Anyone interested in an Australian must listen to thread?
 

After going through Zero's must listen to indie albums thread, and listening to a lot of stuff id never herd before, i was wondering if you guys would like to discover some australian alternative and indie stuff you may have never herd?

If theres any interest, i will post what ive discovered over the last 20 years or so, and maybe you will get onto some great bands you have never herd before.

Just say the word and ill start posting!

yeah i'm interested in an Australian

Lateralus, namely

Go for it! I've been looking for some more good Australian bands besides The Church and The Drones. Should be interesting.

Only one I know of is Tame Impala so you should feel free tell me some more.

Yeah, I'm in Melbourne but haven't really been out and about in the last 10 years so have no idea who's any good when I do want to go out and see some pub bands. It would be nice to find out some names of good local bands. Mind you Aussie stuff will probably be impossible to find for those in the States.

Speaking of good local bands check out Pony Face if you haven't heard them. Their first album 'Bearded Little Girls' was a nice effort. Their second album suffered in the mixing in my opinion but still some good stuff live.

Pony Face - Sea and the Dunes

Check out Purplene, their self-titled, second and final studio album was awesome.

Um, yeah. I'd read that thread.

Any trance? :)

Ok ill start randomly . going through my itunes and selecting anything australian..


First up is children collide, 2009 with Across the earth.




back to 1997 with crodrazines "crazy".



Custard, alone ...1994




More soon.

The panics, this day last year.



Husband, ordinary 2011

Kevin Parker (the guy who writes and records all of Tame Impala's tracks) is involved in a great deal of other bands either directly or inderectly (members of his other bands have their own bands as well) if you look up spinning top music on facebook or look up bands like:
The Dee Dee Dums
Mink Mussel Creek
Pond (opened for flaming lips during aussie tour)
Allbrook/Avery

the list goes on, there is also a tame impala blog on tumblr that has lots of good other aussie bands

The meanies






regurgitator







jebediah





magic dirt









Machine gun felatio



Grinderman...





grinspoon...




Faker



The jezabells



Howling bells




is anyone listening to these songs? am i wasteing my time? rate them dam it!

I can't speak for anybody else, but I thought you were going to write a bit about these bands to get me interested, instead of just dropping videos. As it is, I don't really watch videos on this site when there are threads for them, but I'll read a nice little review of a band and pick up an album based on that.

Lubricated Goat are my favourite non-Cave Aussie band. Delicious muthafukin noise-rock.

Sorry, i dont have time to review and write about albums.

That's what I thought you were suggesting.

These guys sound interesting. Kind of a darker, slightly metal tinged Sigur Ros. Don't know much about them though. Just found them on Bandcamp. Playing some local dates in April.

Fourteen Nights at Sea

In that case, this thread might be more appropriate for you.

http://www.musicbanter.com/general-m...ht-now-ii.html

YES YES I already love this thread!!

Anyone interested in learning up on Aussie music should tune in to Triple J. You can stream online (just google Triple J, sorry can't link yet haven't posted enough :P)

No where better to discover new Australian music. Plus there is great variety of indie genres.

Husky are an Australian indie band that emerged in 2011 and have been gaining critical aclaim here, and they are the first Australian band to sign to American label Sub Pop. They will be headlining their own tour later this year, and from what I've read they should have made an appearace at SXSW in Austin, Texas earlier this year (for any of you Americans here). Their debut album "Forever So" is fantastic. There is a lot of emphasise on harmonic melodies with dreamy vocals and folky instrumentals. The album is very mellow but gives you that warm fuzzy feeling, and I find that it gives off a mystical/romantic vibe. If I were you I would give this album a go. It's perfect for a lazy afternoon and if you are stuck for inspiration for an artwork.

Any type of Australian electro-pop will get attention from me.

Empire of the Sun are the blatantly obvious one, but you already knew that, right?

Gave up on triple j a few years ago. too much pop these days. FBI radio 94.5 is much better.you can stream it at www.fbiradio.com

Lucky for you, seems that there is a variety of stations down there in Sydney. The only thing remotely alternative to commercial radio here is Triple J so thats all I normally tune into. Thanks for the link :)