Billions Australia

Pitchfork Top 50

Pitchfork have just published their Top 50 albums for 2011 and it is filled with plenty of Billions Australia represented goodness, including the top two slots on the influential year-end list.

Bon Iver's self titled behemoth has been awarded the number one album of 2011 whilst Destroyer's 'Kaputt', released back in January, has had the staying power to retain second place in a list filled with many strong albums from a range of genres.

St. Vincent 'Strange Mercy' LP has just missed out on the top ten, placing at number eleven. The ST. VINCENT - STRANGE MERCY AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2012 was coincidentally just announced and put on sale yesterday.

Bon Iver touring member Colin Stetson's 'New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges' also made an impression with the Pitchfork writers. It polled in forty fourth place. More than impressive for a sophomore release.

All in all an amazing year for these four fine acts!

Check out the full list.

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Bon Iver Australian Tour

We are pleased to announce that all Australian headline shows for BON IVER are now completely sold out.
Support for the shows in Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth will be Sally Seltmann; the award-winning Australian songwriter behind intoxicating albums such as ‘Heart That’s Pounding’, ‘Somewhere, anywhere.’ and ‘The Last Beautiful Day’ under both her own name and her previous moniker New Buffalo.
Sally is also a member of the highly successful super-trio/collaboration featuring Holly Throsby and Sarah Blasko called Seeker Lover Keeper and is the co-writer of the Grammy nominated song ‘1234’, performed by Feist.
We are very excited to have Sally on board for these magnificent shows.

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Charles Bradley and his Extraordinaires Australian Tour

Soul man Charles Bradley is making his way to Australia at the balmy end of summer to lay some Brooklyn soul vibes on music lovers across the country! A member of the Dunham Records family (an offshoot of Daptone Records, home to Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings), Charles Bradley has been backed by soul supergroups The Bullets and The Menahan Street Band (whose Make The Road By Walking was famously sampled in Jay Z’s Roc Boys) and now tours Australia in March 2012 with his Extraordinaires, the backing band that owned Europe and the US on his world tour featuring some of New Yorks finest soul musicians.

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St Vincent Australian Tour

St. Vincent (a.k.a. Annie Clark) has gone from strength to strength since the release of the internationally-acclaimed Strange Mercy in September. Debuting at #18 in the Billboard Top 200 in the US and being scored 9.0 by Pitchfork, the album has racked up the year-end list accolades: #7 in NME, #8 in Q, #9 in Time, #10 in the Sunday Times and #26 in Rolling Stone (US) among many others. She graced the covers of the September issue of SPIN as well as Under the Radar. Network television appearances have included The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and an upcoming shot on Conan. In February, she will be featured in the wildly popular US television series Gossip Girl.
While Annie has performed in Australia in a solo capacity at Sydney Festival, this will be the Australian debut of her new full-band show which had the Guardian raving in its 4-star review of the London show: “Pure and luscious…(sending) prickles up the spine. Clark extracts maximum fuzziness from her guitar, her plectrum technique so fierce that a woman sitting near me gasps: “She plays like a man!”

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Horrors Australian Headline Shows

THE HORRORS ANNOUNCE TWO EXCLUSIVE AUSTRALIAN HEADLINE SHOWS IN SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE !

East London via Southend-On-Sea band THE HORRORS have come a long way since 2005, when they graced the cover of the NME with eye-linered eyes, big hair, an eff-you attitude and barely a single (the spiky 'Sheena Is A Parasite') to their name. Their live shows were a riot - often literally - but did what rock n roll is supposed to do: energise, excite, divide and polarise. Three records on, they're all grown up and the hype has evolved into almost universal respect. Skying is a wide-ranging, shapeshifting album with an overarching pop sensibility (see: unlikely hit single 'Still Life'). They headlined the Laneway-curated stage at London's Field Day in July and we guarantee that they're as thrilling as ever.

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Abbe May

After recent stints in New York and Europe Abbe has just ripped through Australian capitals with her album launch tour and keeps the engine running for the rest of 2011 on the road including an extensive regional tour with Art vs Science, the national JJJ Nick Cave ‘Straight to You’ theatre tour through November, special appearance club dates and iconic festivals such as Wave Rock Weekender and Mullum with more to be announced. Abbe has now been announced on the Pyramid Rock and Meredith Music Festival... (Read More)