As the days are counted down to this year’s 10th Anniversary Splendour In The Grass extravaganza it’s fair to say anticipation has reached fever pitch at camp Falcona as we prepare to host both the Jagercube and IBEEFA stages across 3 days. We invite you to come party up a storm on Thursday night in the Jagercube, Saturday night in the Jagercube and all Sunday at the IBEEFA stage (which will see an epic mid-afternoon foam party).

Download the festival map and set-times here.

Back due to popular demand this years is the infamous SOSUEME IN THE GRASS mixtape by the SOSUEME DJs. Consisting 100% of tracks from artists appearing on this year’s bill it’s an hour long audio-gasm that is sure to send your Splendour pining into overtime! So whether you’re road tripping up to Woodford or flying up in style, be sure to whack this bad boy on your iPod before you leave as this is quite possibly the best festival mixtape ever made! Seriously!

SOSUEME IN THE GRASS 2010 by the SOSUEME DJS (mp3 320kbps)

Tracklist
1. Florence Intro
2. LCD Sound System - You Wanted a Hit (Soulwax Remix)
3. Two Door Cinema Club – What You Know (Frames Remix)
4. Tim & Jean - Come Around
5. Mike Snow - Animal (Fake Blood Remix)
6. Hot Chip - Shake It Over and Over
7. Grizzly Bear – Knife (Girl Talk Remix)
8. The Vines - Get Free
9. Philadelphia Grand Jury – Going to the Casino
10. Mumford & Sons – Little Lion Man
11. Bag Raiders - Shooting Stars (Kris Menace Remix)
12. Miami Horror – Sometimes (Universe Remix)
13. Aeroplane vs Flight facilities - I Crave Paris
14. Jonathon Boulet – A Community Service Announcement
15. DCUP & Yolanda Be Cool - We No Speak Americano
16. The Swiss - Bubble Bath (Knightlife Remix)
17. Wolfmother - New Moon Rising (Hey Now Remix)
18. Art vs Science - Magic Fountain
19. Midnight Juggernauts – This New Technology
20. Yeasayer – One (Build & Clancy Remix)
21. Temper Trap - Fader
22. Pixies – Hey (Diplo Devil Remix)
23. Florence & the Machine – Cosmic Love (Short Club Remix)
24. Bluejuice - Broken Leg
25. Jinja Safari - Peter Pan
26. Goldfrapp – Strict Machine
27. Tame Impala – Half Full Glass Of Wine (Canyons Drunken Rage Remix)
28. Strokes – Last Night
29. Passion Pit – Sleepy Head (Joyride Remix)
30. Cadillac – Do It
31. Scissor Sisters - I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’

Falcona Fridays returns this Friday with all-star cast of the Falcona Agency’s best including The Gameboys, Elaine Benes, Hobogestapo, Alison Wonderland, Murray Lake, Cadillac and a bunch of special guests.

Across both levels of Kit & Kaboodle. Falcona Fridays – the centre of the Friday Universe, for the musically discerning weekend groover.

To get you in the mood, we’re giving away 3 VIP memberships which will give you and a friend free express entry and a free drink each every time you drop by… forever! To be in the running email friends [at] falcona dot com dot au telling us why you deserve a Falcona Fridays VIP membership.

This week Falcona & Adult Disco are showcasing some killer new Australian producers we think you should hear about and a couple of DJs who are a bit of alright.

Melbourne endless summer disco duo Cadillac are making big waves at the moment, and their latest mini-mix made specially for Saturday’s showcase will demonstrate why:

Cadillac - Adult Disco Mini Mix (mp3 320kbps)

Breakthrough Sydney producer Frames, not to be outdone, has also just finished his latest remix offering of Two Door Cinema’s Club’s What You Know which will give you a glimpse of what to expect from him Saturday night.

Two Door Cinema Club - What You Know (Frames Remix) (mp3 320kbps)

And the last audtio temptation from from Bris-vegas based Youth who is making the Falcona office feel all kinds of nice as we speak. Head to his Soundcloud page to check him out:

Youth (soundcloud)

Are you a fan of animals? Or using the same letter twice to emphasize your point? If you answered yes to both these questions you should venture down to F.R.I.E.N.D/s to witness the amazingly talented Miike Snow drop their favourite tracks on Wednesday 4 August, which will also be their official Sydney afterparty. As always get down early as Fringe is tiny and we hate bouncing you die-hards when it’s full.

Call him what you will; oracle, psychic, profit, calamari….. Paul predicts SOSUEME is going to be uber insane this Friday. With a 100% track record, would you really be arguing with him?

Killer bands, Sydney’s best party DJs and $5 beer & spirits and $8 SO-PUNCH-ME buckets all night long (Falcona recommends).

As a special treat, find below the new amazing Mighty Boosh party video of SOSUEME a few weeks back, featuring Naboo:

Like a flawless astrology forecast it seems the stars are aligning, the planets are in perfect amalgamation and the cosmos is dishing out a substantial amount of love and good fortune all aimed directly at the celestial musings of Pluto Jonze.

With his debut EP set for release later in the year and an album already in the works , Jonze is only contributing to these already significant accolades with exciting news of his recent addition to the Select Music Roster and securing main support for 2010’s most exciting debutants Delphic’s, Sydney show.

Tickets still available but be quick!

Here’s a sneek peak at Melbourne duo The Young Heretics’ film clip for their latest single Risk/Loss.

With an imminent tour planned for later this month, you can also download the latest offering below!
Risk/Loss- http://delinquents.chullybun.com/downloads/54

The jovial and fun loving lads of Sydney’s Bell Weather Department stopped by FALCONA HQ to do a nice little recording of their killer track ‘Receivers’.

Catch them live tonight at SOSUEME (QBar/34b Oxford St), along with Blonde Sovereign, Hey Maverick and The Tourist. Doors open 8pm, $10.

Falcona Fridays

It’s what happens when you combine the Falcona Agency and their guests, Fridays and Kings Cross’ best club.

Come party with us.

As a treat, here’s Art vs Science’s brand spanking new film clip… pretty fuking incredible really!

Bris-vegas based DJ prodigy, Sampology is bringing his Super Visual Smackdown to the people of Sosueme this Friday, spinning records into an art form as he combines sound and vision to create a multimedia extravaganza. Since bursting onto the scene in 2003 as a gig hungry, barely 17 year old kid, Sampology has fast established himself as one of the country’s most talented, technically proficient, versatile and unique DJ/producers. Gaining much respect from the likes of Peaches, DJ Craze and a throng of frenzied fans, his unique and dynamic audio- visual turntabalism will no doubt create mayhem with his mash up style set at this exclusive Sydney show.

Here’s a little teaser of whats to come tonight!!

Bubbling with anticipation festival frequenters have been waiting with bated breath with Fuzzy recently announcing that they were soon to unveil the line up for this year’s annual Parklife Festival. Well we wait no more with news this morning sent out via the interwebs what they have in store for the festival’s 10th anniversary edition.

The five-date festival tour has revealed quite a diverse line-up to date with an invasion of overseas bands making their way onto a usually dance dominated bill. Once again, there’s no ‘headliner’ so to speak but rather a mix of talent from across the musical spectrum.

While the festival is usually synonymous with bikini clad, fluro bearing punters it should be easy to overlook this small annoying fact with the picturesque surroundings and acts like The Dandy Warhols, Groove Armada, Missy Elliot, Kele, New Young Pony Club, The Wombats and Ou Est Le Swimming Pool who will all definitely be worth a watch.

Parklife is dropping by Sydney Sunday 3rd October with a little help from the following acts..
AC Slater,Ajax,Bag Raiders,Brodinski,Busy P,Chiddy Bang,Classixx,Cut Copy,Dan Black,Darwin Deez,Delorean,Groove Armada,Grum,Gypsy and the Cat (excluding Perth),Holy Ghost!,Jack Beats
Jesse Rose,Kele,Mehdi,Memory Tapes,Midnight Juggernauts,Missy Elliott,Mixmaster Mike,New YoungPony Club,Ou Est Le Swimming Pool,Sinden,Soulwax,The Dandy Warhols,The Glitch Mob,The Swiss,The Wombats, Uffie,Washington,Wolf Gang,Yolanda Be Cool vs Dcup

Saturday 10 July - Q Bar… world changing! Mark it in your diaries now!

Official facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=105156399532753

The incredible M-Phazes is gracing the stage this Sunday of the Queens Birthday Long weekend at Spectrum as part of the big Come Together afterparty.

To avoid missing out pick up your presale from moshtix.

Check his interview in this week’s Brag:

1. Growing Up
My father owned a Mexican restaurant as I was growing up, he would play lots of Cat Steven’s and Niel Diamond and I remember helping him clean the joint during the day and I would turn the music up, all the time, louder, and louder. Mum wasn’t a musical person, she liked the Gypsy Kings and Kenny G, typical mum music, Dad played guitar though, but I didn’t grow up in a musical household so to speak. I think I first heard hip-hop on rage and was amazed by how it sounded, my parents were always supportive of what I wanted to listen to but they weren’t too cool with NWA and Ice T, who were big back then. I would dub tapes off my friends and listen to them quietly in my room so my mum couldn’t hear, but they ended up not caring too much.

2. Inspirations
My inspirations have been groups like RUN DMC, De La Soul, Public Enemy, NWA, J-dilla is probably my biggest inspiration production wise. The groups I got into early on, it was a mix of the raw energy, music and how they carried themselves which made me fall in love with the style of music. It was different, didn’t conform to any standard in pop music. I went through the whole baggy pants, trying to act like I was from Brooklyn, but I think the more you learn and grow, the more you realize its about being yourself.

3. You
I’m a hip hop producer, originally from the Gold Coast in QLD, currently residing in Melbourne. I was in a rap group called Trace Elements, we parted ways a while back but I’m still good mates with the other guys. I don’t really have a crew, I have a bunch of good friends in Melbourne I work with a lot, Phrase and Illy being the main ones. Some would call me the loan wolf, sort of like Will Farrell

4. The Music You Make/Play
I don’t think I have a particular style, not now anyway. I try different things all the time and try not to limit myself. My main work has been with various artists including Supastition, Kenn Starr, Muneshine and a lot of underground artists. Some bigger names I have worked with include Pharoahe Monch, Amerie, Trey Songz, M.O.P, Masta Ace and a few others. I also have an Album out with all Aussie mc’s, Drapht, Phrase, Illy, Pegz, Delta and a heap more are on there.

5. Music, Right Here, Right Now
I like where the music scene is at the moment in Australia. Hip-hop still gets overlooked by the big wigs in the industry but all in all we are in a much better place than 5 years ago. I recently finished touring with Illy as his DJ and we did the Groovin’ The Moo tour, along side Silverchair, Miami Horror, Grinspoon, Funkoars, Lisa Mitchell. I made sure I checked out most of the groups playing and they were all amazing, standouts for me were Grinspoon and Miami Horror.

Where Spectrum
When Sunday Long Weekend 13 June 8pm
With Joyride Sound System and Mailer Daemon Sound System it’s also the Come Together After Party!
Cost: $12 moshtix or $15 on the door

Courtesy of our buddies from The Music Network who were Johnny on the spot with this one:

It is with sadness I advise that effective immediately Shock Music Publishing has closed operation. All staff including myself have been let go. The company has been put into liquidation with administrators Lawler Draper Dillion now in control. I will contact AMCOS this week to ascertain the process to resign from the board. I hope to see you all very soon and if anyone needs a cleaner please give me a call.

Kind regards,
Clive Hodson
Former GM Shock Music Publishing

SOSUEME is bringing it large to Come Together Festival this weekend and and as a last minute special gift to you dear reader, we’re giving away 10 VIP passes to the event and Official Afterparty.

First in best dressed! Email events at sosueme dot com dot au

And come see us - we’re playing all day on the DJ stage on Saturday!

Being a self confessed ‘Coastie’ (the nicer side) myself, i can speak from experience when i say like many smaller ‘off the map’ provinces, The Central Coast just don’t get a look in when it comes to music of a higher calibre….

Kudos to the crew at Coaster who always deliver an eclectic mix of entertainment both International and local, unfortunately this small fact tends to jump straight over the heads of a select few musically uninformed who like last year passed up Wu member GZA to head to the dance tent.

Extending the invite to a few thousand peeps to celebrate their third birthday Coaster is back with just the right offering of musical endowment to appease the masses; legendary Californian Hip Hop crew Cypress hill, LA fuzz rockers and personal favourite, Silversun Pickups, Festival regulars; Art VS Science, Blue Juice and Birds of Tokyo and loads of exciting new and not so new comers to the live scene; Basement birds, Cloud Control, Hungry kids of Hungry, The Holidays, Boy and Bear, Illy, Spit Syndicate, Slow down Honey, The Aston Shuffle, The Chemist and The City Riots.

Tickets on sale Thursday 1st July - www.coasterfestival.com.au

It has come to the attention of the Authorities that two of the most notorious gangs known to the establishment, The Bloody Beetroots and The Aston Shuffle have formed an unholy alliance which threatens to send the good citizens of Club Land into total anarchy. In circumstances never before witnessed these two musical masterminds have created a weapon of unparalleled power known only by the name DESTROY. Possessing unprecedented sonic powers including the ability to melt the ears of the people of Club Land, intelligence suggests that the weapon will be implemented in a matter of weeks. The Bloody Beetroots remain at large, most recently sighted at a remote European location. However, an anonymous tip off confirmed that The Aston Shuffle will be embarking on a sonic onslaught commencing at Sydney’s Q Bar establishment this Saturday May 8th with reinforcements from Hey Now, Ember, Murray Lake, Cadillac and more! $15 from moshtix or on the door.

Few artists in music history can pull off the same outfit for 30 years, Madonna certainly couldn’t. With his signature hat and black mop of long curls Slash has done it, and done it well. Since first emerging with Guns N’ Roses, Slash has been one of the world’s most sought after guitarists. He owned the MTV Classic launch last week in Melbourne as guest of honour and on the back of that and his impending solo album he’s announced a highly anticipated Aussie tour which see’s him treating Sydney audiences to an intimate gig of super-massive proportions at The Enmore August 16. God I love Slash, he makes me wanna buy leather pants swear a the tops of my lungs, no-one else has that effect (thankfully)…

As we all know, the incredible Vampire Weekend are heading to Aus for the Groovin The Moo tour with two sold out side-shows in Sydney at the Hordern and the Enmore. If you missed out on tickets however, fear not, because they’ve just announced their only other Sydney appearance as a very intimate DJ set at the popular mid-week party F.R.I.E.N.D/s @ Fringe Bar on Wednesday 12 May. It will also act as their afterparty for their Enmore show. Get in early, Fringe isn’t a huge venue! $10 from 8pm.

Anyone with an album touted as “The second coming of Teen Spirit” has got my attention, albeit with a tad of cynicism. However this is apparently what we can expect from Brisbane-reared, Brooklyn-based noise merchants Violent Soho as they announce their long awaited homecoming dates to celebrate the release of their self titled new album. Gaining double kudos is the fact that Gil Norton (Pixies, Jimmy Eat World, Echo & The Bunnymen) produced their album. A must see gig for 2010- Get down to The Annandale Friday 23rd July, a certain sellout.

The kids from Sydney band Cabins are the latest signee to jump on board The Ivy League label. Bright Victory the latest offering from the four piece has already received great kudos with reviewers and fans alike with surrealistic tales penned by front man Leroy which are carried along by musical arrangements full of woozy pianos, horns, sparse guitars and a rhythm section that at times threatens to play itself into a trance. They are taking off on a national tour with Children Collide playing a home show 5th June at the Factory Theatre. Be there or be a rectangular prisom.

Amazing Australian brother and sister duo Angus and Julia Stone have over the years become a major fixture on the Australian music scene. Going from strength to strength in the last few months with a #1 Gold album, a national sold out tour and back from touring the UK, Europe, USA and Canada, behind them, they are home in July to play the Splendour, quickly followed by their biggest Australian tour to date through August/September. Tickets are on sale Friday, May 7, so make sure you take a look at all finer deets on the pair’s face-space and my-books!

The incredibly talented Hashbang Spacestar are launching their debut EP this Friday at SOSUEME. With a smooth as sex vocals and a synth fronted electro-pop sound, Hashbang have gathered quite the following around Sydney of late, all of which will be no doubt out in force this Friday. Speaking of support, sosueme star crossed lovers Sideways Hitchhiker will be raising the curtain along with the comeback gig for seminal early 2000’s band Ace Squad (youtube search them… NOW!) with Space Project to open. Q Bar + 34b,Friday 8pm $10.

Get down to Darling harbour and do something different with your Friday 21 to Sunday 23 May weekend. Celebrating its 20th year, the Jazz and Blues festival has got an eclectic mix of over 35 acts on five stages around Darling Harbour with first-class headliners including James Morrison and his Motown Show, Stan Walker and his soul band, Harry Manx (Canada), Ash Grunwald, Kristin Berardi, The Strides and D.I.G.