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BRIGHTBLACK MORNING LIGHT EAST COAST TOUR

We’re getting incredibly excited about the arrival of Brightblack Morning Light to our shores in only a matter of weeks!

From the desert mountains of New Mexico, Brightblack Morning Light embraces the psychedelic moment with a cosmic blend of folk rock, spirit anthems and freak exploration. On the eve of Brightblack Morning Light’s first Australian tour, the band’s ever-mystic founder Nathan Shineywater has announced that this will be the last Brightblack Morning Light tour and the debut of his new musical identity, Berry Shadows.

Don’t miss Brightblack Morning Light with special guest, Rio En Medio.

BRIGHTBLACK MORNING LIGHT TOUR DATES:

SYDNEY: Wednesday, April 7 at Oxford Art Factory.  Tickets $35 + booking fee on sale now from Moshtix. Presented by Mistletone and 2SER.

MELBOURNE:  Thursday, April 8 at East Brunswick Club with special guest Oren Ambarchi. Tickets $35 + booking fee on sale now. Presented by Mistletone and 3RRR.

BRISBANE: Saturday, April 10 at The Troubadour with special guest Anonymeye. Tickets $35 + booking fee on sale now from Oztix. Presented by Mistletone, 4ZZZ and Rave magazine.

PERTH: Sunday, April 11 at Mojos with special guest Craig Mcelhinney. Tickets $40+bf thru Heatseeker. Doors open 5pm. Presented by Life is Noise and Cool Perth Nights.

RIO EN MEDIO (supporting Brightblack Morning Light)

Special guest at the Brightblack Morning Light shows will be Rio En Medio in her first Australian performances. Rio En Medio is the pseudonym of singer and baritone ukulelist Danielle Stech-Homsy.

Born in the high desert of New Mexico, Danielle began to record and perform her own compositions. Working independently and in secret, she created a collection of collage-like songs incorporating found sounds and electronic programming, lifting texts from disparate sources, and evoking traditional/folk song structure, themes and melodies. As chance would have it, a friend passed on the unique, hand-made record to Devendra Banhart who soon requested to release it on his label (Gnomonsong).

Since her debut release in early 2007, Danielle has performed and worked with artists such as Grizzly Bear, CocoRosie, Patrick Wolf and Vashti Bunyan. Her delicate, fragmented songs feature a sparse and haunting trio of baritone ukulele, subtly harmonized vocals and electronic or sampled soundscapes, evoking the spun poetry of ancient folk lullabies. One more compelling reason not to miss the Brightblack shows!

THE BATS – ANZAC WEEKEND TOUR

To celebrate ANZAC day, we’re thrilled to be bringing New Zealand pop royalty The Bats back to Australia.

The Bats are flagbearers for the legacy of the Dunedin/Flying Nun sound, yet their new music is vital and sparkling as ever. The band has never broken up and is touring in the original lineup of Robert Scott, Paul Kean, Kaye Woodward and Malcolm Grant. The Bats’ latest album The Guilty Office (now in its second pressing on Mistletone and available locally through Inertia) was deemed “as fine a collection of songs from the pen of Robert Scott as there ever was”, and last year’s shows won glowing reviews and adoring fans.

To celebrate the tour, Mistletone will be releasing The Bats’ excellent Don’t You Rise four-track EP in digital form. The Don’t You Rise EP gathers up four tunes from 1998 and 2003, helping to complete the discographical picture leading up to The Guilty Office. Featuring the electric violin on Alastair Galbraith (who last featured on The Bats’ Law of Things), That’s How You Found Me would fit in perfectly on any classic Bats album, and mesmerises with its folk-pop groove. You Don’t Belong is a moody gem, while Don’t You Rise‘s country-inflected strum is a live favourite. Face Inside The Sun rounds out the record in fine form, a mid-tempo sing-along that sounds straight off Daddy’s Highway. A pretty special EP then!

THE BATS TOUR DATES:

SYDNEY: Friday April 23 at Oxford Art Factory with special guests Richard In Your Mind + The Ghosts. Tickets on sale now from Moshtix.

BRISBANE: Saturday April 24 at The Troubadour with special guests Greg Brady & The Anchors & The Deadnotes (with The Legend!). Tickets on sale now from Oztix.

MELBOURNE: Sunday April 25 at East Brunswick Club with special guests Ross McLennan & The New World Sympathique + Milk Teddy + DJ Frankie Teardrop. Tickets on sale now.

THE CHILLS IN MELBOURNE AND SYDNEY!

Just as the nights have started to get a little chillier, comes the news that legendary New Zealand band The Chills are heading to Australia for the first time in 17 years, playing two shows only in Melbourne and Sydney!

One of the key proponents of the Flying Nun sound, The Chills have been much loved since the early 1980s for their charming, hook-laden guitar pop. Over the years there have been many lineups, the only constant member being founder and guitarist Martin Phillipps. For this tour The Chills will consist of Martin Phillipps, James Dickson, Erica Stichbury, Todd Knudson and Oli Wilson.

Having grown more iconic and relevant to indie pop as each year passes, there is huge anticipation for the return to Australia of The Chills and their Heavenly Pop Hits…

THE CHILLS TOUR DATES:

MELBOURNE: FRI MAY 14 @ East Brunswick Club, Melbourne w/- Guy Blackman + East Brunswick All Girls Choir, plus DJ RICK (The Twerps). SOLD OUT!

SYDNEY: SAT MAY 15 @ Oxford Art Factory w/ Songs Trio + DJ Berko. Tickets $35 + BF on sale now from Moshtix, ph. 1300 GET TIX.

TORO Y MOI – CAUSERS OF THIS – OUT NOW!

Columbia, South Carolina’s Chaz Bundick, a.k.a. Toro Y Moi (a made-up name, half spanish half french) gathers up the best musical elements from around the globe — R&B, Indie Rock, Electronic Dance and Psychedelica — and creates something-freaking-else!

Over the course of his first groundbreaking full length Causers Of This (out now on Mistletone with four bonus tracks), Toro Y Moi turns the aforementioned musics upside-down with his breathtakingly innovative approach. The incendiary power of Toro Y Moi’s funky synth and guitar play, pumping digital rhythms and gorgeously bright vocal harmonies makes for a formidable combination. A soon to be masterpiece of a currently unnamed genre!

Check out the sweet video for new single Talamak.

“A contender for best chilled-out electronica of 2010, Toro Y Moi’s Causers of This is a world-class debut” – CITYSEARCH

MY DISCO –  SUPER LIMITED YOUNG 12″

Mistletone proudly presents a limited edition (500 copies worldwide) of a cosmic new My Disco jam entitled YOUNG on magnificent 12″ vinyl.

YOUNG is a volatile, mindboggling excursion into the outer realms of My Disco’s dalliance with German minimalism, clocking in at 10:50. The B-side (duration 10:41) is a remix by Qua which warps the transmissions of YOUNG into sublime rhythmic frequencies. YOUNG was engineered and mixed by Scott Horscroft at Big Jesus Burger Studios, assisted by JP, and mastered by Jason Ward at Chicago Mastering Service.

YOUNG 12″ vinyl is now available on mail order and in selected good record stores. The A-side, Young by My Disco, is now available on iTunes. The B-side (Qua remix) is exclusive to the vinyl edition. Be quick cos these babies won’t be around for much longer!

BEACH HOUSE – TEEN DREAM CD/DVD – OUT NOW!

Beach House fever has broken out since the release of their glorious third album Teen Dream in January.

Recorded by Chris Coady in a converted church in upstate New York, Teen Dream is the Beach House album that the world has been waiting for. This is what the critics have said…

• “Teen Dream is one of the finest, most individual albums I have listened to in the past 12 months” – THE WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN (four stars)
  
• “Beach House’s Teen Dream has an uncanny ability to tug at heart strings en masse… Finally, it seems, they’re daring to dream” – THE AGE
• “Teen Dream, the atmosphere-filled album by Baltimore dream-pop duo Beach House, came out this week and has already been getting the kind of hype that Grizzly Bear-style indie-to-mainstream crossovers are made of…” – THE SUNDAY AGE
• “Beach House are far from resting on their dreamy little laurels on their third album, which has taken Animal Collective’s 2009 spot as ‘ridiculously early contender for Album of the Year’” – BEAT Album of the Week
• “A gorgeous listen that never fails to give you a gentle caress through the speakers – and quite often you’ll find the hairs on the back of your neck paying just as much attention” – HERALD SUN
• Album of the Week – 3RRR, FBi, 2SER and RTR plus Triple J Rotation
• Best New Music – PITCHFORK rating 9.0 out of 10
• “A huge leap forward” – MUSIC AUSTRALIA GUIDE **** four stars
• “Majestic, mournful dream-pop” – Q magazine **** four stars
• “Eeri e indie loveliness” – UNCUT  **** four stars
• 9 out of 10 – NME

Phwoar! And yes, Beach House will be touring Australia in the summer — that’s a promise!

KES TRIO NEW ALBUM

Currently taking Japan by storm, Melbourne’s Kes Trio are set to release their brilliant new album in July. Recorded at Head Gap studios by super producer Nao Anzai, Kes Trio features a set of songs that are both brutal and fragile. We reckon it just might be the greatest thing Kes has ever done. More info soon!

BEACHES IN THE USA!

Beaches are currently touring the US for the first time and making quite a splash. Check out these raveups from Pitchfork and The LA Times!

MISTLETONE’S RESIDENT NUTTER CD SALE!

For a limited time we have slashed the price of your favourite Mistletone rekkids with free shipping anywhere in the world. Check out the bargains at our interweb shop and be quick cos this madness is only temporary!

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ash & sophie