Concrete Playground

If you’re not familiar with Vivian Girls, get acquainted. When the Brooklyn band released their debut album last year, a combination of 60’s girl-group harmonies, scuzzy garage guitar riffs and shoegaze and surf-punk sounds, the music industry went a little berserk. The vinyl-only LP sold out in weeks, leading to a CD reissue through In The Red later in the year and a heap of support slots and festival appearances. Earlier this month the all-girl trio released their new album Everything Goes Wrong through Inertia on September 8th and are celebrating by coming to Australian for the first time with a show at Spectrum. I’ll be there, front-row centre.