There’s a few new things worth mentioning – firstly Ian MacKaye formerly of Minor Threat, Embrace (the Washington DC proto-emo band, not the UK group) and Fugazi (who are on hiatus) has a new group called The Evens which is a duo with Amy Farina (formerly of the Warmers, with Ian’s brother Alec). They are playing on Saturday 17th February at somewhere called the urtext ballroom. I’ve never heard about it before, but a search turned up this blog where an address of level 2, 14 Grenfell St is given. Nice to see that someone else is spreading the word on Adelaide events (rather more comprehensively than I am), I’ll add a link to my sidebar.
Secondly the full WOMADelaide lineup has been announced and there is plenty more good stuff, in particular I’m very keen on Mr Scruff and The Mad Professor, both from the UK. Mr Scruff records for the always excellent Ninja Tune label (more about them below), and has contributed to their Solid Steel series, which are about the best DJ mixes around at the moment. Mad Professor is a dub producer ppossibly best known for his work with Massive Attack. I’ve also heard good things about Etran Finatawa from Niger.

Also in March, on the 3rd at the Rocket Bar, is a show by Sydney band Pivot. I saw them in Sydney once and can definitely recommend them, also I’ve been listening to their album Make Me Love You quite a bit and really enjoy it. They feature some mebers on Triosk who played a fantastic show at the Wheaty last year, but Pivot are less jazz than Triosk, they’ve got more of a post-rock vibe, Tortoise circa TNT. To be honest there are too many bands with that particular vibe (especially from Sydney, that ’98 tour seems to have had a particularly big effect there), Pivot are one that I can recommend seeing.
I won’t bother repeating the complete listing as I did in the emails, since it can easily be found here (by clicking on the gigs tag), instead I’ll just mention new items, and list anything in the immediate future as a reminder.

Finally, the what’s on the stereo bit. This week it’s a big pile of Ninja Tune promos that they sent me to compensate for an error in an order I got from them (except for the last item, and for the Hexstatic one which was in the original order)… I would say that they more than compensated for it, so thanks Ninja Tune!

Amon Tobin – Foley Room cd+dvd (Ninja Tune)
Mr Scruff – Mrs Cruff cd (Ninja Tune)
Hexstatic – Master View cd+dvd (Ninja Tune)
Daedelus – Denies the Day’s Demise cd (Ninja Tune)
Coldcut – Everything is Under Control cdep (Ninja Tune)
ZerodB – Bongos, Bleeps & Basslines cd (Ninja Tune)
Ammoncontact – With Voices cd (Ninja Tune)
Ollie Teeba – DJ Mix cd (Ninja Tune)
Steinski/Mr Scruff/Flexus – RolitoMix 3″ cd (Ninja Tune)
Four Tet vs Pole – Pole vs Four Tet EP 12″ (Leaf)