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Premiere: Late Night Hysterics - Limerick
Meet WA-based outfit Late Night Hysterics and their debut single, Limerick.. Late Night Hysterics are a WA-based five-piece who impressed all who saw them earlier this year at Groovin The Moo Festival, and it's now time for the group to release their first single - Limerick. Melding shoegaze, rock and synth in an atmospheric, lush hodge podge of sound, it's a restrained piece of rolling indie-pop that will ease you gently into group's sound. Limerick's a slow burner in the truest sense, and you'll be able to catch it live when the group plays a few single launch shows around Perth this month. Check the dates following the stream, and Limerick is out now on newly launched Perth bookings/management/production/media/publicity label - Blue Grey Pink. SHOW DATES: Nov 28: The Causeway w/ They're There & Apollo's Sun (SINGLE LAUNCH) Nov 30: Osborne Park Bowls Club (BLUE GREY PINK LAUNCH) Dec 3: Prince of Wales w/ They're There + Guests Dec 4: Clancy’s Fish Pub Dunsborough Dec 6: White Star H
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Meet HYLA: Our Stagebound Artist
HYLA are one of three bands in the running to play at next year's Southbound Festival.. As part of Southbound's Stagebound competition, three acts have been chosen to go in the running for a chance to play at next year's edition of the Festival, with three media outlets each picking one to get behind. As you obviously already guessed by the header, we're backing relatively fresh outfit HYLA, who pull inlfuences from dream-pop, garage and shoe-gaze, for a sound reminiscent of shoe-gaze classics My Bloody Valentine and Jesus & Mary Chain, with a hint of newer garage-rock influences like Ty Segall and Thee Oh Sees. As you can see from their press photo, they also have incredible hair, which we're jealous of. But rather than have us existing in a world of our own anxieties and fretting about how shit our hair is, here's a short Q&A to get to know the act a little better. You can vote for them HERE before 11.59 Sunday 30 November, it will take you less than a minute, and automatically puts
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FoF Music's Bumper 5 Year Compilation
Shlohmo, Jerome LOL, Groundislava, feature on LA label collection.. FoF Music (Friends Of Friends Music), a collective/label from LA, have always been ahead of the game when it comes to guiding us towards left-leaning electronic sounds. Their founding philosophy and approach to releasing was even different. Driven by the philosophy that we hear about new music through friends, they have always put out tracks in a way that is not only more involving for the artist (A&R, artwork, marketing) but more importantly truly enticing for the fans, products "worth the hard earned money spent to create and purchase". In their time, FoF Music have led the charge for visionary artists like Shlohmo, Salva, LOL Boys etc., backing those artists as they were breaking (lots of Shlohmo's official back catalogue can be found in their shop). They've always put out great free compilations too, full of one-of-a-kind, forward-thinking electronic music - like Show Me The Future #1 (grab it free here) and #2 (gr