"Four chilled af dudes steadily and surely making a name for themselves within the Brisbane music scene."

 - The A&R Department

Even slackers gotta grow up sometime, right?
We make music. Your cool dad will probably 'dig it'.
 #dadwave

Take a look at Brisbane-based Average Art Club’s skate deck full of pedals, and you’ve immediately got a pretty good idea of what they’re all about.

Originally formed in 2013, the quartet has being playing as Average Art Club since 2015, and are responsible for the creation of their own merchandise in the form of paint spattered pins, stickers, and t-shirts. Hannah Manic, local artist and producer of the band’s signature slippery, fuzzy bass lines, explains that the name choice is about more than a modest outlook on their own work:

“It’s inspired by Beautiful Losers, a documentary about LA street artists/musicians/skaters in the 90s. I recognised ourselves in their DIY punk aesthetic, disdain for the status quo, art for art’s sake methodology, and not taking your shit too seriously.”

Lyricist and guitarist, Lisa Murr, creates sounds awash with reverb and delay that often culminate in moments of pure distortion, while Thomas Kinsella’s synthesisers add layers of ambient, intergalactic cosmic symphonies. At times, listeners will find that this combination catapults them into space, their only tether to Earth being Hannah Manic’s slick bass and the tight, technical grooves of drummer Kurt Abel’s kit.

The band’s first gig after a six-month hiatus took place at Brisbane’s beloved Barbara, where their energy pulled a crowd that saw many jostling for space in the doorway. Soon after, Average Art Club took to the stage in their hometown of Toowoomba for Kontraband Studio’s annual celebration of DIY skate culture, Fastplant. There, the group’s ambient, layered harmonies were once again well received. Since then, they have played to heaving crowds at the likes of Mountain Goat Valley Festival and Yonder Festival, with more exciting announcements to come before the year is out.

Having performed with the likes of WAFIA, Ecca Vandal, WAAX, Cub Sport, Sasqwatch, The Cairos, The Griswolds, The John Steel Singers, and The Steele Syndicate, Average Art Club show no sign of slowing down.

bio courtesy of E.K. Lewis. 
www.eklewis.com

After spending the past decade being an underground music world champion Dan Newton has finally jumped from artist to entrepreneur and is proud to announce the launch of his record label “HEAVY AND WEIRD RECORDS” – Established in late 2012 – Heavy and Weird originally started as an online blog that covered music, politics and art. After a fruitful couple of years as building himself as one of the most honest and thoughtful critics in the blogosphere Dan made a decision to expand the Heavy and Weird universe to go just beyond being another music blog. 

Steeped in the tradition of Dischord and Ipecac “HEAVY AND WEIRD RECORDS” is a boutique label for Dan to release music he believes needs a voice, and that is otherwise ignored by the music industry in general. Dan is also focusing on working with other artists outside of his community to help expand Heavy and Weird from being strictly a Brisbane based organisation. 

Heavy and Weird Blog - http://heavyandwierd.wordpress.com/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/HeavyWeirdBlog
Email - heavyandweirdblog@gmail.com

Heavy and Weird Records

Artist Roster

1. Galapogos - www.facebook.com/galapogosbrisbane
2. Thirteen Seventy - https://www.facebook.com/thirteenseventy
3. Chip and Macca Play The Hits - https://www.facebook.com/dickoriceallsorts
4. Beach Massacre Circa 1885
5. Giovanni Zorzan
6. Thomas Pang
7. Conversations We Ate For Breakfast
8. Silk Shivers
9. Daniel James Newton - https://www.facebook.com/shitonthecarpet

To enquire about or book any of the above artists please email heavyandweirdrecords@gmail.com

If you are interested in having your music released by Heavy and Weird Records then please just email us and we’ll see what we can do

Welding otherworldly guitar lines to snotty, sludge-punk rhythms, The Bear Hunt’s loose, textured sound stretches from jagged landscapes of pure distortion to urgent, soaring choruses; replete with poppy grandeur.  The Brisbane-based four-piece effortlessly embody the adventurous chaos of alternative rock’s earliest explorations – where deafening noise rubs shoulders with aching pop and the wild, risky allegiance is ready to fall apart at any second.

debut Whine EP on CASSETTE at http://tempuranights.bandcamp.com

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