Total Control

Total Control touring, playing NYC w/ Lust For Youth, Sannhet and Flesh World (dates)

Fans of the great Australian post-punk band Total Control probably know that they don’t play shows often, and they haven’t played NYC since 2…

Total Control, Thee Oh Sees, Dead Moon, White Lung, No Hope for the Kids & more playing LA's Berserktown II fest

Total Control, Dead Moon, Thee Oh Sees, White Lung, Screaming Females, Priests, Tenement, Amen Dunes, Gun Outfit, Milk Music, and more will play Los Angeles festival Beserktown II from August 14 – 16…

Ultimate Painting give us their Top 10s of 2014, touring with Twerps around SXSW (dates)

Ultimate Painting @ CMJ 2014 (more by Amanda Hatfield) Ultimate Painting, aka Jack Cooper from Mazes and James Haore from Veronica Falls, released their appealing debut album this year via Trouble in Mind and were last in the U…

Twerps signed to Merge, released EP & single, new LP & tour in 2015 (dates, streams ++ Top 10 of 2014)

Australian band Twerps signed to Merge this year and released the Underlay EP in late summer. Then last month, they released a new single, “Back to You,” which is about as perfect a slice of sunny janglepop as you could want and you can check out the video for that song below…

Hookworms talk 'The Hum,' DIY, DbA, Top 10 of 2014 and more in BV interview

Hookworms’ MB @ BV CMJ 2013 (more by Chris La Putt) Hookworms just released their terrific new album The Hum which further’s the band’s motorik psych, taking last year’s adrenalized “Radio Tokyo” single (which they re-recorded for this LP) and further stepping on the gas…

Rough Trade's favorite albums of 2014

Rough Trade NYC on Record Store Day 2014 (more by Amanda Hatfield) As they usually are, Rough Trade Shops are one of the first this year to post their favorite albums of 2014 l…

Lace Curtain (Rat Columns / Total Control) released third EP, touring this month with Eaters (dates, streams)

Austalian band Rat Columns were just on tour and main man David West is sticking around North America a little longer to tour one of his other projects, the mostly electronic Lace Curtain…

Lower Plenty (mem Total Control) releasing an LP on Mexican Summer (stream it), playing Baby's tonight; WIFE play after

We already mentioned that Skygreen Leopards and J Fernandez have new material and tours hitting NYC’s Baby’s All Right pretty much as we speak, but what we didn’t mention is so do Australia’s Lower Plenty who are also on tonight’s bill…

Rat Columns (David West of Total Control) released new LP, touring, playing Death By Audio this weekend (dates, streams)

When Australian musician David West isn’t making music with Rank/Xerox or with Mikey Young as part of Total Control and Lace Curtains, he’s making his own bittersweet pop as Rat Columns…

Australia's Dick Diver touring North America, playing NYC w/ Guerilla Toss, PC Worship, Free Time, more (dates & streams)

Will any Australians actually be in Australia the month of September? They all seem to be touring North America in their many indie rock bands, many of whom are playing Gonerfest…
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