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Police are angry at a young band who called the riot police on their own gig – but noone showed up.

"Sometimes I look at Rihanna or Justin Bieber, right, and I think, I wonder if they're gonna live that long - because it just seems like they're so manufactured and controlled that it's a disaster maybe waiting to happen."

"My theory is that it takes quite a while for music to spread outside of the core fans – the purist music heads. So having a point of contact with the fans every few weeks with a new tune, I feel that there’s a snowball effect."

The Red Paintings, Los Angeles by the way of Geelong and Brisbane, are gearing up to embark on an Australian tour. Killyourstereo.com sits down with frontman Trash McSweeney to discuss the shows, the band’s long awaited album and all things visual arts.

"I left school and started my band when I was 14. The first thing I started playing was heavy metal and slash metal, so I learnt how to rock out at an early age."

"On this album I’m singing a bit more and it was something that was talked about amongst me and Lotus to try to strive to do that. So I just kind of went with it, you know?"

"We’re too busy playing rock’n’roll shows and satisfying people with Snapchat to find out about Snapchat. I was always disappointed – people need to keep this."

"I’ve also got a loose idea to have an instrumental project come out, like a side project thing, and plus maybe even a collaborative thing at some point, which I’ve sort of started work on but it’s a little early to talk about. There are a few things on the go."

"I think this third album has a lot more depth, whatever that means. It’s not quite so glib and clever, and, I dunno, it’s posing some hopefully interesting questions and alluding to some interesting things with the music."

We’ve shuffeled through some of our favourite albums that have been released in the first half of 2013.

Ontario hardcore outfit Counterparts are preparing to release a new studio album in 2013. Beforehand though, the band come down under for the first time to support In Hearts Wake this month. Killyourstereo.com catches up with frontman Brendan Murphy to get the lowdown on preparations for the tour, wanting to hold a koala, and totaling your tour van after hitting a deer.