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PARQUET COURTS: Wednesday January 29 @ The Corner w/- Total Control + Constant Mongrel. Tickets on sale now from The Corner box office.

Mistletone, Triple R & 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 Corner along with their hand-picked special guests, Total Control and Constant Mongrel.

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.”

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

Laneway Festival 2014, Auckland: Monday, January 27 – Silo Park. 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 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.

Photo: Shawn Brackbill

KURT VILE SOLO SHOW @ Sydney Festival: Thursday, January 23 @ Festival Village. Midnight show. This event has now sold out.

For this special midnight performance, Kurt Vile performs in solo mode. With a raft of revered albums to his name including the recent release Wakin on a Pretty Daze, Kurt Vile’s slow-burning sounds have seen him dubbed “sublime” by Pitchfork and “electrifying” by NME. Delivering a combination of fingerpicking folk, classic rock and layered psych with understated beauty and languid charm, Kurt Vile’s status as a slacker-rock hero is indisputable.

Kurt Vile is also playing with his band, The Violators, at Paradiso at Town Hall on January 22.

Thursday, January 23 – Enmore Theatre. Tickets on sale October 28, info here. Doors open 8pm.

Kurt Vile will be one of the guest vocalists at Sydney Festival’s Australian exclusive performance of Big Star’s Third. Big Star’s imperfect masterpiece will be performed with its original string and wind orchestrations by Jody Stephens, Mike Mills (R.E.M.), Ken Stringfellow (The Posies), Mitch Easter (Let’s Active) and Chris Stamey (the dB’s) with guest vocalists Kurt Vile and more to be announced.

An all-star cast gather to perform one of the most iconic albums ever made, Big Star’s third album, Sister Lovers. Released in 1978, Sister Lovers was primarily the studio output of founding members Alex Chilton and Jody Stephens. Considered a cult classic, the record is adored by critics and artists alike, with The Replacements, Belle & Sebastian and The Flaming Lips all citing Big Star as an influence and R.E.M.’s Peter Buck describing the album as “a Rosetta Stone for a whole generation”.

KURT VILE & THE VIOLATORS play Sydney Festival: Wednesday, January 22 @ Paradiso at Town Hall.  Doors open 8pm.

This show is well & truly SOLD OUT.

MATMOS MELBOURNE SHOW: Sunday, January 19 @ Howler w/- special guests Always, Andrew Tuttle & DJ Simon Winkler. Tickets on sale now.

Performing with joy and humour, Matmos bring their live sonic experimentation to Australia for the first time and promise an evening of boundary-pushing sonic invention at new Melbourne venue, Howler (7-11 Dawson Street, Brunswick).

Avant-garde electronic duo Matmos experiment with noise to push the boundaries of pop music. Mining non-conventional sound sources and exploring bold ideas, Baltimore-based Drew Daniel and MC Schmidt have been producing music together since the mid-90s, delivering nine albums to date. Their latest release The Marriage of True Minds, based on experiments in telepathy, is an art object, a scientific report, a practical joke and a daring pop record. Since forming in 1997, Matmos have released a dozen influential albums and have collaborated with Björk, Antony and the Johnsons, Liars, David Pajo, Oneohtrix Point Never, Terry Riley, & many others. Their live show features stunning visuals and uses the live stage as a looking glass for an audience into their current sonic palette.

Always joins the lineup – by personal invitation of Matmos – for his first performance in over two years. Always is the nom de plume of Alex Vivian, known for his vocally led experiments towards language, organic sounds, popularised dance music. Since 2004, Always has shifted between sing song pop, spoken word, generic dance music, and abstracted vocal play.

Andrew Tuttle, based in Brisbane, Australia; creates sounds that explore the relationship between instrumentation, structure and genre within electronics and acoustics. Tuttle, usually solo, although occasionally in semi-regular and ad-hoc collaboration, creates a synthesis of electronic/acoustic instrumentation and genre, and improvisation/composition performed on computer, synthesiser, banjo, acoustic guitar, electronics, organ, and other instrumentation.

Simon Winkler, the dance-inducing shaman behind Triple R’s Breaking & Entering, will do us the honour of DJing before, between and after the performances.

Tickets on sale now.

The Punk Singer Q&A with Kathleen Hanna: Sunday Jan 19, 3pm @ State Cinema, Hobart. Tickets $25-$30 on sale now.

As part of this year’s heavenly MONA FOMA lineup, check out the critically acclaimed rock documentary about the life of Kathleen Hanna: cultural icon, radical activist and revered musician. She’s in town with The Julie Ruin, and will be at this screening for an exclusive Q&A session. Bow in the presence of greatness, y’all.

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.