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Night People has always had an ear for interesting sounds coming from Down Under, which is pretty impressive for a label located smack dab in the middle of America's corn bucket. On this latest split they pair Melbourne bands Peak Twins and the oddly named but entrancing Scott and Charlene's Wedding. The former drift along on a dreamy cloud of strums and down tempo melancholy. The band is at their best when they keep things a bit brighter as on the closer "Your Love." It’s all well and good but fairly eclipsed by the happenings on the ...

After eight months of operation, Melbourne’s Phoenix Public House will shut its doors next month. Since opening in October , the Sydney Road venue – formerly The Spot – has become one of the area’s most-loved small rooms (300-plus capacity), hosting gigs by the likes of Aleks & The Ramps, Graveyard Train, Dappled Cities, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Dick Diver and a Twerps farewell gig in March that saw queues around the block. But speaking to M+N today (May 8), venue booker Paris Martine from Contrary said despite the “lovely response” from Melbourne’s music community the venue had faced an uphill struggle for the past few months. A "difficult climate for band bookings" coupled with the breakdown of negotiations with the building's owners over the length of a new lease has forced a premature end. She said the venue’s closure had nothing to do with the lack of clarity surrounding Victorian noise restriction laws; a burning issue which Music Victoria hopes to put to the government at a forthcoming roundtable. Phoenix was supposed to shut abruptly last Tuesday, but Martine has negotiated a stay of execution until June 12, the night after its last announced gig: Mark Kozelek of US slowcore legends Red House Painters and Sun Kil ...

by Bill Pearis Spectrals at SXSW (more) Scotland's Spectrals -- aka 21-year old Louis Jones -- just wrapped up a tour with Cults and are in town for two shows this week: Friday (5/4) at Glasslands with Twerps and Saturday's...

Brooklyn band Real Estate (who recently played an Auckland show in support of their critically acclaimed sophomore album Days) and Melbourne band Twerps are currently at the tail end of a joint US tour. Whether it's because of their recent jaunt here or not Real Estate joined forces...

Currently in the midst of a joint US tour, Melbourne’s Twerps and New Jersey’s Real Estate have covered The Clean’s classic ‘Anything Could Happen’ on stage together at Newport Music Hall in Columbus, Ohio. Both bands have never hidden their esteem for jangly Flying Nun pop, and they busted out this faithful rendering of the song to finish off the tour last night. (We suggest you minimise the window while watching this one.) Twerps have one show in the US left at Glasslands in Brooklyn, New York, before heading back to Australia next week. Their two month ...

Just letting you know we have copies of the Twerps album on beautiful vinyl again now for Australian and New Zealand mailorder customers. And it comes with a download code, so everyone’s a winner. Pick up your copy via the Chapter webstore.

For their self-titled debut LP, Australia’s Twerps embrace the musical antecedents of that region — Aussie bands like Go-Betweens and The Church, and the Kiwi Dunedin Sound championed by Flying Nun Records (based out of Christchurch, actually) and Xpressway — as well as the band’s contemporaries. Twerps is a collection of eleven simple and endearing [...]

Below, enjoy an 8tracks mix featuring local and touring bands performing in SF this week. After the jump, find out more about when they’re all playing! Tuesday, April 24th Vincent">St. Vincent, tUnE-yArDs, Kapowski at the Fox Theater Natural Child, Shannon and the Clams, The Chuckleberries at El Rio Real Estate, The Twerps, Melted Toys at [...]

(Chapter Music) “Going to buy milk at noon with bedhead hair” pop New Estate is another of those off-kilter guitar pop bands that Chapter Music is so good at releasing records by. Their appeal is of a more frenetic, genre-splicing manner than the hazy urban Australiana of Dick Diver or the arty new wave rock of The Twerps, yet they share those bands’ clattering live-sounding recording style. New album Recovery has the feel of one of those unruly communal indie pop opuses. When you listen to th ...

After making its debut in Sydney last month, the Reclink Community Cup will head back to its spiritual home of Melbourne in June. The event – a charity Aussie Rules match between musicians (“The Rockdogs”) and community radio representatives from PBS and Triple R (“The Megahertz”) – will take place at Elsternwick Park on June 24. It’ll feature performances by reformed ’80s punk band Blue Ruin (fronted by SLAM’s Quincy McLean); Boomgates (featuring members of Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Dick Diver and The Twerps); and Melbourne rock outfit Bunny Monroe. In keeping with this year’s theme, “Can The Mega ...

After saying a temporary so-long to their dog and departing their native Australia for a short jaunt in New York City, Twerps came to play us a song at our favorite local vintage clothing store, … read more »

Although New Jersey's Real Estate do not possess a great name, the four-piece makes up for it with rock and roll that's engaging and reflective. The band's 2011 sophomore effort, Days, refined their sound just enough to earn them critical acclaim and, like fellow New Jersey outfit The Feelies, Re...

Nardwuar had Alice Bag of The Bags on The Human Serviette Show. The Bags were one of the first Los Angeles punk bands. The group started performing in 1977, with grocery bags over their heads. This stopped when Darby Crash...