Issue 343

Von Bondies.

Having just finished a quick Thai meal, Von Bondies lead man Jason Stollsteimer is heading back to the band's practice space in Detroit with drummer Don Blum to work on new songs. They've already been practising for seven hours today. Stollsteimer has managed to squeeze in a phone conversation with me on the drive over. ...

Tom Waits
Real Gone
Anti/Shock r

'Real Gone' is Tom Waits at his most raw. There's not a piano note to be heard, nor is there a horn, violin, accordion, harmonica or musical saw. This is Waits reduced to his basics,

Over the past thirty years Tom Waits has built up an impressive array of unusual sounds, eclectic instruments, vocal techniques and spooky narratives with which to decorate his albums...

It's time once again to determine who's been rocking your local world over the past year with the Second dB Readers Awards, or as we like to abbreviate it around these parts, the dBras (as in debra)!

We're wanting YOU, beloved reader, to nominate your favourite local band, venue, solo artist, release, new act and more.

The top five in each category will go into the voting round, making the dBras South Australia's only music-related award that's entirely decided by you, the gig-going public!

The first acts for Big Day Out 2005 have been announced and you can be watching the Beastie Boys, The Streets, System Of A Down, Chemical Brothers, The Music, The Donnas, Freestylers, Powderfinger, Grinspoon, The John Butler Trio, Concorde Dawn, Eskimo Joe, Infusion, Butterfingers, Little Birdy and Dallas Crane! Get your BDO tix direct from dB Magazine!