Currently calling London home, Philadelphia Grand Jury (pictured) return to Save Our Town (not literally of course) with a tour. Calling into Byron’s Beach Hotel on Thursday Nov 18 and The Hi-Fi on Friday Nov 19, the trio are supported by Howl and Bearhug. Tickets are available through the venue, OzTix or on the door.

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It’s been a while between drinks for Gold Coast hip hop geeks The Winnie Coopers (pictured), but they return in October to launch their Surface Parasites LP. A nice play on words, the trio launch their follow-up to 2005’s Being Different and 2008’s Worth The Weight with a show at Fitzy’s Loganholme on Saturday Oct 23. The Optimen and The Coalition Crew join their buddies on the night, and tickets cost $20 (that includes a copy of the Surface Parasites LP).

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Beastie Boys may have sung it differently, but it’s No Sleep Til… Brisbane on Sunday Dec 19 at the RNA Showgrounds. The first line-up for the festival features some hefty names including Megadeath (pictured, who’ll perform their now classic Rust In Peace LP), NOFX, Dropkick Murphys, Parkway Drive, Descendents, Gwar (! – Live Ed.) and many, many more. Tickets are on sale Thursday Sep 9 through Moshtix, and you’ll want to have $136.95 spare to purchase one. Check out www.nosleeptil.com.au for more information.

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Court Yard Hounds, Kate Miller-Heidke (pictured) and The Verses will join Sarah McLachlan on A Taste Of Lilith, calling into Brisbane’s Convention Centre on Saturday Oct 16. Grab tickets at Ticketek from Thursday Sep 2.

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Jason Simon, Stephen McCarty and Steve Kille are the trio who currently comprise LA based neo-psychedelic (in a hard rock vein) Dead Meadow (pictured). Coming to Brisbane anchored by the Melbourne Festival, Dead Meadow play The Globe Theatre on Friday Oct 15. Tickets are $39.80 through OzTix, and this may just prove to be a sleeper hit of your live gigging year.

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With the current return to favour of afrobeat, the son of Fela Kuti (arguably the godfather of the movement) Femi Kuti heads to Brisbane’s Powerhouse on Tuesday Nov 23. Joined by his 14-piece band The Positive Force, tickets for this collision of culture and movement are available from the venue box office.

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Former Frente leading lady (and former Ween and Joss Whedon collaborator) Angie Hart (pictured) has returned to her hometown of Melbourne and recorded an EP, Loving Hating It. Largely drawn from her experiences touring South East Asia, Hart will be joined on tour by Canadian troubadour Matthew Barber, who launches his fourth LP True Believer in October. Catch them both at Bryon’s Beach Hotel on Thursday Oct 14, Currumbin’s Sound Lounge on Friday Oct 15 and The Troubadour on Saturday Oct 16. Gabrielle and Cameron from Sydney’s Dead Letter Chorus round off the bill.

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Aunty Meredith has blessed us this week with the news that two of her artists will journey north to play our fair city. First up, Spaniard El Guincho (pictured, Pablo Diaz-Reixa to his mum) plays The Club House (The Tempo Hotel) on Thursday Dec 16, bringing his Pop Negro LP (out September 10) to the people. If first single Bombay is anything to go by – all steel drums and psych tropicalia – then this summer just may be soundtracked by one Mr. Diaz-Reixa. Tickets are available through OzTix on Wednesday Sep 1.

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San Francisco’s Girls (pictured), finally get an Australian tour on the back of their lauded debut, Album, of 2009. Employing a loose, sun-soaked psychedelia, the founding duo of Christopher Owens and JR White will be joined by their full band, using a quintet to bring these delicate, sometimes heartbreaking tunes to life. Girls play The Zoo on Thursday Dec 9, with tickets available through OzTix for $43.35.

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Can anyone remember a time in 2010 when local lads Hungry Kids Of Hungary (pictured) weren’t strewn somewhere on the touring highway? Well they’re at it again on their Escapades tour, and that pretty much fills their dance card for 2010. With friends Big Scary and Ball Park Music, HKOH kick it all off with a date at The Hi-Fi on Thursday Sep 30, before moving onto Toowoomba’s Spotted Cow on Thursday Nov 4, Byron’s Great Northern on Friday Nov 5, Caloundra’s Kings Beach Tavern on Saturday Nov 6 (sans Big Scary) and The Runaway Bay Tavern on Friday Nov 19 (also minus Big Scary). Look for tickets from Oztix and the venues.

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