Mistletone

KURT VILE & THE VIOLATORS: Thursday, February 6 @ The Corner w/- Montero + Vishnu Keys. Presented by Mistletone and Triple R.

This show has now SOLD OUT. Tickets are still available for Wednesday, February 5 @ The Corner w/- Early Woman + Pearls. Get your tickets for the Wednesday show now from The Corner Box Office.

KURT VILE & THE VIOLATORS: Wednesday, February 5 @ The Corner w/- Early Woman + Pearls. Both Corner shows are now entirely sold out.

Triple R & Mistletone present the return of the mighty Kurt Vile & The Violators. The Philadelphia hair throb and his band (including new drummer Kyle Spence – ex-Dinosaur Jr / Harvey Milk), return to our shores to continue the love affair that began with their sold-out debut Australian tour for Meredith Music Festival 2012.

Kurt Vile has been rightly celebrated everywhere for much of 2013, since the release of Wakin On A Pretty Daze (out locally on Remote Control Records), which was widely hailed as album of the year. One of the most captivating guitarists and singer-songwriters of our time, Kurt Vile continues his ascendant career with these two Laneway side shows.

Artwork by Rick Milovanovic

PARQUET COURTS: Wednesday February 5 @ The Standard w/- Total Control + Bed Wettin’ Bad Boys. Tickets on sale now from Moshtix.

Mistletone, FBi & The Music present, from Texas via New York and for the very first time in Australia, Parquet Courts. Expect delirious scenes when Parquet Courts smash The Standard along with their hand-picked special guests, Total Control and Bed Wettin’ Bad Boys.

Reigniting the joy of American punk rock, Parquet Courts are a no-nonsense, four-man explosion of up-all-night energy, a whip-smart collision of ideas designed to put brains (and mosh pits) in motion.

To quote Uncut: “Parquet Courts channel Pavement’s collapsible spirit better than any band I’ve seen or heard in a long time… (but) there’s plenty more going on in these songs than mere homage to one band. Their wiry ramalams fall into a tradition that began with The Velvet Underground (with “Loaded”, more specifically), rattled on through early ’80s Fall, and manifested itself most recently in the brilliant Australian garage band, Eddy Current Suppression Ring.”

Laneway Festival, Mistletone and Triple R proudly present, by popular demand and the serendipity of “Kurt & Courtney” (!), an extra special and final show by Kurt Vile & the Violators at The Shadow Electric on Tuesday February 4, with special guest Courtney Barnett + DJ Woody McDonald.

This show has now well & truly sold out.

Mistletone is thrilled to announce Kurt Vile & The Violators, Cass McCombs and Parquet Courts as part of the epic lineup for Laneway Festival 2014 in Sydney.

Laneway Festival 2014, Sydney: Sunday, February 2 – Sydney College Of The Arts, Rozelle. Tickets & info here.

Mistletone is pleased to announce that Toro Y Moi will be returning to our shores for their fourth Australian tour as guests of the Big Day Out 2014. Tickets on sale now.

Mistletone is thrilled to announce Kurt Vile & The Violators, Cass McCombs and Parquet Courts as part of the epic lineup for Laneway Festival 2014 in Melbourne.

Laneway Festival 2014, Melbourne: Saturday, February 1 – Footscray Community Arts Centre/River’s Edge. Tickets & info here.

Mistletone is thrilled to announce Kurt Vile & The Violators, Cass McCombs and Parquet Courts as part of the epic lineup for Laneway Festival 2014 in Brisbane.

Laneway Festival 2014, Brisbane: Friday, January 31 – RNA, Fortitude Valley. Tickets & info here.

Mistletone is pleased to announce that Toro Y Moi will be returning to our shores for their fourth Australian tour as guests of the Big Day Out 2014. Tickets on sale now.

CASS MCCOMBS MELBOURNE SHOW: Thursday, January 30 @ Northcote Social Club w/- Ross McLennan. Tickets on sale now from The Corner Box Office.

Mistletone and Triple R present golden singer/songwriter of our time, Cass McCombs with full band, supported by Ross McLennan in a rare solo performance. Cass McCombs has traversed many borders, literally and figuratively, since his great debut, Not The Way, in 2003. Americana, bedroom pop, folk and chamber music have variously held the interest of the Baltimore native, but compelling storytelling and occasional flashes of humor are the common thread here. Cass’s 2011’s twin releases, Humour Risk and Wit’s End (Domino), highlights amongst a catalogue peppered with brilliance.

His new double album for Domino Records, Big Wheel and Others, is a sprawling, visionary album that may just be his best yet. Big Wheel and Others is further proof of Cass’s status as one of his generation’s most visionary songwriters – as uncompromising, radical and counter-cultural as any other artist working today.

As Pitchfork noted, “he’s quietly become one of America’s finest chroniclers of fringe characters, a writer of heart-rending love songs and psychedelic odes to the natural world, a teller of tall-tales with a sense of humor dry as desert wood, and that rare folksinger who actually sings about the folk. Over the last decade, McCombs has been a remarkably consistent, if not publicity-averse, singer-songwriter, comparable to Bill Callahan and Will Oldham as our foremost translators of Old, Weird America into modern terms (and vice-versa).”