Them Crooked Vultures have added a couple of shows to their Australian tour in January. The new dates are in Melbourne and Sydney.

And did you read our interview with TCV/Led Zep bassist John Paul Jones? Of course you did.

THEM CROOKED VULTURES - AUSTRALIAN TOUR JAN 2010

Jan 19 - Perth, Challenge Stadium ON SALE NOW
Jan 22 - Melbourne, Festival Hall SOLD OUT
Jan 23 - Melbourne, Festival Hall NEW SHOW
Jan 25 - Brisbane, Riverstage ON SALE NOW
Jan 26 - Sydney, Hordern Pavilion SOLD OUT
Jan 27 - Sydney, Hordern Pavilion NEW SHOW

Tickets for the new dates go on sale Wednesday December 2.

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Everyone's favourite Fela Kuti referencing Brooklyn harmony-rock band Dirty Projectors are coming out here for the greatest human gathering known to man Golden Plains Festival. The excellent band, led by David Longstreth, have released one of the records of the year in Bitte Orca, so this thing'll sell out pretty quick no doubt.

And rightly so. The band were on US talk show Jimmy Fallon last week, where the house band are hip-hop legends The Roots. Questlove, drummer and musical director for that group, shot this vid backstage of the Dirty Projector's doing their 5.1 surround harmony thing. Pretty amazing.



DIRTY PROJECTORS AUSTRALIAN TOUR
Tickets on sale Friday 4 December

Tuesday 9 March - The Hi Fi, Melbourne
Wednesday 10 March - Metro Theatre, Sydney
Saturday 13 March - The Rosemount, Perth

Also appearing at:

The Lost Weekend Festival, Queensland
Golden Plains Festival, Victoria

Ticket info @ handsometours.com

myspace.com/dirtyprojectors

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As we know, The xx are coming out here for the fairly great looking 2010 Laneway Festival. They've not yet announced sideshows, but that didn't stop the band listing on their MySpace a Melbourne sideshow at the Northcote Social Club for Wednesday 3rd February. For a while anyway, the listing has now been pulled. In one sense - great. In another - holy crap that place is going to split at the seams. Stay tuned.

We spoke to singer Romy Madley Croft a couple of weeks ago. She was lovely. For the record.

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Despite it being four months away, SXSW has announced the first round of bands accepted to play the big handshake fest that goes down in Austin, Texas each year. Here's the list of Australian artists selected for the festivus so far:

Art vs Science
Beaches
Bliss & Eso
The Blow Waves
Shannon Bourne
The Chevelles
Children Collide
City Riots
Dappled Cities
Dash and Will
Dead Letter Circus
Paul Dempsey
Nathan Gaunt
Darren Hanlon
Karnivool
The Middle East
Oh Mercy
Pets With Pets
Philadelphia Grand Jury
Sherlock's Daughter
Summer Cats
The Temper Trap
Via Tania
Washington
Whitley

The South by Southwest Music Festival and Conference battle of the bands goes down in Austin Texas March 17-21, 2010. Who will be the victors? Who will have their childhood dreams crushed beyond repair? Who will max out their Blackberry? And who will live to see another parched landscape zipping by the Tarago window? All we really know for sure is that the internet will one day swallow them all.