Days like Television: Fire through the window - Succubus

Discovering this little gem came as quite a shock to me. Not only is it a really fun, cool video, but this song just made my day. It's exactly the kind of thing I wish there was more of in this country, people playing guitars, girls singing and fun times being enjoyed by everyone involved. The track is the third single from Fire through the Window's second album, "All these people are golden". It was released last year, but somehow totally flew under my radar. Needless to say, after listening to this song 20 times I went here to rectify this great mistake, ordered myself a copy of the album and one of the lovely shirts Hruki have made for the band. Aaaaaanyway, may I now present to you the awesomness that is Succubus!

You are invited! Dance Yrself Clean

Tomorrow night it's "Dance Yrself Clean" - The follow up to the most fun dance party I've been to in ages!!! Given the amount of awesomeness that's been going down almost every weekend that is really something, but "You! Me! Dancing!" really was on a whole other level. 100% freakthefuckout rockandroll euphoria. So on the 25th of June, Broaden A New Sound and So Many Animal Calls will be teaming up to bring you the sequel - "Dance Yrself Clean"!

RSVP here!

You are invited! Take me somewhere Tings.

With tomorrow being a public holiday, there's a whole bunch of awesome stuff going down tonight. Here's my pic of what you should be getting up to: Broaden a New Sound are pretty damn fond of throwing parties with instrumental bands on rooftops. The 3 or so times it's happened in the past couple of years it's been amazing, and tonight is sure to be pretty damn special too. With a brand new rooftop (the Bella Vista), a lineup of three stellar bands, a killer flyer drawn by Says Who Studios, Hruki merchandise on sale and all around awesome vibes, if you only do one thing in Joburg tonight then this should be it.

RSVP here.

And if you're up for an after party then THIS should be it. I've fanned out loads about Marc Latilla's fantastically fresh Reform parties. Tonight's installment of 50s - 80s funk, townshipjive, soul, rocknroll, nigeria70s, pre&postpunk and obscuresapophits definitely won't disappoint.

If however you're gonna be in Pretoria instead of Joburg then you should definately come disco with me here: Tings is one of my all time favorite venues to play, so I'm super excited for this one. Not to mention I'll be sharing dancefloor powering duties with Moe Joe and The Tutus, so this is gonna be a crazy one.

Also, if you'd like to drink some wine, look at some amazing art and catch some live experimental folkcore, you should rock this as your pre-party to Tings: Whew! It's gonna be a pretty crazy night...

Hooray for Humans! Us Kids Know have problems!

After releasing their much animal called about debut EP in December, Us Kids Know are already working on recording a new song! It isn't so much shocking that the kids are already recording new material. What surprising is that this new song (optimistically titled Problems) will take you longer to listen to than the whole of the band's EP, Friendship Test. Yes, Problems is a 30 minute long song and even weirder than the song's epic durration is the format the band have chosen to release it on - cassette tape!

Durban based, rock and roll oriented clothing label Hruki will be releasing a brand new Us Kids Know shirt. With a design inspired by the band's fantastic Tick Stapping video, each shirt will be partnered with a copy of the Problems tape.

Woo!