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Hello STACKers! The silly season is OVER!
The tinsel’s been put away, your mad
uncle and his weird presents have gone
again until next year, and it’s time to contemplate
2015. Considerable help is arriving shortly, via that
wondrous pastime that is attending live music. As
for me, I can’t miss WOMADelaide; it’s a must-do
on my musical calendar. There are some surprising
acts on the bill this year: Gruff Rhys (ex-Super
Furry Animals), and Victoria’s own blues guitar-
fuelled king of the riverboats, C.W. Stoneking. UK
wunderkinds Public Service Broadcasting are
also on the bill, as well as Swedish siblings First
Aid Kit. But for these delights, I must wait until
March. In January I breezed down to Werribee
Park Mansion for a day of French culture, cuisine
and music with So Frenchy, So Chic. It was sunny,
THIS MONTH AT
The JB Listener
Shadows in the Night sees Bob
Dylan attack the classics made
famous by Frank Sinatra (who
would have been 100 this year).
Thanks to Sony Music we’ve got
three copies to give away.
The New
Dylan album
Onthe
JBStereo I ate and drank well and I was impressed by The
Do . (I also recommend the So Frenchy So Chic
compilations.) Now, take a look at The Laneway
bill and tell me you’re not going: Benjamin
Booker, FKATwigs, Royal Blood and Jungle
all on the same day? And that’s just for starters!
Laneway is a great day for the act you love and
the act you’ve never heard but fall in love with;
it’s just that kind of line up. Of course, when
you do fall in love with that new band, you can
pick up a copy of their album here at JB Hi-Fi or
stream your favourite new release via JB Hi-Fi
NOW. The AMP (Australian Music Prize) will
be awarded again in March; here’s the shortlist
of albums from which the the winner will be
picked:
• #1 Dads About Face
• Chet Faker Built On Glass
• C.W. Stoneking Gon’ Boogaloo
• Blank Realm Grassed Inn
• Laura Jean Laura Jean
• Remi Raw X Infinity
• The PeepTempel Tales
• Caitlin Park The Sleeper
• Total Control Typical System
Good luck to all the finalists! The winner will be
announced on March 4. The JB Listener
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The Platters That Matter
1. Pond
Man It Feels Like Space
Again
2. Mark Ronson
Uptown Special
3. Public Service
Broadcasting
The Race for Spac
4. The Decemberists
What a Terrible World, What
a Beautiful World
5. Curtis Harding
Soul Power
6. Marilyn Manson
The Pale Emperor
7. Gaz Coombes
Matador
8. Carl Barat & the
Jackals
Let It Reign
9. Kitty, Daisy
and Lewis
The Third
10. Jose Gonzalez
Vestiges and Claws
Angie Brown from JB Hi-Fi in the inner southern
Melbourne suburb of Prahran says there’s a genuine
cross section of tastes in her area. Vinyl is selling across
a real variety of age groups, as evidenced by new
releases from Taylor Swift (see below), reissues by hip
hop luminaries like NAS, and vinyl re-releases from Led
Zeppelin and Australian punk legend Rowland S. Howard.
There’re also new releases from older acts like AC/DC
and Pink Floyd. “People love the hip hop, in particular.
NAS’s Illmatic re-release has done really well. Local stuff
too; Courtney Barnett’s EP sold well on vinyl here. But
we’re always on the lookout for unusual stuff. Courtney
Love released a seven-inch single last year and it actually
sold pretty well! The best seller in the store of late has
been the late Rowland S. Howard’s boxset Six Strings
That Drew Blood (see below).
First Aid Kit
Touring in March
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1 Rowland S. Howard Six Strings That Drew Blood (ltd. ed)
2 Taylor Swift 1989
3 AC/DC Rock or Bust
4 Pink Floyd The Endless River
5 The War on Drugs Lost in the Dream