Music news

If you're into cool indie-electro beats and an über cool crowd, get your hot ass down to Le Panic this Anzac Day night! Crooked Kids  are launching their new night and there's a guarantee (almost as good as one written in stone) that 'NO shitty music will be played what-so-ever'. So, grab your mates and gal-pals, slap on a pair of Cheap Monday's or your best opaques and head on down to the X. Warning: No fluoro or self promotion of male anorexia allowed.
That is all. Hope to see you there!

The short lived and highly underrated Wamp Wamp returns tomorrow-Anzac-eve-night for one messy night only of Crunk, Baltimore Club, Bailefunk and Hyphy goodness! Your old Wamp Wamp party boys Sleater Brockman and Kato will be there and joining them will be none other than 2x US Disco Mix Club champion; DJ Klever (not clever enough to spell his name right eh? eh?) Whooo! The party times will happen at Club 77 from 10 pm. Entry is $15.

Supersweet Live presents their very first concept night with Morden foursome GOOD SHOES, featuring artist ROB RYAN and support by Supersweet Magazine New Band’s Competition winners The Pity Party Thank mercy! Now we can all go and bang heads to a unique night that worships art and music just as much as we do. Mr. Ryan’s delicate paper-cut work will decorate and inspire the styling of the venue while the bands play out to their fans. Plus everything is homemade, from Good Shoe’s front-man Rhys’ programmes to the goody-bags, tickets and free ‘zines featuring artistics by Jamie and Alison of Le Kills and a diary entry by Nick Jago of BRMC. All the more reason to come party with us!

Tuesday 6th May 7:30pm £9 at The Bush Hall, LONDON. Tickets available from Ticketek and SUPERSWEET's online shop.

Here the is the deliciously strange music video for I'm Good, I'm Gone; the latest single from the deliciously strange Lykke Li. Isn't her voice just lovely? I could drink it out of the speakers with a straw. The Swedish songtress is currently on a very full international tour (which, at this stage, does not include Australia, sigh) in support of her debut album, Youth Books, which was recorded last year with Peter, Bjorn and John's Bjorn Yttling and will be available here in June. In the meantime, you can listen to the full album on her MySpace page.

The Kahn Brothers are Edo and Nadav Kahn, formally the core of Sydney art rock band Gelbison.  After Gelbison parted ways in 2005, Edo and Nadav continued to make music & the result is their beautiful new album  "Love Melts Fear."

"Love Melts Fear" features  Sarah Blasko and Jessica Chapnik on vocals, while  Ian Ball  (Gomez) and Old Man River also make a spot on the album.

The Kahn Brothers are playing at the Essential Festival which is coming up in Surry Hills on Anzac Day.

Long time Yen contributor, illustrator and all round creative cutey Gini Helie moved back to her hometown of Nice last year and since then has been crafting sweet sounds from an idyllic mountain village with her husband to be. l'aventure is the debut album from Gini and Regis's musical offspring, Milenka and the Pyramids and sees the loved up duo creating a delicate patchwork of melodies, electronic and nature built noises, and swoon inducing harmonies- twinkling treats that evoke imagery of their mountain paradise, as well as all the best parts of falling in love. They're currently touring France and hope to be touching their feather light travelling feet upon Australian shores before the year's out.

You could be forgiven for not having heard of So So Modern before given that – despite the fact they have played SXSW and toured Europe numerous times (on one visit playing over 100 shows in 80 days) - the band is yet to play on our shores. Which is a shame as it means we are missing out on one of the most exciting bands in the world right now. Formed in Wellington NZ in late 2004, the group consists of band members Mark Leong, Dan Nagels, Aidan Leong and Grayson Gilmour; four young guys who ain’t afraid to get their geek on. Outside of the band the boys are respectively an architect, an artist, a radiographer and a sonic arts tutor (who’s also been putting out acclaimed solo albums since his teens) and it’s these outside interests that really make the band; So So Modern create music that doesn’t really sound like any other music but is rather the aural conversion of quantum physics, an M.C Escher painting and a helium balloon. Adding to their so-uncool-it’s-way-cool sensibility is their shamelessly energetic live shows which include various jumpsuits, flailing bodies and a level of audience participation and genuine enthusiasm that’s rarely seen these days (at earlier shows they would give out homemade cakes to the crowd). Watch the video above for a taste – no pun intended - of what a So So Modern show looks like and then petition them to finally come the hell over here!