The Kissaway Trail

The Kissaway Trail

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By Casper Johansson in New Music on Saturday 20 March 2010

The Kissaway Trail have a new album entitled Sleep Mountain due for release on April 20, via Bella Union. Sleep Mountain adds in dabs of electronica to the breadth of guitars for a contemporary and vulnerable rock classic. We asked them about the music that inspired the recording. They started with the Joanna Newsom song, Peach, Plum, Pear [listen below]: ‘A really good song from a great debut album, made by one of the best female artists ever’.

[audio:http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.myall/word/joanna_newsom-peach_plum_pear.mp3]

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The Howling Bells on their big Bell Hit

Zolton Contributor

By Zolton in New Music on Friday 11 July 2008

The first time I saw Howling Bells play was a blustery Sydney evening a few years back when I’d gotten the word from singer Juanita Stein’s brother — Ari — that an ‘event’ was going down and I was to do whatever it took to get in to see it. Tired and feeling unsociable, I scrubbed up nonetheless and made my way down a winding Oxford Street to a small club just before the red light district of Darlingurst.

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