Half A Cow February 2010 News

the Brutals...not brutal..except in love

Out now The Honeymoon Period - the debut album from Melbourne's the Brutals. Being launched tomorrow night Saturday, February 20, 2010 at Ding Dong, Market Lane, Melbourne w/ The Deer Republic (Syd).

The Honeymoon Period on iTunes: iTunes

here's the film clip for Jeneane, Jeneane
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the BRUTALS the Honeymoon Period
Remember the Treetops? One of the finest folk-pop bands to ever come out of Australia? Well, in some way, they are back. One half at least, in the Brutals. And it's top-shelf shimmering and beautiful folk-pop at its best.
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BRENTON MANSER & THE DISCIPLES OF ZEN Strange Notions
Led by Swayback frontman Brenton Manser, this five-piece Adelaide band incorporate bluesy rock, rootsy folk, 60s psychedelia on their debut album.
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EL MOPA The Metal Years
The third album from Sydney four piece el Mopa has been described as 'Sydney soul'. While the band endorses that description, we are all world citizens now, aren't we?
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PYTHON LEE JACKSON Sweet Consolation 1966-73
Following on from the Missing Links, Purple Hearts and the Wild Cherries, the latest 'classic reissue' from Half A Cow Records is from one of the most popular live Sydney bands of the 60s beat era - Python Lee Jackson.
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AGNES KAIN Across The Ocean Grey
It has been an eventful two years since the release of our debut album, Keep walking or I'll kill you, and 525 days since we've been home. We are in London and about to release our second album Across the ocean grey.
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WE GROW UP Night Kitchen
This is a real find, this one. An entire album of fully focused and well thought-out pop songs that come straight out of the School of Colourful Whimsies - whose first graduate was the Beatles and last one Darren Hanlon...
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NIC DALTON Last Seen Near Trafalgar 87-89
Following on from Nic's first collection of home recordings Romolo 86-88 and the Love Positions Billiepeebup album are seventeen never-heard-before songs firmly entrenched in Sydney of the late 80s when Nic was about 23-24...
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THE MISSING LINKS Driving You Insane
10th anniversary edition of the long-out-print reissue of the 1965 album by 'Australia's wildest garage-punk band'.
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JUST OUT NOW!

Valentine's Day 2010
THE BRUTALS
the Honeymoon Period

A while ago two friendly local street scruffians Bjenny Montero and Emmett 'Tropical Snake' Smith formed a jangling folk-rock band by the name of Treetops who went on to a short period of rapid success and equally rapid obscurity.Read More .


Coming May 2010
SMUDGE
This Smudge Is True

A 30 track 'best of' Smudge is currently being put together and is going to be the smash hit of the new decade. So overwhelming it looks like we are going to licence it to a bigger label to release! Fear not, you will still be able to get it here.


Ten Years On...
BERNIE HAYES
Every Tuesday, Sometimes Sunday

In October 1999, Bernie Hayes released his debut album and it has gone on to be seen as one of the greatest albums ever...by anyone...anywhere! To celebrate, if you buy the cd direct from us, you get both singles from it - 'Matchbox Cars and Marbles' and 'Mission In Life'.


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AFXJIM


I'd played this album a couple of times and enjoyed it immensely - all before I read the cd slick and discovered that I'd seen (or heard) the maker - one Travis Baird - in a whole legion of Sydney-based bands. Read More...

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