Sonic Masala Presents Its First Sonic Masala Presents!!!

HERE IS THE NEWS YOU HAVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR!!!

Your favourite blog Sonic Masala has finally come out from behind the laptop and into the live venue arena!

On Saturday October 2011, Sonic Masala will be hosting its first ever live showcase. The venue is ultra intimate - The Waiting Room on Browning Street, West End. The sow is small, about 100 people absolute max, and at $10 a pop it will be amazeballs. Oh, and its BYO, with the bottle shop for the Melbourne Hotel RIGHT ACROSS THE ROAD! So no excuses!

Oh and there are some bands playing, just in case we forget...

NOVA SCOTIA are those crazy kids who started off fiddling their inner Malkmus before advancing into a true behemoth of giddy angular grunge pop (my words - quote em if you want...). Their self-titled debut LP is soooo good, freakishly good, and as it should, was nominated for Best Album at this year's Queensland Music Awards. They haven't ever put on a bad show, and as headliners of the first Sonic Masala Presents... promise something extra special for your aural pleasure. (The below clip is a good indication of the band - it was filmed at the same venue too!)



PSY ANTS are a band that only know one thing - how to use a sonic pestle and mortar to crush you into their sordid ways of being. This three piece are purveyors of insidious noise, penetrating your airspace in a rough yet ultimately energising way so that you are happy when they pull their pants back on and throw a balled up tenner at your face - trust me, you'll be begging for more...



CHARLES CURSE & THE CODEINE CHOIR is yet another chapter in the coalescing disparity that is local shadow Greg Charles' musical career. Making amazing noise with Blonde Cobra and expanding the boundaries of convention with his Ex-Catholics, it has been as Charles Curse that his skewed ruminations have found more of a home, with ambient, rambling concoctions echoing as far as Brooklyn. No one knows the mysteries that lie therein, but rest assured it will be an exclusive!





So make sure you tell EVERYONE about this momentous inaugural event - click here for more deets. It's going to be one hell of a time...

Cults Are Cool

I think this is a first. I put up on the Sonic Masala Facebook page last week asking what people were listening to. Other than perennial SMer Andy, there wasn't much response - except from Phil Platt who posted the album Try Crunch from a noise band from New Zealand, Cool Cult. I hadnt heard it, so I went over to the Bandcamp to do just that - and it's fucking ace of base. Running the gamut of noise pop, from your post-punk shoegaze to your no wave and some experimental flourishes in between, the Auckland trio are willing to throw their musical ideas around with wanton abandon. But don't think there isn't substance here behind the constant application of style - these are mostly beautifully formed nuggets sound that are brimming with exuberance and ebullience (like in the track 'Unlived') whilst retaining a hard edged sheen throughout. Some may even here the entire career trajectory of one Bradford Cox in there... Im very impressed - thanks for the heads up Phil, hopefully we here at SM can do the same for you!

And if this Rapture business turns out to just have gotten stuck in traffic and is actually on its way, you could do worse than to sacrifice it all to these three kids...

Cool Cult's Try Crunch is out through Muzai Records (who are also responsible for Fatangryman who I spoke about here).

Cool Cult - Tomorrow

Triple Figures...

A small statistic, but we all start somewhere - we now have surpassed 100 followers on Facebook. If you like the blog, connect to our Facebook page here and get up to date...er, updates? And some other fluff. Whatever. So to celebrate...

Stuck in Traffic?

Hey - its been a while.

Those of you who are a touch sharper might have noticed the number of posts have been a bit on the light side recently, and that Brendan has been taking the burden of Sonic Masala on his lonesome recently due to a 3 week lack of posts from Paul M. Well my work induced SM exile is over and its time I made up for lost posts, or time, or something. Those of you with a even sharper eye may also have noticed that I've taken the hiatus as an opportunity to introduce a new logo, and a design update to the blog, hope you like it. Thought it was about time we polished things up around here.

Anyway I've got more important things to post about, like that thing called music and such, but I also thought I should take the chance to remind you dear reader that you can 'like' Sonic Masala on Facebook, here, and follow us on twitter, here, and as ever gig photos on flickr here. As always let us know what you think - comments and piss takes are always welcome.