Party pics here.

The Swiss… so incredible!

Happy Snaps here

Hobo’s latest collection of brilliant happy snaps from last night’s insane party in the photos section.

Big ups to Phoenix and Does It Offend You, Yeah? for both coming down and helping us kick the night into over-drive! Very loose!

A selection of party pics here

In the photos section from Friday’s SOSUEME. Thanks as always to Hobogestapo.

Very messy/awesome night!

Party pics here

Fresh from their main support slot on Prodigy’s recent European Tour, UK’s Foreign Beggars are heading back to Australia for a wet-my-pants excited tour. Led by the sonic foundations of producer Dag Nabbit, lyrical combinations of Orifice Vulgatron and Metropolis, DJ NoNames and Beat Boxer Shlomo, Foreign Beggars deliver tunes that show a real evolution in sound – melancholic and reminiscing detours, conscious yet ironic chorus’ and energetic double timings. The music is mature yet still full of energy, affirming their place as one of hip hop’s finest crews. Foreign Beggars are renowned for their unrivalled and explosive live show so don’t miss their one and only Sydney performance which is going down Saturday 10 April, tickets on sale now from moshtix.

Check this for a concept – Abbey Road, the leader it seems in quality live recording and immediate distribution, have just announced that they’ll be recording The Pixies on their entire Aus and NZ Doolittle Live tour, offering high quality CD sets to the fan immediately after the show. Awesome idea – for more info on it or to pre-order, hit up dolittlelive.com

General Pants Co.’s pioneering ‘singles only’ record label officially launches today, dubbed Major Label. The debut three singles, scouted by the street-savvy General Pants Co. staff will be available for streaming on www.generalpants.com.au/majorlabel and available to purchase through selected online retailers. The first artists to be signed to Major Label are High Highs, Circle Pit and Guineafowl. Please join me in congratulating these three awesome-sauce bands.

San Francisco’s Wooden Shjips bring their super psychedelic sounds to Australia for the first time next week. Uncut rated Wooden Shjips in their top 20 gigs of the year, and Jarvis Cocker cited them as a favourite, stating: “I really like Wooden Shjips. There’s nods to psychedelia, but something about it that stops it being a straightforward pastiche. There isn’t an agenda or a subtext to it.” Catch Wooden Shjips with special guests Naked On The Vague and Circle Pit at the Annandale next Thursday, March 11.

Best band ever, Bridezilla are teaming up with The Mess Hall on their epic national tour. Dates in our area include the gong Uni this Thurs 4 March, Newcastle at the Cambridge the next night, and Sydney’s Manning Bar the next night, Sat 6 March. With support also from Cabins, it’s sure to be a sizzling tour. Be sure to get to one of these shows!

The Spirits are finally ready to release their highly anticipated debut EP, The Other Half. Recorded by Berkfinger at Big Jesus Burger and mixed by Lee Groves (Bertie Blackman), The Other Half consists of four eerie and emphatic songs. Intertwining guitars and hard-wired rhythms underscore a vocal at odds with the world, yet hopeful, singing of love and love lost. The Other Half EP will be launched at Spectrum Nightclub on Saturday 6th March with special guests Decorated Generals and The Lockwoods. Doors open at 8pm with $10 entry on the door including a free hardcopy of the EP. Do it!

Londoner James Blackshaw is still yet to reach the age of 30, but has already made an incredible impact on the cannon of modern acoustic guitar music. He is a superb young talent whose nimble and embellished compositions have been described by Rolling Stone as “one of the best and most original instrumentalists in the new, acoustic renaissance.", James Blackshaw will perform solo for the first time in Sydney on Sunday March 7 at Raval in Surry Hills, along with special guest Seaworthy. It promises one of the great live experiences of 2010.

This is not a drill! Meatloaf is going to be in town this Wed-Fri on a whirlwind promotional tour for his new album Hang Cool Teddy Bear out 23 April. $100 to anyone who emails in a photo of you bear-hugging Meatloaf. It will obviously involve finding him at some point during that 3 days - so if you’re walking down the street and you see a dude who looks like Meatloaf, don’t hesitate, he could be worth a hungie, and I’m told he’s a wonderful hugger!

Fresh from inking with Modular, touring with Ladyhawke and wowing festivals as Empire of The Sun’s backup bands, Australia’s much hyped darlings of disco, The Swiss are stopping off this Friday for the Sydney leg of their national EP tour. With their single’s Bubble Bath and Manthem getting plenty of love on the wireless at the moment, you’ll wanna make sure you get down early as there is no-presales. Supported by The Brutal Poodles and Rikers Logic + DJs, this Friday at SOSUEME, Q Bar, $10, 9pm.

It was bound to happen. Vampire Weekend tickets have been snapped up in minutes with second shows added almost immediately in Sydney and Melbourne to meet demand. The second All Ages Sydney show is set to take place Thursday 13 May at the Enmore Theatre. Tickets are sure to be snapped up again quickly so make sure you get onto it pronto.

Searing and soulful, transcendental and life affirming, The Big Pink have recently emerged as one of the most exciting bands to come out of the UK. Following the release of their excellent debut record; A Brief History of Love, Robbie Furze and Milo Cordell embark on their inaugural Australian tour. Prepare your ears for your very own experience of that massive sound, when they play The Metro Theatre, Sunday 7th March.

Two of the bright young things of the Australian independent music scene, Parades & the Seabellies, are preparing to stake their claim on 2010 by announcing a co-headline tour. To coincide with important new music by each band, The Young Cubs & Past Lives Tour will introduce music from their debut album releases to Australian audiences for the first time. If you haven’t had the chance to check these guys out make sure you get down to Oxford Art Factory, Thursday 18th March.

Maybe you’ve heard it through the grapevine, but there’s a new club night for Sydney’s Mad Men, Mods, Mowtowners and Moptops to shake their tail feathers at! Hitting the Brighton Bar Friday 5th March the night is partly inspired by the sweat-inducing, historically-accurate and high energy dance parties of the Toronto college music scene. The Twist and Shout DJs will have Sydney’s hip cats and cool daddy O’s dancing in the streets to timeless 1960s rock and roll, soul, pop, psych, garage and rhythm and blues.

Dominic Knight best known for his work on TV show The Chaser will hosting a night with Scottsman Irvine Welsh and local bands Jack Ladder and the Disbelievers in a mash up of comedy, literature and indie music. Irvine Welsh will be signing books on the night and it is your chance to get up close and personal with the author of cult classic Trainspotting, Esctasy and Porno and his latest novel Reheated Cabbage. Check it out Thursday 11th March, Oxford art Factory @ 7pm

Dynamic Welsh rockers, Stereophonics will tour Australia for the 4th time this April following their 7th Studio Album. Too keep the fans smiling the band are offering a download of Keep Calm Carry On with every online ticket purchase. Their last tour in 2008 was a raging success and with the bands enduring popularity continuing we expect more of the same when they hit the Enmore Theatre on Saturday the 17th or April.

Triple J’s one night stand is heading in to the red heartland of this here country with Alice Springs named as the next host. The lineup will feature the John Butler Trio, Gyroscope, Bluejuice and Washington plus a set by the latest triple J unearthed victor who will announced in good time. So if you are in the mood for great music at the end of a really long road trip head west about 5000km this March and remember to take lots and lots of water. Triple Js one night stand Saturday 27th March – ALICE SPRINGS!

Sydney’s Laura Imbruglia is finally returning from a 2 year writing/recording hiatus to deliver her 2nd album “The Lighter Side Of…” . Laura will be playing at the Annandale to launch the album, with a full band featuring longtime bass player Stiff, Ben James (Talons) on drums and Nick Huggins, who produced the new record, on 2nd geetar! You can expect a bit of country, some power pop, some dark moody stuff and a good serving of grindcore (not really). Fri April 16 at The Annandale Hotel, supports will be announced soon.

FM99.3 2NSB the North Shore’s community radio station is having a fundraising concert to keep the station on air after 26 years of service. To continue giving a voice to the community and support to local talent Sydney’s finest musicians and singers are coming together to perform on March 8 from 8pm at this one off music spectacular. Guest artists include Doug Williams, Rick Robertson, Steve Clisby, Victor Rounds, Evelyn Duprai, Louise Perryman, The Hipstones, Elizabeth Geyer, Jo Elms, Eric Rasmussen, Andrew Oh, Abraham Rounds, Liza Ohlback, Peter Morgan, Lionel Robinson, Noel Elmowy and Flatwound, with more to be added. Tickets are only $35 and will sell fast with the cream of Sydney’s live music scene together on one stage for FM99.3’s fundraiser concert. Call 9419 6969 for tickets. Tune in to FM99.3 and support this great radio station and event and help save another radio station from going under!

Torchbearers of the new Madchester, Delphic are heading down here for the very first time for this whistlestop tour. Bringing with them their reportedly electrifying live act, this is your first chance to catch 2010¹s hot ticket from England¹s sunny north. The Delphic live show has been receiving adulation for it¹s explosive flurry of frenetic energy and blistering car crash of lights and music. 2 shows in Sydney 1st at the Beach Road Sat March 27 with support from Doom + Hoodrat, Matt Van Schie and Modular DJs, and the 2nd the next night at OAF. Tickets to both from moshtix for $35. I imagine both will sell out fairly swiftly, so get in quick!

Remember when rock rolled? You first caught a blast of a racket, you didn’t know where it was going, but as the songs turned each corner, you were exhilarated.

Flying Foxes cordially invite you back and then forward to the wild side of sounds.

After appearances on 3 continents with the likes of The Teenagers (France/UK), The Black Keys (USA) and The Temper Trap, collecting 11 broken bones from a NYC taxi cab along the way, Sydney’s Flying Foxes have feverishly conjured unworldly sounds for their debut album TICKING BOXES. Vinegar vignettes channel charm and unrest upon a soundtrack that glides the glory of guitar into the 21st Century. Ticking Boxes marks the first of one or perhaps many collaborations with Jordy Lane (Shady Lane). As main guy Benjamin Maher explains, having Shady mix the record at Spod’s studio was convenient: “Shady Lane’s music is amazing. The fact that he is obsessed with existential doom is just a bonus.”

Flying Foxes tell tall stories spoilt with candour. Their fractured urban fairytales paint portraits of the joy and tears, swagger and fears, the comedy of errors, the cockeyed carers, the avian dancers, the clumsy romances. The bass buzzes. The beat moves your feet. Your guard retreats. The melody melts, guitar lines compete. You jump on your seat. Your night is complete.

Ticking Boxes is available digitally from http://music.flyingfoxes.tv/ from February 1 and is free to download for all of February.

They are also headlining SOSUEME this Friday 19 February with support from The Cairos, Aeons and Neon Love. One most certainly, not to miss!

Props to all who made it out in the most torrential rain we have ever seen! Big ups to Boy & Bear for their amazing set also, with very solid support from Baba O’Riley & Bell Weather Department.

Check the cheeky happy snaps here

Party pics from our latest 3 parties are now up, including Frightened Rabbit @ F.R.I.E.N.D/s 3 Feb, the SOSUEME ALL STARS @ Q Bar 5 Feb, and Bag Raiders at GHETTODISCO 6 Feb.

Hit up the photos section to see these galleries in action.

Big thanks to our buddies the Bag Raiders for a crazy town night of partying, even though it was a cyclone outside… made for a mad-cap vibe!

Party Pics here

Launch of the SOSUEME ALL STARS… amazing!

Stills here