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By Sophie in Events | 0 comments
| May 20, 2017 | ||
| 12:00 pm |
After clobbering Golden Plains with a multi-booted, rave-reviewed set, Cash Savage and the Last Drinks play Blues at Broadbeach.
Experience the might of Cash Savage and the Last Drinks at Blues on Broadbeach on Saturday May 20. Tickets on sale now.
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By Sophie in Events | 0 comments
| May 19, 2017 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
After clobbering Golden Plains with a multi-booted, rave-reviewed set, Cash Savage and the Last Drinks play their first Brisbane headliner for 2017.
Experience the might of Cash Savage and the Last Drinks at The Zoo on Friday May 19. Tickets on sale now.
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By Sophie in Events | 0 comments
| May 6, 2017 | ||
| 8:30 pm |
After clobbering Golden Plains with a multi-booted, rave-reviewed set, Cash Savage and the Last Drinks play their first headliner for 2017 at The Corner before heading up the east coast in May. Selling fast!
Experience the might of Cash Savage and the Last Drinks at The Corner on Saturday May 6 with special guests Jacky Winter and Jade Imagine. Tickets on sale now.
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By Sophie in Events | 0 comments
| March 16, 2017 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Artwork by Ben Montero, layout by Carl Breitkreuz
Mistletone very proudly presents Kurt Vile, returning to Australia for a supreme solo tour.
KURT VILE SOLO TOUR DATES:
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By Sophie in Events | 0 comments
| March 14, 2017 | ||
| 9:30 pm |
Artwork by Ben Montero, layout by Carl Breitkreuz
Mistletone very proudly presents Kurt Vile, returning to Australia for a supreme solo tour.
KURT VILE SOLO TOUR DATES:
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By Sophie in Events | 0 comments
| March 12, 2017 | ||
| 12:00 pm |
Mistletone very proudly presents Kurt Vile, returning to Australia for a supreme solo tour.
KURT VILE SOLO TOUR DATES:
Since releasing his debut solo album Constant Hitmaker in 2008, Kurt Vile has ascended to an elevated stature as one of the most accomplished and charismatic songwriters of our time. A firm favourite with Australian audiences, KV has packed out rooms across Australia (including Sydney Opera House earlier this year, with his band The Violators).
Kurt’s latest album b’lieve i’m goin down…, released last year via Matador / Remote Control, won universal acclaim; The AV Club called “the purest distillation of Vile’s idiosyncratic style to date”, and Pitchfork bestowed it Best New Music, noting: “Kurt Vile has a persona, and you know him by now: He is the weird quiet kid in the corner, the one who seems at first lost in his own world and disconnected from everything around him, but turns out to be smart, observant, and low-key hilarious. So while his albums draw you in with the vibe—the impeccably recorded and mixed songs that shuffle bits of folk, new wave, or country in the mix but are always squarely down-the-middle rock—you return to them for their human qualities, the way they offer a manner of seeing the world, a glimpse at a perspective that feels both voyeuristic and easy to connect to your own life.”
Last year, Kurt told Rolling Stone that he wanted b’lieve i’m goin down… “to sound like it’s on my couch”, citing Neil Young’s After the Gold Rush as a reference point. “Not in a lo-fi way,” he explained, “just more unguarded and vulnerable. I wanted it to feel like I was on a couch in a familiar living room even if I was somewhere else. To me, it’s sort of that home vibe that I had to capture somehow…to make it sound like it was played there in the room.”
This intimate and immediate power that Kurt Vile’s songs possess is one of the qualities that KV fans hold dear to their hearts, and it will be in generous supply on this rare and auspicious occasion of a Kurt Vile solo tour.
Kurt’s friend Mick Turner will be opening for him at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo, Melbourne Zooand Queensland Performing Arts Centre, performing his highly acclaimed solo work. Mick Turner has had a dynamic and celebrated career as founding member of Dirty Three and simultaneously with his solo project, releasing four LPs on the iconic US label Drag City (Bill Callahan, Joanna Newsom, Ty Segall) with The Australian labelling him “one of Australia’s most distinctive guitarists.”
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By Sophie in Events | 0 comments
| March 12, 2017 | ||
| 12:00 pm |
Toro y Moi and Swedish instrumentalist and producer The Field returns to Australia for the new, all ages Pitch Music Festival, March 10-13 2017. Sign up here for full lineup and tickets.
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By Sophie in Events | 0 comments
| March 11, 2017 | ||
| 6:00 pm |
Golden Plains ticket ballot open now.
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By Sophie in Events | 0 comments
| March 11, 2017 | ||
| 12:00 pm |
Artwork by Carl Breitkreuz
Mistletone proudly presents the return of Toro y Moi.
TORO Y MOI TOUR DATES:
Following extensive touring behind What For?, his fourth studio album as Toro y Moi, acclaimed musician Chaz Bundick brought the band to the middle of the Mojave Desert in April 2016 to play a special concert. Live from Trona documents this experience, recorded live beneath the geological wonders known as the Trona Pinnacles, which formed thousands of years ago in what used to be a prehistoric lake. The album features unique live arrangements of songs from across the band’s catalog, new music, and an expanded band line-up. On the congas, Bay Area multi-instrumentalist Brijean Murphy adds a layer of rhythm, switching between propulsion and deep atmosphere. And for a brand new song, “JBS,” the group is joined by tourmates The Mattson 2. This collaboration between Chaz Bundick and the Mattson twins takes on a classic groove with a jazz fusion approach.
For the film, nine-time Vimeo Staff Pick director Harry Israelson chose to break the fourth wall, revealing the filmmaking process by making equipment, lights, and crew visible at all times. With no audience in attendance and a spectacular natural environment that feels otherworldly, the film pays homage to rock films of a previous era. As the sun sets behind the pinnacles, the supernatural setting seamlessly weaves together with the 13 psychedelic tracks, all recorded on site over the course of an entire day. Through the use of hand-drawn animations and behind-the-scenes VHS footage, Live from Trona offers viewers a surreal concert experience, placing them front row at a private Toro y Moi show.
Born and raised in Columbia, South Carolina, Chaz Bundick has been actively involved in music going back to his early teenage years playing in punk and indie rock bands. Chaz unveiled his Toro y Moi guise in 2001, in which he began incorporating electronics and channeling a wider swath of stylistic influences – from indie rock and ‘60s baroque pop to ‘80s R&B, French house and underground hip-hop – into his own solo music. By the time he graduated from the University of South Carolina in 2009 with a BA in graphic design, Chaz had refined Toro y Moi into a truly unique, captivating project, with numerous music magazines and blogs touting his hazy recordings as the sound of summer. His Mistletone-released debut album, Causers of This, would follow in early 2010 and garnered high praise in many publications including NME and Pitchfork.
Toro Y Moi: Live From Trona from Primary Colors on Vimeo.
Chaz Bundick has proven himself to be as prolific as he is diverse with his subsequent records, always pointing Toro y Moi in new directions while never sacrificing his melodic sensibility or keen ear for arrangements and texture. With 2011’s Underneath the Pine, he delivered a set of motorik space-age funk, trading the smeared production of Causers of This for a more crystalline sound that was still steeped in atmosphere, even without the aid of source material and drum machines. Toro y Moi’s Freaking Out EP, which came out later that year, brought ‘80s-inspired R&B, freestyle, and quiet storm soul into the 21st century via its shimmering digital sheen, and set the stage for 2013’s introspective Anything in Return, which effortlessly glided between smoky 4/4 house-tinged pop, electro-funk and late-night electronic soul.
Toro y Moi’s new album, What For? (out now on Mistletone via Inertia), was written and recorded over the course of eight months at his home studio in Berkeley, CA, with Chaz’s meticulous production capturing the feel of a rock band playing together in the same room. Stereo-panned guitars sit high in the mix next to buzzing synthesizers, funky keys and live drumming, with members of his touring group as well as guest musicians like Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s Ruban Nielson and multi-instrumentalist Julian Lynch all contributing to the sessions.
While Chaz cites Big Star, Talking Heads and Todd Rundgren, as well as the psychedelic soul of Brazilian legend Tim Maia and the ‘70s-era jazz-funk of France’s Cortex, as some of the inspirations behind What For?, these names just act as signposts dotting Toro y Moi’s vivid musical landscape. Even as this may be his most direct outing to date, the nostalgia and reflective essence of these songs remain very much his own.
“I’ve done electronic R&B and more traditional recorded type R&B stuff. I just wanted to see what else was out there,” Chaz says in describing the direction of the new album. “It’s all coming from the same mindset and point of creativity. It’s just me trying to take what I already have, and then taking it further.”
Toro y Moi pic by Jordan Blackmon
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By Sophie in Events | 0 comments
| March 10, 2017 | ||
| 11:00 pm |
THE FIELD TOUR DATES:
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