December 2011
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Young The Giant x Large Noises
When Cool Accidents faves Young The Giant reached Australian shores for Splendour In The Grass this year, Large Noises put them on the rooftop of Melbourne’s Corner Hotel with a couple of mics, and asked them to jam. The result is this raw rendition of ‘Apartment’. Later that night, they took to the stage of the Corner to support Grouplove. Check it out…
PS. Young The Giant’s...
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Hey True Blue.
It’s not everyday that a legendary Australian artist stops by your office and belts out a few tunes, but the other day at Cool Accidents HQ that’s just what happened.
National icon John Williamson came in and treated us to a handful of tracks off his forthcoming album ‘The Big Red’ and had us all hanging off every single word that he sung/spoke.
Midway through his set...
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WatchVia 8tracks:
The best indie rock of 2011. Compiled by Tord of The Wombats, enjoy!
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He's Going To Blow Your Mind.
Say hi to Flux Pavilion, he’s 22, from the UK and makes beats that bang harder than a screen door in a hurricane.
We recommend that you remember the name because you’ll be hearing a lot more from him in 2012.
Check the vid below and get familiar.
And here are Flux Pavilion’s fave tunes from the year that was 2011.
Audio, Video, Disco - Justice
Under Cover of...
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Strange Rock Star Deaths #1
I found this t-shirt today and put it on.
In the late 70s/early 80s there was a wave of Jamaican dub poets spitting angry lyrical rhymes over dubwise beats. Lynton “Inglan Is A Bitch”Johnson was probably the most famous and wrote fire about life in Thatchers britain. Mutabaruka was also pretty fine.
And Mikey Smith was a new style from Jamaica. He made one album called “Mi...
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Where It All Began
Everyone has had the conversation about “what is your favourite album of all time or what was the first album you ever got…..”
It’s the chin wag we’ve all had hundreds of times over the years.
But how many people have a photo of the very minute they ACTUALLY GOT their VERY first record??
By pure luck, I have one!
Christmas Day 1980 - KISS were the biggest band in...
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Believe The Hype
Normally I tend to switch off when someone starts talking about the next BIG thing especially when it’s championed by the good people at Pitchfork BUT in the case of Azealia Banks I’m happy to admit that all the hype is warranted.
Babe. Check
Great Voice. Check
Decent Raps. Check
Use of The C-Bomb. Check
I’m in love.
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Life Is a Highway
To celebrate the release of The Black Keys new album El Camino the Cool Accidents crew recently embarked on an epic road trip from Cairns all the way to Melbourne on a mission in our very own El Kia-mino to spread the word about TBK.
You can find the daily journal entries from the trip HERE and check the twitter feed from the trek HERE
Here’s a video of images we put together after the...
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Stevie Nix (+ Roscoe Renix)
When contemplating going to see the amazing Stevie Nicks play tonight I decided to dust off my copy to The best Of Fleetwood Mac to hear her song Rhiannon (my sisters name so always a favourite).
Here it is in a pretty awesome version from 1976 where Stevie looks a total babe and Lindsay is wearing what looks like – well something that was way cool then but might not work now.
but the studio...