Saturday 6 September
Billy Goat & the Mongrels
CJ Shaw, One Flew East, Killed two birds one was stoned
8pm, Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills, NSW, $6

Saturday 6 September
Tour De Dance
SambaFrog
Jimmy Sing, Kavi R
9pm, Manning Bar, Sydney University, Camperdown, NSW, $15 (+ bf) - $20 (at door)

Saturday 13 September
Holly Throsby
9pm, The Basement, Circular Quay, NSW, $18 (+ bf) - $20

Saturday 13 September
Triangle’s Side Show Alley
Triangle
8pm, Lansdowne Hotel, Chippendale, NSW, free

Saturday 13 September
Watussi
8.30pm, Annandale Hotel, NSW, $20 (+ bf)

Much more than a singer, Mr Percival is a vocal artist, innovator and brilliant performer. He creates songs using just his extraordinary voice and a series of loop pedals…

His love for turntablism cannot be missed, holding down most of the beats with a scratch, he finds harmony between choir vocalists, childlike recorder riffs and grime…

Toydeath use childrens electronic toys to create music you have never heard before! Thats right we only use toys!

Musically it’s all over the place. It’s a euphoric jumble of lyrical flows, stripped back blues, indian chorus, brazillian drums, ridiculous art-rock keys…

Listening to old folk records making mushroom risotto on hot summer nights. Drinking pink gins by streetlight with a fridge full of brownies…

Still swooning from her encounter with Tracey from Camera Obscura, Ro is out and about taking photos of bands that she loves…

Random Flickr pics of Songpod bands

…at times bitterly pissed off and loud, at others, smiling and jumping about, fusing a much neglected gap between creativity, diversity and pop music…

Miles Merrill is Australia’s spoken-word tour de force. Miles combines elements of theatre, hip-hop, slam poetry and music, flinging words in a rapid fire onslaught of versified emotion…

“It’s not easy to describe where Cuthbert and the Night Walkers are coming from. The best we can do is to recall a review of a Flaming Lips show which likened the spectacle to a child’s first birthday party organized by the parents while on acid. We wanted to be in a band like that…

sexy electro glam… Apparently they live in a palace, named ‘CHEZ MINK’ which is done entirely in mink. Mink carpet, mink curtains, mink lighting. This friend of my friends said they even had a hi-tech paint designed so they could do the walls in mink.

When you go to see Afro Moses doing his thing…you can expect passion, colour, energy, powerful messages, dancing and a sense that you’ve just witnessed something deeply special…

If you like dub, reggae, hip-hop, latin, funk, african, ska, and wookies, you might like these Rastawookie…

If you like gypsy music with generous lashing of silliness, you might like Mikelangelo and the Black Sea Gentlemen…