Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Ladyhawke, Metric, Little Boots Song: Catcall - Satellites [download here ] What's so good? Australian female pop music has been overshadowed in recent years by the New Zealand juggernauts of Kimbra  and Ladyhawke . Australia however, has a (not so) secret weapon to rival the aforementioned sensations. After initially starting out in punk band Kiosk, Catherine Kelleher, who goes by the moniker Catcall, has released her debut album The Warmest Place . Four years have passed since Catcall’s self-released EP Anniversary – a hip-hop infused first offering which lead to her being signed to Ivy League ...

Adding to the deepening pool of indie folk artists, Tin Sparrow have released their newest EP offering, Fair & Verdant Woods . Swimming to the top this four piece outfit, hailing from Sydney, have already toured with Husky and Matt Corby and will now be supporting Boy & Bear on their national tour in May/June of this year. Members Matt Amery, Dean McLeod, Sonja Van Hummel and Mark Piccles have been jamming for a few years now and their debut EP, From the Sun , is also one worth checking out. With the exception of the extended track, “Hector Myola”, produced by Mark ...

What the hell are you doing, holding that shell to your ear? You look ridiculous. What’s wrong with you? There’s an easier way to get the ocean in your ears, and it doesn’t involve listening to shells or scraping sand from your ear canals. And the ocean is exactly what you’ll be thinking of when [...]

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Cloud Control have unexpectedly turned Richard In Your Mind’s ‘Maybe When The Sun Comes Down’ into a bangin’ house track complete with Auto-Tuned vocals and a Skrillex-endorsed post-dubstep “drop” around the 27-second mark. The original version appears on last year’s underrated SUN , which we described as a “chill, cohesive set that’s about consolidating ideas rather than exploding them” . It's out now through Rice Is Nice. Richard In Your Mind - Maybe When The Sun Comes Down (CLOUD CONTROL XTREMIX) by Rice Is Nice

Sydney’s The Laurels have joined the likes of Richard In Your Mind, Seeake, Donny Benet and Straight Arrows at boutique indie Rice Is Nice. The deal will see the release of the band’s long-awaited debut album in the second half of 2012. The follow-up to last year’s Mesozoic EP, the album is currently being recorded with Liam Judson (Cloud Control, Belles Will Ring). “All the songs have been recorded and some have been mixed,” the band said in a recent Facebook post. “It will most likely have twelve songs and be out around July/August, just in ...

Ivy League Records is pleased to announce that *The Rubens* are the latest addition to the roster, joining the likes of Lanie Lane, Cloud Control, Deep Sea Arcade, Alpine, Catcall and Josh Pyke on one of Australia’s premiere independent labels. The four-piece, have only been playing together...

– The sixth annual Boogie festival in Tallarook, Victoria, has now sold out, ToneDeaf reports . The festival, featuring the likes of Royal Headache, Justin Townes Earle and My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, increased its allocation from 500 to 1000 tickets this year. It’ll take place over the Easter long weekend (April 6-8). Spain’s Los Chicos, local acts The Dancing Heals and The Steins, and DJs including Henry Wagons and Jimmy from Clinkerfield, have been added to the bill. – Due to unforeseen circumstances, “The Last Greatest Show On Earth” – a charity concert in aid of The John Cade Psychiatric ...

Once again Cornbury Park in Oxford is playing host to Wilderness Festival on the 10th to 12th August. The event, which is curated by the same people behind Lovebox and Secret Garden Party, already boasts the likes of Wilco, Lianne La Havas, Stornaway and Cloud Control, and today organisers have added Crystal Fighters and Jake Bugg to the line up. Also included on today’s additions are Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings who featured on the Ronson">Mark Ronson produced Amy Winehouse album Back to Black . The festival promises much more than just music however, with wood fired hot tubs ...

JOEL CONNOLLY (pictured right) – the manager of last year’s Australian Music Prize winners Cloud Control – rebukes the notion that artists have no place on the AMP panel. If you've spent any time around artists, you would be aware of the imperative which seems to drag them along. They don't appear to have any choice but to live and breathe whatever their chosen art form is. This compulsion informs everything they do and carves out an idea of the world which they try and pass on to the rest of us. Last week M+N editor Darren Levin ...

The Jezabels have just been announced as the winner of this year’s Australian Music Prize (The AMP) for their debut album Prisoner . The Sydney four-piece have won $30,000 courtesy of PPCA, beating out the likes Gotye, Boy & Bear, Adalita, Gurrumul, May">Abbe May, Kimbra and Jack Ladder. Priosner failed to place in our critics’ Top 50 albums of the year , but came in at #19 in our Readers Poll . It was described by M+N contributor Doug Wallen as “a mirage cast in outsized 3D.” . Held at the Sydney Opera House, the AMP ceremony featured a keynote address ...

The Australian Music Prize needs to work out whether it wants to be a peer-voted or critically appraised award, writes DARREN LEVIN ahead of today’s big announcement. In the lead-up to last year’s Pazz & Jop poll – a survey of critics published annually in The Village Voice – outspoken US critic Christopher R Weingarten openly questioned the credentials of the 700 writers who cast their vote for their album of the year. “They should close Pazz and Jop ballots to anyone who heard less than 500 new records this year,” he Tweeted to his 13,000-plus followers. Why should the AMP be any different? While it’d be somewhat unfair to hold the judging panel to the inflated standards of a guy who calls himself the “Last Rock Critic Standing”, Weingarten’s point still stands. Taking into account population size, if you didn’t listen to at least 100 new Australian records last year, then you have no business judging the AMP. Over a three month period (late-October to mid-January), the AMP’s 40 judges (myself included) would typically listen to 80 titles. These titles were to be adjudicated “purely on their own merits” with the expectation (as laid out in a judges charter) that the album would be listened to from start to finish. That works out to roughly an album a day for three months, leaving very little room for repeated listens. While you probably don’t need two listens to work out whether you like Royal Headache’s Royal Headache or Gilgamesh by Gypsy & The Cat, more “difficult” albums such as HTRK’s Work (work, work) , Snowman’s Absence , +DOME by Seekae or Ex Tropical by Lost Animal, could’ve really benefited from a few extra spins. (It’s worth noting that none of these five titles made the nine album-strong shortlist.) While The AMP’s short time frames are almost unavoidable – they need to allow for records released in the latter half of the year, which in late 2011 saw excellent releases from Geoff O’Connor, Dick Diver, Nick Huggins and Witch Hats – judges should’ve heard at least 70 percent of the records that came across their desk (roughly 56 titles). Sure, there were anomalies (each year there’s the inevitable batch of self-recorded projects that should never leave the bedroom, or wonderful surprises like Fred Smith’s Dust Of Uruzgan ), but most of these records are not on the margins. They’re commercially available, or sent out by publicists, and if you’re not aware of most of them, you’re probably not fit to weigh in. Of the AMP’s 40 judges, 13 are so-called critics, six work in radio and nine are retailers. I’d say the vast majority of these judges will listen to 100 new Australian record in an average year. The remaining 12 judges are mostly working musicians; most of whom, I believe, would fall way short of that benchmark. The reason is simple. While I have absolutely no idea what Kram listens to while jogging, or what Cloud Control’s Ulrich Lenffer spins on the road, it’s not their job to listen to music for a living. It’s their job to play it. (Unless, of course, you’re Robert ...

Melbourne will lose yet another much loved bandroom when The East Brunswick Club shuts its doors tomorrow night, writes NICK ARGYRIOU . Drones photo by LEAH ROBERTSON . “It's a real shame the East is closing, but that's the nature of the beast,” sighs Jason Moore, music coordinator of Melbourne’s East Brunswick Club for the past seven months. “There is so much demand for live music in Melbourne and there are new venues popping up all the time as it truly is one of the world's great music cities.” After re-opening as a refurbished, 300-capacity bandroom back in ...

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Not full to capacity, but a good crowd nonetheless are gathered here tonight at Camden’s Electric Ballroom. Headlining tonight’s proceedings are Australia’s psych pop finest, Cloud Control. They take to the stage full of bounce but somehow lack vim; it feels like they are going through the motions, bouncing because they are meant to and not because they want to. It’s an early start for Cloud Control, hit the stage shortly before 9pm and the crowd spill out onto the street before the clock strikes ten. Lead singer Alister Wright apologises for this fact, guessing that ...