In the lead-up to triple j’s Hottest 100 countdown on Australia Day, eventual list topper Gotye revealed how he’d like to see Godley & Creme-inspired album track ‘State of The Art’ make the cut. It didn’t, of course, but we can now reveal how close it actually came thanks to a list of the Hottest 100 also-rans (picks 101-200) published by triple j today. Included among the selections of the “second” Hottest 100 are hotly tipped tracks by Oh Mercy (‘Stay Please Stay’), The Middle East (‘Land Of The Bloody Unknown’), Cut Copy (‘Need You Now’), Loon Lake ...

Shortly after their lead singer, Haydn, was knocked out in the crowd at the 2012 Sydney Big Day Out, Larry Heath caught up with the two other members of Calling All Cars - Adam and James - to talk about the incident, their latest record Dancing with a Dead Man , performing with the Foo Fighters and more. read more

Photographer: KristaBella Photography Photographer: KristaBella Photography Acts: Calling All Cars, Frenzal Rhomb, The Jezabels, The Vaccines, Grinspoon, Kanye West, Soundgarden, The Living End, Kasabian, Noel Gallagher and The High Flying Birds, My Chemical Romance, Bluejuice, Parkway Drive, Hiltop Hoods, Tony Hawk…and skaters and crowd shots Event: Big Day Out Date: 26th January 2012 * Click here for more [...]

Photographer: Stuart Blythe Photographer: Stuart Blythe Articts: Kanye West, Kasabian, May">Abbe May, The Jezabels, Foster The People, The Living End, Mariachi el Bronx, Calling All Cars, Papa vs Pretty, Parkway Drive, Boy & Bear, The Vaccines Event: Big Day Out – Gold Coast Parklands Date: 22nd January 2012 Read our live review of the day HERE. Click HERE for crowd [...]

Having played with some great bands in 2011 such as Thousand Needles in Red, Calling All Cars, The Redcoats and Floating Me , the future is looking great for this hard rocking alternative band...

Senses Fail played a holiday show last night with Balance & Composure and Saves The Day at the Starland Ballroom in New Jersey. Check out the band’s set list below by clicking “Read More”. The Rapture Choke On This Calling All Cars Bloody Romance Wolves At The Door New Years Eve Irony Of Dying On Your Birthday Buried A Lie Bonecrusher Shark Attack Salvation (Originally By The Cranberries) The Priest And The Matador Rum Is For Drinking, Not For Burning Lifeboats Can’t Be Saved Bite To Break Skin 187

No, we’re not talking about Neko Case and Nick Cave’s craptastic take on ‘She's Not There’ or Papa Vs Pretty doing Julia Stone">Angus & Julia Stone , but the worst cover art for the year as selected by MAX EASTON (you know, the Trial By Gif guy). Papa Vs Pretty United in Isolation The producer's of The Human Centipede go for something more tasteful by surgically grafting cocktail frankfurts to the head of a chromed Oompa Loompa. Oh Mercy Great Barrier Grief Answer this, guy-with-fine-arts-major - how can Ken Done be such a good artist if he didn’t even notice all the brush marks he left behind? Rat Vs Possum Let Music And Bodies Unite The Meredith Gift 2020, wherein it has (d)evolved into a nude wrestling match. (Popping a semi still inappropriate.) Total Control Henge Beat Jackson Pollock’s work if he had access to Microsoft Paint in 1996. Boy & Bear Moonfire Photoshop Tutorial #32: How to fuck with RGB settings to romanticise the shitty park you used to smoke cones in at high school. The Aerial Maps The Sunset Park “Let’s use Linkin Park's font for the band name, then paste the words ‘FUEL’ and ‘CAFÉ’ into a disarray of equilaterals to make a statement about long distance Australian travel.” The Death Set Michael Poiccard Caught staring @ side-boob An Horse Walls Unnervingly creepy; like the twins from The Shining all grown up. Divorced Separation Anxiety It's a collage featuring a lava pit and a woman with a gravity-defying breast shooting a beam out of her eyes ... which sounds amazing... Lost Animal Ex Tropical The look of tortured pleasure on his face makes me kind of relieved that album sleeves fold out horizontally. The Vasco Era The Vasco Era Maybe a fifth crucifix would clear up ...

They've been everywhere, man. Drummer James Ing reflects on a wild year of living like kings and touring with Queens.

Another E.J. Tuesday! Calling All Cars – Run Away Beni – Someone Just Like You (Feat. Mattie Safer) The Novocaines – Rabbit Holes The Ocean Party – Deadbeat The Fearless Vampire Killers – Precious Ground Tim Freedman – Are you A Dreamer? The Wombats – 1996 Interview with Haydn from Calling All Cars Calling All [...]

The Vivian Lees-less Big Day Out has announced its next batch of acts in one big slab (as opposed to the social media drip-feed we had to endure in September). Joining the likes of Kanye West, Soundgarden, The Jezabels and Boy & Bear are: Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Nero The Vaccines Kimbra Art Vs Science Regurgitator Das Racist ( east-coast only ) Bassnectar Cavalera Conspiracy Miss Kittin ( east-coast only ) May">Abbe May Kitty, Daisy & Lewis ( east-coast only ) bluejuice Drapht Papa Vs Pretty ( east-coast only ) Amity Affliction ( east-coast only ) King Cannons ( east-coast only ) Faker ( east-coast only ) Calling All Cars ( east-coast only ) Stonefield ...

Stonefield – Yes Master Nantes – Fly Bumblebeez – Freak Ya Loneliness Loon Lake – In the Summer Kimbra – Call Me Wintercoats – Working on a Dream Alpine – Hands Spitfire – Smile Jonti – Nightshift In Blue [Radio Adelaide Feature CD] Emma Louise – 1000 sundowns Calling All Cars – She’s Delirious Ellesquire [...]

Barely a month has gone by since Calling All Cars wrapped up their Dancing with a Dead Man album tour, but already they’re preparing for another outing. The band will play a swag of high profile shows over the coming months taking them right through to New Years Eve. There’s no rest for the wicked, [...]

2011 is coming to an end and Melbourne’s CALLING ALL CARS have been drawn back to the white lines of the music industry… …the white lines of the roads that they’ll navigate between venues. A month after launching their latest album ‘Dancing With A Dead Man’ ( Read our album review here) on an action-packed national [...]