Scratchin' the Itch

Hello? …. Yes, we’re back and better than ever with a new microphone and new broadcasting cave. Darcy has finished up his “all expenses paid” (by him) world trip full of knowledge and culture to add to our banter. Meanwhile, Jerome has… well, he’s back as well. And what do we have for you today? Music, music and more music. We’ve got a few of the favourites today including Buck Biloxi, HOUSEWIVES and Ausmuteants. We’ve also got some new comers with Ravi Gunslinger and Quialbones. As for the rest, you’ll have to fire up your listening devices and get listening for another episode of SCRATCHIN’ THE ITCH.

Human 2.0

TRACKLIST

1. Buck Biloxi & the Fucks – Million Years (Hozac Records)

2. Housewives – Brown Out (Total Punk)

3. Duderella – Supreme

4. The Hussy – Appleseed (Volar Records)

5. Royal Headache – High (Distant & Vague Records / What’s Your Rupture?)

6. Dralms – Pillars & Pyre (Boompa Records / Full Time Hobby)

7. Ravi Gunslinger –  Screaming Woman

8. Deafwish – Eyes Closed (Subpop Records)

9. Quilbones – Sunny Side Repulsion (Sad Sack Records)

10. Ausmuteants – Echo Beach (Hozac Records)

At Scratchin’ the Itch we are ready to ask the big questions, speak truth to power. And who could be more powerful than A-list Hollywood celebrity, Billy Zane. Billy, we’re gonna put it to you straight, are you a troll? Did you convince Australian rock and roll royalty to name their kids after you? Do you bully people online for fun so that their “moms” need to start a club just to stop you? Do you eat the souls of the living? Do ya, huh? Well do ya, punk?

All pertinent questions that demand answers. Perhaps, if Billy is too chicken to get back to us, they could be answered by some of these movers and shakers: The Living Eyes, Wet Blankets, Tough Age and King Raam. They got the good stuff as do many, many more inside.

TRACKLIST

1. The Living Eyes – High Standard (Anti-Fade Records / Agitated Records)

2. Rose Windows – Glory, Glory (Sub Pop Records)

3. Wet Blankets – Fridge Too Far (Anti-Fade Records / Agitated Records)

4. Nathan Roche – Phantom Blues (Glenlivet-A-Gogh)

5. King Raam – The Man In The Black Suit

6. Tough Age – Nicholas Bragg (Mint Records)

7. Cyberbully Mom Club – Friends

8. Joanna Gruesome – Last Year (Fortuna Pop / Turnstile / Slumberland)

9. Daddy Issues – So Hard (Egghunt Records / Negative Fun Records)

10. Katarina – Dust Bunny Revivial

Synth City is Australian music in 2015. Breaking out is impossible. Breaking in is… SCRATCHIN’ THE ITCH. Yes, we’re back to save the President of punk/grunge/fuzzcore and we’ve brought a host of super groups with us. We got the Constant Mongrel. We got the OBNOX. We got double trouble with the Heirophants. Together we can take on the tyranny of Chet Faker and Peking Duk. You know what WE’RE trying to say. Get back on board for another rad year.

Snake Plissken

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TRACKLIST

1. Constant Mongrel – The Law (R.I.P. Society)

2. Ladywolf – About Melody (Resurrection Records)

3. Rectal Hygienics  – Granduer (Permanent Records)

4. OBNOX – Too Punk Shakur (12XU)

5. A Place to Bury Strangers – We’ve Come So Far (Dead Oceans)

6. Pisse – I Feel Nothing/Ich Fule Nichts

7. Hierophants – Skipping Steps (Moontown Records)

8. Hierophants – I Don’t Mind (Goner Records)

9. The Fat White Family – Autoneutron (Burger Records/Fat Possum)

10. Excess feat. Sean and Chris Campion – Home (Virtual Cool)

Scratchin’ the Itch is in tip top shape (better than you!) as it launches its inaugural Tip Top Australian Albums. It has been a fantastic (some would say tip top) year for Australian garage, fuzz, psych-core music and we are here to to take you on your own personal guided tour of the hottest of the hot from 2014. These bad boys are full length and full throttle. We also crown the tip toppest State of Australia, so get your parochial prejudices fired up and join us for the best show in town…

Get into it.

FEATURING these true blue Aussie battlers (in no particular order): Ausmuteants, Peter Bibby, Eastlink, Low Life, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, You Beauty!, Ruined Fortune, The Peep Tempel, Old Mate and Martyr Privates.

Finally and officially, Scratchin’ the Itch is here with the long awaited Tip Top Top Ten Tracks of Twenty-Fourteen. Let’s break it down – 10 tracks from across the whole wide world of sports but not including any Australian tracks on tip top albums that may be featured in the tip top top ten albums collection. Got it? Tops. It’s like the Hottest 100 except, instead of your favourite songs, these are OUR favourite songs… and there are 90 less of them. But, nevertheless, we hope you enjoy!

And once you are done, don’t go anywhere – Tip Top Top Ten Truly Terrific Australian Albums (of 2014) will be with you very, very soon.