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LULU'S NOVEMBER 2024 NEWSLETTER

LULU'S NOVEMBER 2024 NEWSLETTER

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Here is the NOVEMBER 2024 Newsletter and Calendar, emailed at the start of the month to our mailing list and physically available free in store.

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LULU'S NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER 2024

Big things coming up for Lulu's so we gotta make room - please indulge this psycho sale we've just announced, get involved, exchange money for dreams. Been holding out on purchasing the buttery Ebonny Munro hoody? Now is time.

We have some hype following but in brief, solid bangers to check out: TERROR OF THE DEEP - "AIRPORT UNDERNEATH THE DOME" LP, VOICE IMITATOR - "OF HOW HITS" LP, ELA STILES -"NOT A STRANGER" LP and HOT TUBS TIME MACHINE - "SNEAKY MEAT BOYS" 7".

See you next month!

Lulu's xxx


MOM NEWS

Hey Lu CRU

Been an awesome month in the gallery, hope some of you got to see the interstate collaboration that was 'Pallarel', great work by all the artists involved, no winner declared but peace was achieved.

Next up we have Orriette Wood, who has been making waves around the Melbourne art scene for a while now, so we are very excited to present her show 'Sissy Hypno'. I installed it yesterday and can confirm, it's very worth seeing if you get the time. Show will be up until early dec!
See you there!
MOMLOVESYOU

LULUS: The last one was good. This one might be better.
DRUMS - SHAUN GIONIS
GUITAR, SYNTHS - MIKEY YOUNG
GUITAR, SYNTHS, VOCALS - ALEX MACFARLANE
VOCALS, BASS - RAVEN MAHON
‘RTNW’ PAINTING BY JANE MAHON, 1991

SLAYER - “HAUNTING THE CHAPEL” 12” (Metal Blade Records) 
A record truly worthy of October 31st. There aren’t many bands more iconic than Slayer - astronomically influential and one of two groups actually worth listening to from the Big Four™️ (Anthrax SUCKS and Megadeth aren’t much better if we’re being honest). Slayer are among the early sons of bitches who pushed heavy metal in a faster, darker, more sinister direction and in doing so changed the world. Reign In Blood is undoubtedly their magnum opus; a true masterpiece that stands tall alongside the greatest albums ever produced. But here we hear Lombardo come into his own as a drummer along side the unholy duo of King and Hanneman pushing the envelope. Haunting The Chapel is the bridge they paved from a more tradition heavy metal sound to the completely aggressive and extreme style that would inspire hordes across the globe and across decades; exemplified by the final lyrics of the opening track… “Satan waits eager to merge”. 

This pressing features the bonus track Aggressive Perfector which was originally released on Metal Blade’s Metal Massacre III compilation (1983). A re-recorded and much faster take of this track is also included at the end of some versions of Reign In Blood, but the one featured here is a better example of Slayer’s take on a power metal style, one that would sit perfectly alongside Manilla Road on the sort of mixtape that changed lives.

LOTHARIO - “HOGTIED” CS (Low Ambition Records)
Hanky panky punky garage rock music is Lothario’s jam. Razor thin bass holds everything together (just), megaphone-through-a-prison-phone vocals sneer over the lippy guitar that snuffs along at its own pace, following only its own loose rules. The performance is (almost) all handled by the seemingly perpetually leather-and-steel-clad femme fatale Annaliese with a rotating cast of drummers submitting service to their musical domme from their temporary throne. This queen’s court of different drummers creates an interesting ever-changing dynamic and validates the notion that percussion distinctly moulds the feel of any given riff according to said skin banging jester’s whims and aptitude/ineptitude. Pucker up and kiss the heel if you dare.

Dear diary, today I learned about the C chord shape and I think things are about to change in my life. A selection of (mostly) more tender and more wonky side to Oz guitar charms since the year 2000...

THE TOADS - "IN THE WILDERNESS" LP
Is Country & Eastern a thing? Sounds like it could be.

THE SHIFTERS - "OPEN VAULT" 2xLP
A more intimate and wonderfully unpolished side to a prolific and ever-Shifting group.

DICK DIVER - "NEW START AGAIN" LP
A classic of the "arvo sounds" microgenre.

LIVING EYES - "MODERN LIVING" LP
Less gentle, more rockin', still wonkin' and winkin' Living Eyes.

BUSHWALKING - "NO ENTER" LP
Real emotional setup with a lot of room for wandering through experimentation slathered in SPF50+.

EQUAL PARTS - "EQUAL PARTS" 12"
Under the radar wave-riding pump ups and wind downs. 

POPOLICE - "LP" LP
Cult quark strangeness of isolated pops.

THE TWERPS - "RANGE ANXIETY" LP
A cornerstone document of the years and vibrations to come, bloody Twerps.


We spotlight some elite rocking music in honour of Annihilation Time gracing our city - one of the greatest guitar bands of their generation.

POWER - "TURNED ON" LP
One of Melbourne's finest of the modern era.

METALLICA - "RIDE THE LIGHTNING" LP
Beyond almighty. 

POWER TRIP - "NIGHTMARE LOGIC" LP
The true power of the riff.

DINOSAUR JR. - "DINOSAUR" LP
Alt rock pioneering and most exemplary example of drummer to guitar hero transition.

SHEER MAG - "COMPILATION" LP
Does it actually get any catchier than this? Doubt it.

KING DIAMOND - "THEM" LP
King Diamond needs nothing more said; the music does all the talking.

13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS - "13 OF THE BEST" LP
All hail the psychedelic sounds of the 13th floor.

STEPMOTHER - "PLANET BRUTALICON" LP
From the mind that brought you Annihilation time, but more Alice Cooper.

THE MEZMERIST - "THE INNOCENT, THE FORSAKEN, THE GUILTY" LP
Outsider doom insanity featuring Bill Ward on drums (for real!)

GUT HEALTH - “STILETTO” LP (Highly Contagious)
No-wave fans, stans & those who like to dance look no further than this absolute smacker of a debut long player. Gut Health’s modern & original take melts you into separate states of joy, rage & funkadelic energies offering a solution to the dry bleakness of your societal drags by providing an atmosphere of equality & ecstasy. Melodically driven bass lines & pop tones take the wheel as the magnetic percussion rides shotgun giving space for the angular guitars & synth waves to crash onto the shorelines of Athina Uh-Oh’s dynamic & powerful vocal delivery. There’s no doubt this should please you ESG, PYLON, MAXIMUM JOY, POLY STYRENE heads out there.

 

THE BRAKES - "BIG ROCK" LP (Legless Records)
Nostalgia is a currency these days and some people have cut the right kind of deal for themselves. The Brakes swing into frame with some old style rock with a sound a bit  reminiscent of The Saints or Johnny Moped olden days punk when it's going steady - almost country twanged and definitely chordy. Think Paul Kelly. You could call them ballads if you wanted to. And then of course there are the actual country ballads. It's nice to hear some of the old timey sound from outside of the former-addict inner-city bar scenes flavoured country music tragedies (the kinds of people who idolize Mr Merle Haggard and such) as something about it makes a lot of sense right now and I'm sure doubly so at an afternoon front bar gig. Saddle up pump The Brakes if that sounds like your jam, cowpoke (or city slicker, as it were.)

STIFF RICHARDS - "GFC/EMPTY BARRELS" 7" (Legless Records)
Stiff Richards are back with a couple quick belters. GFC is the kind of ramped up melodic rocker that people DIG 'em for, punchy and snappy with an extra helping of guitar swagger. Sounds like a step in a good direction if this is an indication of what's to come. On the flip side is 'Empty Barrels' which surprised me because it's verses are way faster than I would imagine them playing, stuttering and loose, punctuated with rapidfire shouts and odd exclamation. It feels a lot like something Formaldehye Junkies would have put on a small-run 7" heard only by locals and zine editors. In hindsight I guess the cover art being a photograph of somebody face down on a mattress in the street is a hint that I missed.

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