Tuesday, October 8, 2013

VAARALLINEN IN PERTH THIS WEEKEND

Make sure to come down to these. The amount of money and effort that goes into bringing bands over to Perth shouldn't have to be mentioned. Not to mention the gracious pains Lewis at No Patience endured to bring these guys over from Singapore. So don't just sit at home...

Venue change for the Satruday night too, it's now at an art space on William St





Tuesday, September 17, 2013

TERMINAL BORE

Some great, strictly Australian reviews up at TERMINAL BOREDOM.
THE blog for music reviews
http://terminal-boredom.com/reviews/201309/




Helta Skelta "Asbestos" EP
Aussie outfit from Perth I've never heard before, this is their second or third record, with members of Extortion. Kind of a weird mix of hardcore and garage punk, like Rupture meets The Onyas or something. I like it quite a bit, especially "Smile" which is a weird DIY sounding tune with some surfy guitar parts and dum-dum vox. "Rust" is very muscular mid-tempo punk with burly vox, "Suedehead" is not a Morrissey cover but a ballsy slow-tempo HC stomper. "Face" is great snotty shit with an odd post-punk angle to it. Very cool stuff, almost like a more punk or yobbo Hygiene or something, very hard to describe these guys which is always a plus in my book.(RK)


Got some copies of the AMDI PETERSENS ARME - DISCOG LP on the way too, as well as some other releases from HJERNESPIND RECORDS, should be here anyday. Some of Denmark's best! As well as that the distro is updated pretty regularly so check back for new releases.
http://heltaskeltarecords.bigcartel.com/



Monday, September 9, 2013

HSR008 HELTA SKELTA - REDS 7"

The A side to the upcoming HELTA SKELTA 7"

This will be the single for the upcoming LP and the B side will feature an exclusive track

Available Oct/Nov 2013

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

A LITTLE R&R

More HSR releases including the PLASTIC BAGS demo will be available next week from Tym Guitars in Brisbane, Missing Link in Melbourne and Disinfect Records in Sydney. And Sorry State Records in the US also has the PB demo (review below).

HELTA SKELTA and PLASTIC BAGS will also be heading over to Melbourne for MAGGOTFEST IV this year. The line up so far is insane! Sure to be the show(s) of the year.

In light of this HS will have a new 7" single ready by then, one track off the upcoming LP and an exlusive track. We just finished the recording this week. Recording for the new HS LP will be happening pretty soon too and that should be out by the end of the year. And finally PB will also have a new 6 track cassette out in time for MAGGOTFEST.

PLASTIC BAGS - DEMO
Sorry State:
Demo tape from this killer lady-fronted punk band from Ausralia. A lot of bands claim an influence from the early Dangerhouse sound, but man, this band sounds like they really could have been released on that label. Super minimal, energetic front with ridiculously catchy vocals. This kind of reminds me of the early S***ty Limits stuff as well... there's a similarly killer sense of songcraft at work. They also cover one of my favorite Murder Punk tunes, "I Hate School" (which was, incidentally, also covered by the Love Triangle on one of their early tapes). Very highly recommended.

In the mean time listen to this Melbourne filth, for the people of Petth I now have copies of this demo

Tuesday, July 9, 2013