STACK Magazine April 2015 Issue 126

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G reetings STACK music lovers! This
month I've seen all musical creatures
great and small from secret
underground club shows to massive stadium
extravaganzas. Back in February I caught The
Wombats – if you're new to them, they're from
Liverpool, not Australia – and they're
STACK's cover stars this month. I
saw them at a 'secret' Melbourne
gig, showcasing new songs from
the Glitterbug album. They were
superb, and it was great to see a
band one would usuallly see in a
large-scale setting in an intimate
one. Before she appeared on
Ellen the same week as Michelle
Obama, but after she
blitzed Golden Plains, I
snuck into £1,000
Bend and saw
Courtney Barnett
launch her new
album
Sometimes I Sit
and Think, and
Sometimes I Just
Sit . If you don't
'get' her just yet,
The JB Listener
On the
JB Stereo imagine sitting on the front steps as your best
mate spins you a yarn. This pal just happens
to have a guitar and make records. But don't
get me wrong: she's no balladeer – live, she's
plenty powerful. At the other end of the
spectrum I saw Foo Fighters blitz Etihad
Stadium (check out the Sonic Highways
TV show if you haven't already, it's
out on DVD/Blu-ray this month),
checked out Imagine Dragons
showcasing Night Visions (they're
back in September), saw the
mighty Black Cab who are
always excellent live, and caught
up with clever young Brits
Public Service Broadcasting
playing songs from their
latest Race for Space
album. Quite a month
of music: it'll be
Splendour time
before you know
it! See you next
month, and
until then keep
your head in
the music.
The JB Listener
The Platters That Matter
1 British India
Nothing Touches Me
2 Kendrick Lamar
To Pimp a Butterfly
3 Madeon
Adventure
4 Best Coast
California Nights
5 Love of Diagrams
Blast
6 The Prodigy
The Day is My Enemy
7 The Wombats
Glitterbug
8 Passion Pit
Kindred
9 Gang of Youths
Adventure
10 Alison Wonderland
Run
Pete Gauci (right) has worked at JB Hi-Fi’s flagship
store in Bourke St, Melbourne since 2008. It’s one
of the few JB Hi-Fi stores that stocked vinyl from day
one, expanding the availability of sacred black plastic as
demand has climbed steadily again in recent years. When
we caught up with Gauci last month he was hard at work,
unpacking a brand new shipment of records to get onto
the shelves. Working an inner city store, Pete finds the
demand both consistent and varied, with new releases
by Pond, Alt-J and D’Angelo all selling well. But he says
there’s plenty of room for old and new. “The Royal
Blood album is almost our best seller weekly, and it was
doing well even before they played Laneway. But we’re
also re-ordering David Bowie’s recent greatest hits set
Nothing has Changed every week; that’s done really well.
And, the last two reissues by My Chemical Romance
have done really well too.” However sometimes it’s the
evergreens that just keep on giving, and Pete says this
is the case with the recent re-release of Led Zeppelin’s
Physical Graffiti. “The artwork means it’s the ultimate
Led Zeppelin album to have on vinyl,” he says, referring
to the famous cover depicting the New York tenement
building with inter-changable cardboard window shutters.
Don’t forget, you can always order hard-to-find
vinyl via the JB Hi-Fi website. See right!
090 APRIL 2015 JB Hi-Fi
visit THIS MONTH at MUSIC
ORDERING VINYL ONLINE
1 Go to
2 Click on the 'What's Hot' button at top left
3 Check out music on vinyl OR check out
some goodies in 'Online Exclusives'
Courtney Barnett