Next week I’m putting on the first Radiant show outside of FBi Social - LA Vampires’ first and only show in Sydney, along with three fantastic Sydney supports: Holy Balm, Kirin J Callinan and Guerre.

Should be a huge night - hope to see you there. Tickets are $20+bf and onsale now from Moshtix - make sure you lock yours down!

Full info as follows:

Radiant and Room40 are very excited to announce that LA VAMPIRES (USA) will be performing in Sydney for one night only on September 8, 2011.

LA VAMPIRES is the shapeshifting soundsystem universe of Amanda Beth Brown (co-runner of Not Not Fun Records and ex-Pocahaunted voodoo-ist). Hers is an evolving vibe, utilizing a web of slowed/screwed tapes, boombox Casio FX, low end theories, and bleached voice patterns to conjure a reverb chamber’s worth of dance floor mirages. To date she’s released four collaborations, each more different than the last, with underground luminaries Zola Jesus, Ital, Matrix Metals and Psychic Reality.

Touring for the first time outside of the US West Coast, she’ll be performing live with Britt Brown (co-runner of Not Not Fun, Pocahaunted bandmate and Robedoor member) and Nick Malkin (Queen Victoria).

They will be joined on the night by psychedelic dance jam trio HOLY BALM, the intimate and spectacular KIRIN J CALLINAN and ambient R&B maestro GUERRE.

LA VAMPIRES
w/ Holy Balm, Kirin J Callinan & Guerre
Goodgod Small Club (55 Liverpool St, Sydney)
Thursday 8 September, 8pm
Tickets $20+bf through Moshtix

EXCLUSIVE: Kitchen’s Floor - Needs

Great, propulsive punk from one of Brissie’s finest. It’s from their newie Look Forward To Nothing, which sports a new lineup (inc. Liam from Bitch Prefect and Joe from Per Purpose), the best recording they’ve had yet, and most importantly… the best songs yet.

Pre-order the CD/LP from Bedroom Suck.

Their US tour kicks off today, and they’re touring Australia from late September. Go see them.

It’s the next Radiant Live! Poptastic! See you there?

Two songs from Kitchen’s Floor’s live performance on Radiant. This video contains “Orbit” and “Lander”.

The full set in audio format can be downloaded here.

A part of Angel Eyes’ gorgeous set at Totally Autumn, back in April.

Seriously, Moshtix? Your latest spam:

• Celebrates festival dickhead culture
• Direct markets teenage binge drinking (there’s literally no other way that a cheap bottle of red will be drunk by this audience)
• Is full of boring rock cliches

Making, live last night at about 2am. Super loud, super good. 

Here’s the next Radiant Live. Come along?

Facebook Event

Hi all,

There’s a bunch of podcasts that still need to be edited (hopefully this long weekend), but I thought i’d go ahead and put tonight’s Neil Finn interview up, as there’s people asking for it!

This was such a blast. Without wanting to get too sentimental, I’d joked about one day having Neil on the show, as if that was the ultimate aspiration for a show where I talk to antipodean singer-songwriters. And I’m still not sure that there’s anywhere bigger to go from here, but luckily there’s exciting music all over Australia to tackle. Oh, and I wouldn’t mind Robert Forster, too ;)

Big thanks to Neil for taking the time out to chat! Make sure you head along to his new band Pajama Club’s show at Oxford Art Factory on Monday 13 June, and download their new single here. It’s a cracker.

There’s lots of great music coming soon to the site too - tonight’s interview with Pat of The Falling Joys, as well as live sets and interviews from Jack Ladder, Mike Noga, Moth Larf and Naked On The Vague are forthcoming. Yay!

Come to this.

It’s the next Radiant Live! Head down next Thursday May 26 to catch Megastick Fanfare’s album launch.

Megastick Fanfare’s album has taken forever to come out, but now it’s dropped and it’s full of amazing, warped psych-pop. I’m betting it’ll sound amazing in the small confines of FBi Social.

Parking Lot Experiments follow a similar vein, and were a riot last time I saw them in Melbourne. Make sure you catch them.

New kids on the Sydney block Sealion are sounding mighty fine too, with that grandiose pop sound that mates like Parades, Jono Boulet and Kyu have already put on the map.

It’s a killer bill, and the poppiest edition of Radiant Live that you’re likely to see anytime soon. Some come down and have a dance. It’s gonna be killer.

I’ve been AWOL on this side of things for a few weeks now, but I’m stoked to have show’s history a bit more clearly mapped out, along with downloads. Some new ones, too!

You can find a full listing of past Radiant episodes and guests here. I’m trying to keep it up to date, and work backwards filling all of the gaps, download-wise. Expect downloads of almost all appearances, eventually. There’s a couple that didn’t get recorded/can’t be posted/got lost for whatever reason… but the rest are ready to rock.

Right now there’s also a few new downloads, with Jamie Hutchings, Holly Throsby and Anna Chase all up there. I really enjoyed all of these, with great performances and chats all ‘round. Download them and enjoy.

Speaking of revisiting Radiant, FBi Radio are currently doing a supporter drive, which means we’re asking you to sign up as a supporter and be a part of keeping us on air.

It’s only $7 a month (ie. you won’t even notice it), but it’s absolutely essential to keeping us going - the majority of our funding comes from listeners like yourselves!

There’s an added incentive too - one of the key upcoming developments for the station is listening on demand, which means you’ll be able to listen to at least a few weeks’ worth of past Radiant episodes whenever you want! Currently I’m only putting up the live appearances for legal reasons (and even the live sets are a bit grey), but this will give the full 2hr program on demand. Should make it much easier to hear everything that happens on the show.

So please, go ahead and sign up as a supporter - there’s shitloads of cool prizes, etc. too if you need extra incentive. I do this whole thing as a volunteer because I love the music and want you to hear it - a few dollars here and there to keep the station that makes it all happen (along with other amazing shows like New Weird Australia, Utility Fog, Sunday Night At The Movies, The Bridge, Jack Off With Jack Shit, etc) going and healthy would be really kind of you.

I’ve also got Radiant Live #3 coming up, and it’s a cracker - Megastick Fanfare’s album launch. I’ll post some music/poster/etc action soon, but check out the Facebook event now. Parking Lot Experiments (Melb) and Sealion support, it’ll be huge.

Last but not least, the show is on Twitter as @radiantsydney. I post a lot of music/chat/etc, please follow and interact. I’ll integrate it into the site too.

Alright, that’s all from now. Bed time. More stuff coming here very soon.

PEACE!

ausreleases:

Various Artists - 10 (Room40 anniversary compilation)

Well worth picking this up - a free download by Room40 to celebrate ten years. Tracks from Grouper, Xiu Xiu, Ben Frost, Tenniscoats, Pimmon and a lot more.