Alt-J @ Radio 1's Big Weekend 2013 20.5.2013

Everybody's 2nd favourite band at the moment Alt-J play a huge set at Radio 1's Big Weekend 2013.

Check out the entire Alt-J setlist here:

1. Intro 
2. ❦ (Ripe & Ruin) 
3. Tessellate 
4. Something Good 
5. Dissolve Me 
6. Fitzpleasure 
7. Matilda 
8. Bloodflood 
9. Breezeblocks 
10. Taro 

Listen to the Alt-J setlist here:

Muse @ Ricoh Arena, England 22/05/2013

Check out the Muse setlist here:

1. The 2nd Law: Unsustainable (First verse dialogue only)
2. Supremacy (Extended intro)
3. Supermassive Black Hole 
4. Panic Station 
5. Bliss (Extended outro)
6. Resistance 
7. Animals (with Muse Money confetti)
8. Knights of Cydonia (Man with a Harmonica intro)
9. Dracula Mountain (Lightning Bolt cover) (Drum and bass jam)
10. Sunburn 
11. Dead Star 
12. Monty Jam 
13. Feeling Good (Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley cover)
14. Follow Me 
15. Liquid State 
16. Madness 
17. Time Is Running Out 
18. Stockholm Syndrome (Rage Against the Machine's Freedom outro)
19. B-Stage
20. Unintended (First time live since 2010)
21. Blackout (First time live since 2007, … more)
22. Guiding Light (First time live since 2011)
23. Undisclosed Desires 
24. Encore:
25. The 2nd Law: Unsustainable (with Charles the Robot)
26. Plug In Baby (Guns N' Roses' Sweet Child o' Mine outro)
27. Survival 
28. Encore 2:
29. The 2nd Law: Isolated System 
30. Uprising 
31. Starlight 

Listen to the entire setlist here:

'Resolution' - The New Track from Matt Corby

He's given us plenty of teasers over the years, but after 4 EP's Matt Corby is due to release his debut album very soon.

And if his new track 'Resolution' is anything to go off, get ready for big things.

Corby's new track has all the features that he's become synonymous with - haunting vocals, epic crescendos and thought-provoking lyrics.

Corby is currently touring Australia and has shows locked in til early June.

Listen to Matt Corby's New Track 'Resolution' here:

Huge new track from Talib here. A great mix of Talib Kweli's game-changing lyricism and the irresistable flow of Busta. RZA lays on a typically delicious beat for a killer song all round.

Listen to Rocket Ships here:


Lyrics:

[Verse 1: Talib Kweli]


Moving at the speed of a solution
Bleeding in the streets as we're breathing the pollution
They're saying that we need a revolution
But their passion is reduced to all-caps on a computer
Hey, every sixteen I make a sick scene
Blood splattered all on you shirt like a Miskeen
Y'all niggas trippin' like mescaline and mixed greens
My flow cleaner than the Sistine, pristine
You going green like Al Gore with 'em
I make algorithms that got Malcolm in 'em
God's favorite, I'm sick as a doctor's patient
We live in a cold world, my job is to rock nations
My occupation? Elation, a celebration of rebels
Raise the levels and the decibels flagrant
It's too amazing how we be blazing, son
Our flowers is the loudest, they crowd around us
But cower in the shadows of the towers, boy


[Hook: Talib Kweli]
Take a tour with it, bake the raw
Where the beats so savage
That it's knuckles gon' scrape the floor
Make a call, all the rocket ships taking off
Jah, Wu, gun music playin' when we facing off


[VerseAnnotate 2: Busta Rhymes]
Yo, I plaster the nation, causing evacuation
My manifestation got 'em patient from how I keeps it amazing
See, I'm the reason niggas need some training
While I'm inflicting the pain and making it suitable for any occasion
I'm very engaging soon as I'm awaken
Quickly back you up and bag your bitch
She's reminding me of Sanaa Lathan
Rely on the hating while I'm smiling and waiting
That's when I embrace 'em
If you try to front, you'll be highly mistaken
The mightiest making of a classic, alrighty, I'll face it
My psyche is ancient and I'm hiring, so try me, I'm patient
Sorry, I'm lying, face it, I'm back for the taking
I'm urgently giving niggas the courtesy of smashing their face in
(Damn, can you cut his mic off?)
See how we got 'em buggin'
Cause they can't believe what we have in the making
Shit so historic, got me goin' for it while I bang the nation
And do niggas greasier than a slab of bacon

[Interlude]
Bitch, you still cooking this pork in this house?
Stop cooking that damn pork in this house
The hell going on in here?

[Hook]

[Verse 3: Talib Kweli]
These rap niggas is bitches, nothing but suckers to me
Sacrifice myself for the music and let them suffer through me
Your weak product is nothing to me
I only feel effects when I fuck with Louis
Yep, I get buck in the studio like I'm Evil Dee
Pulling strings like the Muppet movie
Shining my light like Mos calling his mother Umi
Who's the hottest regardless of who's flaming?
We ain't talkin' 'bout the best until you mention my name
Who're you kidding? The truest spitting
I'll break you like a mirror so it's clearer
That we don't believe in superstition
These new additions need supervision
Thinking that they can spit it in the booth like me
What are you stupid? Listen
I've been official, it's been official, I'm too consistent
I make a claim cause I'm too official for euphemisms
Staying in the cut like a new incision
I'll put you on your ass like True Religion
So give it up for the truest living

[Hook]

Line-up announcement! Laneway Festival Detroit 2013

The expansion of the Laneway Festival into Detroit marks the first time an Australian festival has launched in the U.S.  It is now a truly multi-national event, having already established a presence in New Zealand and Singapore. The Detroit Laneway Festival will take place in September of this year.

Tickets go on sale or all you Detroitians (and visitors) this Saturday - the 18th of May. You can find more details on the official site.

Detroit Laneway Festival: 

SIGUR ROS

THE NATIONAL

ALUNAGEORGE 

CHARLI XCX 

CHET FAKER 

CHVRCHES 

DEERHUNTER 

THE DISMEMBERMENT PLAN 

FLUME 

FRIGHTENED RABBIT 

HAERTS 

ICONA POP 

MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND 

PHOSPHORESCENT 

RUN THE JEWELS

SAVAGES 

SOLANGE 

WARPAINT 

WASHED OUT 

YOUTH LAGOON

Ellie Goulding @ Essigfabrik, Cologne, Germany 12.05.2013

Here's Ellie's complete setlist from Essigfabrik:

1. Don't Say a Word 
2. Halcyon 
3. Figure 8 
4. Salt Skin 
5. Hanging On/Wonderman 
6. Joy 
7. Explosions 
8. Guns And Horses 
9. I Know You Care 
10. Your Song Elton John cover)
11. My Blood 
12. Only You 
13. Under The Sheets 
14. Anything Could Happen 
15. Animal 
16. Without Your Love 
17. Starry Eyed

Encore:

1. I Need Your Love 
2. Lights 

Listen to the complete concert setlist here:

Alice in Chains @ Pointfest 21, MO 12.05.2013

The complete setlist of Alice in Chains recent show:

1. Them Bones 
2. Dam That River 
3. Again 
4. Check My Brain 
5. Your Decision 
6. Hollow 
7. We Die Young 
8. Down in a Hole 
9. Nutshell 
10. Stone 
11. No Excuses 
12. Would? 
13. Man in the Box 
14. Rooster 

Listen to the complete setlist here:

Rolling Stones Setlist @ Staples Center, LA 03.05.2013

This setlist is ridiculously orgasmic. Seeing the Stones live is unfortunately still on my bucket list :( .

Here's the Rolling Stones setlist from their show at the Staples Center, LA:

1. Get Off of My Cloud 
2. The Last Time 
3. It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It) 
4. Paint It Black 
5. Gimme Shelter 
6. Wild Horses (with Gwen Stefani)
7. Factory Girl (first live performance since 16 Oct 1997)
8. Emotional Rescue 
9. (live debut)
10. Respectable 
11. (with Keith Urban)
12. Doom and Gloom 
13. One More Shot 
14. Honky Tonk Women 
15. (followed by band introductions)
16. Before They Make Me Run (Keith Richards on lead vocals)
17. Happy (Keith Richards on lead vocals)
18. Midnight Rambler (with Mick Taylor)
19. Miss You 
20. Start Me Up 
21. Tumbling Dice 
22. Brown Sugar 
23. Sympathy for the Devil 

Encore:

1. You Can't Always Get What You Want 
2. Jumpin' Jack Flash 
3. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

Listen to the entire set here:

Bloc Party @ SOS 4.8 Festival 2013

1. So Here We Are 
2. Octopus 
3. Hunting for Witches 
4. Positive Tension 
5. Real Talk 
6. Waiting for the 7.18 
7. Song for Clay (Disappear Here) ('Kele - Tenderoni' intro)
8. Banquet 
9. Coliseum 
10. Day Four 
11. One More Chance 
12. This Modern Love 
13. Ratchet 
14. Truth 
15. Flux ('Rihanna - We Found Love' intro)
16. Helicopter 

Listen to the Entire Set:

Tool Setlist @ Allphones Arena, Sydney 03.05.2013

Here's Tool's setlist from last night:

1. Third Eye 
2. Vicarious 
3. Schism 
4. Pushit 
5. Intension 
6. Lateralus (including 'Orion' snippet)
7. Intermission
8. Jambi 
9. Forty-Six & 2 
10. Ænema 
11. Stinkfist (Dedicated to Jeff Hanneman)

Listen to the Entire Set:

Tool Concert Review

My relationship with hard rock band Tool has been quite an interesting one.

Before listening to Tool the top 40 was really my only avenue to music. As a young naive adolescent I wouldn't really step out of the mainstream before bands such as Linkin Park and the Foo Fighters. Perhaps at this point it would make sense to mention that Savage Garden's 'Affirmation' was my first album.

Anywho after seeing an ad for Tool on TV at the age of 13 I decided to try them out. And I never looked back - the progressive songs, unbelievable musicianship and that crude sense of anarchy Tool evoked definitely appealed to me.

So while I've added plenty of flavours to my palette since then there was definitely an excitement when heading into Tool. I felt like I was revisiting my teen years, and when viewing setlists of other shows in Oz I knew I wouldn't be disappointed.

This was some sort of a show. Coming out with intense visuals and the voice of Bill Hicks blaring "Think for Yourself. Question Authority" (yes, Third Eye intro) I knew this was going to be something special.

They seemed to divide the show into two parts - the first part was all the long epic prog rock pieces that are so synonymous with Tool (Vicarious, Schism, Pushit, etc) but perhaps none better than Lateralus, which was accompanied by visuals straight out of a concentrated LSD trip.

The second part was more the hard rock jams - classic Tool. The final trio of 46 and 2, Aenema and Stinkfist was the ultimate finale.

Maynard's voice was known to be very fragile throughout the tour and had resulted in a show in Adelaide being postponed last month. He hit the notes fine throughout the songs but you could tell he was a bit tentative - he wouldn't hold the notes longer than need be but he was still very tight. And fucking awesome.

It was a different kind of concert - the event staff spoke of the band requesting that no mobile phones /cameras could be used throughout the show, and they followed through in throwing people out who persisted in ignoring this request. Tool wanted the show to be seen with your eyes - not behind your iPhone screen.

So the bottom line: If you get a chance to see Tool - do it. They are unbeatable live and put on an all-round great show.

Alpine Setlist @ Enmore Theatre, Sydney 01.05.2013

Here's Alpine's setlist:

1. Lovers 1 
2. Lovers 2 
3. Hands 
4. Seeing Red 
5. Too Safe 
6. In the Wild 
7. The Vigour 
8. Gasoline 
9. Villages 

Listen to the Entire Set:

Temper Trap Setlist @ Enmore Theatre, Sydney 01.05.2013

1. Love Lost 
2. Fader 
3. This Isn't Happiness 
4. Rabbit Hole 
5. Everybody Leaves In The End 
6. Down River 
7. Soldier On 
8. Miracle 
9. Summer's Almost Gone (Brand new song)
10. Science of Fear 
11. Resurrection 
12. Drum Song 
13. Encore: Trembling Hands 
14. Encore: Sweet Disposition 

Listen to the Entire Set:

Tool Setlist @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre 01.05.2013

Seeing Tool tomorrow, hoping they do a similar set! Don't let me down Maynard!

1. Vicarious 
2. Opiate 
3. Schism 
4. Pushit 
5. Intension 
6. Lateralus 
7. Intermission
8. Jambi 
9. Forty-Six & 2 
10. Ænema 
11. Stinkfist 

Listen to the Entire Set:

Flume Setlist @ Hordern Pavilion (Sydney) 29.04.2013

Flume Setlist for Hordern Pavilion (Sydney) 29.04.2013.

1. A Baru in New York (Yolanda Be Cool cover)
2. More Than You Thought (Sleepless Chipmunk Acapella at beginning)
3. Sleepless 
4. Get Free (Major Lazer cover) (What So Not Remix)
5. Holdin' On 
6. What You Need 
7. Slasherr (Rustie cover) (Flume Remix vs HyperParadise Chipmunk Acapella)

Encore:

1. HyperParadise (Hermitude cover) (Flume Remix)

Chet Faker Setlist @ Hordern Pavilion 29.04.2013

I have a mate who actually used to work with Chet Faker at the first ever 'Grilld' back in Melbourne!

Anyway enjoy his setlist and the complete playlist here:

1. Everything I Wanted 
2. Terms and Conditions 
3. Solo Sunrise 
4. Chocolates and Cigarettes 
5. Love and Feeling 
6. I'm Into You 
7. No Diggity 

Listen to the Entire Set:

Splendour in the Grass 2013

It's been a while. But i'm pissed and it's music related. 

Another year of Splendour. Another missed ticket opportunity.

Yep, I am among the sea of diehard music fans that have missed out on tickets to the event. It's probably all over your Facebook and Twitter feeds, and for that I make no apologies. It is really annoying.

The lineup is gigantic - it is like Laneway on Steroids with a few huge additions such as Frank Ocean, Mumford & Sons and James Blake.

I'm considering these Country Club tickets however it'd just be a solo journey - all my friends already have their tickets. Sleeping by yourself is not cool.



FULL LINE-UP:

MUMFORD & SONS (only AUS show)
FRANK OCEAN
THE NATIONAL (only AUS show)
OF MONSTERS & MEN
EMPIRE OF THE SUN
BERNARD FANNING
THE PRESETS
TV ON THE RADIO (only AUS show)
KLAXONS
FLUME
BABYSHAMBLES
PASSION PIT
BIRDS OF TOKYO
JAMES BLAKE
ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI
LAURA MARLING
MATT CORBY
DRAPHT 
MYSTERY B∆ND
FLIGHT FACILITIES
POLYPHONIC SPREE (performing Rocky Horror Picture Show)
BOY & BEAR
FAT FREDDY'S DROP
COLD WAR KIDS
THE RUBENS
SARAH BLASKO
DARWIN DEEZ
YOU AM I (performing Sound As Ever & Hi-Fi Way)
HERMITUDE
HAIM
AIRBOURNE
THE DRONES
MS MR
GURRUMUL
EVERYTHING EVERYTHING
CLAIRY BROWNE & THE BANGIN' RACKETTES
CLOUD CONTROL
PORTUGAL. THE MAN
DAUGHTER
SOMETHING FOR KATE
WAVVES
CHET FAKER
SNAKADAKTAL
ROBERT DELONG
UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA
WHITLEY
FIDLAR
JAKE BUGG
THE BAMBOOS
SURFER BLOOD
DEAP VALLY
PALMA VIOLETS
ALPINE
LITTLE GREEN CARS
VANCE JOY
JAGWAR MA
VILLAGERS
VIOLENT SOHO
DUNE RATS
PVT
THE JUNGLE GIANTS
CUB SCOUTS
ART OF SLEEPING
THE GROWL
TWINSY
THE CHEMIST
SONGS
MITZI 
TRIPLE J UNEARTHED WINNERS.