– Documentaries about the late Rowland S Howard and Melbourne’s iconic Tote Hotel will screen back-to-back on ABC2 tonight (January 25). Pieced together over seven years by Melbourne filmmaker Natalie van den Dungen, Persecution Blues: The Battle For The Tote tells the story of the fight to save Melbourne’s iconic Tote Hotel, taking in the final days before the venue’s brief closure in 2010. It’ll screen at 8.30pm ahead of Autoluminescent (9.30pm), a vivid portrait of Australian music legend Rowland S Howard directed by Lynn-Maree Milburn and Richard Lowenstein. M+N writer Rene Schaefer was ...

PSL has the premiere of the new Mats Udd-directed Samling video "Stackars lilla värsting": http://blogg.svt.se/psl/2012/01/23/premiar-samling-stackars-lilla-varsting/ If you dig mellow psychrock like Dungen or The Amazing, you should check this out.

“I was paddling down the river somewhere between Primal Scream & Boney M and ended up falling out of the boat into a time-travelling disco space-punk song which I still think is hilarious.” This is how Children Collide’s Johnny Mackay describes the band’s new single, ‘Sword To A Gunfight’, their first from third album Monument . Recorded at Melbourne’s Red Door Sounds with Woody Annison (Red Riders, Cabins), Monument is the follow-up to 2010’s Theory Of Everything , and according to Mackay it’s perhaps the most danceable thing they’d done to date. "There's post-punk still, there ...

There's some inherent complicity in this record that triggers a violent uneasiness. It's like it's 1972 and I'm one of those kids who are sick of the soft-pop chart hits of Fleetwood Mac, America, fluffy brown hair & equally revolting album covers (however radical these folkies were in their own right). Halfway through listening to The Amazing's "Gentle stream", the overall one-beat homogeny gives birth to a nihilistic urge to shake things up. Now, if I could goddamned be like everybody else, especially the hip Scandy radio-pop listening public, this cauldron would probably just spill off the decks like almond milk; the super gooey melodies and the Air-like retro sexing mood perfected by obviously professional musicians doing it up professionally -- probably wouldn't hurt so bad. Already celebrated Dungen members serve up what can be viewed as a Seventies itch they needed to scratch, or a chance to break the market with another kind of popular. Title track, "Gentle stream ...

Albums (SWE): Anna Järvinen - Anna själv tredje Det Vackra Livet - Det vackra livet Skriet - Det beslutande organet Mattias Alkberg - Anarkist Deportees - Islands & shores Thus:Owls - Harbours Jonathan Johansson - Klagomuren We Are The Storm - To The North-Pole Bob Hund - Det överexponderande gömstället Riddarna - Riddarna Pascal/Mattias Alkberg - Allt det här Syket - With love Songs (SWE): Rytmen i natten - Riddarna 80 vårar - Mattias Alkberg När nätterna når hamn - Jörgen Kjellgren Du och Jag - Alf Stanna klocka stanna - Bob Hund Next to You - Dante Museum - Thus: Owls Redan glömda - Jonathan Johansson New directions - Jens Lekman Fish band - Syket Albums: The Head And The ...

It's a difficult time for independent music. What with the rise of illegal downloading, the problems facing the British high street and, y'know, rioters burning entire back catalogues simply getting by is mighty difficult. Which is why it's heartening to witness the progress of Memphis Industries . Founded by brothers Ollie and Matt Jacob, the Brighton based imprint has built up an eclectic roster which emphasises talent over hype. Recently reaching the ripe old age of 13, Memphis Industries decided to host a one off show in London named Lucky Thirteen. Taking place on November 30th, the line ...

The Drones’ new live DVD ‘A Thousand Mistakes’ hints at a future of different instruments and weird arrangements, writes AARON CURRAN . Bands traditionally signal the close of a significant chapter in their career with some kind of retrospective release, whether a greatest hits album or a less conventional collection that looks towards the margins. The Drones have instead released this DVD, A Thousand Mistakes , four-and-a-half hours of live footage shot over the past six years; 39 songs from five albums. How to be sure that this DVD release marks some kind of end for The Drones, as well as a ...

With a history taking in Dungen, Kurt Vile, Best Coast and Wooden Shjips, it's not been a bad existence for NYC's Mexican Summer label. Formed three years ago, it celebrates its 100th release next Friday (Nov 25), with a special cut from Ford & Lopatin. Listen to the tracks below: [...] Read more!

Ben Wigler has been all over the indie rock landscape; an alum of the band Arizona, he’s also performed backing vocals for Dead Confederate, Samantha Crane and the Indigo Girls. With his new outfit, New Beard, he crafts deluxe, swirling indie odes that mine Beatles-y textures, songs dense with instrumentation and unconventional percussion. Dungen’s Gustav [...]

Subliminal Sounds is doing a 3x12" reissue of Dungen's 2004 breakout album "Ta det lugnt". The original LP apparently was incorrectly mastered from the digital and not the analog source material, so the sound quality was not up to par -- not so with this new edition which sounds like it was originally intended, if not better. 1000 copies, includes a poster.

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-- Metric 's new remix collection Fantasies Flashback is available today, offering fan-made reworkings of tracks from their 2009 album Fantasies . The deluxe, limited edition box-set contains ten 7" singles, each with a remix and its corresponding original track. It also includes a  Playbutton digital player loaded with the remixes, and a digital download code for all of the tracks, plus 11 extra remixes. All proceeds go to the Centre for Addition and Mental Health . -- Schlungs , the first full-length from Norweigian duo Mungolian Jet Set , is out today on  Smalltown Supersoud . Listen to "We Are the Shining" here . -- Mayer Hawthorne 's ...

On the eve of the release of a live DVD and national tour, Drones frontman Gareth Liddiard takes some time out from building a pizza oven to chat with MATT SHEA about getting the band back together, developing new sounds and not listening to rock music anymore. It was starting to get a little lonely without The Drones. September just gone marked three years since the release of Havilah , and while that record’s endless momentum and a couple of solo releases (Gareth Liddiard’s Strange Tourist and Noga">Mike Noga’s The Balladeer Hunter ) have maintained a keen interest ...

Pitchfork has posted their full review of the latest Opeth record "Heritage", saying it sounds more like Dungen than death metal: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15866-heritage/

A preview of the new Lena Philipsson single "Nästa säsong", written by Björn Olsson and Kaah and produced by Mattias Glavå (Anna Järvinen, Broder Daniel, Joel Alme, etc.). Lena's as-yet-untitled upcoming album will be out on November 30 and boasts a diverse cast of other cowriters, including Veronica Maggio, Christian and Vanessa Falk, Kleerup, Kaah, Dungen, Mauro Scocco and Markus Krunegård.