The Weekly Wrap | 28/06/2024
The Weekly Wrap is a look at the biggest stories in music collected in one place for your reading ease.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Share The Making of Wild God Part 2
In the leadup to the release of Nice Cave & The Bad Seeds’ eighteenth studio album, Wild God, the band has released the second instalment in a series of short films documenting the making of the album.
Following on from the first part that dropped in May, the second video includes more footage of the band recording at Miraval Studios in Provence, France.
The band appear jovial in the nearly five-minute-long clip which shows Cave and co fine-tuning song ideas and features Cave calling Wild God “massive.”
Wild God is set for release on August 30. You can pre-order/pre-save the album here.
Less Than Jake Announce Belated ‘Hello Rockview’ 25th Anniversary Album Australian Tour
Seven years since their last Australian visit, American punk ska collective Less Than Jake is making their triumphant return for a belated celebration of their classic album, Hello Rockview.
Turning 25 last year, Hello Rockview is the band’s awesome third album that spawned hit singles ‘History of a Boring Town’ and ‘All My Best Friends are Metalheads’. Less Than Jake has lined up five shows across the country this October and November where they will play the album in its entirety alongside fan favourites.
Joining Less Than Jake on tour are party rockers The Bennies and punk upstarts Young Offenders.
Sadly Adelaide misses out, with Less Than Jake only playing shows in Melbourne, Perth, Wollongong, Sydney and Newcastle.
For those keen on travelling interstate to catch the band, tickets are on sale now via teamwrktouring.com.
ARIA Awards Reveals Event Details
The 38th ARIA Awards will once again be held at Sydney’s Horden Pavilion later this year, making it the third year in a row the celebration of Australian music has taken place at the venue.
The ceremony has been locked in for Wednesday, November 20 and will be televised by Channel 9 for those unable to attend.
“Since 1987, the ARIA Awards have represented the pinnacle of achievement in Australian music,” ARIA CEO Annabelle Herd said in a press statement. “The past year has seen a huge number of homegrown Aussie talent making their mark locally and globally and we’re very excited to celebrate these achievements on 20 November at the Hordern Pavillion. We’re also tremendously grateful to all our partners and everyone involved in helping us give Australian music a global platform.”
The 38th ARIA Awards take place on Wednesday, November 20. For more details visit aria.com.au.
J Hus Added To Promiseland Festival Lineup
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British rapper J Hus has been unveiled as the special guest performing at this year’s Promiseland 2024. Taking to social media to share the news, the festival released a short video hyping up his appearance accompanied by these comments: “East London ✈️ Promiseland! Catch J Hus in Australia for the first time ever 📍Day 1 Promiseland as a festival exclusive 🫡”
J Hus joins an already stacked bill that includes recent addition Headie One, YG Marley and Stan Walker alongside the previously announced Metro Boomin, Rema, Jorja Smith, Busta Rhymes, Miguel and more.
Taking place from Friday, October 4 to Sunday, October 6, Promiseland 2024 is held at Doug Jennings Park on the Gold Coast.
Final release tickets and a limited number of VIP tickets are still available via promislandau.com.
Crazy Town Vocalist Shifty Shellshock Passes Away
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Shifty Shellshock, lead vocalist of nu-metal act Crazy Town died at age 49 early this week.
Born Seth Binzer, Shellshock died at his Los Angeles home on Monday according to County Medical Examiner. While no official cause of death has been given, Shellshock’s rep, Howie Hubberman, told Rolling Stone he believes it may have been an accidental overdose.
“Seth has been struggling with substance abuse problems for quite sometime,” Hubberman told Rolling Stone. “Seth was not happy with the daily struggle that’s called life. Some people cope in many different ways. It’s unfortunate we lose so many people to addiction and accessibility to harmful drugs. Shifty was a real-life tragedy. Too fast, too hard, too soon.”
Forming in 1995, Crazy Town released their debut album, The Gift of the Game, in 1999. It wasn’t until the release of the album’s third single ‘Butterfly’ the following year that the band gained traction, with the song becoming a global hit, eventually topping the Billboard Hot 100.
Sadly the band never managed to capture that success with subsequent releases. Fighting between band members and Shellshock’s well-documented battles with addiction caused Crazy Town to experience several breakups and reunions over the past 25 years.
Soulfly Eye for an Eye Vodka Coming to Australia
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Soulfly are the latest musical act to come out with their own line of booze. Soulfly Eye for an Eye Vodka is named after the band’s 1998 debut single and is currently available for pre-order in Australia via Grog Lords.
Limited to just 500 bottles, the spirit is a triple distilled and charcoal filtered small batch vodka. Created by Hellcat Distillery and available only in Australia, the limited edition spirit comes in 700ml bottles and is 38% ABV.
Soulfly Eye for an Eye Vodka is just one of several spirits sold by Grog Lords, with the company also slinging Slipknot No. 9 Whiskey, Metallica’s Blackened Whiskey and Ozzy Osbourne Ultimate Gin.
Pre-order your bottle of Soulfly Eye for an Eye Vodka via Grog Lords here.
Posthumous SOPHIE Album Announced
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The first and final posthumous release from late Scottish electronic music purveyor SOPHIE has been announced. The self-titled album will be released via Transgressive and Future Classic on September 27.
SOPHIE, who tragically died at the age of 34 after a fall in Athens, Greece, in January 2021, had only released one album previously, the critically acclaimed Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides.
The posthumous album was near completion at the time of SOPHIE’s passing, with longtime friend and producer Benny Long stepping in to finish the project with blessings from SOPHIE’s family.
“This album has always told the story of Sophie’s musical journey, a cacophony of skill and creative vision eclipsing time and genre,” reads a statement about the album. “Her unique sound world moves at an emotional level, encouraging the listener to intuitively embrace the ever-evolving landscape of light and dark, soft and hard, to the end of self-love and joyful self-acceptance. Emphasising contradictions of sound and material, Sophie’s work supersedes the pure aural to create the dimension she dreamed of.”
SOPHIE is set for release on September 27 via Transgressive and Future Classic. You can listen to the album’s first single ‘Reason Why’ below.
Friday Five
You love music. We love music. Here are five songs we can’t get enough of this week.
1. Eddie Vedder – ‘Save It For Later’
2. Skepta ft. R2R Moe – ‘Miss Independent’
3. Tinashe – ‘Getting No Sleep’
4. Raleigh Ritchie – ‘Security’
5. Pom Pom Squad – ‘Downhill’
