W♥M083: Oh Mercy

The breaking news is that you can pick up Oh Mercy‘s album, Privileged Woes, for $1 on iTunes until June 30^th. This is a deal. This is a steal.

If you haven’t listened to our podcast, I’ll fill you in: they’re from Melbourne, Australia. Sally may have heard of them via Triple J. I pointed out that the girl in the band is on bass (one point for me).

They are currently enjoying some tour dates with The Temper Trap, who I previously saw.

Oh Mercy Tourdates:
July 22—Metro City–Perth
July 23–Thebarton Theatre–Adelaide
July 24–Festival Hall -Melbourne, Victoria
July 27–Hordern Pavilion–Sydney
July 30–Splendour In The Grass-Brisbane

More details about Oh Mercy at myspace and twitter.

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Broken Bones (Depreciation Guild Remix)

Ex-Curve Toni Halliday’s new project is called Chatalaine. The project is a collaboration with Louise Dowd over the past three years. They finally have a debut album ready, and it’s called Take a Line for a Walk. It’s to be released digitally tomorrow.

I love Curve, so it’s only natural that I wholly enjoyed hearing Take a Line for a Walk. It’s really good, even the remixes (honest!) If you want to check out some free songs, you can get two of them from chatelainemusic.com.

Other topics we talked about:

• The World Cup 2010
• Dapples Cities‘s laser and fog show.
• Raining and OK‘s music video for “Shadows”. More info on rainingandok.com
• Ex Norweigen has a new album, Sketch. Details on exnorwegian.com
• Herbie Hancock‘s followup to his Grammy-award-winning album is called The Imagine Project. It’s to be out on June 22^th, and I have a copy. It’s lovely, if you like jazzy lounge pop music. Hear four songs on the official website

Even more:

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  Britpop.com.au upcoming “Cigarettes & Alcohol” theme on June 26^th

• “Australian Sensation” Sarah Blasko is making her way across the pond with As Day Follows Night to be released domestically in the States on August 10^th via Dramatico Records. I have recorded that I will be reviewing the album, so I can’t really back out now. But what I’ve heard, I like.

Stick around after the Oh Mercy song to hear me talk about my Spanish-triple-threat Alex Cuba (Dakota Jazz Club 6/9), Chico Trujillo, Grupo Fantasma (at the Cedar 6/10).

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Archive of this show at archive.org. More information on podomatic.com