After many years of abandoning Australia since their last performance at Livid festival in 2002, And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead are finally coming back to perform. Often abbreviated to Trail Of Dead, this bunch of Texans are going to bring their terrifying, anarchic live show to Australia this May.
Since their formation in ‘94, the group have released five albums, achieved overwhelming acclaim and developed a vast fanbase in their 15 years of existence. Their 2002 classic and probably their best album, 'Source Codes & Tags', famously scored a rare 10/10 on Pitchfork, earning the description: “dense, beautiful, intricate, haunting, explosive, and dangerous, this is everything rock music aspires to be.”
They are about to release their sixth album ‘The Century Of Self’, and we at Music Universe have been playing it non stop. Let's just say that we are very big fans of this group and pity those that don't know about them.
Thurs 28 May – The Zoo, Brisbane Fri 29 May – The Forum, Sydney Sat May 30th - Corner Hotel, Melbourne VIC
Every now and then you come across a new band that stands apart from the rest. A band whose songwriting belies their inexperience, a singer whose range and brilliance at once captivates and enfolds, or an energy that is impossible to ignore.
Melbourne’s The Temper Trap have been on the Music Universe radar since 2007. Named as on of the bands to watch out for in 2009, they hit the airwaves with 'My Sun' in early 2007 and in 2009 have already made their presence being felt outside of our shores.
Their epic single, ‘Sweet Disposition’ recently featured as the sound bed for the movie trailer on the latest US cult film (500) Days Of Summer which previewed to much adulation at the Sundance festival. Add to that a series of amazing international reviews and highly anticipated upcoming SXSW performances as well as a bunch of other dates across Australia (inclduing V Festival), America and the UK, things are certainly looking bright for this extraordinary young band.
They release their latest single 'Science of Fear' on April 20th. It's currently being played on Triple J and sounds unbelievable. The Temper Trap are seriously going places and you'll be able to catch them play somewhere soon.
19th - 21st March - SXSW Festival, Austin, Texas USA 28th March - V Festival Sydney NSW 29th March - V Festival Gold Coast QLD 2nd April - The Annandale Hotel, Sydney NSW 4th April - V Festival Melbourne VIC 5th April - V Festival Perth WA 10th April - Corner Hotel, Melbourne VIC 16th May - The Great Escape Festival, UK
Don't worry too much or read into this too much, Angus Stone, from duo Angus and Julia Stone, has put together a little side project called Lady of the Sunshine.
'White Rose Parade' is the first single taken from Lady of The Sunshine’s debut album 'Smoking Gun'.
'Smoking Gun' will be released April 3rd through Angus’ own label - Desert Harvest Records (in conjunction with EMI).
According to the new band’s myspace page, Angus Stone will perform guitar and vocals on the album, with Govinda Doyle on bass and drums.
Guess it ain't end of the world stuff considering their huge following amongst other countries in the world, but still, it's the reason why that makes this so interesting.
A statement was issued on behalf of the band saying that Chinese government officials had revoked their performance license because of their links to the Free Tibet campaign. It said that the Chinese government had discovered that guitarist Noel Gallagher had played a Free Tibet Benefit Concert in 1997 and so was deemed "unsuitable" to perform in the Chinese Republic. They are the latest in a growing line of musicians, including Jay-Z and Britney Spears, who have been barred from performing in China. Most recently, Bjork angered Chinese officials after she shouted “Tibet, Tibet” at the end of a concert in the country.
Other fans in the region have no fear, the rest of the South East Asian leg of the band's tour, including the Hong Kong show, will go ahead as planned.
