasmania originally, but I grew up on Bundjalung country, which is in Northern New South Wales. It’s hard to quantify the impact of experiences and history, but I imagine it’s the reason for my desire to tell stories and create my own worlds.

What influence does nature have on your music? At the moment, not a whole lot because I’m in the city without much access to stillness. I grew up in the country which completely shaped my attraction to songwriting, I don’t think I would be a songwriter if I hadn’t grown up in the country. Though, I might just be making techno instead.

What is the significance of Jirrmujina Liyan, to you? Playing on an all Blak lineup is always special. Especially in the music industry’s current landscape, with so many festivals and gigs made up of white male lineups, booked by white men.

Tell us a little bit more about Willow Beats. Is this far removed from your solo material? Willow Beats is an electronic pop project that I toured with for seven years, but we played our last show earlier this year. My solo material is very different sonically to Willow Beats, as it’s more stripped back to piano and vocals.

What is something you’d like the audience to take from Jirrmujina Liyan? Blak people are diverse in practice and message, that we are making amazing art and need to be listened to. I hope they can listen attentively.

What can we expect from your set? I will be playing a collection of my favourite released and unreleased original songs. I hope to re-contextualise some Willow Beats classics too, and share new offerings.

How did you get into making music? I started actively pursuing music pretty late. I was inspired by my younger sister Vanessa who was learning guitar. To see another family members wanting to pursue what they love and what makes them happy gave me infinite inspiration to follow something I thought may have passed me by.

Has music always been empowering for you and your heritage? Music has always been very empowering and cathartic to me, among so many other things. I realised the very first time I strummed a guitar that I was supposed to be doing this, supposed to be creating as a very duty of living – but a very rewarding duty.

What is the significance of Jirrmujina Liyan, to you? To me, to be able to partake in an event that has such an important meaning behind it, ‘songs for spirit’ in Yawuru – as named by Dani – is a special honour. My music is very much about creating in a way that is replenishing and stimulating for minds, but importantly, the spirit of peoples, particularly other First Nations people.

What was it like creating your set? I am inspired by music as a whole, from so many different genres, in ways unique to them. Though the medium of hip hop is largely at play in my set currently, I am always excited about the opportunity to move and shift with sound constructs, and where that can lead me.

What messages are you trying to send through your music? I want people to be aware of the fact that everywhere in this world is sacred land of Indigenous peoples. Once people can become cognisant of that, I see foundational, necessary baselines of human living rising to a place that means all can thrive.

Kalyani will perform in Jirrmujina Liyan at the Darebin Music Feast. The event goes down at

down at Northcote Town Hall on Saturday October 27. Grab yourself a ticket at the Music

Northcote Town Hall on Saturday October 27. Grab yourself a ticket at the Music Feast website.

Feast website.

DRMNGNOW will perform in Jirrmujina Liyan at the Darebin Music Feast. The event goes

Beat’s Guide to Hopkins Creek 2018 With a slogan as wholesome and inviting as “music and mateship”, what’s not to love about Hopkins Creek?

Better yet, the three-day boutique music and community festival employs a volcanic crater as it’s venue, so we reckon this is the kind of festival you’ll want to get around with your mates, if not brag to them about. Set to come in for their third instalment next month, we’ve lined up the ultimate guide to help get you there and having an absolute ball.

WAIT, WHERE IS IT?

Hopkins Creek goes down at Kulkurt Crater, Tatyoon, in Victoria’s north-west district. That’s right, a damn volcanic crater. For the scientifically inept, that means there’s a large, bowl-shaped depression in the ground caused by volcanic activity, and the HC team decided it would be a pretty heckin’ spot for a music festival. We agree.

Hopkins Creek champions the land on which is stands, and invites punters to indulge in and connect with this otherworldly natural phenomenon. On top of that, they want festival-goers to connect with each other, and of course, the music. Now, on to the lineup.

LINEUP

Across an intimate single stage, Hopkins Creek 2018 will offer a spectacularly curated roster of

Image by Rhys Newling

local and international talent. International guests include UK house lords Ess O Ess, Japan’s Mitsuki, Berlin-based DJ Paramida, Slovenia’s Samo DJ and Canadian acid-electronic artist, Ciel, while on the local front you’ll find DJs Jess Zammit, Adi Toohey, Norachi, Sleep D, Millú, Josh Keys, Ben Fester and more. A slice of indie-pop and roots will come from Melbourne five-piece Sagamore, while funk, jazz and hip hop-fuelled outfit Sunnyside and acid-jazz purveyors Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange are also on the bill. For the full lineup, head to the Hopkins Creek website.

GETTING THERE

The drive to Hopkins Creek is a scenic two-anda-half hour journey north-west of Melbourne – totally doable with your mates. Grab a $10 car park pass alongside your ticket, and you’ll be able to rock up at the gates from 2pm until midnight on Friday November 30, and they’ll be be open again from 9am-10pm the following days. Punters may also choose to purchase a bus ticket ($60) as their mode of transport, which will depart from outside the Regent Cinema, 191 Collins Street, CBD, at

11am on the Friday, and depart the festival at 10am on Monday December 3 to return to the same point. You’ll be allowed two suitcases or equivalent camping equipment on board.

FOOD & DRINK

If not for the numerous food stalls that’ll be dishing up their goods, Hopkins Creek is also a fully BYO event – just no glass please! And there to ensure that you can keep those bevvies cold, the local Tatyoon Hawks football team will be slinging ice throughout the event, too. Booyah. Also note that there won’t be any cash out services available on site, so make sure to bring enough dosh to keep those bellies chipper.

In a nod to the environment, Hopkins Creek will also ban all plastic water bottles from the festival, instead issuing punters with a free drink bottle to fill up around the site. Double booyah.

Hopkins Creek 2018 goes down at Kulkurt Crater, 1939 Delacombe Way, Tatyoon from Friday November 30 until Sunday December 2. More info and tickets available via www.hopkins-creek.com.au.

BY ABBEY LEW-KEE

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“It’s all about being moved and being a part of an audience and the band as a living thing.

We’re all having a good time and we’re all trying to be moved.”

Electric Blue Collective The Docklands Blues Music Festival returns this month for another big weekend. One of the featured artists for this year’s event are Electric Blues Collective, who have been playing together for the past two years.

Lead singer and blues harp player, Phil Coyne, is a big fan of the festival, and is excited to be on the bill this year. “It’s great, a great location and a great festival,” he says. “They have got really top players happening there.”

For Electric Blues Collective, festivals are where it’s at. You get to see artists you wouldn’t normally see, people tend to make more effort to get out to one and they bring with them a different feeling and vibe.

“It’s festive but you’re amongst other musicians as well. There’s all sorts of networking and it’s just a different atmosphere. I love the way that they put the Docklands Blues Music Festival together, it’s really cool and it’s really interesting,” says Coyne. “The other thing about this festival is they’ve got a youth section as well. It’s really encouraging young people to play, and to actually play in front of others.”

Electric Blues Collective like to think of their music as ferocious Chicago blues. Coyne plays his harp - which is blues terminology for harmonica - through an old ‘50s microphone and amp, and describes it as a real heavy, driving sound. He describes the band’s sound as very harp driven, with it being the main instrument

to lay down the rhythm, and believes their music has an energy not too dissimilar to punk.

“It’s like punk, it’s not angry but it’s all about being moved and being a part of an audience and the band as a living thing. We’re all having a good time and we’re all trying to be moved.”

The Australian blues scene stands out because it’s diverse and broad. Especially at festivals, where there is the opportunity to see a broad range of bands, and a vast range of solo acts contributing to the scene.

Coyne says that the blues scene has changed a lot since he’s been in it, but he likes the fact that there’s more young players getting involved, keeping it alive with fresh music and ideas.

“It’s funny how blues started in the US, but it’s all over the world,” he says. “You listen to Finnish harp players and they’re all trying to do the same thing. We’re all trying to play homage to the guys that inspired us and create something new. In a sense we’re just part of this big world community that’s really into this stuff.”

It’s also a time of change for Electric Blues Collective, with lead guitarist and founding member Sam Wylie moving interstate. This means they’re on the hunt for a new guitarist leading into the new year.

As well as auditioning for a replacement, the band plan to pen some new songs, as well as work on their live performances, and how they interact with the crowd.

“People don’t want to go and see a band that’s into themselves, they want to go see a band that puts on a show, they want to be entertained,” says Coyne.

During their brief guitarist-less period, the band are going to be working with some other great musicians, something which Coyne is particularly excited about.

“As a musician, you do your thing and you enjoy other people’s playing, and you forget that other people enjoy what you do. So, having people wanting to play with you is such a lovely thing.”

Coyne encourages any music fans to come down and experience the Docklands Blues Music Festival.

Not only is it billed by a plethora of talented artists and bands, but it’s free, too.

“It’s a really well put together festival and it’s just like a celebration of great Australian blues music, it’s fantastic.”

BY ANNA ROSE

World Vegan Day For one day, the vegan community will be taking over the Melbourne Showgrounds and turning it into a free-to-enter showcase for animal-friendly music, art and fashion.

Organised by Vegetarian Victoria, World Vegan Day aims to promote veganism in a bold and celebratory way.

Heading up the concert program is Melbourne five-piece All Truism. All Truism cover songs not from a particular artist or of a particular genre – instead, they pick tracks touching on animal rights and the environment, ranging from trip hop tunes

by Portishead to heavy metal a la System of a Down.

Also performing at World Vegan Day is Justiciero, a three-piece gathered from around South America. The band is known for freely mingling English and Spanish in their Ramones-esque punk tunes.

As Melburnian as a moustache on a glass of beer, Pear and the Awkward Orchestra will be presenting a brand of folk-pop influenced by artists like Sia and Gotye. The band is known for their festival shows and their sustainables-only merchandise.

The World Vegan Day lineup also features genre-bending singer-songwriter Charlie Lane, folk-rockers Run Rabbit Run and Gippsland bluesrock group The Buttons.

World Vegan Day Live Music Coordinator, CeCe Sanderson, says each band was selected as per a particular criteria.

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“Bringing vegan musicians together to perform at our vegan event creates a platform for vegan artists to share their music.”

Run Rabbit Run

“It is a requirement to perform on our Live Music Stage that all artists are vegan and are willing to donate their time and music to our event in support of veganism,” Sanderson says.

“Many [performers] have walked through the gates of a World Vegan Day event, and approach our team when their passion for music and veganism drives them to get involved. We are the only vegan event in Melbourne with an all-day Live Music Stage to entertain our audiences.”

While it is a lifestyle festival promoting health and compassion, music is arguably the most crucial aspect of the event.

“Music is the blood that beats through society.

Bringing vegan musicians together to perform at our vegan event creates a platform for vegan artists to share their music, whether that be with a vegan message or otherwise,” Sanderson says.

“At the World Vegan Day Live Music Stage, we support creativity and expression, whilst bringing a fresh and diverse taste of sounds to Melbourne.”

As punters rush through the gates this Sunday, the Live Music Stage will be difficult to overlook with its grand presence and state-of-the-art sound system.

Electric Blues Collective will be playing at the Docklands Blues Music Festival on Saturday October 20 and Sunday October 21.

“With the enormous signage on the stage, it will be hard to miss. Situated in the Town Square Lawn, next to the Grand Pavilion, facing the Grandstand seating, the Live Music Stage will be jumping. It is our biggest stage to date,” Sanderson says.

But the most important aspect of the Live Music Stage is the diversity of its lineup.

“All our artists come from different walks of life, and have a variety of sounds. The music on the day ranges from an electronic DJ, to vegan punk rock, to acoustic solo performances.”

Away from the music, punters won’t just eat the very best vegan foods, but be able to learn how to cook the delicacies themselves. Vegan chefs such as Adam Khazaal of Tabasco Hot Sauce, Markeeta Hines of Namaste Nourishment and Yoko Inoue of Melbourne raw food cafe Shokuiku will be on hand to educate aspiring cooks. There’ll also be vegan clothing lines and a bunch of other festivities for festival-goers to peruse.

BY ZACHARY SNOWDEN SMITH

World Vegan Day will take place on Sunday October 14 at the Melbourne Showgrounds.

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Cher - Kevin Bull Photography

Cher

Rod Laver Arena, Wednesday October 3 Cher may not be a big fan of herself, but you don’t get to sustain a career for over 50 years without excelling at what you do. Performing the first of three Melbourne shows on Wednesday October 3, the diversity of her crowd proved that her popularity transcends generations.

It may seem like an odd choice by some to have a DJ as a support act, but the immense joy expressed through Andrew McClellan’s performance was infectious. Twirling and sashaying across the stage to the likes of Aretha Franklin, Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Paul Kelly and The Beatles, he ensured the crowd was well and truly in the mood for a mid-week boogie when Cher arrived.

After a mass singalong to ‘YMCA’, footage from across Cher’s career was projected onto the stage, soundtracked by ‘Woman’s World’.

And then came the moment everyone had been waiting for: the sudden drop of the curtain.

Wearing an elaborate gold headdress and enormous orange wig, Cher’s descent from the heavens was met with deafening cheers. As she powerfully launched into ‘Strong Enough’, you could almost have been forgiven for thinking she was lip-syncing.

With the crowd in the palm of her hand from the outset, Cher’s likeability was strengthened during an entertaining and insightful 13-minute monologue about looking hot at 40, running up some serious debt and David Letterman acting like an arse. Throughout the first half of the twohour set, she effortlessly moved through ‘All or Nothing’, ‘Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves’, ‘Half-Breed’, ‘Beat Goes On’ and ‘Dark Lady’.

As she left the stage every couple of songs for a costume change, Cher’s band and backup dancers ensured the audience remained thoroughly entertained with elaborate choreography, circus tricks and instrumental versions of hits such as ‘Bang Bang’, interspersed with videos of her life. While she returned each time wearing a different wig and

Kesha – Photo by Andrew Friend

intricately detailed, dazzling outfit, it was the dance routines that completed the experience, with one of the most risqué happening during ‘Welcome to Burlesque’.

Although it was the song that brought her into the spotlight, Cher said she had considered not performing ‘I Got You Babe’ as she wasn’t sure how it would logistically work. “Then I thought, ‘Oh come on, bitch. You’re almost 500 years old, do the song’,” she laughed. Singing directly to a video of her ex-husband and collaborator Sonny Bono, it was one of the more reflective moments of the show.

Hot off the release of her 30th album, Dancing Queen, many were hoping Cher would crack out some ABBA classics. Not one to disappoint, she began with ‘Waterloo’, and the audience sing-along continued throughout her renditions of ‘SOS’ and ‘Fernando’.

Backing it up with ‘After All’, ‘Walking in Memphis’, ‘The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss)’, and ‘I Found Someone’, the most iconic moment of the show came when Cher appeared on stage in a replica of her ‘If I Could Turn Back Time’ outfit. With the crowd on their feet and punching the air, she strutted across the stage, expertly hitting the song’s high notes.

Ending with an energetic performance of ‘Believe’, Cher ensured she gave the audience a night they’d remember for years to come.

BY AMY HALL HIGHLIGHT: Seeing

a living legend performing at the top of her game.

LOWLIGHT: While the costumes were all incredible, it seemed a bit excessive when she changed outfits after just one song.

CROWD FAVOURITE: ‘Believe’.

Kesha

Margaret Court Arena, Sunday October 8 Even if you aren’t a fan, it’s hard not to be aware of the battles Kesha has fought over the years.

And while music journalism is wrought with clichés, I’m going to get one out of the way right now – because Kesha’s rise from the ashes

is akin to that of a phoenix, and the woman standing before us on the live stage is nothing short of glorious.

As soon as the black curtain dropped to reveal the stage, fans knew they were in for a different Kesha show. Kesha – dressed in all white and glittering like a disco ball – stood centre stage, surrounded by her six-piece band who were front and centre alongside her – unlike your usual popstar show where musicians are pushed in to hiding – and they proved as much of a spectacle as Kesha herself. Right from the opening call of “I’m a motherfucking woman” there was a feeling of triumph in the air. Not only because this tour was originally postponed due to an ACL injury, but because in the seven years since Australian fans saw her last, Kesha has fought a slew of very public personal battles.

The first surprise came with second track ‘Blah Blah Blah’ – the woozy electro-pop replaced with a rock’n’roll edge, as Kesha played guitar, an artist in complete control. And this was the vibe for the rest of the night. The clubready electro-pop of her earlier tracks was, for the most part, completely absent, as Kesha – helped along by her band – transformed into a full blown rock’n’roll queen.

Older tracks like the now-riff heavy ‘We R Who We R’, ‘80s rocker ‘Your Love Is My Drug’, the woozy ‘Take It Off ’, and even her Pitbull-duet ‘Timber’ received much of the same treatment. This tied in perfectly with the direction of her latest album Rainbow, and while tracks from that record were sparse throughout her setlist, its sentiment carried through the entire night.

In between all the attitude, the stripped back one-two of new album tracks ‘Bastards’ and ‘Godzilla’ showcased Kesha’s full musicianship. With not much more than a couple of acoustic guitars backing her, her voice soared throughout the arena. It was a moment that also showcased the two glorious sides of Kesha. While ‘Godzilla’ is a magnificent slice of indie-folk kitsch about dating a large dinosaur, ‘Bastards’ is a sweetly-delivered empowerment ballad aimed at everyone who underestimated her. Kesha’s sense of humour and attitude are still on full display, but she has a new confidence and self-assuredness too.

After three fabulous outfit changes and a night filled with strutting rock’n’roll, resplendent singalongs, and absolute empowerment, it was time for Kesha to leave the stage momentarily.

And when she returned for her encore, the statement she made was one fans won’t be forgetting.

Joined by support act Ben Abraham on keys (who she worked with on the single), ‘Praying’ was the emotional high-point of the night. There had been a lot of moments throughout, but it was clear this four-minutes was Kesha’s moment and it will continue to be forevermore.

Finishing up with none other than her debut single ‘TiK ToK’, the crowd spent every last bit of energy and emotion they had left.

Kesha is an intergalactic goddess. She is powerful, liberated, and stronger than ever before. While her cheeky attitude still shone in all its glittering glory, watching Kesha onstage was awe-inspiring. Her early-career party anthems are still there, but that Kesha is no longer. Here stands a woman who is a shining beacon of bravery and strength, even in the face of defeat. And if you’re looking for someone to look up to, look no further.

BY GLORIA BRANCATISANO HIGHLIGHT:

I am obsessed with rock’n’roll

LOWLIGHT:

Was really hoping she’d play ‘This

Kesha.

Is Me’.

CROWD FAVOURITE: ‘Take

It Off ’.

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ALBUM REVIEWS

Album of the Week (Question Everything/RCA Records)

Singles With Augustus Welby

Cat Power

Cat Power

Stay (Domino) Just as her recent single ‘Woman’ featured Lana Del Rey purely as a backing vocalist, Chan Marshall suppresses none of her trademark gravitas on this cover of Rihanna’s 2012 smash hit.

We shouldn’t be surprised by this – Cat Power’s previously put her stamp on songs by everyone from Liza Minnelli to The Rolling Stones and Nick Cave. She renders ‘Stay’ as a confidential piano and vocal ballad, her time-defying voice masking the original’s tendency towards clumsy rhymes, and is further evidence of Marshall’s standing as one of popular music’s finest re-interpreters.

Charli XCX and Troye Sivan

1999 (Warner)

This is going to be everywhere. The hook – “I just wanna go back to 1999” – is instantly annoying, but the song’s not entirely disposable. Propped up by a ‘90s piano loop, two leading lights of pop’s future get nostalgic about the pre-Y2K glory days. You know, when the biggest names in pop were the high school-age sex symbol Britney Spears and unfiltered misogynist Eminem.

Sivan also includes a curious reference to JTT on MTV, which is either a typo or a nod to Jonathan Taylor Thomas. Scruples aside, it’s a bit of fun despite being as catchy as it is grating.

Sharon Van Etten

Brockhampton

9.0

iridescence On iridescence, emotions, confusion and depression run wild.

Comeback Kid (Jagjaguwar) Sharon Van Etten guested on Hercules in NY’s 2017 single, ‘Omnion’, and the foray into dance music obviously rubbed off on her. Built on synths and a tightly compressed dance beat, ‘Comeback Kid’ is immediately distinguished from anything else in the US songwriter’s catalogue. But while the stylistic shift is welcome, the results sound somewhat forced, forsaking the dramatic nuance that made 2012’s Tramp and 2014’s Are We There such knockouts.

Jessie Ware

Overtime (PMR/Virgin EMI) Jessie Ware flexes her various strengths on ‘Overtime’, packaging intimate closeness, arena-sized hooks and after-dark sensuality all into one song. And despite this depth, the track doesn’t waver from the mesmerising deep funk groove provided by producers Andy Ferguson & Matt McBriar. It’s club music that’ll also bring comfort into your headphones.

‘NEW ORLEANS’ opens the record with fierce bars from Matt Champion, Dominic Michael Simpson (Dom McLennon), and especially from Russell Boring AKA Joba. Joba really shone on this album and rose to fill Vann’s shoes. Tracks like ‘J’OUVERT’ and ‘SAN MARCOS’ find him screaming confessionals, or revealing dark thoughts.

The SATURATION trilogy had these moments too, but the group’s insecurities were softened by a mix of swagger, youthful energy, and West Coast style hip hop. On the other hand, iridescence will leave fans questioning the group’s ability to curate a ‘banger’ fit for partying to.

The production on this album is simply incredible. Longtime producers Romil Hemnani, Jabari Manwa, and Kiko Merley work their magic to reflect the band’s current trauma. The album’s stand out track ‘WEIGHT’ has a marching beat laced with strings that hit the emotional core of the album. The newly recorded ‘TONYA’ sounds gorgeous on this new mix too.

The odd ‘VIVID’ is one of many hard-hitting tracks.

Unfortunately, Matt Champion didn’t quite live up to his potential, delivering few memorable verses. Instead, members, Merlyn Wood and Joba took on larger roles. Ciaran Ruaridh McDonald AKA Bearface, also landed the mic a lot more than in any past Brockhampton project. iridescence is the start of a brand new trilogy titled The Best Years of Our Lives. So, the second installment could be just around the corner. Only Brockhampton knows where they are heading, but for now, fans can rejoice that their favorite boy band is continuing on their path with music as their co-pilot.

BY JONATHAN REYNOSO

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Albums

Lupe Fiasco

8.0

The Lamb

BY BEC BLAKENEY

Coheed and Cambria

6.0

Drogas Wave

Proving they’re not just another indie-rock band, Lala Lala blend post-punk with dream-pop influences to create a perfectly balanced album.

The Lamb was written as a way for singer-songwriter Lillie West to deal with past mistakes, loss, and her struggles with addiction. Complex feelings translate into tonal shifts in the music, ranging from bleak to euphoric. It never gets too dark though – the weary drawl of West’s vocals are countered with light-filled vocal harmonies.

There is a steadiness that carries the listener through the album. Amid the shifting shades of emotion, it’s comforting.

Nothing is rushed or overdone. Yet despite their simplicity, these songs feel big: they fill up space with carefully constructed layers of fuzzy guitar, vibrant synth and ethereal backing vocals – all given a hefty slather of reverb.

From the chaotic anger of the opening track, ‘Destroyer’, to the dreamy, bittersweet closing track ‘See You at Home’, the album cleverly makes use of a variety of musical elements to create different moods and textures. There are loud, shouty moments, surprising silences, memorable choruses, and sweet instrumental outros.

This album should take Lala Lala from Chicago’s basement scene to stages worldwide. Let’s hope Melbourne is one of them.

(Warner Music)

(1st and 15th Productions, Inc.)

(Hardly Art)

Lala Lala

Lupe Fiasco should have earned a place alongside Kendrick and Kanye, but unfortunately, now at his seventh studio album, he’s been unable to reach the same heights as he did in Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor or Lupe Fiasco’s The Cool.

Drogas Wave is the second part of a planned trilogy, following last year’s rather mediocre Drogas Light – perhaps another reason for the lack of anticipation prior to release. Thankfully, this is a slight return to form. The fairly bizarre concept behind this is about a group of slaves who are thrown off a boat and instead of dying, learn to live under the sea and then dedicate their lives to sinking other slave ships.

Opening track ‘Drogas’ (the Spanish for drugs) has clear Latin roots, with Flamenco guitar, slap drums and horns playing over a simple whistle, and Fiasco rapping entirely in Spanish.

‘Manila’ puts us right back in the urban setting with patchy synth work, vocal effects and siren sounds. It’s a confusing change of pace considering the very next track ‘Gold Vs The Right Things To Do’ reverts back to soft gospel vocals.

The album is broken into two parts, stretching it out to a massive 24 tracks including interludes, but thankfully the second half is more consistent in terms of quality. Highlights include ‘Cripple’, ‘XO’ and ‘Jonylah Forever’, about an infant who was fatally shot over a stolen video game console in Chicago.

BY CHRIS BRIGHT

It’s a curious crossroads in which many have found themselves: Venture down familiar paths and be accused of unoriginality; venture down new ones and be accused of abandoning your roots and selling out.

What’s a band to do – least of all a beloved pop-punk band that have become among the most acclaimed purveyors of the genre? If you’re The Story So Far, you lean into it. It’s not a stagedive, it’s two steps forward – Proper Dose, their fourth LP, is a compromise of more textured and nuanced balladry with their well-established yet still sharp take on modern pop-punk. The latter certainly provides highlights – try getting rid of ‘Out of It’’s chorus earworm, for instance. However, it can’t be stressed enough how much their efforts in the former stand out.

Keyboard-driven single ‘Upside Down’ can easily lay claim to their best singular moment – all bright melody and lush instrumentation – while ‘Take Me As You Please’ and ‘Growing on You’ are warm, poppy and instantly accessible. With any luck, album number five will see the band take the plunge in earnest.

For now, Proper Dose is more than enough to tide you over. The story just got interesting.

BY DAVID JAMES YOUNG

BY STEFAN BRADLEY (XL Recordings)

Proper Dose

8.0

Cat Power

Wanderer

8.0

Coheed And Cambria are literally in a world of their own. Most of the New York band’s records are concept albums, based on guitarist and lead singer Claudio Sanchez’s comic book series The Amory Wars. However, familiarity with these stories is no requirement for those looking for a worthy progressive rock journey like Vaxis - Act 1: The Unheavenly Creatures.

The epic ‘The Dark Sentencer’ does not hold back, with Claudio’s commanding singing complimented by gang vocals acting as a call to arms. ‘Heavenly Creatures’ features the albums first and most obvious use of ‘80s synths and chip tunes, which more often than not feel out of place – a piano would have done just fine. This track does have the catchiest chorus though; “run run run run run/ Like a son of a gun.”

Sanchez’s music is certainly dynamic. His guitar playing and vocals can flip between pop and heavy metal with ease. The track ‘Gutter’ is one of the best examples of this, with Sanchez screaming between the big choruses. Songs like ‘Black Sunday’ and ‘Queen of the Dark’ embrace a dark and moody feel, and the album finishes with the soft, sentimental, mostly acoustic ballad ‘Lucky Stars’.

Despite its long length, The Heavenly Creatures is an accessible listen and will be loved by progressive rock lovers and Coheed fans, both new and old.

(Domino Recording Company)

(Pure Noise / Sony Music Australia)

The Story So Far

Vaxis – Act 1: The Unheavenly Creatures

8.5

Twenty-five years and ten albums in, listeners should be familiar with the quintessential Cat Power sound – stark, raw-edged, naked, vulnerable. There are no surprises on Wanderer. Featuring barely any instrumentation beyond guitar, piano and her voice, the songs are sparse and straightforward. The familiar and hypnotic pluck-strum-pluck-strum guitar and bass-treble-bass-treble piano returns repeatedly throughout the album, underpinning Charlyn Marshall’s poetic lyrics and potently expressive voice.

Where previous Cat Power records may have been viewed as repositories for pain, Wanderer – released six years after its predecessor, and created during Marshall’s transition to motherhood – is more an imagining of alternate paths, redemptions, connections, and open-ended possibility.

The opening track ‘Wanderer’ is essentially spiritual – soft, female harmonies floating ghost-like beside Marshall’s prayerful alto voice. A highlight of the album, the sunnier sounding ‘Horizon’, examines the complicated bonds between family members, piano and drums gently grooving beneath the between voice and playful vocoder.

In a musical landscape saturated with big songs, loudness and highly produced hit-singles, the understated Wanderer is not lost; instead, its spacious simplicity is captivating.

Jungle

For Ever

8.0

When a debut album is as good as Jungle’s in 2014, whatever followed was going to be challenging. Should you try and strike gold twice with the same sound or take it somewhere completely different? The London-based duo has definitely stuck to the former, and while it’s definitely not a step down, this never quite reaches those same magnetic highs.

‘Smile’ immediately picks up where we left off, belting whimsical lyrics over tribal percussion and as one of the album’s first singles, ‘Heavy, California’ immediately brings flashes of glitzy Hollywood Hills and Boogie Nights-style pool parties. Similarly ‘Beat 54 (All Good Now)’. It packs a meaty bassline that’ll get your hips gyrating.

‘Cherry’ ups the synth-game, sitting closer to fellow Englishman SBTRKT, while ‘Casio’ brings back the disco feel without the same funk. ‘Mama Oh No’ uses similar urban rhythms to earlier hits like ‘Platoon’ or ‘The Heat’ however ‘House in LA’ is where the momentum starts to putter.

Thankfully it ends strong with ‘(More and More) It Ain’t Easy’, which has a real warm fuzzy feeling to it.With the powerful mix of strings over drums, ‘Pray’ finally sees Jungle hit full stride, turning this into an impressive follow-up of more hits than misses.

BY CHRIS BRIGHT

BY BRONIUS ZUMERIS

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Mr. Sophistication + more Yarra Hotel Mr. Sophistication is a new Melbourne project, set to hit the Yarra Hotel on Wednesday October 10. Lo-fi garage-rock act Boyparts and space-rockers Orbits will join as support when it all goes down from 7.30pm. $5 on the door.

Ember Rain Whole Lotta Love Local rockers Ember Rain are set to take over Whole Lotta Love on Thursday October 11. They’ll have fellow rockers Green Hallows and singer-songwriter Nathan Wong and his full band warming up the stage from 8pm, and entry is $10 on the door.

Obscura Hail

Obscura Hail Edinburgh Castle

In the lead up to the release of their album Pallbearer in November, bedroom pop purveyor Obscura Hail is set to take to Edinburgh Castle on Thursday October 11. Unpacking routine, nostalgia and unraveling stark truths along the way, Obscura Hail is a poignant musician that is sure to be a treat live. Doors from 8pm and entry is free.

Benny James & The Blue Flames The Lomond Hotel Fresh from playing Echuca-Moama Winter Blues Festival, Benny James & The Blue Flames are shaking off winter and welcoming in spring with a gig at The Lomond. Slinging rollicking blues-rock, they’ll take over The Lomond stage on Thursday October 11 from 8pm, and entry is blissfully free.

The Slipdixies The Moldy Fig Lap up some vintage jazz and blues with The Slipdixies this Friday October 12 at The Moldy Fig. They’ll be slinging old jazz favourites from the ‘20s and ‘30s as well as up-and-coming cuts, when it all goes down from 9pm. Pair the free entry with the flowing drink specials and what’s more to love?

Wednesday 10 Oct JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC 4 X 1 - FEAT: JAMES BALL + JOEL TRIGG + STEVE BARRY + JOE O’CONNOR The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8pm.

$20.

JULIEN WILSON QUARTET + THEO CARBO & ASH GRIFFIN + MAX TEAKLE TRIO 303, Northcote. 7:30pm.

MYSTIC MOMENTS - FEAT: JOHN BAILEY + MIKE GURRIERI Section 8,

Melbourne Cbd. 6pm.

ROY AYERS Bird's Basement, Melbourne.

8:15pm. $60.

THE HANDLE BARS Bar Open, Fitzroy.

7pm.

TWO IF BY SEA + KLOK Open Studio, Northcote. 7pm. $8.

WORLD MUSIC OPEN MIC Compass Pizza, Brunswick East. 7:30pm.

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS ARBES + DAYZED + LACHLAN DENTON Grace Darling Hotel,

Collingwood. 8pm.

DARLING JAMES Cherry Bar, Melbourne

Cbd. 9pm.

MASS OF THE INFINITE + YEAH BAD? + GEO Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar,

North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $10.

MR. SOPHISTICATION + BOYPARTS + ORBITS Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford.

7:30pm. $5.

NOUNS & NOISE - FEAT: PISS FACTORY + EAT - MAN + FLESHED OUT + KIMBERLY THOMPSON + ASHLEY RONNING + ERIC BUTLER + JOSHUA BARNES Old Bar, Fitzroy.

7pm. $5.

ODD TASTES, UVA URSI + JARED PLANT TRIO + JACKY CHEN Tote Hotel,

Collingwood. 7:30pm. $5.

PINCH POINTS + WAY SHIT + CB RADIO + GIRL GERMS Tote Hotel,

Collingwood. 7pm.

SIENNA WILD + SINCE WE KISSED + THE ROMEO KNIGHTS Bar Open, Fitzroy.

8pm. $5.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/ BLUES/FOLK

It’s a night of firsts and lasts for Melbourne thrash-punk outfit Public Liability as they launch their debut album for the first time, as well as play their last show this week. After shredding together for over 12 years, the four-piece will be hanging up their guitars, but not before playing their whopping 16-track self-titled release in full first. Catch this momentous occasion on Friday October 12 at The Rev from 8pm and grab your tickets for $10 on the door.

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Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8pm.

KIMBA GRIFFITH + JOHN MONTESANTE QUINTET The Water Rat

MONTHLY BLUES JAM - FEAT: JIMI COELLI + VARIOUS ARTISTS Whole

MUDDY'S BLUES ROULETTE - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Catfish, Fitzroy. 8pm.

OPEN MIC NIGHT Penny Black,

Brunswick. 7:30pm.

OPEN MIC NIGHT Some Velvet Morning,

Thursday 11 Oct

Collingwood. 7:30pm. $9.70.

Public Liability Reverence Hotel

ANDREA KELLER TRANSIENTS TRIO

ABBEY HOWLETT + MORE Evelyn Hotel, Clifton Hill. 6:30pm.

Fitzroy. 8pm. $10.

ADAM SPIEGL Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $20.

BOPSTRETCH Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy.

8:30pm. $15.

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, CHRIS BIENIEK GROUP Paris Cat Jazz PUNK & COVERS Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $20.

GEOFF HUGHES TRIO Brunswick Green, ACID ANTS + ANTI-VIOLET + PAPER Brunswick. 8:30pm.

TAPIR Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 7:30pm. $5.

SHANNEN JAMES + VIC PARK + DOMINIQUE Gasometer Hotel,

Public Liability

ANDREWS Caravan Music Club, Bentleigh East. 8pm. $46.60.

ANNALIESE ROSE + GUS + ORANGE ORANGE Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood.

7:30pm.

BROOKE TAYLOR Drunken Poet, West

Melbourne. 8pm.

DARYL ROBERTS Elsternwick Hotel,

Elwood. 6pm.

EMILY DAYE Drunken Poet, West

Melbourne. 9pm.

JULES BOULT Transit, Melbourne Cbd. 6pm.

LOMOND ACOUSTICA - FEAT: MIKE RUDD + THE HORNETS + THE LESTERS

Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8pm.

MARGO PRICE + COURTNEY MARIE

ALICE SKYE + GEORGIA MAQ + KALYANI Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood.

7:30pm. $20.

BETWEEN KINGS + HOUSE OF WOOD + STRANGERS FOR SALE Last Chance

Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne.

7:30pm. $10.

BYO VINYL NIGHT - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Francesca's Bar, 8pm.

EMBER RAIN + GREEN HOLLOWS + NATHAN WONG Whole Lotta Love,

Brunswick East. 7pm. $10.

FACTOID - FEAT: HAKOBUNE + JENNIFER LOVELESS + MARIA MOLES & ADAM HALLIWELL + HYDE + DIELO TRUDA & MARIAH SLIWCZYNSKI Tote

Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $10.

JULIA WHY? + THE VENETIAN BLINDS + MARA + SLOWCOACHING Tote Hotel,

Collingwood. 8pm. $10.

LIP SYNC CHICKS + MOONLOVER + WHITE VANS Baha Tacos & Tapas Bar,

Rye. 7:30pm.

LYNDON BLUE + SIMONA + CYANIDE THORNTON Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $10.

MADI LEEDS + KING GROAKER + CH STEER Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd.

7:30pm. $5.

MATT BRADSHAW Elephant &

Wheelbarrow, Melbourne. 9:30pm.

NARLA + DEAD EYES + MERPIRE

Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $10.

NAT VAZER + BABY BLUE + THE BELAFONTES + DJ SLYMEWAVE

Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8pm. $10.

NIINE + MORE Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8pm. $10.

OBSCURA HAIL Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 8pm.

ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER + BODY TYPE + MONNONE ALONE Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8pm.

SARAH MARY CHADWICK + SWEET WHIRL Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9pm.

SCARLET DRIVE + TEENAGE DADS + FRANJAPAN + STOKA + REEL TAPES

Bar Open, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $9.20.

SCHOOL DAMAGE, TERRY + VOICE IMITATOR Reverence Hotel, Footscray.

7:30pm. $8.

THROWBACK - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS

Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9pm.

TINGY CELESTINO Customs House Hotel, Williamstown. 8pm.

TWISTED WILLOWS + DANITCHY + MINOR FEEDS Sooki Lounge, Belgrave.

8pm. $5.

YUKUMBABE + WOY + PATRICK RYAN

Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $15.

JOHNSON DREYER LOCKETT TRIO The

Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8pm. $20.

Hotel, South Melbourne. 7pm.

LACHY HAMILTON QUINTET Paris Cat

Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $25.

ROY AYERS Bird's Basement, Melbourne.

8:15pm. $60.

THE MICHELLE NICOLLE BAND

Brunswick Green, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

THE STRANGER SUITE + SQUID NEBULA Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm.

$10.

THE SYNCOPATORS Paris Cat Jazz Club,

Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $25.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/ BLUES/FOLK BEN J CARTER - FEAT: EMILY DAYE

Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8pm.

BENNY JAMES & THE BLUE FLAMES

Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9pm.

CLAUDE HAY + JUSTIN YAP + WHITE LIGHTNING Spotted Mallard, Brunswick.

8:30pm. $15.

COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS + SIERRA FERRELL Caravan Music Club,

Bentleigh East. 7pm. $28.

FOUR IN THE MORNING + RACHAEL MCARTHUR Fitzroy Pinnacle, Fitzroy

North. 7:30pm.

GEORGIA RODGERS + LOLA SOLA + HEY MAMMOTH Penny Black, Brunswick.

7:30pm.

GREY WHISTLE TEST + CHELLAH MAC

Open Studio, Northcote. 8pm.

HELEN ASHWORTH Charles Weston Hotel, Brunswick. 6:30pm.

HEY GRINGO Dog's Bar, St Kilda. 8:30pm.

JAM NIGHT - FEAT: JEWELS & THE BLUES EXPLOSION + VARIOUS ARTISTS Hume Blues Club, Coburg.

7:15pm.

JAMES MCQ Drunken Poet, West

Melbourne. 9pm.

MUSICLAND OPEN CHOIR REHEARSALS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Musicland, Fawkner. 7pm. $5.

ROGER KNOX Queen Victoria Gardens,

Melbourne. 1pm.

TAMARA REICHMAN + ALIF THOMAS DODDS Some Velvet Morning, Clifton

Hill. 8pm.

THE MONTGOMERY BROTHERS + OLLIE MCGILL 303, Northcote. 9pm. $10.

THE OCTOBER COLLECTIVE - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Loop, Melbourne Cbd.

8pm. $5.

THE SECOND ANNUAL AUSTRALIAN AMERICANA MUSIC HONOURS FEAT: MICHAEL CHUGG + NASH CHAMBERS + VARIOUS ARTISTS

Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 7pm. $99.

THE WAIFS Burrinja Cultural Centre, Upwey. 7pm.

TRACEY BARNETT Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6pm.

Friday 12 Oct INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS

Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $8.

2 INCH TAPE + CRUMB Swamplands Bar,

Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $10.

ABLAZE - FEAT: TRIPLE KILL + SCREAMING EAGLE + ECHO DEL TUSKER + ONE MORE WEEKEND

ZYPHOYD + INTERCRANIAL TREMORS + OBSIDIAN MONOLITH + NEO RELIC

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC

Thornbury. 8pm.

Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $12.

ACTION SAM Elephant & Wheelbarrow, Melbourne. 11pm.

FEATURED GIGS ALWAYS GREENER - FEAT: FUCK THE FITZROY DOOM SCENE + PLANET OF THE 8S + A GAZILLION ANGRY MEXICANS + A BASKET OF MAMMOTHS + LAMASSU Penny Black,

Grand Hotel Mornington, Mornington.

8pm. $39.80.

THE SMOKES Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $12.

APOLLO BLUE + ERIKA FEDELE + EDITH LANE 303, Northcote. 7:30pm. $10.

AUTO-MASH DJS Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy.

Brunswick. 8pm. $24.19.

Brunswick. 8pm.

9pm.

CAPTAIN SPALDING BAND Customs House Hotel, Williamstown. 8pm.

CHAPEL STREET SOCIAL CLUB - FEAT: PHATO A MANO + NAMN + MATT RADOVICH Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9pm.

CLOUD DJ NIGHT - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Hysteria Lounge, Lilydale. 6pm.

DJ LADY LOVE POTION Edinburgh

Castle, Brunswick. 9pm.

DJ THE KNAVE Transit, Melbourne Cbd.

9pm.

FOREVER RENTER + WAY SHIT Post

Office Hotel, Coburg. 9pm.

GEORGE TRIMMER BAND Royal Hotel

(essendon), Essendon. 10pm.

HANDS LIKE HOUSES Max Watt's,

Melbourne. 8pm.

HOBO MAGIC + MOTHERSLUG + PSEUDO MIND HIVE + THE ROYAL ARTILLERY Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood.

8pm. $15.

HUGHFEST 2018 - FEAT: THE DEADLIPS + HUGH KIRNE + SCULLY

Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5.

IDLE THREAT + THE PHOSPHORUS BOMBS + THE PATIENT + SNOWFLAKE + THE MIDNIGHT RIGS Last Chance

THESE NEW SOUTH WHALES + PARTY DOZEN + REBELL YELL + V Howler, TONY DORK + PUBLIC HIGH + GREWSUM TEWSUM + GIRL GERMS + FLOODLIGHTS Tote Hotel, Collingwood.

8pm. $10.

TUMBLEWEED + GRINDHOUSE + JELLY MAMMOTH Barwon Club Hotel,

Geelong. 8pm. $34.70.

UNITED JUNCTION Musicland, Fawkner.

7:30pm. $10.

WHAT’S ON PRESENTS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS + VARIOUS DJS

Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 9pm.

WOLFPACK + GOON ON THE ROCKS + OUT OF TOWNERS + MOTOVILIKHA

Bombay Rock, Brunswick. 8pm.

YEAH NAHHH + ANTONIA & THE LAZY SUSANS + THE FLYING SO HIGH-OS + NOTHING REALLY + NEWTOWN STORY + JAMO Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford.

8pm. $12.

ZOË FOX - FEAT: ZOE FOX Edinburgh

Castle, Brunswick. 6pm.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC 45 SHOOT OUT - FEAT: RICK HOWE + OPERATOR ANDY Section 8, Melbourne

Cbd. 5pm.

BLUE TWO FEW Wesley Anne, Northcote.

Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne.

7:30pm. $10.

6pm.

Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $10.

MELBOURNE SKA ORCHESTRA Night

JULIA WHY? + SWIM TEAM + GENA ROSE BRUCE + GENUINE FAKE Grace JULIETTE SEIZURE & THE TREMORDOLLS + BLOWERS Fitzroy Pinnacle,

Fitzroy North. 8pm.

JUST FRIENDS BAND Platform 270,

Melbourne. 5:45pm.

KÖDA + TAYLOR PIGGOTT + RUSSIA

Yah Yah's, Fitzroy. 8pm. $10.

LAURA IMBRUGLIA + LOOBS + SPIRAL PERM Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $15.

LIP SYNC CHICKS, DAVEY CRADDOCK + SLEDGEHAMMER + DJ TESS MONAGHAN Gasometer Hotel,

Collingwood. 7:30pm. $14.80.

MANTELL + MAGIC AMERICA + WILDERGLOW + UVA URSI Retreat

Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm.

OZ ROCK EXPRESS + AC2ZZ Musicland,

Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10.

POPROCKS + DR PHIL Toff In Town,

Melbourne Cbd. 9pm.

DEL BARRIO + DJ MARIO GORDON + DJ LATORRE Purple Emerald, Northcote.

8pm. $15.

Cat, Fitzroy. 9pm. $30.

ONE SPIRIT AFRICA Belleville,

ROCKY & THE TWO BOB MILLIONAIRES Swamplands Bar,

Thornbury. 6pm.

ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER + BODY TYPE + MORE Workers

Club, Geelong. 8pm. $28.60.

UNFORGETTABLE - A TRIBUTE TO NATALIE COLE - FEAT: MEL SEARLE

ZULYA & THE CHILDREN OF THE UNDERGROUND The Jazzlab, Brunswick.

HOUSE, ELECTRO, TRANCE & CLUB NIGHTS

Melbourne. 11:45pm. $30.

ROBBIE LOWE, HOTEN + ROBBIE LOWE + HOTEN New Guernica,

Melbourne Cbd. 10pm.

RUNNING TOUCH + ALTA + SŸDE 170

Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $28.63.

TRIPLE VISION - FEAT: STEEZY-E + BREEZY + JAKE HUGHES + WALTER JUAN Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 6pm.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/ BLUES/FOLK CHAIN Memo Music Hall, St Kilda.

7:30pm. $28.

CHRIS PICKERING EXPERIMENT

Coburg Rsl, Coburg. 8:30pm.

CLAUDE HAY Baha Tacos & Tapas Bar, Rye. 8pm. $12.

DARYL ROBERTS Wine Larder, Brighton.

6pm.

DEVIL GOAT FAMILY STRING BAND Bar Open, Fitzroy. 6:30pm.

JO MEARES + SIMON BAILEY & SHANE O'MARA Spotted Mallard, Brunswick.

KAV TEMPERLEY + KRUGER JAMES LITTLE LORD STREET BAND (DUO)

Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:30pm.

MALCURA Gem Bar, Collingwood. 9pm.

MARGO PRICE + MICK THOMAS

forever renter + Way Shit The Post Office Hotel Post-punk indie-rockers forever renter will join forces with emo punks Way Shit for a massive gig at The Post Office Hotel on Friday October 12. There’ll be sad rock aplenty, but you definitely won’t leave here feeling glum. Kicks off at 8.30pm and entry is free.

The Little Lord Street Band The Drunken Poet Perth-native Americana, folk-rock act The Little Lord Street Band will be gracing The Drunken Poet stage this Friday October 12. Though they’ll be coming in duo form, the 2018 WAM Award-winners for Best Song (Country) are still sure to put on a beautiful night of music that you won’t want to miss. Catch it all from 8pm with free entry to boot.

Ablaze The Evelyn Hotel Melbourne pub-rockers Ablaze are set to launch their debut album No Chaser at The Ev this Friday October 12. Screaming Eagle, Echo Del Tusker and One More Weekend will provide support, and it’s all happening from 8.30pm. Grab your tickets for $15 via Oztix.

Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 7pm. $46.20.

MATT JOE GOW Basement Discs, Melbourne Cbd. 12:45pm.

NILS FRAHM Hamer Hall (arts Centre Melbourne), Southbank. 8pm. $99.

PAULIE BIGNELL & THORNBURY TWO

Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.

TAY OSKEE + MADDY MAY + BILLY OTTO Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8pm. $10.

TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSION

Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6pm.

Saturday 13 Oct INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS ABSOLUTELY 80S - FEAT: BRIAN MANNIX + SCOTT CARNE + DALE RYDER Village Green Hotel, Mulgrave.

2 Inch Tape

2 Inch Tape Swamplands Bar

8pm. $33.70.

BIZARRO / LEFAG - FEAT: DJ QU + MAMA SNAKE + BROOKE POWERS + CHIARA KICKDRUM + MOOPIE + PROJECT 95 + JENNIFER LOVELESS + BABA NOIR Yours & Mine, Carlton. 11pm.

BLINDFOLDED & LED INTO THE WOODS + LOGIC DEFIES LOGIC + SEKHT + SHIT I'M ALIVE?! Tote Hotel, BRONZE + ODD SOULS + KING CAPTURE The B.east, Brunswick East.

TJ Patrick Wesley Anne

BYO VINYL NIGHT - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Hard Rubbish Bar, Preston. 7pm.

CLOUD DJ NIGHT - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Hysteria Lounge, Lilydale. 6pm.

DEADZONE - FEAT: NORSE + GREY TOMB + SOMNIUM NOX + CRYPTIC ABYSS + MVNT + DEADER + MORE

Melbourne folk-pop singer-songwriter TJ Patrick will roll into Wesley Anne on Saturday October 13 for a special Polished Man fundraiser gig. Polished Man raises awareness and funds to end violence against children, so not only will this gig offer a delightful night in music, but all proceeds will go towards the good cause.

It’s all kicking off at 7.30pm and tickets are $10 via Eventbrite.

7pm. $15.

THE DUSTY SPRINGFIELD STORY FEAT: WENDY STAPLETON Kingston

Cbd. 4pm.

CHILADELPHIA FRIDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS New Guernica, Melbourne DARK CIRCUS III - FEAT: SPACEY SPACE + SHORT ROUND + MADELEINE + ELIZA BRAYSHAW + MORE Brown

Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm. $22.

THE PRETTY THINGS + THE LIVING EYES + BANANAGUN Tote Hotel,

Melbourne Cbd. 10pm.

THE ROBBIE WILLIAMS EXPERIENCE

Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9pm.

Collingwood. 8pm. $59.90.

PRECOG - FEAT: SONIA CALICO + ENDERIE + MORGAN WRIGHT + R. REBEIRO + MERVE + DJ ALI + KENDOJUBAKI Hugs & Kisses,

forever renter

AMOSS + LA-TO + QONTENT + SERA MARIE + ZEMLA Grumpy's Green, Fitzroy.

$20.

City Hall, Moorabbin. 8pm. $27.

THE HERE HERE'S Transit, Melbourne Cbd. 7pm.

Melbourne Cbd. 8pm.

Melbourne’s 2 Inch Tape will launch their third album Apollo at Swamplands on Friday October 12. The alt-folk, blues and rock-infused act released album single ‘Canadian Princess’ in August to a stack of community radio acclaim, so the full album is looking to be a treat. Fellow locals Crumb will join as support from 7pm and entry is free.

THE DIZZY KIDS + THIRD ESTATE + THE LOVE FISH Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick

East. 8pm. $10.

Brunswick. 2pm. $50.

PEST KONTROL - FEAT: SCOTTY PESTICIDE + CHAD MARTIN + KAYA KALPA + MICKEY EDWARDS Boney,

Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 7:30pm. $29.60.

8pm. $30.

Centre, Southbank. 7:30pm. $59.

GRAVEL PIT + YOUNG DEATH + UBOA + NO-FI Catfish, Fitzroy. 8pm. $10.

HICOOKER Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm.

LET’S TALK ABOUT IT - FEAT: EXQ + NUTTY O DI BWOY Rubix Warehouse,

Pizza, Brunswick East. 8pm. $5.

ROY AYERS Bird's Basement, Melbourne.

8:15pm. $60.

TEK TEK ENSEMBLE Open Studio, Northcote. 9pm.

THE B# BIG BAND Furlan Club, Thornbury. 7pm. $25.

THE SHARNY RUSSELL QUARTET Lido Jazz Room, Hawthorn. 8pm. $25.

THE STEVE BARRY TRIO Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

THE STRING CONTINGENT Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. $30.

OSCAR SINGS CHET SINGS Compass

PUBLIC LIABILITY + BEACONS + HUMAN RITES + NORTHWOOD

RACK JONES + SKY ROLLER + HOT GLUE Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.

RICHARD CLAPTON + FREYA JOSEPHINE HOLLICK Melbourne Recital

GAS - FEAT: DJ VIXEN + DJ JAMM Red

Betty, Brunswick. 7pm.

9:15pm. $28.89.

Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm. $32.50.

VIVIAN SESSOMS Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $35.

Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8pm. $10.

Club, Melbourne Cbd. 5pm.

Melbourne. 10pm.

PSYCHEDELIC PORN CRUMPETS + SOUTHERN RIVER BAND + PSYCHOBABEL Corner Hotel, Richmond.

8:30pm.

FRIDAYS - FEAT: WARSAWYER + CLIFTONIA + BEN & LIL + MORE Carlton

ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM Carlton Club, FORMATION - FEAT: DONNY + MORE

ALISTER TURRILL Edinburgh Castle,

Brunswick. 5pm.

Collingwood. 8pm. $10.

9pm.

Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 4pm. $15.

ED HAWKE - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS + ALLIPHA + PETRO Revolver Upstairs,

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Prahran. 7pm. $12.92.

EGOISM + SKETCH JETS + THE OVERHEADS + THE NEW DREGS Yarra

Hotel, Abbotsford. 8pm. $10.

ESSIE HOLT Yah Yah's, Fitzroy. 8pm.

GRADUAL The Skylark Room, Upwey.

6pm.

HOLY SMOKE 2018 - FEAT: BURIED FEATHER + AVER + ZONG + TURTLE SKULL + BORRACHERO + MORE

Bronze

Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 5pm. $20.

I’M NOT OKAY - EMO PARTY - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Royal Melbourne

Bronze The B. East

Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm. $5.

Local alt-rock outfit Bronze are geared to launch their debut EP The Razorback Five Track at The B.East on Saturday October 13. Odd Souls and King Capture will offer support and it’s all set to kick off from 9pm.

Entry is free.

KEGGIN + ALL HOPE REMAINS + SWAYZE + SLAB KNACKERS (MC)

Soft Power Compass Pizza Melbourne instrumental trio Soft Power are set to roll into Compass Pizza on Saturday October 13. Blurring the lines between jazz and rock, the band released their debut album A Breath Is Like A Swinging Door in 2017 to a sold out launch, and are now back with their follow up, Easy Listening. Pigeon Presents will join as support from 8pm and entry is $10 on the door.

Social Skills + more Bar 303 Head to Bar 303 on Saturday October 13 and you’ll find yourself amongst a mammoth night of local punk rock. The likes of Social Skills, The Devours and The Beggars’ Way will helm the stage, and you can catch it all from 7.30pm. Grab your entry for an easy fiver on the door, what’s more to love?

Thrash Till Death The Bendigo Hotel A blistering lineup of thrash, death and metal acts are slated to come into The Bendi this Sunday October 14. Gear up for the likes of Violent Disorder, Wake The Blind, Hand of Fear, KYLL and Dread The Winter, who’ll be taking over the venue from 6pm. Tickets are $10 on the door.

JUICE WEBSTER, LEAH EDMOND +

Tramway Hotel, North Fitzroy. 4pm.

Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $9.23.

LINDA Spotted Mallard, Brunswick.

8:45pm. $15.

LITTLE MURDERS + THE HIGH GEARS

Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 4pm.

MADELINE LEMAN & THE DESERT SWELLS, ZOË FOX & THE ROCKET CLOCKS Fitzroy Pinnacle, Fitzroy

North. 5pm.

MAMMA JAM Royal Hotel (essendon),

Essendon. 10:30pm.

MONNONE ALONE + COOL SOUNDS + WAY DYNAMIC Gasometer Hotel,

Collingwood. 8pm. $10.

Kyle Brew Charles Weston Local young-gun singer-songwriter Kyle Brew will play Charles Weston on Sunday October 14. Fresh from releasing his debut EP Hangover Day, the bluesy-folk artist with a rich voice beyond his years is sure to be a gorgeous Sunday afternoon treat.

Kicks off at 4pm and entry is free.

Fleetwood’s Back The Curtin Melbourne’s premier Fleetwood Mac cover duo, Fleetwood’s Back will play The Curtin front bar this Sunday October 14. Playing Fleetwood Mac’s epic 1977 album Rumours in full, this is shaping to be an absolute ripper. DJ Chimpman and DJ Jimmy from the Block will also be on hand during the afternoon, which will kick off at 3pm.

Entry is free.

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JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC AMARU TRIBE + RANDY CASTILLA

Open Studio, Northcote. 9pm. $12.

ARTHUR PENN & THE FUNKY TEN + ELLE SHIMADA + BRENDA Gasometer

Hotel, Collingwood. 4pm. $10.20.

BLOSSOM DEARIE & NANCY WILSON TRIBUTE - FEAT: SHARNY RUSSELL + NADIRA FARID Paris Cat Jazz Club,

Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. $30.

DAMIEN ELLIS QUARTET Bar Open, Fitzroy. 6:30pm.

KATTIMONI + THE MAMAS Night Cat, Fitzroy. 10pm. $5.

MAYA + JORDAN FROMCOLOGNE + ALEJANDRO ADAMS + APU Pause Bar,

Balaclava. 8pm.

NATASHA WEATHERILL QUARTET Lido

SUCKLEY + RICHARD DURAND + MARK SHERRY + JAMES DYMOND Festival

Hall, West Melbourne. 6pm. $123.14.

PAWN SATURDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Pawn & Co, South Yarra. 7pm.

$20.

PONY SATURDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 10pm.

RISE & SHINE - FEAT: SUNSHINE + VARIOUS ARTISTS Revolver Upstairs,

Prahran. 12:00am.

S.A.M Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 11pm. $12.

SATURDAYS - FEAT: DJ KISTA + DJ BETH GRACE + DJ DEMIZE + VARIOUS DJS Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm.

SATURDAYS @ YOURS & MINE - FEAT: LOURE + PROJECT 95 + MORE Yours &

Mine, Carlton. 10pm. $15.

SELVA BASS - FEAT: CUMBIA MASSIVE + GABRIELA GONZALEZ + DJ TAHNIOCA CUMBIERA + DJ SACA LA MOIS + SONIDERO ESPERANZA Horse

Bazaar, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm.

Jazz Room, Hawthorn. 8pm. $25.

NIASHA Belleville, Melbourne. 11pm.

ROY AYERS Bird's Basement, Melbourne.

8:15pm. $60.

SNACK ATTACK WITH DJ 2P Elephant &

8pm. $24.19.

Red Betty, Brunswick. 6pm.

Wheelbarrow, Melbourne. 10pm.

SEX ON TOAST + PAPAYA TREE + SANNIA + JAMILLA Howler, Brunswick.

SOOKI SATURDAYS - FEAT: UONE + RETZA Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 6pm. $10.

SYSTEM 32 - FEAT: DAVE PHAM + EMMYMAIE + DALE LORD + DORKE

SEX ON TOAST (DJ SET) Yah Yah's,

TOFF CLUB - FEAT: LORD HANS DC

$10.

Fitzroy. 11:45pm.

TANGENTS The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8pm. $30.

THANDO Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $35.

THE JACKSON FOUR Jasper's Jazz Bar, Melbourne. 9pm.

Office Hotel, Coburg. 9pm.

RIFLEBIRDS Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 8pm.

Kilda . 8pm.

THE MARK FITZGIBBON TRIO Uptown

APPALACHIAN HEAVEN STRINGBAND + KIMBERLEY WHEELER + ROADSIDE HOLIDAY Open Studio, Northcote. 2:30pm.

BACKWOOD CREATURES Rainbow

Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm.

THE NARDIA ROSE BAND Drunken

CEILI ALL STARS Drunken Poet, West

NOUGHTS + MESA COSA + DRAGOONS Tote Hotel, Collingwood.

5pm.

PISTOL PEACHES + LAZERTITS + MEAT + GIRL GERMS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

REAL LOVE + PAINTED ANGELS Post

ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER + BODY TYPE + LOOBS Corner

RON S. PENO & THE SUPERSTITIONS + MICK TURNER Northcote Social Club,

Northcote. 1:30pm. $20.

SHRIMPWITCH, HEARTS & ROCKETS + LUBULWA + SPIRAL PERM + DJ SIK BROWN 420 Tote Hotel, Collingwood.

8pm. $10.

SISTER SISTER Royal Hotel (mornington),

Mornington. 8pm.

SOFT POWER Compass Pizza, Brunswick

East. 8pm. $10.

SPANK - BURN IT UP MEGA DANCEPARTY - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS

Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 9pm. $35.

STRAWBERRY FIST CAKE + AUSTRALIAN KINGSWOOD FACTORY + UDDER UBDUCTEES + THE CLINCH + SEVEN MARGARITAS + TIMSTRNG

Bombay Rock, Brunswick. 6pm.

Kyle Brew

Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 8pm. $12.

SWAZI GOLD + KAIPORA + TERRIBLE SIGNAL Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5.

THE BEGGARS WAY + SOCIAL SKILLS + THE DEVOURS + LEMON DAZE 303,

Northcote. 7:30pm. $5.

THE DETONATORS Baha Tacos & Tapas Bar, Rye. 9pm. $10.

THE EAGLES STORY + LEAH CARTER DUO Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $26.05.

THE UGLY KINGS Cherry Bar, Melbourne

Cbd. 1pm.

THE KING LOUIE COLLECTIVE + PPB LATE NIGHT DJS Prince Public Bar, St

Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

Poet, West Melbourne. 9pm.

THE REFUGEES Open Studio, Northcote.

5:30pm.

THE ROOKIES The Jazzlab, Brunswick.

11pm.

THE SHUFFLE CLUB Transit, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm.

VARDOS The Famous Spiegeltent, Cbd. 6pm. $30.

WALKING IN MEMPHIS - FEAT: GREG GOULD Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne

Cbd. 9pm.

YID! Memo Music Hall, St Kilda. 7:30pm.

$30.

HOUSE, ELECTRO, TRANCE & CLUB NIGHTS AMASTRO + NUSSY + EVANGELINE

Penny Black, Brunswick. 8pm.

BEGINNINGS - FEAT: FUTURE PROSPECTS Grumpy's Green, Fitzroy.

7pm.

DISCOTEP - FEAT: SPIN CLUB

Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 9pm. $10.

DJ ERNIE DEE Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 9pm.

EAT THE BEAT - FEAT: CHRISS MATTO + ETWAS + MATTEO FREYRIE + KARL BRADY + ROBBIE RYAN + MORE New

TIA GOSTELOW + ALEXANDER BIGGS + NANCIE SCHIPPER Northcote Social

Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 10pm. $10.

TRIPLE KILL + TRIGGER + BEAST IMPALOR + THE ASCENDED Evelyn

Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7pm.

JANK FACQUES Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 11:45pm.

Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $15.

Hotel, Fitzroy. 8pm. $15.

TUMBLEWEED Pelly Bar, Frankston. 8pm.

$34.70.

WHITE NIGHT - FREE MUSIC - FEAT: NOAH VERNON + ZUMA + HIDDENITE + THE GRIMWOODS + MOMOKO ROSE + ISABELLA KAHLIFE Workers

Club (geelong), Geelong. 6pm.

WHOLE LOTTA ROSIE + DAXX NIELSEN Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd.

8pm. $25.

YEAH NAHHH + FOLEY + SIAMESE + FOXTROT + WORLD SICK Last Chance

HOUSE OF FRIENDS - FEAT: DOMINGO JONES + GIN MENDOZA + ORIGIN AL

LASER HIGHWAY - FEAT: DEDDERZ + FUTURE FATE + GIGAVOLT + ZEROTONINE Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm.

LIVING ROOM FESTIVAL 2018 - FEAT: OCTAVE ONE + PAUL WOOLFORD + EJECTA + ENZO SIRAGUSA + BOOGS + MORE Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm.

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MYTHOLOGY - FEAT: DJ-RMR + JUICY ROMANCE + LOVE DELUXE + POST PERCY Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm.

OUTPUT - FEAT: ALY & FILA + JORDAN

Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11pm.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/ BLUES/FOLK ANDREW SWANN Transit, Melbourne

Cbd. 5pm.

Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:30pm.

Melbourne. 3pm.

CHAIN Caravan Music Club, Bentleigh

East. 8pm. $28.

FEATHERHEAD Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.

JEFF LANG Piping Hot Chicken & Burger Grill, Ocean Grove. 7:30pm. $20.

KAV TEMPERLEY + KRUGER JAMES Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7pm. $28.80.

LUKE YEOWARD Gem Bar, Collingwood.

7pm.

MAJA Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6pm.

MAYHEM Charles Weston Hotel, Brunswick. 6:30pm.

MOONEE VALLEY DRIFTERS Panton Hill Hotel, Panton Hill. 8pm.

NILS FRAHM Hamer Hall (arts Centre Melbourne), Southbank. 7pm. $99.

OUT ON THE WEEKEND - FEAT: MARGO PRICE + WAGONS + TONY JOE WHITE + WILLIE WATSON + COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS + MORE

Seaworks, Williamstown. 12:00am. $119.

THE SWAMP STOMPERS + CREEK + ZENITH MOON Catfish, Fitzroy. 8pm. $10.

THE WAIFS Westernport Hotel, San Remo.

8:30pm.

TJ PATRICK + MORE Wesley Anne,

Northcote. 8pm. $10.

VAN WALKER TRIO Union Hotel (brunswick), Brunswick. 5pm.

Sunday 14 Oct INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS 130 + WROCLAW + FIVEFOURS

Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 2pm. $5.

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Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 5pm. $20.

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Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm. $5.

Local alt-rock outfit Bronze are geared to launch their debut EP The Razorback Five Track at The B.East on Saturday October 13. Odd Souls and King Capture will offer support and it’s all set to kick off from 9pm.

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Soft Power Compass Pizza Melbourne instrumental trio Soft Power are set to roll into Compass Pizza on Saturday October 13. Blurring the lines between jazz and rock, the band released their debut album A Breath Is Like A Swinging Door in 2017 to a sold out launch, and are now back with their follow up, Easy Listening. Pigeon Presents will join as support from 8pm and entry is $10 on the door.

Social Skills + more Bar 303 Head to Bar 303 on Saturday October 13 and you’ll find yourself amongst a mammoth night of local punk rock. The likes of Social Skills, The Devours and The Beggars’ Way will helm the stage, and you can catch it all from 7.30pm. Grab your entry for an easy fiver on the door, what’s more to love?

Thrash Till Death The Bendigo Hotel A blistering lineup of thrash, death and metal acts are slated to come into The Bendi this Sunday October 14. Gear up for the likes of Violent Disorder, Wake The Blind, Hand of Fear, KYLL and Dread The Winter, who’ll be taking over the venue from 6pm. Tickets are $10 on the door.

JUICE WEBSTER, LEAH EDMOND +

Tramway Hotel, North Fitzroy. 4pm.

Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $9.23.

LINDA Spotted Mallard, Brunswick.

8:45pm. $15.

LITTLE MURDERS + THE HIGH GEARS

Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 4pm.

MADELINE LEMAN & THE DESERT SWELLS, ZOË FOX & THE ROCKET CLOCKS Fitzroy Pinnacle, Fitzroy

North. 5pm.

MAMMA JAM Royal Hotel (essendon),

Essendon. 10:30pm.

MONNONE ALONE + COOL SOUNDS + WAY DYNAMIC Gasometer Hotel,

Collingwood. 8pm. $10.

Kyle Brew Charles Weston Local young-gun singer-songwriter Kyle Brew will play Charles Weston on Sunday October 14. Fresh from releasing his debut EP Hangover Day, the bluesy-folk artist with a rich voice beyond his years is sure to be a gorgeous Sunday afternoon treat.

Kicks off at 4pm and entry is free.

Fleetwood’s Back The Curtin Melbourne’s premier Fleetwood Mac cover duo, Fleetwood’s Back will play The Curtin front bar this Sunday October 14. Playing Fleetwood Mac’s epic 1977 album Rumours in full, this is shaping to be an absolute ripper. DJ Chimpman and DJ Jimmy from the Block will also be on hand during the afternoon, which will kick off at 3pm.

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Hotel, Collingwood. 4pm. $10.20.

BLOSSOM DEARIE & NANCY WILSON TRIBUTE - FEAT: SHARNY RUSSELL + NADIRA FARID Paris Cat Jazz Club,

Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. $30.

DAMIEN ELLIS QUARTET Bar Open, Fitzroy. 6:30pm.

KATTIMONI + THE MAMAS Night Cat, Fitzroy. 10pm. $5.

MAYA + JORDAN FROMCOLOGNE + ALEJANDRO ADAMS + APU Pause Bar,

Balaclava. 8pm.

NATASHA WEATHERILL QUARTET Lido

SUCKLEY + RICHARD DURAND + MARK SHERRY + JAMES DYMOND Festival

Hall, West Melbourne. 6pm. $123.14.

PAWN SATURDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Pawn & Co, South Yarra. 7pm.

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PONY SATURDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 10pm.

RISE & SHINE - FEAT: SUNSHINE + VARIOUS ARTISTS Revolver Upstairs,

Prahran. 12:00am.

S.A.M Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 11pm. $12.

SATURDAYS - FEAT: DJ KISTA + DJ BETH GRACE + DJ DEMIZE + VARIOUS DJS Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm.

SATURDAYS @ YOURS & MINE - FEAT: LOURE + PROJECT 95 + MORE Yours &

Mine, Carlton. 10pm. $15.

SELVA BASS - FEAT: CUMBIA MASSIVE + GABRIELA GONZALEZ + DJ TAHNIOCA CUMBIERA + DJ SACA LA MOIS + SONIDERO ESPERANZA Horse

Bazaar, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm.

Jazz Room, Hawthorn. 8pm. $25.

NIASHA Belleville, Melbourne. 11pm.

ROY AYERS Bird's Basement, Melbourne.

8:15pm. $60.

SNACK ATTACK WITH DJ 2P Elephant &

8pm. $24.19.

Red Betty, Brunswick. 6pm.

Wheelbarrow, Melbourne. 10pm.

SEX ON TOAST + PAPAYA TREE + SANNIA + JAMILLA Howler, Brunswick.

SOOKI SATURDAYS - FEAT: UONE + RETZA Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 6pm. $10.

SYSTEM 32 - FEAT: DAVE PHAM + EMMYMAIE + DALE LORD + DORKE

SEX ON TOAST (DJ SET) Yah Yah's,

TOFF CLUB - FEAT: LORD HANS DC

$10.

Fitzroy. 11:45pm.

TANGENTS The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8pm. $30.

THANDO Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $35.

THE JACKSON FOUR Jasper's Jazz Bar, Melbourne. 9pm.

Office Hotel, Coburg. 9pm.

RIFLEBIRDS Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 8pm.

Kilda . 8pm.

THE MARK FITZGIBBON TRIO Uptown

APPALACHIAN HEAVEN STRINGBAND + KIMBERLEY WHEELER + ROADSIDE HOLIDAY Open Studio, Northcote. 2:30pm.

BACKWOOD CREATURES Rainbow

Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm.

THE NARDIA ROSE BAND Drunken

CEILI ALL STARS Drunken Poet, West

NOUGHTS + MESA COSA + DRAGOONS Tote Hotel, Collingwood.

5pm.

PISTOL PEACHES + LAZERTITS + MEAT + GIRL GERMS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

REAL LOVE + PAINTED ANGELS Post

ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER + BODY TYPE + LOOBS Corner

RON S. PENO & THE SUPERSTITIONS + MICK TURNER Northcote Social Club,

Northcote. 1:30pm. $20.

SHRIMPWITCH, HEARTS & ROCKETS + LUBULWA + SPIRAL PERM + DJ SIK BROWN 420 Tote Hotel, Collingwood.

8pm. $10.

SISTER SISTER Royal Hotel (mornington),

Mornington. 8pm.

SOFT POWER Compass Pizza, Brunswick

East. 8pm. $10.

SPANK - BURN IT UP MEGA DANCEPARTY - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS

Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 9pm. $35.

STRAWBERRY FIST CAKE + AUSTRALIAN KINGSWOOD FACTORY + UDDER UBDUCTEES + THE CLINCH + SEVEN MARGARITAS + TIMSTRNG

Bombay Rock, Brunswick. 6pm.

Kyle Brew

Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 8pm. $12.

SWAZI GOLD + KAIPORA + TERRIBLE SIGNAL Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5.

THE BEGGARS WAY + SOCIAL SKILLS + THE DEVOURS + LEMON DAZE 303,

Northcote. 7:30pm. $5.

THE DETONATORS Baha Tacos & Tapas Bar, Rye. 9pm. $10.

THE EAGLES STORY + LEAH CARTER DUO Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $26.05.

THE UGLY KINGS Cherry Bar, Melbourne

Cbd. 1pm.

THE KING LOUIE COLLECTIVE + PPB LATE NIGHT DJS Prince Public Bar, St

Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

Poet, West Melbourne. 9pm.

THE REFUGEES Open Studio, Northcote.

5:30pm.

THE ROOKIES The Jazzlab, Brunswick.

11pm.

THE SHUFFLE CLUB Transit, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm.

VARDOS The Famous Spiegeltent, Cbd. 6pm. $30.

WALKING IN MEMPHIS - FEAT: GREG GOULD Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne

Cbd. 9pm.

YID! Memo Music Hall, St Kilda. 7:30pm.

$30.

HOUSE, ELECTRO, TRANCE & CLUB NIGHTS AMASTRO + NUSSY + EVANGELINE

Penny Black, Brunswick. 8pm.

BEGINNINGS - FEAT: FUTURE PROSPECTS Grumpy's Green, Fitzroy.

7pm.

DISCOTEP - FEAT: SPIN CLUB

Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 9pm. $10.

DJ ERNIE DEE Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 9pm.

EAT THE BEAT - FEAT: CHRISS MATTO + ETWAS + MATTEO FREYRIE + KARL BRADY + ROBBIE RYAN + MORE New

TIA GOSTELOW + ALEXANDER BIGGS + NANCIE SCHIPPER Northcote Social

Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 10pm. $10.

TRIPLE KILL + TRIGGER + BEAST IMPALOR + THE ASCENDED Evelyn

Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7pm.

JANK FACQUES Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 11:45pm.

Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $15.

Hotel, Fitzroy. 8pm. $15.

TUMBLEWEED Pelly Bar, Frankston. 8pm.

$34.70.

WHITE NIGHT - FREE MUSIC - FEAT: NOAH VERNON + ZUMA + HIDDENITE + THE GRIMWOODS + MOMOKO ROSE + ISABELLA KAHLIFE Workers

Club (geelong), Geelong. 6pm.

WHOLE LOTTA ROSIE + DAXX NIELSEN Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd.

8pm. $25.

YEAH NAHHH + FOLEY + SIAMESE + FOXTROT + WORLD SICK Last Chance

HOUSE OF FRIENDS - FEAT: DOMINGO JONES + GIN MENDOZA + ORIGIN AL

LASER HIGHWAY - FEAT: DEDDERZ + FUTURE FATE + GIGAVOLT + ZEROTONINE Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm.

LIVING ROOM FESTIVAL 2018 - FEAT: OCTAVE ONE + PAUL WOOLFORD + EJECTA + ENZO SIRAGUSA + BOOGS + MORE Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm.

$55.

MYTHOLOGY - FEAT: DJ-RMR + JUICY ROMANCE + LOVE DELUXE + POST PERCY Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm.

OUTPUT - FEAT: ALY & FILA + JORDAN

Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11pm.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/ BLUES/FOLK ANDREW SWANN Transit, Melbourne

Cbd. 5pm.

Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:30pm.

Melbourne. 3pm.

CHAIN Caravan Music Club, Bentleigh

East. 8pm. $28.

FEATHERHEAD Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.

JEFF LANG Piping Hot Chicken & Burger Grill, Ocean Grove. 7:30pm. $20.

KAV TEMPERLEY + KRUGER JAMES Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7pm. $28.80.

LUKE YEOWARD Gem Bar, Collingwood.

7pm.

MAJA Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6pm.

MAYHEM Charles Weston Hotel, Brunswick. 6:30pm.

MOONEE VALLEY DRIFTERS Panton Hill Hotel, Panton Hill. 8pm.

NILS FRAHM Hamer Hall (arts Centre Melbourne), Southbank. 7pm. $99.

OUT ON THE WEEKEND - FEAT: MARGO PRICE + WAGONS + TONY JOE WHITE + WILLIE WATSON + COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS + MORE

Seaworks, Williamstown. 12:00am. $119.

THE SWAMP STOMPERS + CREEK + ZENITH MOON Catfish, Fitzroy. 8pm. $10.

THE WAIFS Westernport Hotel, San Remo.

8:30pm.

TJ PATRICK + MORE Wesley Anne,

Northcote. 8pm. $10.

VAN WALKER TRIO Union Hotel (brunswick), Brunswick. 5pm.

Sunday 14 Oct INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS 130 + WROCLAW + FIVEFOURS

Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 2pm. $5.

CITY OF UNION + SEAN LEE MCCOY

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