Band I Dig: Acid Eyeliner

I found out about Acid Eyeliner from the flyer for the Come Together Festival. This flyer has essentially be my guide to some of Australia's awesome rock/indie rock/whatever rock bands. I don't know why it didn't occur to me earlier to look to Australia for new music, needless to say 

my music taste has grown and my ears are happy. So anyways I was going through the list and I got to Acid Eyeliner and I was thinking they were probably going to be this really hard rock metal band with a whole lot of screaming going on. I go to their myspace page and the first song

I hear is called "Kissing You In The Driveway". Not what I expected. They may have a badass name that'll make your mom nervous, but they're actually a little teddy bear-like. They've still had their share of heartbreak and life though, which makes their album Future Lies quite appealing. I finally go a hold of their album a couple of days ago, which was quite satisfying since I had really only been able to listen to their new stuff via their myspace page. I was doing some searching on them, (though I can't remember why, given that I was searching at two in the morning) and found this interview with the lead singer/Guitarist Lukey Lukess. It kinda makes me like them even more. Here's a link to their site.

Band I Dig: The Getaway Plan

   

The Getaway Plan is an awesome band from Australia, they put out a new album recently, although I'm currently blanking on when it was (agh, I'm such a bad blogger!) Wikipedia describes them as combining pop and screamo rock -- the result is pretty darn addicting if you ask me. I'm ususaly not all that into bands that do the whole "screaming" thing, but The Getaway Plan does it in a way so that doesn't really take away anything from the music itself. But as usual there music speaks to what they sound like way better than I can describe it. There new album is called Other Voices, Other Rooms most of the song below are from that album except for "If The Suspense Doesn't Kill Us..." (from their album Hold Conversation) and "Strings" (from their Demo.) Here's a link to their Myspace,  and their website (is it just me or doesn't it totally look like they use blogger too?)

Band I Dig: The Spill Canvas

I first found out about The Spill Canvas when I saw their video "All Over You" during a commercial break while I was watching Radio Free Roscoe (cool Canadian show with decent music from early 2000s, a little cheesy now, but I still love it.) That's actually saying a lot because I was really hungry at the time and I was going to go get some food but I had to stop and watch the video. Not too long later I had developed a full blown addiction. The Spill Canvas hails from South Dakota, and from what I've read they're definitely making it in the music industry the old-fashioned way (recording, touring, and working your but off, which seems to be less common with Nickelodeon and The Disney Channel building disturbingly popular tween empires)

Below are some of The Spill Canvas's songs to make your ears happy.

"All Over You" oozes emotion and basically says everything you wish you could say to the person of your unrequited affection.

"Staplegunned" I think is summed up in the line "The chemistry between us could destroy this place" (I know!)

"All Hail the Heartbreaker" Obsessing over someone, especially in the unrequited sense (What!? I'm not obsessing, I just... am thinking. Thinking. No obsession here. Nope.)

"Polygraph, Right Now" Technically I think there's many different emotions crammed into this one, take the lines "Fate is an elegant, cold-hearted whore" and "I'm scared to death to know what you think of me" as examples. This will probably get stuck in your head for awhile.

"Lust A Prima Vista" Title describes this one more eloquently than I can.

"The Tide" One of The Spill Canvas' many songs that tell a story, this is my favorite though.

"Saved" This song is on the Sounds of Superman album (random album featuring songs that could be associated with Superman) I've also seen it used in some fan videos of various shows. It'd be nice if life was like the movies.

"Low Fidelity" Distance. It's a bummer.

"Hush Hush" Ah, why must we sometimes fall for the, er, loose people? Oh and I always remember the meaning of the word "nonchalant" because of this song.

"Sunsets and Car Crashes" Maybe a little bit of nostalgia. Paints pictures.

"Lullaby" Probably the sweetest song, come on "Just let me sing you to sleep" there's really no surpassing that in my book.