Big Day Out Lineup Announcement

Well it's out ladies and gents, BDO first announcement:

Tool
Rammstein
Iggy And The Stooges
Bloody Beetroots Death Crew 77
Lupe Fiasco
Grinderman
Primal Scream Screamadelica Live
Deftones
The Black Keys
Andrew W.K
The Jim Jones Revue
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
M.I.A
LCD Soundsystem
Booka Shade
Die Antwoord
Vitalic
CSS
Plan B
Ratatat
Crystal Castles ( East Coast only )
John Butler Trio
Wolfmother
Airbourne
Birds Of Tokyo
Kids Of 88
The Naked & Famous

Australia only:

Angus & Julia Stone
Dead Letter Circus
Children Collide
Operator Please
Bliss N Eso
Gyroscope
Pnau
Kid Kenobi & Mc Shureshock
Sampology
Blue King Brown
Will Styles
Little Red
Gypsy And The Cat
Lowrider

New Zealand only:

Die! Die! Die!
Bulletproof
I Am Giant
Six 60
Street Chant
Shihad playing The General Electric Live

Dax Riggs - Say Goodnight to the World

This album's good. Pretty darn good. So it's a little 'all over the place' and each song has its own mood and vibe but that's fine, they're strung together by a sound that's intense, sultry, mellow and dirty as fuck. Still here? Now couple that with the fact that Riggs can sing. Really sing. Like a bird. Like an angel. A vengeful Old Testament angel.

Dax Riggs - Apocalyptic bard?

Video for Black Mountain - The Hair Song

Canadian rockers Black Mountain have released a video 'The Hair Song', one of the better tracks from their sadly disappointing 2010 album 'Wilderness Hearts'.

And if you're a desperately obsessed Black Mountain fan (or just like finding out the names of the people who hold the cameras) there's even a behind-the-scenes vid.

The Black Angels - Phosphene Dream

Want to drift away on a haze of fuzzy guitars, organs and handclaps? Well today you can friends, The Black Angels new album 'Phosphene Dreams' gets officially released! 14th of September and all that. The dates match up, check 'em if you have to. Listen to 'Telephone' from said album below.

New Sounds - Herzog

Herzog are a band hailing from the US whom have a song with a title that should resonate with you if you had the misfortune of encountering, 'Paul Blart: Mall Cop' on a screen of some sort over the past couple of years.

Anyhow, they're a rock band, a slacker rock band perhaps, listening to their debut album 'Search' you can hear snippets of the likes of Pavement, Built to Spill and Weezer. There's a bit more going on than straight up slacker rock, some of the songs taking on a decided pyschedelic edge but you'll need to listen to more of their material than just 'Paul Blart and the Death of Art' to pick that up.

Tara Simmons - I Cannot Be Saved

Brisbane singer-songwriter Tara Simmons released a video for her track 'I Cannot Be Saved' last week. Get on it.

Busy Fingers

The drummer from Brisbane band, The Bloodpoets had his snare stolen from his car in the past 24 hours after playing at Rics yesterday. It's a very distinctive wood grain green Soprano one, in a silver hard case covered in stickers (including a Bloodpoets one). If you or anyone you know comes across it let us know ASAP, it's probably the only one like it in Brisbane. Thanks.