THE BABY ANIMALS RELEASE DELUXE ALBUM EDITION
The Baby Animals have just announced a ‘Deluxe Fully Loaded Edition’ of their 2013 album This Is Not The End, complete with 16 live tracks from the Feed the Birds tour, a lyric booklet, BA365 Rockumentary and the brand new single This Is Not the End. There are three different packs available from the Social Family Records website, the most deluxe of which includes all of the above plus t-shirt, stubby holder, signed limited edition vinyl copy of the album, two VIP tickets to an intimate acoustic show in Sydney, a beanie and tote bag, and a personal thank-you email from my crush Suze DeMarchi.
HELP ADELAIDE GET A CRIMSON PROJEKCT GIG
If you’re heading along to see The Crimson ProjeKCt (celebrating the music of King Crimson) next month, spare a thought for our Adelaidean friends. The band doesn’t currently have a show booked there on this tour. But wait! A Pledgemusic campaign has been set up to help fund a possible Adelaide show! And even if you aren’t planning to be in Adelaide at the time of the gig, it’s a great way to purchase the band’s Official Bootleg Live – Extended Edition album, or get a t-shirt, or a all sorts of stuff. Go to pledgemusic.com/projects/thecrimsonprojekct#exclusives to check it out. And if you’re in Melbourne you can see the band, which features three King Crimson alumni Adrian Belew (Bowie, Talking Heads, Frank Zappa), Tony Levin (Peter Gabriel, John Lennon, Chapman Stick exponent)and Pat Mastelotto (David Sylvian, Sugarcubes, John Paul Jones) joined by Fripp acolyte Markus Reuter and the rhythm section of the Adrian Belew Power Trio – Julie Slick and Tobias Ralph – at The Hi-Fi on Thursday June 26.
FRAGMENTA SCORES DISTRO DEAL
Industrial thrash trio Fragmenta are well into the recording process of the follow-up to their scorching debut Sedition. In the meantime, they’ve just signed with German metal specialists Legacy Records. “The rough mixes we’ve got so far already sound amazing,” singer/guitarist Duncan Fisher says. “The final product is going to be a real treat sonically and musically, especially if you liked our first. It is more progressive and melodic but when it comes to brutality it’s got it in spades. It has everything Fragmenta is known for.” Fisher recently won the Youth Recognition Award for contributions to the community for his work in Fragmenta, radio station Tribe 91.1FM and as a producer having produced albums for bands such as Iron Feather and Red Leather Riot.
DOUBLE DRAGON REUNION?
Jeez, what’s with all the Adelaide rock/metal news this week? Step it up, Melbourne! Anyway, extreme metal monsters Double Dragon jammed together for the first time in years over the weekend to see where things stand regarding a potential reunion. It’s probably too soon to say whether they’ll be back for sure, but fingers crossed, eh? Anyone who saw them opening for Megadeth and Slayer in Melbourne (on the infamous gig where Tom Araya lost his voice and DD’s vocalist Lee Gardiner stepped in for a song) knows how brutal DD can be live.
NEW NINE SONS OF DAN EP & SHOWS
Nine Sons Of Dan have come along way since their days as a university band project. With their third EP Used Up primed for a Friday May 9 release and a national launch tour taking in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland from Thursday May 22, the six-track compilation introduces an edgier and slightly darker approach to the band. You can catch them with Far Away Stables on Friday June 6 at POW, Werribee (18+, tickets available from the door) and on Saturday June 7 at Wrangler Studios(all ages, tickets from Oztix).
TWO FOR KILL TV
Kill TV play The Espy Gershwin room on Thursday May 8 with heaps of other cool bands for the Positive Vibes benefit. $10 for 10 bands all for a good cause. You can also catch them at the Barwon Club in Geelong on Friday May 9. The band will be recording their debut EP Static soon which will be released later this year.
THE BRONX TO TOUR
The mighty The Bronx have announced their return, brandishing their ability to kill it, to slay it, to turn it up like absolutely no other rock’n’roll band on the face of the planet is capable of doing, The Bronx have taken brutal party music to a new level, and honed it over four albums into something utterly irresistible. And joining The Bronx on this winter journey: Melbourne’s frenetic hair-raisers High Tension, who if past shows are anything to go by are going to utterly kill. Born from the ashes of celebrated disco-punks Young & Restless and featuring members of The Nation Blue, they released their debut album to much praise in 2013, and have just returned from turning bars into brutal mood caves at SxSW. They’ll be at 170 Russell on Tuesday June 17.
