To celebrate her first tour Down Unda, Regina Spektor has just added another date to her touring schedule for all of us boys and girls. The second show will be, once again, at the Enmore Theatre on 12th July, so get in quick before tickets are snapped up quicker than you can say “Soviet Kitsch”. [...]

Holy crappolli - the rumours are true! Prolific singer/songwriter/alcoholic Ryan Adams will be touring Australia this August in support of his ninth studio album, Easy Tiger. Unfortunately, I was overseas the last time Ryan and his jolly Cardinals played here in 2005. I’ve heard many mixed things about his live shows from that era, [...]

Watch the above video to see those crazy lads belting out a rocking rendition of “Shake Your Hips”, taken from last Saturday night’s gig at the Hopetoun “Hoterl”. Come back Bawdies.

Hey. Guy. You can stop listening to that new Rentals mp3 on repeat, because the real godfathers of black horn-rimmed geek rock - Weezer - are back. In a recent post on the official dot com, his holiness Rivers Cuomo (under the streetwise guise of ‘R-Dawg’) confirms that preparations for for Weezer’s sixth record [...]

Jack and Meg White + The host of children’s show Pancake Mountain, Rufus the goat
= BEST INTERVIEW EVER.

For a more serious, albeit less wacky interview, check out one Jack did recently with Barry Divola over at Bitchfork. (Yeah, I said it. Somebody stop me. I’m out of control.)

There was a severe case of Bawdiemania on Saturday night at the Hopetoun Hotel, as Tokyo’s finest purveyors of old timey rock ‘n’ roll, The Bawdies, took to the stage. Supporting The Basics around the nation for the launch of Stand Out / Fit In, the Japanese fab four played a rockin’ set so authentic, [...]

I don’t know about you but if there’s one thing that I’ll never get sick of, it’s watching Karen O run around in spandex. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs have just premiered their first music video from their recently released E.P, Is Is, and no, it’s not Isis, folks, there’s meant to be a space in [...]

Proving that there is no better way of doing it than DIY, Darren Cross (AKA E.L.F.) has taken his first step into the world of self-produced music videos, with the release of “Cockroaches” on Youtube.
Shot with a $9 budget (three large coffees) on location at Elfcave Studios, the video features Daz in several costume [...]

“Can’t you hear us yelling rag and bone?/ bring out your junk and we’ll give it a home” Jack White cries on “Rag and Bone”, an amusing, mainly spoken-word romp that depicts Meg and himself in full character as a pair of rag and bone collectors, rummaging through unwanted garbage. Humour aside, the line could [...]

An album that’s been on every blogger’s wish list lately is Interpol’s upcoming newie, Our Love To Admire. While 12MC have previously been able to provide you all with a downloadable radio rip of their first single, “The Heinrich Maneuver”, as well as preview of the album’s totally wild album cover, things have been fairly [...]

The White Stripes’ on screen love affair with funny man Conan O’Brien is quite well known throughout the music industry. In fact, their week-long residency on Late Night with Conan O’Brien in 2003 was the subject matter for their Michel Gondry directed music video, “The Denial Twist”. It’s good to see that this romance’s flame [...]

Despite the fact that I’m an incredibly massive Beatles fan, my knowledge for the Fabs post 1970 (when they broke up) is suprisignly sparse. Though all four Beatles pursued their own solo careers after the split, each with varying levels of success (Ringo - no more movies!), I haven’t really followed these. Sure, everyone knows [...]