veri.live issue 11 7” vinyl split
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publisher Zo Gay editors S ean Gleeson and Sandra Goldbloom Zurbo proofreader S andra Goldbloom Zurbo contributing writers Billy Geary, Dave Drayton, David Hennessey, Jervis Dean, John Dean, Joshua Kloke, Pete Williamson, Raul Sanchez, Stephen White, Tal Wallace contributing photographers Daniel Marsh, Richard Sharman inhouse photographer Zo Gay typeset and design Damage Design vinyl United Record Pressing printer Print Graphics enquiries info@verilive.com.au distribution Fairfax | IPS, Eight Point Distribution and veri.live veri.live vinyl Curated and pressed by veri.live, the veri.7s (veri.live 7” vinyl splits) present official pressings of tracks from some of the most influential artist in the world. Considered as content the veri.7s feature each artist in their own right. It is due to the independent participation of each artist featured on the veri.7s that we are able to bring you unique track and artist combinations. A veri.live vinyl is released with each edition of the magazine and is exclusively available with veri.live print publication. veri.live vinyl is part of veri.live magazine and may not be sold, traded or given away separately. Vinyl is exclusively available in veri.live printed editions only. veri.live publication and its entire contents, including print, electronic and online material, are protected by the Copyright Act of Australia. veri.live is owned and published by Versus Hub Pty Ltd. No use or reprint may be made of or from any part therein without prior and formal written consent from Versus Hub Pty Ltd. Views expressed in veri.live are those of the contributors and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the publisher, publication or its staff. veri.live name and logo is a registered trademark. veri.live digital editions are a reproduction of veri.live print magazine featuring bonus photographic content and modified layouts, including colour application to some features. cover Beck – Harvest Festival Melbourne photo Z o Gay veri.live PO Box 721 North Melbourne Victoria 3051 info@verilive.com.au www.verilive.com.au ABN 27 150 205 897
contents letter from the publisher
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live reviews Hedgehog 16 Chelsea Wolfe 39 Them Bruins 42 Thurston Moore 44 The Black Keys 68 photographer gig highlight Violent Soho
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interviews Tex Perkins Tex Perkins & The Dark Horses 20 Gary Clark Jr 22 Jim Jones The Jim Jones Revue 26 Skye Bird Devil’s Kitchen 28 Peter Holmström The Dandy Warhols 72 Devil’s Brood 76 veri.live catches up with a handful of the Devil’s brood playing the Devil’s Kitchen 2013 line-up. Jeff Martin The Tea Party 78 special features Harvest Festival Rock Against Bullshit
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regular features flow — visual art by the artists Ray Ahn Hard-Ons 50 snap — photographer’s choice Cassandra Hannagan
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new release reviews
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Radiohead Photo: Zo Gay
letter from the publisher Sporting a new look cover and the first live track to feature on the veri.live 7” vinyl with The Tea Party’s ‘Fire In The Head’ recorded live at the Hordern Pavilion on their most recent Australian tour, along with a host of live reviews and interviews, FLOW featured visual artist Ray Ahn (Hard-Ons) and SNAP feature photographer Cassandra Hannagan and much more, I hope you enjoy this, the eleventh edition of veri.live. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support thoughout 2012, welcome new readers, and wish you all a happy and safe festive season. Zo Gay Publisher – veri.live
Hedgehog  Photo: Daniel Marsh
Gary Clark Jr Photo: Zo Gay
gary clark jr Hailing from Austin, Texas, this ripping blues player is more than just the new kid on the block. Twenty-eight year old Clark, the hottest ticket in town, fuses his own blend of blues, rock and soul.
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Chainsaw Hookers  Photo: Zo Gay
devil’s kitchen Going off across the country, eschewing the standard festival season and gathering local artists and fans together without us having to break our bank accounts, mini festivals are one of the best reasons to spend up to 12 hours in a pub.
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harvest Werribee Park 1 1 November 2012
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flow
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ray ahn hard-ons
Ross The Boss Takes A Holiday Ray Ahn
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new release
reviews
White + White +
Death Grips
The Gar
Tenzenmen
NO LOVE DEEP WEB Independent Release
The City Of Burning Identities EP Maybe Mars | Tenzenmen
Born from the No Beijing movement,
Death Grips apparently leaked this
Way back before MySpace, emo wasn’t
two-piece White+ craft tunes from
album because their label wasn’t going
a dirty word; it denoted the kind of
customised keyboards, pedals and loop
to release it until “sometime next year”,
affably awkward, introspective, slightly
stations set against a backdrop of live
which immediately begs the question:
noodly sounds dominating America’s
drums and programmed beats. Coming
Was this a major act of label defiance
midwest in the 1990s. Hailing from
out of a series of White experiments – a
or a publicity stunt?
Beijing, The Gar’s latest EP harks back
guitar sextet called the White Ensemble
NO LOVE DEEP WEB comes only six
to those days.
months after their awesome debut,
Bar a melancholy, summery intro that
The Money Store. Atop the complex
blends seamlessly into ‘Love Will Lost
and resourceful layers of hypnotic
Your Love’, there’s nary a song in sight
beats and electronics stands one man,
shorter than the four-minute mark. The
Each track takes as its name a colour.
the confounding punk-rock ODB,
trio work the clean and warm– anguished
There’s ‘Black’, an oddly soothing, office-
Stefan Burnett. Burnett’s paranoid free
and distorted dynamic well, building to
like cacophony, ‘Purple’, a pentatonic
association jumps from Edgar Allan
crushing denouements on the likes of
ditty turned fuzzed-out carnival,
Poe (‘Stockton’) to peacocks (‘Artificial
‘Love …’, ‘June’ and ‘Train’.
‘Blue’, awash over tireless drums and,
Death in the West’), the Halls of Amenti
reminiscent of Die! Die! Die!’s more
(‘Black Dice’) and the Fukushima
If you enjoy bands such as Mineral
melodic leanings, ‘Yellow’, euphoric and
nuclear disaster (‘Bass Rattle Stars Out
dreamy, driven by the incessant blat of a
the Sky’). Were we to ask him what
programmed snare. Each moves along,
any of this means he’d likely quote
fragmented but engrossing.
‘No Love’: “You ain’t got no business
White+ makes a strong case for itself and
questioning a thing.”
demands you listen.
Jervis Dean
and a two-piece rock act called White 2j – helmed by one half of the current formation, Shouwang, this self-titled debut album is suitably experimental.
Dave Drayton
or locals such as Quiet Steps, there’s something here for you. I for one eagerly await what a full-length release from the rejuvenated line-up will produce. The City Of Burning Identities is scheduled for release in late December. Dave Drayton
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The Black Keys Photo: Zo Gay
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