29th September 2010: Mondo Drag / Playlist

Featured: Mondo Drag - New Rituals (Alive!)

From deep in the cosmos of Iowa comes Mondo Drag, orbiting our planet in a mind bending haze of garage, psych and space rock.

With a wall of sound all their own, Mondo Drag have an arsenal of mammoth down-tuned guitars and a head full of clouds and they are on an interstellar mission, flying high, head-first into the future.

'New Rituals', Mondo Drag's debut for Alive!, is an album about life, death, love, revenge, and the unknown. Especially the unknown. It’s psychedelic with a raw heart, that mixes up the genres without polish or attitude as if some band from the ’70s woke up in 2010 and decided there really was no reason to grow with the time and just did what they do best...

With minds expanded and set to the key of retro, Mondo Drag emerge bearing psychedelic sweets that seem to melt as soon as they hit your tongue...

Mondo Drag

Radio Playlist 29th September 2010

Jona Byron - Dead Horse (Demo)
The Lovetones - Coming Home feat. Miranda Lee Richards (Lost)
Mondo Drag - Black River (New Rituals)
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Sleepy Sun - Wild Machines (Fever)
Matt Bailey - Whitey (The Three I's)
Hailer - Heaven Knows (Good Canyon)
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Mondo Drag - Serpent Shake (New Rituals)
Prince Rama - Om Mane Padme Hum (Shadow Temple)
Desire The Horse - The Wolf (The River)
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Magic Silver White - Knew That I Loved You (EP)
Echodeck - Inner Urge (Black Box EP)
The Robot Heart - The Robot Heart (Dust)
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Mondo Drag - Apple (New Rituals)
Himalaya - Pours Down Rain (S/T)

22nd September 2010: Amaya Laucirica & Interview / Playlist

Featured: Amaya Laucirica - Early Summer (Departed Sounds)

If one were to summarise Amaya Laucirica's music in a single word, that word would be transcendent. It's a fitting word, because it describes both the genre-defying nature of Amaya's music and the effect her music tends to have upon the listener.

Born in rural South Australia, Amaya moved to Sydney at age 18 before finally settling in Melbourne. Consequently, themes of change, upheaval and movement can be found within her songs, which yearn for places and things unseen. In 2008, Amaya Laucirica released her debut album, 'Sugar Lights'. An intriguing and beautiful blend of country and folk rock, 'Sugar Lights' was critically lauded and awarded.

As bold a debut as Sugar Lights was, it is Amaya's latest album, 'Early Summer', that truly defines her sound. 'Early Summer' is denser, more detailed and darker than its predecessor, yet at the same time, retains the rawness, hope and beauty, which made 'Sugar Lights' such an enticing debut. Effortlessly beautiful and unapologetically abstract, 'Early Summer' speaks directly to the heart and soul, bypassing - indeed, transcending - the ordinary rhythm of the everyday.

Amaya Laucirica

Radio Playlist 22nd September 2010

A Casual Mile End - Fox & A Prayer (7")
Megafaun - Heretofore (Heretofore)
Amaya Laucirica - Anywhere She Went (Early Summer)
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Heliotropes - Valentine (III)
Philip Selway - Don't Look Down (Familial)
Amaya Laucirica - This World Can Make You Happy (Early Summer)
Amaya Laucirica - Interview (live on Sideways Through Sound)
Amaya Laucirica - Sun On My Face (Early Summer)
Tobias Cummings - Wasteland (A Trophy)
Pond - Duck & Clover (Frond)
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Paul Turner - Heaven & Earth (Another World)
Coralinas - Free Energy (Free Energy)
Autumn Gray - Holding Out (As Of Now: No Guarantees For Later EP)
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Amaya Laucirica - It's So Wrong (Early Summer)
Minamo & Lawrence English - Fireworks (A Path Less Travelled)
Kyu - Cyothea Omintae (S/T)

15th September 2010: Black Mountain / Interview / Playlist

Featured: Black Mountain - Wilderness Heart (Jagjaguwar)

A little over a year after releasing 'In The Future', Canadian psyche-rock five piece Black Mountain started building their third full length effort 'Wilderness Heart' on the west coast of America.

With heavyweights D. Sardy and Randall Dunn at the helm (Sunn O))), Boris), 'Wilderness Heart is packed with tunes that pulse and pound with startling precision. This is arguably the bands tightest, most concentrated venture...

"It's our most metal and our most folk oriented record so far" vocalist Stephen McBean says. "I'm not gonna say it's our best record or the album that we always dreamt of making... it's all about where we were at the time the machines were rolling. You cant control the electricity or how your limbs were moving that day. You have to erase the visions and just go along for the ride."

Thee Sonic Assassin had the pleasure of talking with Stephen just as Black Mountain were about to board a ferry to France... the ensuing, rather sleepy conversation will be on this week's show, September 15...

Black Mountain

Radio Playlist 15th September 2010

Darker My Love - Rain Party (Alive As You Are)
Tame Impala - It Is Not Meant To Be (Innerspeaker)
Black Mountain - Rollercoaster (Wilderness Heart)
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Red Sparowes - A Mutiny (The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein Lies The Answer)
Peace For Old Ghosts - Hedges (Between)
The Laurels - Turn On Your Mind (1 track promo)
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Black Mountain - Wilderness Heart (Wilderness Heart)
Black Mountain - Interview with Stephen McBean)
Black Mountain - Don't Run Our Hearts Around (S/T)
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The Black Angels - No Satisfaction (demo)
The Demon Parade - Do You Believe In Hell (God Said It's Legal EP)
Black Mountain - Old Fangs (Wilderness Heart)
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Lightning Dust - Heaven (S/T)
The Lovetones - When It Comes (Dimensions)

8th September 2010: Martha Tilston / Khancoban in Session / Playlist

Featured: Martha Tilston - Lucy & The Wolves (Longtime Listener)

Martha Tilston is a captivating performer, an enchanting singer-songwriter blessed with a gloriously clear and seductively beautiful voice.

Weaving her magical spell over listeners wherever she plays, from the concert hall to the campfire, from folk clubs to main festival stages, she is a rare gem.

Martha has a gift, the power to draw an audience into her world and create an intimate space where her words and music dance and delight, leaving all those present with a smile and a warm feeling inside.

Having had a break from live performing last year to have a baby, Martha has now completed her new album "Lucy and the Wolves", (released in the UK in April). The album, which again features members of the Woods, including Lamb bass player Jon Thorne, is a stunningly beautiful selection of 11 songs. Throughout, Martha expresses herself in her trademark, endearingly direct, yet wonderfully poetic manner, putting forward her philosophy of life, and examining relationships in an accessible, universal way.

As always, Martha remains the free spirit, questioning without confrontation, and finding a way directly to people's hearts with her exquisite words and music.

Martha Tilston

Khancoban - Live In Session

Half noise, half folk - khancoban’s songs deploy in low-gravity and with a dash of grit. They are performed calmly, utilising calculated space and tension, exploding at key points that leave the band’s filament still burning in their wake. The name Khancoban is a hijacked car from a country town in the Snowy Mountains … its AM radio spilling out tunes by the likes of Wilco, The Clientele and Calexico – bands both influential and with kindred music. This is a band of vast sound riddled with hideaway nooks. Now in your city, that stolen car is all khancoban’s own. Get in.

Sideways Through Sound is thrilled to have Khancoban in for a chat and to play a couple of tunes whilst here in Sydney to promote their new release 'This Block'.

Khancoban

Radio Playlist 8th September 2010

Arborea - Careless Love (Demo)
Liz Stringer - Motel Halls (Tides Of Time)
Martha Tilston - Lucy (Lucy & The Wolves)
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House Of Trees - To Have How Many (Come To The Woods)
Isbells - Reunite (S/T)
Espers - That Which Darkly Thrives (III)
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Khancoban - This Block (EP)
Khancoban - Ghosts In This Lake (Live on Sideways Through Sound)
Khancoban - Do Not Trust The Horse (Live on Sideways Through Sound)
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Martha Tilston - 350 Bells (Lucy & The Wolves)
The Gilded Palace Of Sin - Rosa Salvaje (You Break Our Hearts, We'll Tear Yours Out)
Mogwai - Hunted By A Freak (Special Moves)
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Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - We Die & See Beauty Reign (Hawk)
Clogs feat. Sufjan Stevens - We Were Here (The Creatures In The Garden Of Lady Walton)
Martha Tilston - Who Turns (Lucy & The Wolves)
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Sufjan Stevens - Heirloom (The Age Of Adz)
Allysen Callery - A Ring Around The Moon (Hobgoblin's Hat)

1st September 2010 - Tompkins Square Records / Playlist

Featured: Tompkins Square Records

Tompkins Square

Radio Playlist 1st September 2010

Max Ochs - Imaginational Anthem (S/T)
Khancoban - I Wish I Was On A Plane Somewhere (softly) (EP)
Brad Barr - Heart Shaped Box (The Fall Apartment Instrumental Guitar)
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Ben Reynolds - All Gone Wrong Blues (How Day Earnt It's Night)
The Orbweavers - Japanese Mountains (Japanese Mountains/Spotswood EP)
James Blackshaw - Running To The Ghost (The Cloud Of Unknowing)
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Adam Snider - Split, Part 2 (Berkeley Guitar)
Harris Newman - Lake Shore Drive (slight return) (v/a Imaginational Anthem Vol 1)
M. Mucci - Moments Between (Time Lost)
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Jack Rose - Cross The North Fork II (v/a Imaginational Anthem Vol 2)
Meg Baird - Moving Up A Ways (v/a We Are All One, In The Sun: A Tribute To Robbie Basho)
Robbie Basho - Eagle Sails The Blue Diamond Waters (Venus In Cancer)
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Max Ochs - An Apple Place In Annapolis (S/T)
Chris Forsyth - Paranoid Cat (v/a Imaginational Anthem Vol 4)
Peter Walker - 102nd Psalm (Long Lost Tapes 1970)


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Sideways Through Sound Archive

30th September 2009: Nancy Elizabeth

23rd September 2009: Major Chord

16th September 2009: Safety Meeting Records

9th September 2009: Anonymeye in Session

2nd September 2009: Ben Reynolds

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29th September 2008: Heidi Elva in Session

22nd September 2008: Khancoban

15th September 2008: Mary Hampton

8th September 2008: Static Caravan Records

1st September 2008: The Black Angels

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27th September 2007: Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter

20th September 2007: Diane Cluck

13th September 2007: Gravenhurst

6th September 2007: Men-An-Tol