STACK #129 Jul 2016

NEWS

MUSIC

A Quick Look at New Music,

All Different Kinds, All Different Places.

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THIS MONTH TOM SAYS! Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.

The Getaway Plan

and while the issues regarding the fair payment of artists for their music remains far from settled, it's not dimming the passion of artists to create. Passion is valuable thing: it's got me through the last eight years of making in-store music content for JB Hi-Fi, the last four here at STACK, and this is my last issue as music editor. Thanks to Scribal Publishing, all the STACK freelance writers, the JB Hi-Fi music department, and chiefly, thanks to you for reading! Keep your head in the music, there's no better place to be. I'll see you at a gig. Jonathan Alley, (ex) Music Editor

then they should. Industry and audience changes have buffeted The Getaway Plan, just as they've challenged the rest of the industry, but whether you like the racket they make or not, they've stepped up, and stuck at it. Whether you stream it or insist on buying everything on vinyl (or both!), music ain't going away anytime soon; audiences are still in venues, music is being heard, and is shaping culture. Things will keep changing: the trick is to roll with the punches, and to keep trying to be good at what you do. It's no guarantee of success, but not doing so is absolutely a guarantee of failure. The good stuff gets heard,

W elcome to another issue of STACK Music. This month we speak to The Getaway Plan, who are, obviously, a very determined lot: they've weaved around break-ups, scandals and line-up changes to emerge with their aptly titled new album Dark Horses . They've also done everything themselves: artwork, merchandise design, a website, the whole gamut. With no label, they've become their own record company by default. While plenty say – rightly – that musicians are musicians, and should keep to being musicians, I am firmly of the view that if bands can run a cottage industry of sorts,

On My Speakers...

Melody Gardot Currency of Man One of the year's most potent surprises, Gardot's voice is the star, the production remarkable, and the music smoky and powerful.

Sophie Hunger Supermoon

Manu Delago Silver Kobalt Former Björk collaborator from Austria releases

The Rolling Stones From the Vault Live at the Marquee (DVD) Unearthed gig from The Sticky Fingers era

Stylish, darkly funny, edgy Swiss chanteuse who also likes reggae and jazz, Eric Cantona guests and she name checks Courtney Barnett. What more do you need?

fascinating percussive beats/jazz flecked album with different vocal collaborators, including Australia's Katie Noonan. A trip for the mind and the feet.

on DVD, coincides perfectly with re- release of that mighty album.

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