STACK #124 Feb 2016

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AMP Shortlist is Out

AMP (Australian Music Prize) shortlist has been announced, with the final winner being picked in March 2015. The AMP is a merit- based music award, with shortlisted acts and the eventual winner being picked solely on the judges’ assessment of their musical quality: it is not based on sales, web stats, tour revenue or any other numerically quantifiable element; it is solely about the judges’ take on the music. The shortlist

Tom Iansek

C ourtney Barnett will release her debut After it leaked online, Björk’s new album Vulnicura will be released in March. It features Venezuelan producer Arca and UK artist Bobby Krilic . The Prodigy are set to release the long-awaited follow-up to Invaders Must Die in April, it’s called The Day Is My Enemy. Get ready for a cavalcade of Anzac Day related releases come the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings in April. Lee Kernaghan’s upcoming April features real letters by WW1 diggers read by guest artists. Foo Fighters Nate Mendel has a solo project out in March under the name ‘Lieutenant’, featuring members of Fleet Foxes, Snow Patrol and The Bronx. PJ Harvey is recording her new album with some sessions open to the public as part of an exhibition. Amorphous Androgynous (aka The Future Sound of London) remix Australian psychedelia of yore with the latest installment in their Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble series. It will slice up everything from Russell Morris to Tame Impala. Mark Knopfler (ex-Dire Straits) releases his eighth solo album, Tracker , in mid-March. Xavier Rudd returns with his new band The United Nations in March, with the album Nanna . The Staple Singers legendary 1965 concert at Chicago’s New Nazareth Church will be released in expanded and remastered form next month. Jazz singer Cassandra Wilson will release a tribute to Billie Holiday in April, called Coming Forth by Day . Metal legends The Scorpions celebrate 50 (!) years with a newly released album entitled Return to Forever in March. And Django Django have nearly finished work on their second album. “Bloke just walked by coffee shop with a Friar Tuck haircut. He looked trendy too.” Sleaford Mods go people watching. album on March 20. It’s called Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit.

was whittled down from an initial longlist of 65 by a panel of 15 judges. Past winners have included Lisa Mitchell, The Jezabels, The Drones, The Mess Hall, Cloud Control and Big Scary. The winner stands to pocket a cheque of $30,000 from P.P.C.A to go toward their next recording project. Tom Iansek (see above right), of last year’s winner Big Scary, is nominated again this year for his offshoot duo #1Dads and their album About Face. The 10th Coopers AMP shortlist, based on albums released in 2014. • About Face by #1Dads • Built On Glass by Chet Faker • Gon’ Boogaloo by C.W. Stoneking • Grassed Inn by Blank Realm • Laura Jean by Laura Jean • Raw X Infinity by REMI • Tales by The Peep Tempel • The Sleeper by Caitlin Park • Typical System by Total Control

Music history 2 February 1979

“In Iceland, you have the lava, almost no trees, almost no animals and almost no

people, so things are very stripped down. It’s very naked.” Do we really have to tell you Björk tweeted this? “So far I’ve commemorated #DecemberistsDay by lying in my kid’s bed, listening to Eno’s ambient records.” Decemberists Colin Meloy gets cerebral.

A year after their break- up, Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious dies of a heroin overdose. Vicious (real

name John Beverley) had been charged with murdering his girlfriend Nancy Spungen, and was out on bail; he died soon after a party to celebrate his release.

“1) Mambo30 @ Ian potter 2) David Shrigley @ NGV

3) Bohemian Melbourne @ state library All great, free & air-con’d..” Courtney Barnett hits the galleries between gigs.

DECEMBER 2014 JB Hi-Fi www.jbhifi.com.au

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