29th February 2012: The Maple Trail / Playlist

Featured: The Maple Trail - Cable Mount Warning (Broken Stone)

The Maple Trail is the solo project of Sydney-based musician Aidan Roberts and is something of a personal odyssey, a musical journey that has traversed the ravines of Sydney’s metropolitan limits and rearticulated itself across hundreds of hours of tape and performances.

In September 2007, Aidan and his consort of harmonium, accordion, saxophone released his debut EP 'New York', followed by his first full-length 'Dirty Echo Spark' another ragged collection of electric-folk epics; joyous, at times elegiac bears an eclectic sounds.

Aidan's third solo album, 'Cable Mount Warning' is a change of scenery and method. An exercise in writing over 18 months, spanning across New Zealand, at home in the Blue Mountains, and recorded amongst the clutter and kipple of his new urban home studio in Stanmore, Sydney.

On 'Cable Mount Warning' Aidan focused almost exclusively on recording acoustic instruments and mixed with long time collaborater and co-songwriter in Belles Will Ring, Liam Judson. The result is the most concise and buoyant exhibition of The Maple Trail’s sound to date.

The Maple Trail

Radio Playlist 29th February 2012 (here)


Andrew Bird - Desperation Breeds... (Break It Yourself)
Brian Campeau - Who Cares (Mostly Winter Sometimes Spring)
The Maple Trail - Captain Dies (Cable Mount Warning)
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William Tyler - Between Radnor & Sunrise (v/a Imaginational Anthem Vol.4: New Possibilities)
Marissa Nadler - All Love Must Die (Live on Dark Night Of The Soul, WFMU 91.1FM New York, August 2011)
Cortney Tidwell - Solid State (Boys)
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The Maple Trail - This Dead Moon (Cable Mount Warning)
Quest For Fire - Psychic Seasons (Lights From Paradise)
Howlin' Rain - Phantom In The Valley (The Russian Wilds)
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Vetiver - I Must Be In A Good Place Now (Live at KEXP 90.3FM Seattle, December 2010)
Strand Of Oaks - Sterling (Live at KEXP 90.3FM Seattle, December 2010)
The Cave Singers - Summer Light (Live at KEXP 90.3FM Seattle, February 2011)
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The Maple Trail - Manuscript (Cable Mount Warning)
Sean Smith - Ourselves When We Are Real (Huge Fluid Freedom)


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22nd February 2012: Broken Stone Records / Sister Jane in Session / Oh Ruin in Session / Playlist

Featured: Broken Stone Records


Broken Stone Records is hitting the road in February for a roadshow extravaganza!

With a suitcase full of great local artists, the touring showcase of music and mixed-media art will feature live performances from Sister Jane, Magnetic Heads, Caitlin Park and The Maple Trail and will visit Byron Bay, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Newcastle and Sydney, as well as regional cities Bellingen, Kyneton, Clifton and Katoomba.

The bands’ performances will be accompanied by live footage VJ-ing and projections of their video clips. An exciting display of artworks created as part of Broken Stone’s recording releases (including sculptural work used in film clips, photographs from live shows and illustrative cover art) will be on show in the venue space for audiences to explore.

9/2 – Bellingen Memorial Hall
10/2 – Byron Bay Brewery
11/2 – Waiting Room Brisbane
17/2 – Street Theatre Canberra
18/2 – Kyneton Town Hall
19/2 – Horse Bazaar Melbourne
22/2 – Lass O’Gowrie Newcastle
23/2 – The Standard Sydney
24/2 – Clifton School Of Arts
25/2 – Baroque Bar Katoomba


Sister Jane live in session

Sister Jane are a Band from the Blue Mountains, Sydney, Australia. They like to rock 'n' roll...!!

Welcome to the roadhouse blues and tangled rock’n’roll dreams of Sister Jane. Lead by Dan Davey, Sister Jane hail from the Blue Mountains (West of Sydney) and are exemplars of Broken Stone Records self-production ethos.

With Liam Judson (Belles Will Ring) managing the recording duties, the band features Mark Waite-Pullan on bass and two fellow Belle Ringers, Lauren Crew on keys and Joe Driver on drums.

Already armed with an EP and a full length album 'Mercy', there's a new record on the way and Thee Sonic Assassin rather excitedly welcomes the band back to the studio for their second live session for Sideways Through Sound...

Sister Jane

Oh Ruin live in session

Eoin O'Ruainigh's story began in Dublin playing guitar with a slew of bands before starting over in London.

A guitar Luthier by trade, Eoin plays his own style of gruff Irish influenced folk on the guitars that he makes.

Crooning tales of childhood mischief and the first sweet stings of love, combining stomping blues with campfire quiet troubadour tunes.

A little loose, a little rough around the edges, Oh Ruin's 'Pillow Where Your Head Does Lay' was the number 16 entry in 2011's End Of Year listener voted top 21...

Thee Sonic Assassin and Sideways Through Sound is thrilled and honoured that Eoin will be in the studio with us this week!!

 Oh Ruin

Radio Playlist 22nd February 2012 (here)

Sean Siegfried - Apples In Winter (Backwoods EP)

Adam Eaton - Chosen Window (You & I & Us EP)
Caitlin Park - With No Strength To Defend, Be A Ghost (Milk Annual)

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The Maple Trail - The Dinosaur Hunters (Single)

The Goner - Sun ON Stone (Single)

Sister Jane - Outer Suburbs Of The Soul (Mercy)

Sister Jane - Be Kind (Live on Sideways Through Sound)

Sister Jane - Human Intervention (Live on Sideways Through Sound)

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The Killing Words - Isle Of Dogs, Isle Of Dreams (v/a Broken Stone Records Sampler)

Sulli - All Time Is Light (Demo)

Oh Ruin - Estella (EP)

Oh Ruin - Possum Trot (Live on Sideways Through Sound)

Oh Ruin - This Is The Night (Live on Sideways Through Sound)

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Kelly Saunders - When You're Alone (v/a Broken Stone Records Sampler)

Alvin Youngblood Hart - Gallows Pole (Mama's Door)

Charlie Parr - 1890 (Live on Sideways Through Sound 06-10-2010)

C. Joynes - And The Moon Was Full & Round (Congo)

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15th February 2012: My Best Fiend / Playlist

Featured: My Best Fiend - In Ghostlike Fading (Warp)

While the five members of My Best Fiend live in Brooklyn, the music they create resides somewhere else entirely: in a spacious, dreamlike world all its own.

On their Warp Records debut, their songs feel like reveries, mixing gorgeously atmospheric keyboards with grittier guitars and plaintive lead vocals. Almost hushed, folk-like verses build to ringing rock choruses, bolstered by layers of floaty vocal harmonies, all of it treated to a generous turn of the reverb knob.

Hallucinatory opening track, ''Higher Palms,'' achieves a kind of modern, Phil Spector-like spirit, a somewhat woozier Wall of Sound. Lead singer Frederick Coldwell's lyrics teeter between decadence and penitence, compulsion and confession, offering portraits of characters that have sweated through a long dark night of the soul or two and,for the most of them.

There's also been no shortage of attempts to describe the band’s sound, but perhaps the best description comes from the band itself: "It’s a noise that doesn’t fit into one idea"... Perfect...

My Best Fiend

Radio Playlist 15th February 2012 (here)


Devotional - Mercy (7")
Espers - The Road Of Golden Dust (III)
My Best Fiend - Higher Palms (In Ghostlike Fading)
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Sister Ray - Hand (EP)
Ghost Box Orchestra - The Only Light On (The Only Light On)
Arbouretum - Waxing Crescents (The Gathering)
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My Best Fiend - One Velvet day (In Ghostlike Fading)
Mystic Chords Of Memory - Like A Lobster (S/T)
Gravenhurst - Trust (The Western Lands)
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Pearse McGloughlin & Nocturnes - Bright Star (demo)
Shearwater - Believing Makes It Easy (Animal Joy)
My Best Fiend - I'm Not Going Anywhere (In Ghostlike Fading)
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M. Mucci - Having To Leave Is The Hardest Part / Returning Is Always The Best (The Secret Is Knowing When To Close Your Eyes)
My Best Fiend - On The Shores Of The Infinite (In Ghostlike Fading)


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8th February 2012: Mark Lanegan Band / Playlist

Featured: Mark Lanegan Band - Blues Funeral (4AD)

'Blues Funeral' is the new Mark Lanegan Band record, the first since 2004's 'Bubblegum'. It was recorded in Hollywood, California by Alain Johannes at his 11ad studio.

The music was played by Johannes and Jack Irons with appearances from Greg Dulli, Josh Homme et al.

Mark Lanegan has sung with Screaming Trees, Queens Of the Stone Age, The Twilight Singers, The Gutter Twins, Soulsavers and Isobel Campbell.

He resides in Los Angeles and has two dogs.

Mark Lanegan 

Radio Playlist 8th February 2012 (here)


A Casual End Mile - Nothing Of You (Devils & Devotion)
Isobel Campbell - Willow's Song (Milk White Sheets)
Mark Lanegan Band - Deep Black Vanishing Train (Blues Funeral)
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Mary Epworth & The Jubilee Band - Black Doe (Dream Life)
Cave Country - I'm Going Wrong (Pray This Dam Don't Burn Yet)
Screaming Trees - Crawlspace (Last Words: The Final Recordings)
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Mark Lanegan Band - Quiver Syndrome (Blues Funeral)
Sudden Death Of Stars - The Ideal Is Not For Real (EP)
The Black Hollies - The Autumn Chateau (Casting Shadows)
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Yair Yona - It's Not The Heat (World Behind Curtains)
Arborea - Phantasmagoria In Two (Daytrotter Studio Session 31-01-2012)
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - No Place To Fall (feat. Willy Mason) (Hawk)
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Mark Lanegan Band - Bleeding Muddy Water (Blues Funeral)
The Twilight Singers - Live With Me (A Stitch In Time)
Madeline Flash - The Man Who Wouldn't Die (Settles Beneath)
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Mark Lanegan Band - Burning Jacob's Ladder (The Gravedigger's Song 7")


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