Weekly News Breakdown: 19th January 2012

Ain’t that some shit about Coachella selling out in 2 hours? If you hadn’t planned on going you couldn’t give a shit about it, but those who did were greeted with some unfortunate news as last Saturday morning at 4:30 we all huddled around the warm glow of our monitors waiting for tickets to go on sale so we can trek it halfway around the world to see a bunch of no-names as Radiohead, Snoop & Dre and At The Drive-In.

Instead after 45 minutes (and then some) of waiting we got this message:

Looks like the scalpers are gonna win. Anyway for those going; I’ll see you in the desert.
Not all doom and gloom as the excellent Refused announced a comeback. If you’re in San Francisco in mid April go see them with The Bronx and The Hives why don’tcha. It might just be the punkest thing you’ll ever do in your life. Tickets here.

So good news for Coachella. Not so good news for Big Day Out with them scrapping the New Zealand leg of the festival after 18 years. Things ain’t what it used to be. You can at least be happy that Grinspoon will play in Sydney and The Living End will play in Radelaide to make up for not having Grinspoon or The Living End on the lineup.

So how is this going to work? We all know At The Drive-In is back and all is well in the world but it’s been announced The Mars Volta has a new album out in March called, wait for it, Noctourniquet.

Noctorniquet.

Yeah. To further make you go like this here’s the tracklisting:

“The Whip Hand”
“Aegis”
“Dyslexicon”
“Empty Vessels Make the Loudest Sound”
“The Malkin Jewel”
“Lapochka”
“In Absentia”
“Imago”
“Molochwalker”
“Trinkets Pale of Moon”
“Vedemalady”
“Noctourniquet”
“Zed and Two Naughts”

Punk > Prog.

Album news in brief:

Bruce Springsteen has a new one out in March. Excellent.
Kanye has a compilation out of acts on his record lable including Frank Ocean and Pusha T. Could be good.
Paris Hilton and LMFAO are teaming up to do something musically. I use ‘musically’ in the loosest sense. This is gonna be awesome.

Poor Charlie Brown.

The Mountain Goats are touring. Again.

Yellow Wiggle got kicked out of the band yo. Other yellow Wiggle is back. WHAT NOW?

Want to get yourself a green Supreme cap? Or a t-shirt with a kitty on it? Or pretend you’re black? Go visit the Odd Future Sweat Shop pop-up store in Darlinghurst starting on the 24th January. How swag will that be!? Golf wang! Soup!