Wednesday 27 August
Shoot The Player website launch party
World Bar, Kings Cross
Ned Collette + Des Miller + Jai Pyne (The Paper Scissors) + Sui Zhen + Red Riders & Dappled Cities DJs
www.shoottheplayer.com
Free

Thursday 28 August
YourSpace

The Closet Romantics
Anthony James Ousback, John Denney, Art Rush, Taos, Dredd & Archangel, Frontiers in Photography, Shanghai, Trojan Party, The Lurkers, Nik Mueller Duo
7pm, Sly Fox, Enmore, NSW, free

Saturday 30 August
Sound of Failure
Toydeath
Est Et Non, Peter Newman, Jonathan Hunter, Marquis De Sound, Lecter Macabre, Triangle, Samuel Bruce, Dianne’s Dollhouse, Tom Hall, Jessica Tyrrell, Chris Caines, Catfingers, Glen Remington, Greg Chatonsky, Starella

7pm, The Factory Theatre, Enmore, NSW, $20 (+ bf)

Saturday 30 August
Sounds of Seduction
Jay Katz
Miss Death
9pm, Hermann’s, Darlington, NSW, $10

Saturday 6 September
Billy Goat & the Mongrels

CJ Shaw, One Flew East, Killed two birds one was stoned
8pm, Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills, NSW, $6

Much more than a singer, Mr Percival is a vocal artist, innovator and brilliant performer. He creates songs using just his extraordinary voice and a series of loop pedals…

His love for turntablism cannot be missed, holding down most of the beats with a scratch, he finds harmony between choir vocalists, childlike recorder riffs and grime…

Toydeath use childrens electronic toys to create music you have never heard before! Thats right we only use toys!

Musically it’s all over the place. It’s a euphoric jumble of lyrical flows, stripped back blues, indian chorus, brazillian drums, ridiculous art-rock keys…

Listening to old folk records making mushroom risotto on hot summer nights. Drinking pink gins by streetlight with a fridge full of brownies…

Still swooning from her encounter with Tracey from Camera Obscura, Ro is out and about taking photos of bands that she loves…

Random Flickr pics of Songpod bands

…at times bitterly pissed off and loud, at others, smiling and jumping about, fusing a much neglected gap between creativity, diversity and pop music…

Miles Merrill is Australia’s spoken-word tour de force. Miles combines elements of theatre, hip-hop, slam poetry and music, flinging words in a rapid fire onslaught of versified emotion…

“It’s not easy to describe where Cuthbert and the Night Walkers are coming from. The best we can do is to recall a review of a Flaming Lips show which likened the spectacle to a child’s first birthday party organized by the parents while on acid. We wanted to be in a band like that…

sexy electro glam… Apparently they live in a palace, named ‘CHEZ MINK’ which is done entirely in mink. Mink carpet, mink curtains, mink lighting. This friend of my friends said they even had a hi-tech paint designed so they could do the walls in mink.

When you go to see Afro Moses doing his thing…you can expect passion, colour, energy, powerful messages, dancing and a sense that you’ve just witnessed something deeply special…

If you like dub, reggae, hip-hop, latin, funk, african, ska, and wookies, you might like these Rastawookie…

If you like gypsy music with generous lashing of silliness, you might like Mikelangelo and the Black Sea Gentlemen…