Tuesday 30 June 2009

Best Albums of 2009 (So Far)

Here's what I've been listening to and liking so this year.

1. Eels - Hombre Lobo
Key Tracks: "Fresh Blood", "Tremendous Dynamite", "That Look You Give That Guy", "Prizefighter", "In My Dreams",

2. Doves - Kingdom of Rust
Key Tracks: "Compulsion", "Kingdom of Rust", "Jetstream", "Winter Hill", "Spellbound".

3. Gomez - A New Tide
Key Tracks: "Airstream Driver", "Natural Reaction", "Little Pieces", "Lost Track", "Other Plans"

4. Kram - Mixtape
Key Tracks: "Silk Suits", "Ridin' High", "Satellite", "Burnin Sands"

5. Kasabian - The West Rider Pauper Lunatic
Key Tracks: "Underdog", "Fast Fuse", "Vlad the Imapler", "Fire"

6. Silversun Pickups - Swoon
Key Tracks: "Panic Switch", "There's No Secrets This Year", "Sort Of", "Surrounded"

7. Ben Harper and Relentless7 - White Lies for Dark Times
Key Tracks: "Number With No Name", "Keep it Together", "Boots Like These", "Shimmer and Shine"

8. The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
Key Tracks: "The Rake's Song", "The Wanting Comes in Waves/Repaid", "Annan Water",

9. The Mars Volta - Octahedron
Key Tracks: "Cotopaxi", "With Twilight As My Guide", "Teflon", "Halo Of Nembutals"

10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Its Blitz!
Key Tracks: "Heads Will Roll", "Shame and Fortune", "Zero", "Soft Shock"

11. Lady of the Sunshine - Smoking Gun
Key Tracks: "White Rose Parade", "The Wolf", "Kings Black Magic", "Smoking Gun"

12. Dan Auerbach - Keep it Hid
Key Tracks: "I Wan't Some More", Street Walkin'", "The Prowl", "Trouble Weighs a Ton

13. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Key Tracks: "Two Weeks", "Foreground", "Fine for Now", "Southern Point"

14. Bob Evans - Goodnight, Bull Creek!
Key Tracks: "Pasha Balker", "Someone So Much", Hand Me Downs", "Brother O Brother"

15. The Temper Trap - Conditions
Key tracks: "Sweet Disposition", "Science of Fear", "Love Lost", "Fader"

16. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish I Were an Eagle
Key Tracks: "Eid Ma Clack Shaw", "Faith/Void", "Too Many Birds", "Jim McCain"

17. Franz Ferdinand - Tonight
Key Tracks: "Ulysees", "Turn it On", "No You Girls", "Twilight Owens"

18. Peaches - I Feel Cream
"Talk To Me", "Trick or Treat", "Serpentine", "I Feel Cream"

19. Wilco - Wilco (the Album)
Key Tracks: "Wilco (The Song)", "One Wing", "You and I (feat Feist)", "I'll Fight"

20. Eskimo Joe - Inshalla
"Foreign Land", "Losing Friends Over Love", "Childhood Behaviour", "Inshalla"

21. Placebo - Battle for the Sun
Key Tracks: "For What it's Worth", "Battle for the Sun", "Ashtray Heart"

22. Regina Spektor - Far
Key Tracks: "Laughing With", "Blue Lips", "Machine", "Dance Anthem of the 80's"

23. Daniel Merriweather - Love & War
Key Tracks: "Change", "Chainsaw", "For Your Money", "Giving Everything Away For Free"

24. The Lemonheads - Vashions
Key Tracks: "Dirty Robot (feat Kate Moss)", "Yesterlove", "Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye (feat Liv Tyler)", "Waiting Around to Die"

25. Little Birdy - Confetti
Key Tracks: "Summarize", "Brother (feat Paul Kelly)", "Crazy", "Run Run Run"

Most Played Albums From Past 6 months (Last FM)
1 Gomez – A New Tide - 171
2 Kram – Mix Tape - 130
3 Eels – Hombre Lobo - 130
4 Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid - 129
5 Lady Of The Sunshine – Smoking Gun - 126
6 Gomez – How We Operate - 120
7 Doves – Kingdom of Rust - 118
8 The Black Keys – Attack and Release - 117
9 Mason Jennings – Boneclouds - 113
10 Ben Harper – Fight for Your Mind -106
11 Dan Auerbach – Keep It Hid -105
11 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It's Blitz! -105
13 You Am I – Hi Fi Way -98
14 Bob Evans – Goodnight, Bull Creek! -97
15 TV on the Radio – Dear Science, -93
16 You Am I – Dilettantes-92
17 Mat McHugh – Seperatista! -92
18 The Arcade Fire – Neon Bible -88
19 Ben Harper and Relentless7 – White Lies For Dark Times -88
20 Dr. Dog – Fate - 87

Most Played Artists From Past 6 months (Last FM)
1 Gomez - 451
2 Elbow - 267
3 You Am I -259
4 Doves -240
5 Eels -237
6 Mason Jennings -227
7 The Black Keys -211
8 Ben Harper -194
9 The Beautiful Girls -140
10 Kram -133
11 Ween -132
11 Arcade Fire -132
13 Yeah Yeah Yeahs -128
14 Lady Of The Sunshine -127
15 TV on the Radio -125
16 The Kills -113
17 Elliott Smith -109
18 Silversun Pickups -107
19 Bob Evans -106
20 Dan Auerbach -105

Most Played Songs From Past 6 months (Last FM)
1 Elbow – Grounds for Divorce - 33
2 The Kills – Cheap and Cheerful - 33
3 Gomez – Airstream Driver - 32
4 Ben Harper and Relentless7 – Number With No Name - 30
5 AC/DC – Ride On - 29
6 Bill Callahan – Eid Ma Clack Shaw - 28
7 Dan Auerbach – I Want Some More - 28
8 Kram – Silk Suits - 27
9 The Black Keys – Strange Times - 27
10 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Zero - 26
11 Tame Impala – Half Full Glass Of Wine - 25
12 Elbow – Running To Stand Still (U2) - 24
13 My Morning Jacket – I'm Amazed - 24
14 Lady Of The Sunshine – White Rose Parade - 23
15 Kram – Ridin High - 23
16 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll - 23
17 Arcade Fire – Lenin - 22
18 Doves – Compulsion - 22
19 Franz Ferdinand – Ulysses - 21
20 Ben Harper – Mamas Trippin (Freedom Mix) - 21
21 Sting – Fields of Gold - 21
22 Elbow – The Bones of You - 21
23 Conor Oberst with Gillian Welch – Lua - 20
24 Cold War Kids – Something Is Not Right With Me - 20
25 Gomez – Machismo - 20
26 Dr. Dog – Army of Ancients - 20
27 TV on the Radio – Golden Age - 20
28 The Beautiful Girls – Periscopes - 20
29 Babybird – Bad Old Man - 20
30 Doves – Kingdom of Rust - 20
31 The Beautiful Girls – I Thought About You - 20
32 Bob Evans – Someone So Much - 20
33 Peter Bjorn and John – Lay It Down - 20
34 Gomez – Notice - 20
35 Gomez – Natural Reaction - 19
36 Regurgitator – Track One - 19
37 Lady Of The Sunshine – The Wolf - 19
38 Yeasayer – Tightrope - 19
39 Lady Of The Sunshine – big jet plane - 19
40 Machine Gun Fellatio – Unsent Letter (acoustic) - 19
41 Beastie Boys – Sabotage - 19
42 Radiohead – Paranoid Android - 19
43 Gomez – If I Ask You Nicely - 18
44 The Do – On my shoulders - 18
45 Mat McHugh – Numb - 18
46 Stone Temple Pilots – Meat Plow - 18
47 M.I.A. – Paper Planes - 18
48 Gomez – Sunset Gates - 18
49 The Smashing Pumpkins – 1979 - 18
50 Sia – Breathe Me 17

Friday 26 June 2009

Blueprint Festival 09 - 3rd round of Artists added


The latest festival to hit Victoria features one of the best all Autralian line-ups ever put together in my opinion. Headlining the new event is Oz rock legends Jebediah who have not played together for a few years and should be reason enough to get yourself a ticket and head down to Ararat. Having seen the Jebs play many a festival set I am greatly anticiapting this reunion to see if Kevin Mitchell can still rock out after unplugging as Bob Evans for the last few years. The Beautiful Girls are also back on the touring circuit after taking most of the last 2 years off and having seen them more than any other band will be looking forward to seeing them again. The huge lineup features some of Australia's finest Roots artists including Ash Grunwald, Old Man River, Blue King Brown, Wagons and up and coming Gold Coast funksters Tijuana Cartel playing their first shows in Victoria. Tim Rogers and Claire Bowditch are also worthy additions to the lineup after being added in the final round of announcements. Transport to the festival from Melbourne by coach has also been organised to make it easier for those without cars.
The festival has gone to great effort to make this festival unique with a beer hall featuring micro brews on tap, a seated restaurant, a massive market and a large garden set up in front of one of the stages.
Tickets are now $120 after the first 2 rounds of tickets selling out. For all the details on how to get there and all other information go to the official website http://www.blueprintfestival.com/website/home.html.

18th-21st September 2009, Ararat, Victoria
Jebediah / The Panics / The Beautiful Girls / Tim Rogers / Ash Grunwald/ Galvatrons/ Blue King Brown / Bertie Blackman / Claire Bowditch / Shane Nicholson / Old Man River / The Basics / Tijuana Cartel /Wagons / Phrase / Drapht / Resin Dogs /The Boat People / Epicure / Hungry Kids Of Hungary / Calling all Cars / Pablo Discobar / The Dirty Secrets / Red Ink / Bonjah / Funkoars / Ryan Meeking and The Few / The Hello Morning / The Frowning Clouds / The Fearless Vampire Killers / Matt Joe Gow and The Dead Leaves / The Vandas / Goodbye Motel / Royal Chant / Winter Street / Shannon Kennedy / The New Black / Matt Katsis / The Nation Blue / The Vandas / Calerway / Labjacd / Sleep Parade / Zoophyte / Matheson / Twelve Foot Ninja / Sierra Fin / ME







Friday 12 June 2009

Faith No More Reunion Tour 2009 - Setlist

Australian Faith No More fans are currently crossing their fingers that they will make our way to our shores sometime this year or perhaps for the Big Day Out or V Festival next year. They have just played their first reunion show at Brixton Academy and the setlist is a great selection of hits, covers and rarities. Tour dates have been booked up until September throughout Europe but none yet announced in America or Australia, although they have not ruled it out. They are about to play their first festival show at the Download Festival which will be streamed live from the website on Friday 12th June from 9pm (Donnington time). http://www.downloadfestival.co.uk/news/article.aspx?AID=ad929032-1aa3-4efb-b418-ea8f8df7e39a

Here is the setlist from the Brixton Academy show.


01. Reunited (PEACHES & HERB cover)
02. The Real Thing
03. From Out Of Nowhere
04. Land Of Sunshine
05. Caffeine
06. Evidence
07. Chinese Arithmetic
08. Surprise! You’re Dead!
09. Easy
10. Last Cup Of Sorrow
11. Midlife Crisis
12. Cockoo For Caca
13. The Gentle Art Of Making Enemies
14. RV
15. King For A Day
16. Malpractice
17. Jizzlobber
18. Be Aggressive
19. Epic
20. Mark Bowen

Encore 1:
21. Chariots Of Fire/Stripsearch
22. Just A Man

Encore 2:
23. I Started A Joke
24. Pristina


Click this link for a full list of their current tour dates.

Monday 8 June 2009

New Music - June 2009

Here are some of the new tracks I've been listening to this month.



















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