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Check out this awesome live video from New Zealand-based indie collective So So Modern. The band play The Cumberland Arms in Newcastle on February 23.

Brooklyn-based indie outfit Air Waves play The Dog & Parrot this Thursday with support from O’ Messy Life and Dick Bull.

“Getting excited for AIR WAVES this Thursday at The Dog & Parrot. Really loving their indie pop; softly tropical and cosy without being overly twee or hackneyed. Vivian Girls confirmed that these guys are indeed some of their favourite musical neighbors in Brooklyn and Dan Deacon agrees too. Of course, though; such homely and slightly euphoric jangly guitar pop!” (PRMNT VIBES)

“The Air Waves song that goes by the name of “Waters,” is a terrific introduction to the kind of scene that singer Nicole Schneit wants to depict with her band, Air Waves. Her words are on wheels, bounding over a haunting and bumpy roll of guitar strumming, lazily taking their place right where they need to be – sidled up to the feeling that everything told is a silhouette of a wayward daydream of average issues, coming from a paper heart that’s been shredded by a thoughtless somebody.” (Daytrotter)

Definitely not to be missed.

Anthemic Californian quartet Foot Village play The Head Of Steam on November 11 in association with PRMNT VIBES. Support comes from James Allen’s Circuit Music and Shift-static. Here’s what the promoters have to say about the bands:

“FOOT VILLAGE are a four-piece from los angeles who craft hyper energetic DIY anthems out of four drum kits and HEAPS OF SHOUTING. sometimes their drums come out sounding like guitars but usually it’s just chaos of the funnest sort, real wild and colourful, which explains why they fit right at home playing with the likes of HEALTH, No Age, Abe Vigoda, Vivian Girls etc. Yeah, there’s a lot of drumming and screaming but tonnes of laughing with liberal politics to boot.

JAMIE ALLEN’s CIRCUIT MUSIC is the freaked out electronic tinkerings of this local experimentalist, crafting super energized beats/notbeats out of some weird-ass suitcase/lightbox contraption. HOLY CRAP!

SHIFT-STATIC bring a more linear edge to an evening of rainbow tectonics with their loop/sample backed soft indie rock, lots of strange ambience coming out of these chords.”

Local leftfield promoters PRMNT VIBES present Los Angeles-based lo-fi disco-poppers Nite Jewel at The Star And Shadow Cinema on September 30. Support comes from local outfits Road To Rimini, The Turing Test and Atau.

Check the Facebook events page for more details.

Watch the band’s video for ‘Lover’:

Fresh from the success of their gig at The Head Of Steam with Tropa Macaca and Blues Control, here’s the line-up for PRMNT VIBES at The Bridge on September 24:

PRMNT VIBES present New York noiseniks Blues Control at The Head Of Steam on September 1:

NYC experimental noise/pop duo BLUES CONTROL play the HEAD OF STEAM on September 1st. Joined by Portugal weirdos TROPA MACACA and Newcastle’s EYEBALLS, the side project of Richard Dawson, this’ll be a night of massive lucidity with bands exploring the funner/more colourful side of the transcendental.

Check permanentvibes.tumblr.com for more info.