See previous:  100-76 75. SBTRKT feat. Sampha "Trials of the Past" Sampha's vocals and keyboarding skills combined with Aaron Jerome's mixing, sharp percussion, and jittery acoustics make this "reflection" song very much futuristic. The electrical, passion-infused rhythm of "Trials of the Past" has the ability to be appropriate for both a hazy club and a swanky bar. The confessional aspect of the song is captured lyrically while the musical motions occur during the breaks between verses, making it very innovative indeed. —Erica Matlin 74. Vincent">St. Vincent "Surgeon" Annie Clark, the creative force behind Vincent">St. Vincent, filled ...

Heavy blues duo Second Man are back at Club 299 on Wednesday. After taking a small break from gigging to write some new material, they are returning to play alongside Go Go Fish. Free entry and doors at 8pm. British DJ and also ninja Jaguar Skills will be spinning decks and throwing stars at La La Land, Byron Bay, on Thursday night and at The Met on Friday. The Wild Parlour-presented Cut Off Your Hands gig this Friday night at Alhambra is also going to double as the official Harves ...

Sporting songs from their second album, Hollow, New Zealand’s CUT OFF YOUR HANDS are heading back across the ditch to play a round of official launch shows in Australia. Lead singer NICK JOHNSTON talks to KRISTEN HYDE about the record and what they have planned next.

– Harmony have announced a string of dates in support of new single ‘Heartache’. Lifted from their self-titled debut , the track features legendary guitarist Marc Ribot (Tom Waits), whose contribution singer Tom Lyngcoln described as “the high watermark of my musical life” . In addition to the dates below, Australia’s favourite bushranger-soul combo will be supporting Explosions In The Sky at The Forum in Melbourne on December 8 at The Hi-Fi in Brisbane on December 13. Harmony is out now through Casa Del Disco. Fri, Nov 25 – Pot Belly Bar, Canberra, ACT Sat, Nov 26 – FBi Social, Sydney, NSW Fri, Dec ...

With a refurbished interior, new management and a healthy injection of professionalism, the theatre once called Her Majesty's lent a surprising elegance and impact to proceedings on an otherwise dreary Dunedin night. After years...

Cut Off Your Hands are currently heading across the country in support of their latest full length album Hollow. They played the San Francisco Bathhouse in Wellington with support from Street Chant and Dictaphone Blues. Lydia Diver went along to check it all out and you can have a...

Architecture In Helsinki lit up the Forum on Saturday with an abundantly fun performance in support of their latest album Moment Bends . read more

by Jennifer Kelly New Zealand's Cut Off Your Hands splices achingly pretty harmonies and luminous guitar jangles over a vaguely anxious foundation of rhythmic propulsion. They sound very much like the mid-1980s bands that softened and romanticized post-punk (and, incidentally, made it commercially viable)... Read More

I was at the Metro Theatre and whoa behold, Cut Off Your Hands was opening for Architecture In Helsinki . Awesome. After an enormous tour all over the globe, gallivanting through Europe, the States and back again, Architecture In Helsinki finally do some shows in Sydney. read more

On Cut Off Your Hands' first album, in 2008, You and I , they rode the wave of angular, jumped-up and dancey post-punk rock and pop that was around at the time, played by other like-minded bands such as Arctic Monkeys, Kaiser Chiefs...

"You Should Do Better" from the album Hollow 2011 iTunes With their first album, You & I , you sort of had the feeling that New Zealand outfit Cut Off Your Hands might have been yearning for the British Isles, but with their release of Hollow, the...

As summer begins to wind down to a close (already?!), the number of new releases each week starts to increase gradually the closer we get to the Christmas holiday. We are only about four months away from Christmas – that’s just nuts. Anyways, this is a great week for new releases, and we urge you [...]

"You Should Do Better" from the album Hollow 2011 iTunes With their first album, You & I , you sort of had the feeling that New Zealand outfit Cut Off Your Hands might have been yearning for the British Isles, but with their release of Hollow , the band has completed their maturation, giving fans a full-on venture into the sounds of the Oceanic region of the world. "You Should Do Better" begins with a rolling drum beat, and chiming guitars, before Nick Johnston's vocals soar above it all. Sure, people will hear remnants of The Smiths influence, but I hear Lucksmiths ...