Mistletone

Happy new year everyone, hope this year brings heaps of good things!

Here’s some Mistletone bits ‘n pieces to distract you from back-to-school doldrums…

BRIGHTBLACK MORNING LIGHT TOUR.

The Brightblack Morning Light tour has been rescheduled from January to April; see new confirmed dates below, with other dates to be added. All tickets purchased for the January shows will be valid for the April show; refunds are also available at the point of purchase. We’re sorry for the inconvenience but really excited that Brightblack Morning Light are finally coming to Australia!

For this tour Brightblack Morning Light will consist of Nathan Shineywater (who is making incredible new music under his new moniker, Berry Shadows) with two accompanists: Danielle Stech-Homsy (keyboards/vocals) who has released two fine solo albums under the name Rio en Medio, and percussionist Cannupa. Danielle Stech-Homsy, who plays keyboards and vocals in Brightblack Morning Light, will also perform a solo set of her bewitching folktronic lullabies under her Rio En Medio moniker.

BRIGHTBLACK MORNING LIGHT / RIO EN MEDIO TOUR DATES:

SYDNEY: Wednesday, April 7 at Oxford Art Factory.  Tickets $35 + booking fee available from Moshtix. Presented by 2SER.

MELBOURNE:  Thursday, April 8 at East Brunswick Club with special guest OREN AMBARCHI. Tickets $35 + booking fee available now from The East Box Office, on 9388 9794 or online. Presented by 3RRR.

BRISBANE: Saturday, April 10 at the Troubadour. Tickets $35 + booking fee on sale now from Oztix. Presented by 4ZZZ and Rave Magazine.

SUMMER TONES now TINY TONES.

Due to the unavailability of Summer Tones headliners Brightblack Morning Light and Rowland S Howard, who sadly passed away last week, Mistletone has regretfully cancelled Summer Tones. All tickets will be refunded at the point of purchase.

A more intimate show — dubbed Tiny Tones — will go ahead at the Corner on Saturday 16 January headlined by Melbourne’s queens of psych-surf guitar boogie BEACHES on the eve of their first US tour, plus San Francisco’s KELLEY STOLTZ with his all star Melbourne band, along with the debut performance by Animal Collective-endorsed Mississippi crooner DENT MAY & HIS MAGNIFICENT UKULELE (USA), wayfaring sweethearts ROYALCHORD and 10-piece Japanese “brutal orchestra” VAMPILLIA, plus DJs T-Hawk and Niccerboccer Avenue keeping the dancefloor fabulous between and after the bands. It’s going to be an awesome night and we hope you can join us! Tickets $20 + booking fee on sale now from the Corner box office and doors open 7.45pm.

KELLEY STOLTZ MELBOURNE & SYDNEY SHOWS.

Kelley Stoltz is in town for his Australian summer sojourn and with a couple of solo shows under his belt, will play headline shows in Melbourne and Sydney this week (see dates below). Kelley’s crackin’ band features Mikey Young (Eddy Current Suppression Ring), Mark Nelson (The Stabs), Steph Hughes (Dick Diver) and man about town, Julian Wu. Stop by the merch desk for some limited edition Kelley Stoltz vinyl including copies of Below The Branches and Circular Sounds on LP and Kelley’s new 7” single ”Baby I Got New For You” which will be available at his Australian shows until sold out.

KELLEY STOLTZ AUSTRALIAN TOUR DATES:

Thursday January 7 @ Curtin Bandroom (Melbourne): Kelley Stoltz band w/ Super Wild Horses + Alex Jarvis. Tickets $17 +BF on sale now from Moshtix or $20 at the door. Playing times: Doors Open 8:00pm, Alex Jarvis 9:00pm-9:40pm, Super Wild Horses 10:00pm – 10:40pm, Kelley Stoltz 11:00pm – 12:00am.

Saturday January 9 @ Sandringham Hotel (Sydney): Kelley Stoltz band w/ Songs + Carborator. Tickets $17 +BF on sale now from Moshtix or $20 at the door. Playing times: Doors Open 8:00pm, Carborator 8:30pm-9:10pm, Songs 9:30pm-10:10pm, Kelley Stoltz 10:30pm-11:45pm.

Sunday January 17: The Retreat Hotel (Melbourne): Kelley Stoltz solo w/ Lisa Miller + Sarah Bethe Nelson (USA). Tickets $15 at the door. Doors open 7pm.

ROYALCHORD @ WORKERS CLUB.

In the afterglow of critical acclaim for their album The Good Fight (out now through Mistletone), royalchord play at Melbourne’s Workers Club this Friday night. In what promises to be an evening of sweet tunes and pop gems, the royalchord gals and their new band will be joined by Geoffrey O’Connor (The Crayon Fields) with his band plus Milk Teddy and Slow Mo Speedboat, the splendiferous solo project of Jamie Mildren from Architecture in Helskinki. Spinning tunes will be the always wonderful DJ People. Doors open 8pm, tickets: $8+ BF on sale now at Moshtix.

To quote the recent rave royalchord review in Rhythms magazine: “With melodies that melt away like a stick of butter in the hot summer sun, royalchord have cornered the market with their ambient country stylings that are akin to crossing French synth-heavy dream pop stars Air with someone like Dawn Landes or Feist.”

DENT MAY AUSTRALIAN TOUR.

Mistletone proudly presents, all the way from Mississippi, Dent May and his Magnificent Ukulele! Dent’s ebullient debut The Good Feeling Music of Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele was one of the most feel-good indie-pop delights of 2009. As you may guess from the title of his act, Dent indeed plays a ukelele, and 1950s through to 70s-style pop numbers are his game. Dent cites Prince, Serge Gainsbourg, and Lee Hazlewood as some of his favorite singers and comes highly recommended to fans of The Zombies, The Bee Gees, Jonathan Richman and Van Dyke Parks.

On his first ever Australian tour, Dent will perform as a duo, accompanied by his trusty sidekick Robert Chisolm. If you love clever, romantic, elegant and witty pop songs delivered by a charming young crooner who is 101 percent showman, then Dent May is your man!

DENT MAY AUSTRALIAN TOUR DATES:

Sat 16 Jan: The Corner, Melbourne w/ Beaches, Kelley Stoltz, royalchord and Vampillia. Tickets $20 + BF on sale now from The Corner box office, 57 Swan St Richmond, or phone: 9427 9198.

Sun 17 Jan: Pure Pop Records instore, Melbourne. Starts 5pm, free entry!

Tue 19 Jan: The Empress, Melbourne w/ Geoffrey O’Connor (Crayon Fields) + Milk Teddy. Tickets on sale now from Mistletone website for $20 +BF.

Wed 20 Jan: Spectrum, Sydney w/ Megastick Fanfare + Art Rush. Tickets on sale now from Mistletone website for $20 +BF or from Moshtix.

Thu 21 Jan: Troubadour, Brisbane w/ BigStrongBrute + Lion Island. Tickets on sale now from Mistletone website for $20 +BF.

MY DISCO – YOUNG 12″.

My Disco and Mistletone have announced details of an ultra limited edition 12″ vinyl release of a cosmic new My Disco jam entitled YOUNG — 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.

Qua will team up with My Disco to launch the 12? in Sydney and Melbourne with special guests New War (comprised of expatriate Chris Pugmire (of acclaimed cult Seattle/Kill Rock Stars band Shoplifting) and Melbourne luminaries Melissa Lock (also ex-Shoplifting, ex-Remake/Remodel, ex-Bird Blobs), Steve Masterson (ex-Bird Blobs) and Jesse Shepherd (Sir). See dates below!

YOUNG will be released on 12″ vinyl and digital release on Mistletone Records through Inertia; release date February 6.

MY DISCO 12″ LAUNCH DATES:

SYDNEY: Friday 12 February @ Oxford Art Factory. My Disco with special guests Qua + New War. Tickets $18+bf onsale now from Moshtix Online, 1300 Get Tix (438 849), on your mobile via Moshtix Mobi and all Moshtix outlets.

MELBOURNE: Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 February @ The Toff In Town. My Disco with special guests Qua + New War. Tickets $18+bf onsale now from Moshtix: Online Saturday sales or Online Sunday sales, 1300 Get Tix (438 849), on your mobile via Moshtix Mobi and all Moshtix outlets including Polyester (City Only).

UPCOMING MISTLETONE RELEASES:

Mistletone is deliriously thrilled to release the new album by Beach House, definitely their finest yet! Teen Dream is Beach House’s Sub Pop debut and their third album on Mistletone, and is already being hailed as one of the most important indie releases of this year. To quote Victoria of Beach House: “There’s a different level of intimacy, a physicality on Teen Dream. Rhythmically, there’s new motion. This record touches you. On your chest.” The first pressing of Teen Dream will a limited edition deluxe package with a companion DVD featuring a video for each song on the album, each by a different director. Release date: January 23. Look out for a Beach House tour later in 2010!

TORO Y MOI: CAUSERS OF THIS.

Toro Y Moi (a.k.a. Columbia, South Carolina’s Chaz Bundick) is the sound the world has been waiting for. This multi-cultural juggernaut 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, 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!

Mistletone will release Toro Y Moi’s album Causers Of This on February 6. And yes he’ll be touring Australia sometime this year!

THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART.

The Melbourne show for The Pains of Being Pure at Heart at East Brunswick Club with Crayon Fields and Summer Cats on Wednesday February 17 has sold out (yay!), so we’ve added an extra show, also at the East on Thursday February 18 with special guests The Smallgoods and Parking Lot Experiments. See updated tour dates below. All tix are also selling fast, so grab yours now! It’s been ace to see The Pains killing it in the year end lists! here are some quotable quotes amongst many…

‘This was the year’s high-lonesome sound, with military-sharp melodies hiding out beneath fuzzy guitar reverb’ – NEW YORK TIMES # 4 for 2009

‘Pure indie-pop to hold close to your heart’ – NME # 15 for 2009

‘The album has more than its share of instant classics, tracks that come down from the Platonic Heaven of teenagerdom on cascading synth lines and clouds of echoing guitars; A Teenager in Love and Young Adult Friction, in particular.’ – POPMATTERS # 20 for 2009

‘While Pains’ fuzzy production and sparkly guitar jangle made them timely, the energetic-but-effortless, bright-but-melancholic hooks of Stay Alive, Come Saturday, and Young Adult Friction are something closer to timeless.’ – PITCHFORK # 19 for 2009

THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART DATES:

Melbourne : WED FEB 17 @ East Brunswick Club w/ Crayon Fields + Summer Cats (SOLD OUT). Presented by 3RRR and Inpress.

Melbourne : THU FEB 18 @ East Brunswick Club w/ The Smallgoods + Parking Lot Experiments. Tickets on sale from the venue. Presented by 3RRR and Inpress.

Perth : FRI FEB 19 @ Perth Festival Beck’s Music Box w/ special guest Bachelorette. Tickets on sale from the festival website.

Brisbane : SAT FEB 20 @ The Zoo w/ Crayon Fields + Toy Balloon. Tickets on sale online from The Zoo. Presented by 4ZZZ and Time Off.

Sydney : SUN FEB 21 @ Oxford Art Factory w/ Bachelorette + Canvas Kites. Tickets on sale from Moshtix. Presented by FBi Radio and Drum Media.

WOODEN SHJIPS.

San Francisco’s Wooden Shjips are bringing their super psychedelic sounds Australia for the Lost Weekend and Golden Plains Festivals, plus headline shows in Sydney and Melbourne. Uncut rated Wooden Shjips in their top 20 gigs of the year, and Jarvis Cocker recently described Wooden Shjips as one of his fave bands in Inpress, stating: “I really like Wooden Shjips. There’s nods to psychedelia, but something about it that stops it being a straightforward pastiche. There isn’t an agenda or a subtext to it.” Amen to that! Tjickets on sale now from the venues!

WOODEN SHJIPS DATES:

QUEENSLAND: SAT MAR 6 @ THE LOST WEEKEND FESTIVAL.

VICTORIA: SUN MAR 6 @ GOLDEN PLAINS FESTIVAL.

MELBOURNE: WED MAR 10 @ East Brunswick Club + special guests Kim Salmon & The Surrealists and Breathing Shrine. Tickets on sale from the venue.

SYDNEY: THU MAR 11 @ Annandale + special guests Naked on the Vague and Circle Pit. Tickets on sale now from the venue, phone: 02 9550 1078 or online.

Love and light,

sophie ‘n ash