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18-01-2019
'Diorama' and 'Young Modern’ limited release vinyl
'Diorama' and 'Young Modern’ are out on limited release vinyl today! Both are special editions with 'Diorama' featuring white vinyl, while 'Young Modern' is on transparent blue vinyl. Only 1000 available of each, get them from JB HIFI and Sanity - international shipping available: https://EMIMusicAus.lnk.to/SilverchairVinyl
23-03-2018
DREAMS MAKES OZ DEBUT AT SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE IN MAY
Daniel Johns has unveiled his new band DREAMS, his long awaited collaboration with Empire of the Sun frontman Luke Steele.
The first taste of their forthcoming album is the pulsating debut single ‘No One Defeats Us’.
15-06-2015
Happy 40th Birthday triple j
On January 19 1975, triple j pressed play on Double Jay and launched the ABC’s first youth radio station. Fast forward 40 years and today they’re celebrating the moments and milestones that shaped our history and changed music forever.
Triple j has created a time machine to access their enormous archive of highlights, insights and interviews with the latest and greatest musicians of our time. Have a look at 1994 which was an enormous year for Silverchair.
22-05-2015
Daniel Johns - Talk... Listen - Video for "Cool on Fire"
After 8 years of silence Daniel Johns finally releases his new album today … TALK.
It’s Triple J’s Album Of The Week and the first reviews are glowing. Here’s a quick taste of what the critics are saying.
"Talk is a radical departure and yet it isn’t; it’s not at all like him and yet it is exactly him. He’s burnt down the house but he’s built one that is ready for occupation. **** Bernard Zuel, SMH Spectrum
“This record is remarkable. It’s really terrific. I think a lot of people will be turned on by this body of work”. Richard Kingsmill, triple j
“His solo debut sees one of our biggest rock stars transcending rock. It’s also up with his finest work. What’s in Johns’ head right now is a dizzying nocturnal mix of electronics, vintage Prince, sould, bears and falsetto.” – Cameron Adams, ****Herald Sun
“Johns’ chameleon tendencies weave a shimmering trail...” **** The Music
“Talk is an exciting and rare example of an artist refusing to be shackled by their past” – Rolling Stone
“Extremely impressive”. Yahoo Music
But why not make up your own mind? You can listen to TALK here. TALK will be launched with two special shows at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall on May 28 and 29 as part of the Vivid Festival.
Today Daniel also reveals the video for his new single “Cool On Fire”. Directed by Josh Logue (Empire of the Sun, Hilltop Hoods) the film captures Daniel as never seen before.
Says Josh Logue of the video: “After hearing the song 'Cool on Fire' I was compelled to create a video that exposed Daniel both visually and metaphorically. Daniel delivered an enigmatic yet truthful performance adding the essential ingredient to the music video. Daniel not only understands musically, but also visually how to make timeless, great art.”
Click on the picture below to view the video:
DANIEL JOHNS – NEW ALBUM “TALK” – AVAILABLE HERE NOW
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01-05-2015
Daniel Johns - New Album (Out May 22) + New Single (Out Today)
"Everyone else communicates with words. I can’t. I use music.”
Daniel Johns was ‘silent’ for 8 years but today he announced that his long awaited album will be called TALK. People can hear it from May 22. TALK will be launched with two special shows at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall on May 28 and 29 as part of the Vivid Festival. In the meantime there’s an uplifting and uptempo love song … “Cool On Fire” … co-written and produced by Lorde/Jarryd James collaborator Joel Little. That new single is released today.
During those long, silent years there was lots of speculation about what Daniel was doing. The enigmatic singer/songwriter removed himself from the radar. Rumours were rife.
“Some of the rumours were probably true”, he chuckles. Which ones? “Well, anyone who wants to listen to the new songs will figure it out pretty quick. It’s been an interesting ride."
TALK tells that story in a brand new way. Gone are the big guitars and roaring rock vocals; in their place, urban beats and aching falsetto croons. Dollops of lush R’n’B are laced with cruisy electro flavours and some dark glitchy bedroom production touches to create a stylish take on modern soul.
Asked to explain this Bowie-esque genre hopping and he eventually says, “music’s the best way I know to express how I think and feel but over time you don’t think and feel all the same things in the same ways, so the music has to change.”
The eclectic mix of sounds and styles on the new album reflect the array of collaborators that Daniel brought on board including Joel Little, Melbourne underground duo Damn Moroda, influential writer/producer Louis School, Presets main man Julian Hamilton, and local hip hop icons Styalz and M-Phazes.
Aptly enough the first songs to be lifted from “Talk” have already provoked mountains of online chatter. For every music lover excited to hear radically different work by Daniel there are a couple of others 'trolling' him for not endlessly churning out the same sounds since his mid-teens.
“I’ve always felt like most people hate everything I do but thankfully there’s always been an enthusiastic minority who seem to ‘get' it. That’s fine with me. Anything that appeals to everyone tends to suck anyway.”
“What’s funny is that when Silverchair released “frogstomp" most people went out of the way to tell me how much it sucked. Then when we made “Diorama” a few years later everyone started telling me how I should go back to making “frogstomp”. I guess now I’ll be told to go back and make “Diorama” again!”
"That was part of why I picked the album title too by the way. I don’t really care what most people think. Let them talk."
NEW 'TALK' ALBUM COMING MAY 22 - Pre-order Exclusive Album Packages here
NEW SINGLE 'COOL ON FIRE' OUT TODAY- Buy the Single here
SEE DANIEL'S FIRST LIVE SHOWS AT THIS YEAR'S VIVID LIVE
WHEN: Thursday May 28 & Friday May 29
WHERE: SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE, Concert Hall
TICKETS ON SALE NOW: from $59+bf
BOOKINGS: vividlive.sydneyoperahouse.com or 02 9250 7777
27-03-2015
SILVERCHAIR ‘FROGSTOMP’ TURNS 20 TODAY
Silverchair’s debut album ‘Frogstomp’ has been remastered, expanded and reissued to mark the 20th anniversary of its release on March 27, 1995.
‘Frogstomp’ was recorded when Daniel Johns, Ben Gillies and Chris Joannou were 14 years old. The first single ‘Tomorrow’ was a number one song in Australia for six weeks from 24 October, 1994. ‘Frogstomp’ became the first debut act by an Australian group to debut at number one.
‘Frogstomp’ also reached no 9 in the USA for Silverchair and no. 49 in the UK. In America, it sold over 2 million copies.
The new edition of ‘Frogstomp’ is available as an expanded CD edition or collectors 2CD/DVD deluxe edition featuring a live concert from the Cambridge Hotel in Newcastle from 1995.
To coincide with the 'Frogstomp' 20th anniversary, here's the original Silverchair feature that appeared in Australia’s Rolling Stone Magazine in April 1996.
It is a cold, cloudy and generally cheerless night in down-town Detroit. But for a brief moment, from the sidewalk outside St. Andrew's Hall, you can actually see a full moon – the bright white flash of 16-year-old Silverchair drummer Ben Gillies' naked ass stuffed through an open tour bus window.
Gillies' vertical smile is greeted with delighted shrieks and approving hoots from the shivering teenage girls and sweat-drenched mosher dudes who have been clustered around the bus since Silverchair wrapped up their feedback-laden encore of "Israel's Son" nearly an hour ago, but that's nothing compared to the celebratory testosterone now raging inside the vehicle.
"All right! Way to go, Gillies! The big brown eye!" raves the band's 16-year-old singer and guitarist, Daniel Johns. He's still breathless from the Australian trio's dash from the St. Andrew's backstage door, but his deceptively angelic features are bright with impish glee. Bassist Chris Joannou, who is also 16 and has his long, curly brown hair tucked up under a wool cap emblazoned with the logo of the band Korn, doubles over with laughter. The band's manager, John Watson, just rolls his eyes in bemused resignation while David Gillies, Ben's father, is spared the entire experience. He and the other Silverchair dads, Greg Johns and David Joannou, are still in the venue, packing up the band's gear. When they accompany their sons on tour, the elders double as guardians and roadies.
For full feature story go here.
Silverchair – Frogstomp
Disc 1
Israel’s Son
Tomorrow
Faultline
Pure Massacre
Shade
Leave Me Out
Suicidal Dream
Madman
Undecided
Cicada
Findaway
Disc 2
Tomorrow (from Tomorrow EP)
Acid Rain (from Tomorrow EP)
Blind (from Tomorrow EP)
Stoned (from Tomorrow EP)
Madman (vocal version)
Madman (Live At The Cambridge)
Blind (Live At The Cambridge)
Tomorrow (Live At The Cambridge)
Faultline (Live At The Cambridge)
Pure Massacre (Live At The Cambridge
10-02-2015
Daniel Johns reveals video for 'Aerial Love' - Watch here
The video for Daniel Johns' new single ‘Aerial Love’ was revealed today! Filmed on the Stockton Dunes just outside of Newcastle and created using new drone camera technology, the video takes you on a transcendent journey as Daniel walks across a deserted landscape.
Watch it here.
29-01-2015
New music from Daniel Johns - Pre-order 'Aerial Love' EP
triple j premiered 'Aerial Love' this morning, the first single from Daniel's forthcoming solo album. For longterm Silverchair Fans who would like to stay updated on Daniel's new music, please sign up to his new mailing list at www.danieljohns.com
8 years after his last new music, Daniel Johns is finally ready.
His first step back is "Aerial Love"; an airy piece of modern pop he created with Lorde and Broods collaborator, Joel Little. The opening lines tell the story.
The song is in a different sonic universe from Daniel’s other work. And yet the unexpected is exactly what you should expect from this musical chameleon.
For the past few years Daniel's been working nonstop on solo material with a surprising array of collaborators. This March there will be an EP release and later in the year a full album will reveal the scope of that work. But as a first taste we’ve got this "Aerial Love”.
"Aerial Love" will be accompanied by a trailblazing video created by using drone camera technology. Directed by Lorin Askill (Flume & Chet Faker, Phoenix and Sia's "Chandelier" editor) the film replicates the song's weightlessness, timeless, slyly carnal feel.
It’s a new chapter in an intriguing story. Stay tuned for further details.
'AERIAL LOVE' EP - PRE-ORDER & GET SONG NOW
DANIELJOHNS.COM
'AERIAL LOVE' EP - OUT MARCH 13
28-01-2015
World Premiere: New Daniel Johns song on Triple j tomorrow
I'm finally ready and excited to share my new music with the world. Tune into triple j breakfast tomorrow from 7am for the first listen to 'Aerial Love.' Thank you for your patience to those who have been waiting. I hope you enjoy. Much love, Daniel x
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18-01-2015
Daniel Helps Celebrate 40 Years of Triple J
Daniel helps celebrate 40 years of Triple J at the Beat the Drum music festival. He performed his own take on a piano and harp led Nirvana classic. Enjoy.