Four New Rocking Tracks To Energise Your Weekend

Tooth & Tusk with Never Going Back

Never Going Back is the latest release from Melbourne disco 6-piece Tooth & Tusk. The track is classic disco: the syncopated guitar, the thick wah breakdowns, the subtle synth-strings that hang in the back of the track, and huge thumping bass.

The song can come across as being something from an intro to a lost 70’s cop show, until the chorus hits, and then it shifts the song from contemporary disco into a fuzz-saturated disco-rock track. Vocalist Courtney Constantinou is given room throughout the track to boast her enormous vocal abilities and she delivers, her melodies soaring over the disco-fuelled track.

Never Going Back follows on from Tooth & Tusk’s two previous releases Forever Ain’t So Long and Nothing Makes Sense. Both tracks showcase the band’s talent for rich vocal harmonies and 70’s throwback genre-melding rock. If you’re looking for something funk-heavy for your weekend, Tooth & Tusk might be just your thing.

TOOTH & TUSK TOUR DATES

FRI 12 FEB

Shebeen, Melbourne

WED 17 FEB

Workers Club, Melbourne

SAT 20 FEB

Grace Darling Melbourne

THU 25 FEB

Post Office Hotel, Melbourne

SAT 19 MAR

The Vic Sydney

Tropical Zombie with Call The Police

Imagine six surfers became infatuated with The Sonics and started a band you could have something that sounds like Tropical Zombie’s Call The Police. It’s garage-surf-rock that once it begins doesn’t let up. Clocking in at a little over two minutes, the track stays punchy and doesn’t lose the level of high-energy that propels it along.

The bark of the vocalist, going by the improbable name Rob Swords, gives the track a more aggressive feel than previous Tropical Zombie releases, but it’s better off for it. The rough howls and the backing harmonies work together to give a sense of edginess to their beach-rock sound.

The beach-vibe that the track is soaked in is contrasted by the ripping harmonica solo near the end that only adds to the overall impact of the song. Tropical Zombie’s high-energy performances can be seen for yourself during their 10-date tour starting in March

TROPICAL ZOMBIE ‘CALL THE POLICE’ TOUR

THU 10 MAR

Noosa Festival of Surfing

FRI 11 MAR

Quicksilver Boardriders, Coolangatta

SAT 12 MAR

Mojo Burning Festival, Brisbane

SAT 12 MAR

The Northern, Byron Bay

FRI 18 MAR

Club 54, Hobart

SAT 19 MAR

Republic Bar, Hobart

FRI 1 APR

Northcote Social Club, Melbourne

SAT 2 APR

Festival of the Stone, Torquay, VIC

FRI 8 APR

Rad Bar, Woollongong

SAT 9 APR

Brighton Up Bar, Sydney

Grenadiers with Live Fast, Diabetes

Adelaide punk-rock trio Grenadiers have released their new, monstrously loud single Live Fast, Diabetes. Self recorded and mixed by drummer James Balderston, it’s the first single from their forthcoming third album due for release in Spring.

Live Fast, Diabetes is a fairly standard punk-rock affair; it’s hard, urgent, simple, aggressive, but delivered in a way that’s uniquely Australian. The lyrics aren’t exactly witty, but instead have a larrikin-like quality to them.

The track begins with a riff that sounds almost like an Irish-folk chord progression, before launching into a D-beat driven punk-rock outburst, with cymbals crashing at nearly every point and a rumbling bassline. The refrain does it’s duty but would sound better when backed up by fifty drunk people shouting from in front of the stage, which you could very well do, during their East Coast tour starting in March.

GRENADIERS ‘LIVE FAST, DIABETES’ TOUR

FRI 11 MAR

Brighton Up Bar, Sydney

SUN 13 MAR

Club 54, Launceston

SAT 26 MAR

The Hills Are Alive Festival

THU 10 MAR

Crowbar, Brisbane

SAT 12 MAR

Shebeen, Melbourne

FRI 18 MAR

The Jade, Adelaide

Twin Fires with Two Hands

Twangy rock from the American South collides with 90’s shoegaze to bring you Twin Fires’ new single Two Hands. The single is the first from their upcoming EP ‘This Time I’m Fine’, which was recorded by Tony Buchen (The Preatures and Andy Bull).

The contemporary blues-rock is subverted by the near constant shoegaze guitar drone, creating something entirely unique. The chainsaw-like guitar is nestled behind the swamp-blues tones, which creates a sort of push-pull between the two competing styles without either of them overshadowing each other.

It’ll be interesting to see if their EP has the same ‘blues vs. shoegaze’ dynamic or whether there’ll be one prevailing style over the other. For now, Two Hands perfectly introduces the Sydney trio at their most balanced and rousing.

TWIN FIRES TOUR DATES

SAT 20 FEB

The Foundry, Brisbane

FRI 26 FEB

Oxford Arts Factory, Sydney

FRI 4 MAR

Howler, Melbourne