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DECEMBER 2014 JB Hi-Fi
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EXTRAS NEWS
C ourtney Barnett will release her debut
album on March 20. It’s called Sometimes I
Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit.
After it leaked online, Björk’s new album Vulnicura
will be released in March. It features Venezuelan
producer Arca and UK artist Bobby Krilic. The Prodigy
are set to release the long-awaited follow-up to
Invaders Must Die in April, it’s called The Day Is My
Enemy. Get ready for a cavalcade of Anzac Day related
releases come the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli
landings in April. Lee Kernaghan’s upcoming April
features real letters by WW1 diggers read by guest
artists. Foo Fighters Nate Mendel has a solo project
out in March under the name ‘Lieutenant’, featuring
members of Fleet Foxes, Snow Patrol and The Bronx.
PJ Harvey is recording her new album with some
sessions open to the public as part of an exhibition.
Amorphous Androgynous (aka The Future Sound
of London) remix Australian psychedelia of yore with
the latest installment in their Monstrous Psychedelic
Bubble series. It will slice up everything from Russell
Morris to Tame Impala. Mark Knopfler (ex-Dire
Straits) releases his eighth solo album, Tracker, in
mid-March. Xavier Rudd returns with his new band
The United Nations in March, with the album Nanna.
The Staple Singers legendary 1965 concert at
Chicago’s New Nazareth Church will be released in
expanded and remastered form next month. Jazz singer
Cassandra Wilson will release a tribute to Billie
Holiday in April, called Coming Forth by Day. Metal
legends The Scorpions celebrate 50 (!) years with a
newly released album entitled Return to Forever in
March. And Django Django have nearly finished work
on their second album.
Music history
2 February 1979
A year after their break-
up, Sex Pistols bassist Sid
Vicious dies of a heroin
overdose. Vicious (real
name John Beverley)
had been charged with
murdering his girlfriend
Nancy Spungen, and was
out on bail; he died
soon after a party
to celebrate his
release.
“In Iceland, you
have the lava, almost no trees,
almost no animals and almost no
people, so things are very stripped down. It’s
very naked.” Do we really have to tell you
Björk tweeted this?
“So far I’ve commemorated #DecemberistsDay by lying
in my kid’s bed, listening to Eno’s ambient records.”
Decemberists Colin Meloy gets cerebral.
“1) Mambo30 @ Ian potter
2) David Shrigley @ NGV
3) Bohemian Melbourne @ state library
All great, free & air-con’d..”Courtney
Barnett hits the galleries
between gigs.
AMP(Australian Music Prize)
shortlist has been
announced, with the final winner being
picked in March 2015. The AMP is a merit-
based music award, with shortlisted acts
and the eventual winner being picked solely
on the judges’ assessment of their musical
quality: it is not based on sales, web stats,
tour revenue or any other numerically
quantifiable element; it is solely about the
judges’ take on the music. The shortlist
was whittled down from an initial longlist of 65 by a panel of 15 judges. Past winners have
included Lisa Mitchell, The Jezabels, The Drones, The Mess Hall, Cloud Control and Big
Scary. The winner stands to pocket a cheque of $30,000 from P.P.C.A to go toward their
next recording project. Tom Iansek (see above right), of last year’s winner Big Scary, is
nominated again this year for his offshoot duo #1Dads and their album About Face.
“Bloke just walked by coffee shop with a Friar Tuck haircut. He looked trendy too.”
Sleaford Mods go people watching.
AMP Shortlist is Out
The 10th Coopers AMP shortlist, based on albums released in 2014.
• About Face by #1Dads • Built On Glass by Chet Faker • Gon’ Boogaloo by
C.W. Stoneking • Grassed Inn by Blank Realm • Laura Jean by Laura Jean
• Raw X Infinity by REMI • Tales by The Peep Tempel • The Sleeper by Caitlin
Park • Typical System by Total Control
Tom Iansek