Grim Rhythm is a sick band that you need to be listening to. It’s three members of Poison City signees Apart From This (who’re currently performing under the new name Worm) jamming all kinds of sick riffs and heavy grooves. They’ve been playing every Saturday evening this month at The Tote front bar, delivering the goods with bitchin’ guitar solos, out of control drum solos and riff mastery that puts Matt Pike to shame. This band is the real deal and they’re playing circles around everybody on Melbourne stages right now. Grim Rhythm plays The Tote next Saturday April 23 with Cosmic Kahuna in a late afternoon show in the front bar.
Canberran politically charged rockers Hoodlum Shouts have announced a new album entitled Heat Island. Their first since 2012’s Young Man, Old Man, the album is due to be released on Friday May 20 via Poison City Records. The band have also announced an accompanying national tour, playing Melbourne at The John Curtin on Saturday May 21
Melbourne melodic punk rockers Pitt the Elder have announced the release of their second album Radio Silence, due out this May via Arrest Records. The band have also released a stream of preview single Tired Eyes, available on their Facebook and Bandcamp pages.
Melbourne’s Bad Vision have announced the release and launch of their second full length, Turn Out Your Sockets. Following their 2013 self-titled LP, the album is to be released on Friday May 6 with a launch show at The Old Bar on Friday June 3 with support from Camp Cope and Cable Ties
Following the introduction of a new law in North Carolina requiring transgender people to use restrooms of their “matching biological sex”, known as the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act, many musicians such as Bruce Springsteen and Ringo Starr have protested by cancelling shows in the state. However, Florida’s Against Me! have decided to keep a show they have booked in Durham NC, with transgender singer Laura Jane Grace explaining in a Twitter post that, “It was suggested to me in an interview that we might cancel our May 15th show in Durham, NC because of the states HB2 bill. Hell no! I’m even more eager to play North Carolina ’cause of the bill! Let me know if there’s any activist groups that can come table the show.”
Russian beer brewery Zagovor have announced the release of an official Leftöver Crack themed beer. According to the brewery’s website, the beer is a “pumpkin stout called Leftöver Cracker. The brew is black like black metal, solid like pumpkin and supported by rocksteady beat of pastry experiments.”
