introducing….. I, The Hunter!

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After roughly a year of gigs since their inception, Handasyd Williams’ Alt-Country rock band, The Brothers Primitive have gone into their homespun studio to record their first full length album.

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I was catching up with Jess Bern of Lollipop Sugar one day and he handed me a press kit for Spanish band 13 Bats. I felt I knew the name but, to be brutally honest, I could have been confusing them with Queensland’s 13 Bats. When I got home I put the CD on my player and was blown away with this self-titled effort.

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In 2002 Bunt released their fifth CD, ‘Girl on my Mind’, a five track disc consisting of re-recordings of selected tracks off the first two discs (the self-titled ‘Bunt’ and ‘Girl Art’) and Produced by Chris Townsend at Big Jesus Burger.

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Mark Taylor, bass, has left Sydney band ‘Scarlet’s Revenge’. Adding a unique dimension to the Celtic based sound of Scarlet’s Revenge, vocalist Troy Zarb has said he is unsure at the moment, but has been talking to a number of bass players in and around Sydney but does have a certain standard to maintain.

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One of Sydney’s most well travelled bands, the beautifully named Dunhill Blues have released their second CD, the Hard Truth, through Melbourne’s Off the Hip Records and this beautiful disc is available now.

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Hell Crab City have just released ‘Full Bore’ as a follow up to last year’s scorcher, ‘Nicotine Blues’. The first single off the new disc, out through Turkey Neck Records, is the magnum opus ‘Dirty Kid’. Hardly featuring the band at all, this is a very clever use of action and editing, without the band lip syncing, and featuring some very snapping editing. A minimalist set, good acting from the small cast and clever camera work make this the best clip I’ve seen in ages. I take my hat off to them and I can’t wait to see future videos.

The brand new Jack Nasty Face single, ‘Got Me Good’ is set to be released with an accompanying video featuring fashion model Ruby Grose. The new track was produced by New Yorker Erik J Dubowsky who has worked with Weezer, The Academy Is…, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Joss Stone, Luscious Jackson and many more. Coming from a man who hit the stage via a convertible Mercedes at Kemblastock, the clip is bound to be a visual as the band as well as the thumping, grinding, highly danceable sixties garage with goth overtones we’ve come to expect from Jack Nasty Face.

Following last year’s Japanese stint in support of their 2009 CD, ‘Birdland’, Garage/Punk/Auto Destructive Expressionist Art band Bunt will be returning to the land of the Rising Sun in support of their new disc, ‘My Maryanne’, in October. Building on the contacts they made they’re booked for a show with Japanese punk legends Jet Boys, featured in Pamela Valente’s documentary film “Rockin’ Tokyo”. (The film is set for DVD distribution soon) Once returning, the band will be doing a series of shows in New South Wales kicking off in Newcastle at the Great Northern Hotel for their huge Halloween party.

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Back in the early days of The Music Blogs I wrote about the brave choices artists often make, in particular when they leave one band to start another. Ben Drew aka Plan B, though a solo artist, has effectively just done the same thing.

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Albums of the Year

Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion

Andrew Bird – Noble Beast

Antony & the Johnsons – The Crying Light

Morrissey – Years of Refusal

Beirut – March of the Zapotec

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