… (Eric Bachman (Archers of Loaf/Crooked Fingers), Hayden, Micah P Hinson, David Pajo (Slint), Jens Lekman, Jason Molina, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, The Rogers Sisters, Deadbeat, Kevin Blechdom, Animal Collective, Erase Errata, Jon Auer (The Posies), Camera Obscura, Edith Frost, Richard Buckner, Pop Levi, Jim White (The Dirty Three), Nina Nastasia, The Clientele, Yacht, Panther, The Magnolia Electric Co, Kristin Hersh, Goxxip, Architecture in Helsinki, The National, Half-Handed Cloud, Explosions in the Sky, Broken Social Scene, Okkervil River, Malcolm Middleton, !!!, Kimya Dawson, Angelo Spence, Mark Kozelek, Band of Horses, Willard Grant Conspiracy, Howe Gelb, Yeasayer, New Pornographers, Lucky Dragons, Jeremy Jay, Holy Fuck, Girl Talk, Of Montreal, Jim White, John Doe, Deerhunter, Vic Chesnutt, Victoria Williams, Handsome Furs, Beans, Lightning Bolt, Akron/Family, Why?, Ponytail, Telepathe, Neko Case, The Books, Joanna Newsom, HEALTH, Black Lips, Handsome Family, Tiny Vipers, Slow Club, The Dodos, Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Pavement, Dirty Projectors…)

contact: Jim at galesburg.co.nz for further information or tour enquiries.

Mystery Girl, Galesburg and 95bFM are straight up stoked and hands down delighted to bring you another of Brooklyn’s finest. Ladies and gentlemen, listen up! This band is one of the most talked about for good reason - because they are good. Very good. It’s true. They are…

Dirty Projectors

Wednesday 3rd of March 2010
Auckland – Montecristo Room

Thursday 4th of March 2010
Wellington – San Francisco Bath House

Tickets on sale from Friday 27th November from
www.undertheradar.co.nz or Real Groovy (Auckland) or Slow Boat (Wellington)
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Press Quotes for the latest Dirty Projectors album Bitte Orca

“Bitte Orca is a careening, three-way balancing act between the finger-picked experimentation of the Books, the math rock of Battles, and Of Montreal’s gallivanting pop… Bitte Orca is close to a masterpiece.” Five Stars, Slant Magazine

“Their dynamic take on pop lilts and reels like a troupe of stilt walkers pretending to be off balance until suddenly they gel into perfect choreography and deliver an unforgettable performance of eccentric rhythm.” Five Stars, The Australian

“Over nine indispensable tracks, Bitte Orca forges a more perfect union between eccentricity and accessibility… Much ink will likely be spilled on 2009 being the year that Brooklyn’s experimental class finally went “pop,” and—with apologies to Animal Collective and Grizzly Bear—it’d be hard to find a better thesis statement.” Five Stars, The Onion AV Club

“Bitte Orca, the band’s best, and certainly most likable, album by a mile… a triumphant art-pop record destined to please longtime fans and win him a whole slew of new ones… one of the more purely enjoyable indie-rock records in an awfully long time” 9.2, Pitchfork

“While still retaining that exacting focus that has made Dirty Projectors the unplaceable enterprise that it is, Bitte Orca is merely the sound of an extremely talented group of musicians tweaking and, to an extent, reinventing their approach, stepping a little further away from left field.” Four and a half stars, Tiny Mix Tapes

““Stillness” might provide the entrance point, but Bitte Orca is the kind of album that is best taken from start to finish, where the songs and musical themes are allowed to grow, endear and impress.” 8.5, Prefix Mag

Galesburg and Strange News present

THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART (w/ Special Guests)

Wednesday 24th February 2010
Bacco Rooms - Auckland

Thursday 25th February 2010
San Francisco Bath House - Wellington

What a cracker of a summer 2010 is turning out to be. The lovely Neko Case tours our shores for the first time, iconic Pavement kicks off their worldwide reunion tour in Auckland, and now…indie-pop darlings The Pains of Being Pure At Heart!

Since forming in early 2007, The Pains of Being Pure At Heart have become one of the most talked about pop bands in years. Their distinctive brand of noisy pop is a tidy distillation of all the great noise-pop precedents - early MBV, House of Love, Pale Saints, Rocketship - but with that incredible exuberance and energy that the Pains bring to every song. They have released a handful of singles on classy labels like Slumberland, Fortuna Pop!, Atomic Beat and Cloudberry, each one issued to greater anticipation and even wilder reception. And this year sees their first LP release - the eponymous debut The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - an instant classic packed with brilliantly executed pop gems that blend the rush of youthful enthusiasm with crafty arrangements, well-honed tunes and buckets of guitar racket.

Drawing on the sparkling legacy of the best of 80s and 90s pop, The Pains of Being Pure At Heart update the timeless noisy pop template with a thoroughly modern viewpoint and a very distinctive, playful personality. There is something instantly identifiable about a Pains tune, and it is the essential “rightness” of their records that has captured the attention of pop fans around the world and raised anticipation levels to a near-fever pitch. Critical acclaim has come from such varied quarters as Pitchfork, Stereogum, Fader, Indie Pages, Skatterbrain, Drowned In Sound, Indie-MP3, Clash Magazine and uncountable others.

“…it’s much more than the sum of its parts and too effortlessly effervescent to be studied. Pure indie-pop to hold close to your heart.” — NME

“Can we wait for life to save us in the ways that a band like The Pains of Being Pure At Heart are saving indie pop?” — Dusted

Can we?

Tickets are $40 + bf and on sale through Real Groovy (Auckland), Slowboat Records (Wellington) and online at www.undertheradar.co.nz.

Galesburg and Sad Guy, in association with Mystery Girl are very pleased to present Los Angeles, California’s HEALTH, on their first-ever New Zealand tour.

Renowned for their blistering, furious live shows – more than many bands, the stage is their primary medium, so much so that much of their output has actually been recorded in LA venue The Smell during off-hours, instead of in a traditional studio – HEALTH in many ways sit at the apex of some of the most defining musical styles of the past decade (or longer). Creating a seamless blend of chaos and melodicism, musicianship and experimentation, HEALTH draws together seemingly disparate sounds drawn from no-wave, post-punk, noise & grindcore, electronic pop & ambient music into a cohesive, formidable whole.

“HEALTH make extremely pleasant noise music. How can such a thing be, you ask? I don’t know.” - VICE MAGAZINE

“HEALTH music can be harsh and grating, of course, but also sensually smooth and sexy and electronic and also metallic and all Fodderstompfy.” - LA WEEKLY

Since their formation in 2005, HEALTH’s presence has exploded, with kids dancing, blogs freaking out and critics raving about their shows. Their second album GET COLOR, recorded in an especially gnarly part of Lincoln Heights, L.A with Manny Nieto, is an exuberant proclamation of noise, rock and electronic splendor. The record is a celebration of sound; pretty, harsh, soft and basked in a blanket of ethereal vocals and is the manifesto HEALTH have been promising since their inception.

Dates:

FEB 19 – AUCKLAND – TRANSMISSION ROOM

FEB 20 – WELLINGTON – SFBH

FEB 22 - CHRISTCHURCH - UCSA 2010 Orientation

Tickets on sale Fri 5th December from www.undertheradar.co.nz, Real Groovy Auckland, Slow Boat Wellington and Moshtix.

Presales $40 + b/f for Auckland + Wellington shows

Joanna Newsom returns! For the first time in New Zealand she will perform her music accompanied by her American band. When Joanna last visited here in 2007 all the shows quickly sold out - so don’t miss out this time.

Mixing gothic tales with her ethereal, melodic harp over expansive orchestrations (arranged by Van Dyke Parks), Newsom’s second album, Ys was recently voted by Mojo Magazine and Pitchfork as one of the album’s of the past decade. Epic in every sense of the meaning, Ys was even more musically rich and lyrically complex than her debut The Milk-Eyed Mender. Newsom has proved with Ys that she is a conceptual musical talent, happiest in uncharted territory.

After the release of her debut album, The Milk Eyed Mender, Newsom developed a huge underground following that led to her touring with Will Oldham, Cat Power and Devendra Banhart. She then toured Japan, Australia, New Zealand (with Smog) and Iceland, along the road playing at festivals in Bonaroo, Sasquatch, Green Man, Rothskilde and the Patti Smith-curated Meltdown Festival as well as a benefit concert with her hero, Neil Young.

In Christchurch Joanna will be joined by Sweden’s Jens Lekman.

Mystery Girl, Galesburg and 95bFM Present Joanna Newsom & Band

Saturday 30th of January – The Harbourlight – Christchurch – with Jens Lekman

Sunday 31st of January – The Paramount – Wellington

Tuesday 2nd of February – The Dorothy Winstone Centre (Auckland Girls Grammar School) – Auckland

Tickets on sale from Friday 4th of December from www.undertheradar.co.nz, Real Groovy (Auckland & Christchurch) Slow Boat (Wellington)

Perched on the highest branch of the electronic music tree, the brilliant new Brooklyn duo of Telepathe are enthralling listeners with their incredible debut album Dance Mother (2009).

A singular sound, on the surface their music gleams with synth shimmer and layers of vocals while dense drones growl and purr beneath, harking to the noise influence of producer Dave Sitek (TV On The Radio). The result is a hypnotic churn, slow burn dance music heading into unknown territories. Seductive and strange, Telepathe are singing a siren song for the next generation.

Monday Jan 4th - Auckland - Cassette #9
Tuesday 5th - Wellington - SFBH

Tickets are $30, and available from Real Groovy, Slow Boat, Fast and Loose and www.utr.co.nz - but get yourself a special limited time only christmas treat, and get both a Ponytail and Telepathe ticket for only $40!

Ponytail arrive with a confident coo that grows to a happy yell- announcing themselves as one of the most exciting experimental acts to emerge from the vibrant Baltimore scene in recent years.

A quartet of seriously skilled musicians, their latest album Ice Cream Spiritual (2008) abounds with the energy that their live shows are renowned for- choppy drums play rough and tumble under the twitchy and intense guitar interplay, meshing perfectly with the primal vocal stylings of the group. Turning their backs on convention, Ponytail tear across the current indie music landscape at the forefront of the avant garde.
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A musical beast that can’t be tamed- run wild with Ponytail in the New Year!

Monday Jan 4th - Wellington SFBH
Tuesday Jan 5th - Auckland - Cassette #9

Tickets are $30, and available from Real Groovy, Slow Boat, Fast and Loose and www.utr.co.nz - but get yourself a special limited time only christmas treat, and get both a Ponytail and Telepathe ticket for only $40!

Never hesitating to delve into the weirder and darker parts of the psyche, WHY? arrive to immerse New Zealand in their aural maelstrom of amazing and unclassifiable music this December.

Originally a solo project for Jonathan ‘Yoni’ Wolf of Berkerly, CA, WHY? evolved to the three piece it is today with the addition of Josiah Wolf and Doug McDiarmid, bent on creating beautiful shuddering sounds amalgamating the stranger parts of hip hop and the sweeter parts of that large and amorphous genre called indie rock. Alopecia (2008) saw Yoni Wolf honing his distinctive speak sing delivery, streaming forth surrealistic tales of broken relationships, stalkers and murder fantasies enough to melt your mind over driving keys and guitars that clamber over stilted beats. In the bizarre universe of WHY? imagery of the mundane (puking in a car park, stoned walks) tangles with the ritualistic and taboo (palm readers, dressing wounds) pulling you in through the looking glass, putting the world you thought you knew into a tailspin.

On the inimitable independent label Anticon, whose roster of artists were originally described as “the hip-hop equivalent of post-rock,” the label has in recent years begun stretching it’s wings to include indie and electronica.

Touring their new release Eskimo Snow (2009), WHY? will draw you out to draw you into their unsettling and vivid sonic realm this December.

Why?
17 December - Bacco Rooms, Auckland
18 December - SFBH, Wellington

Presales $40 available from:

Wellington: Slow Boat and undertheradar.co.nz

Auckland: Real Groovy, Fast and Loose, cheeseontoast.co.nz and undertheradar.co.nz

(To enter the same competition for AUCKLAND shows visit the Mystery Girl website here…www.mysterygirl.co.nz)

HOW DO I GO IN THE DRAW TO WIN THE DOUBLE PASS TO ALL THESE SHOWS?
There are four ways you can enter to win one of four double passes (three in Auckland and one in Wellington)

1. Subscribe to the Galesburg email list (on the top right side of this website), then email us at jim at galesburg.co.nz with the band/artist Galesburg is bringing to New Zealand you most want to see and why you want to see them. We will choose the most entertaining answer as the winner and also publish the top five best answers on our website.

2. Join the Galesburg Facebook Group here (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=19864724689&ref=ts) and then leave a comment on our wall telling us the band/artist Strange News/Galesburg is bringing to New Zealand you most want to see and why you want to see them. We will choose the most entertaining answer as the winner.

3. Listen to the VBC in Wellington and enter the competition they are doing on radio

4. Visit the Mystery Girl website to enter the same competition in Auckland

WHAT ARE THE SHOWS I CAN WIN A DOUBLE PASS TO?

AKRON/FAMILY
Wednesday December 17th, SFBH, Wellington
Tickets from www.undertheradar.co.nz and Slow Boat Records

NEKO CASE with band
Wednesday 20th January 2010 – at the SFBH – Wellington
Tickets from www.undertheradar.co.nz and Slow Boat Records

THE HANDSOME FAMILY
Thursday 28th January 2010 – SFBH – Wellington
Tickets from www.undertheradar.co.nz, Slow Boat Records

YO LA TENGO
Tuesday 9th February, 2010 - SFBH, Wellington
Tickets from www.undertheradar.co.nz and Slow Boat Records

PAVEMENT
March 1st 2010 -Town Hall - Auckland
Tickets on sale from http://www.the-edge.co.nz

TERMS AND CONDITIONS
1. Judges decision is final and no correspondence will be entered in to.

2. Entries for the competition run from November 9th to the 29th and will be drawn on 30th of November. The winner will then be notified.

3. The winning ‘ticket’ is a name plus one on the guest list for each of these shows

Galesburg, Mystery Girl, 95bFM and Cheese on Toast are thrilled to present PAVEMENT, the most important American band of the Nineties, together again for a one-time-only world tour which stops in Auckland for ONE NIGHT ONLY on March 1, 2010.

According to the band’s representatives: “Please be advised this tour is not a prelude to additional jaunts and/or a permanent reunion.”

Translation: This is not a drill. This is New Zealand’s last-ever chance to see PAVEMENT, performing again for the first time since November 1999

Galesburg, Mystery Girl, 95bFM and Cheese on Toast Present

PAVEMENT

Auckland Town Hall

Monday March 1st 2010

Tickets on sale from 9am October 23rd from www.the-edge.co.nz

By now, their story is legend. Evolving from ramshackle pioneers of the burgeoning lo-fi movement after first forming as a studio project in 1989 into “the finest rock band of the ‘90s” (Robert Christgau, Village Voice), Pavement came as close as any band to conquering the independent rock scene of the 1990s, with critics and audiences united in a love affair with the band stretching across five studio albums. The titles alone read like a shorthand for high-points in late 20th Century American independent rock: “Slanted and Enchanted”, “Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain”, “Wowee Zowee”, “Brighten the Corners”, “Terror Twilight”.

Founded in Stockton, California in 1989 by Steven Malkmus and Scott Kannberg, Pavement recorded a string of seminal EPs starting with “Slay Tracks (1933-1969)”, Pavement emerged as a live band in 1992 just prior to the release of their debut LP “Slanted and Enchanted”. Settling on the long-term lineup of Malkmus, Kannberg, Ibold, Nastanovich and West in 1993 with “Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain”, Pavement’s legend was cemented with breakthrough singles including “Cut Your Hair” and a formidable live reputation.

www.crookedrain.com