The news archives

You will find here older news items that might no longer be relevant, but could be still of interest. Use with caution: a claim we make here is not guaranteed.

Lou Barlow instore

28 Feb 2010

Next Friday March 5th Lou Barlow (Dinosaur Jr. / Sebadoh) will be playing an instore!

Slam Rally @ 4pm you know where...

23 Feb 2010

Let's meet outside the book building after 4pm and see what happens huh ! We totally sold out of T-Shirts too sorry folks. Hey Amanda can you give us a call in the shop. thanks

Drew Gates - The Crooked Beat Book

19 Feb 2010

From the squalid heroin dens and live sex clubs of Bangkok to the steaming underbelly of Calcutta, The Crooked Beat takes you to places few tourists ever see. Like Trainspotting set in the jungle, the journey is as funny as it is horrifying. This is Southeast Asia as you've never seen it: A raunch mix of jungle parties, drugs and punk rock. Hang onto your passport and watch your ass because the trip is going to be wild. Written by ex-singer from Stanley Knife and Riot99.

Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Album 3 on CD

19 Feb 2010

Yep - The brand newie from Eddy Current Suppression Ring 'Rush to Relax' is in stock now on CD. Ten new tracks to play on repeat & available now to be posted anywhere in Australia or the world ! Keep a watch on our site for the vinyl soon too, & news of something special that you may not find anywhere else. Dig in _________________________ And a few instores this week with Constant Mongrel and Taco Leg today at 5pm & the Rumjacks tomorrow (Sat) at 1pm

WE WANT YOU!!!!!

18 Feb 2010

MISSING LINK DIGITAL MEDIA- Commences operation on May 1st 2010 and in keeping with the ethos that the store has represented, for over 30 years , we will be a digital download outlet for all that is independent in Australian and overseas music.We will upload releases as soon as they walk through the door and will offer both a digital download and a hard copy purchase of the latest and greatest.However we also seek to establish the best back catalogue of Australian and overseas artists that we sold,through our store over the years.

WE NEED YOUR HELP to locate those artists that released material in the 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s that have fallen off the radar, split up, had artistic differences, just got old and tired or got a day job. WHERE ARE - The accountants, acrylic hewies, agents, allniters,apartments, bleeding hearts, box of fish, celibate rifles, david chesworth, club ska, comrades of war, corpse grinders, crackajacks, cybotron, dagoes, distant violins, dorian gray, Dresden war crimes, drop bears, dubrovniks, dynamic hepnotics, ears, eastern dark, editions, the end, equal local, Essendon airport, exiles, fast cars, fast forward, flaming hands, frontier scouts, fun things, gatekeepers, geeks, grong grong, hard ons, hoi polloi, hugo klang, igniters, introverts, jfk and the Cuban crisis, laughing clowns, laughing hands, lighthouse keepers, lime spiders, lipstick killers, manikins, moodists, negatives, news, no nonsense, pel mel, perdition, plays with marionettes, hugo race, rah rah the flag, relatives, riptides, ron rude, sacred cowboys, scapa flow, scattered order, schism, scientists, screaming tribesmen, severed heads, sick things, strange idols, strange Tenants, tactics, thought criminals, urban guerrillas, victims, wet taxis, whirlywirld, x-l capris, ya ya choral, young charlatans and the zorros

NOT TO MENTION - THE APARTMENTS, THE BAMBOOS, THE BLACKEYED SUSANS, CHAD'S TREE, CHRIS MASUAK, THE CLOUDS, CONWAY SAVAGE, COSMIC PSYCHOS, CRIME & THE CITY, SOLUTION, DARLING DOWNS, THE DEADLY HUME, DENIZ TEK / DODGE MAIN, DIED PRETTY, THE DUBROVNIKS, EXPLODING WHITE MICE, GHOSTWRITERS, GRINDERMAN, HAPPY HATE ME NOTS, HITMEN / JOHNNY KANNIS, HUXTON CREEPERS, JACK FROST, THE JACKSON CODE, JOHNNY CASINO, THE JOHNNYS, THE LIZARD TRAIN, THE LONELY HEARTS, LUBRICATED GOAT, THE MEANIES, THE MOFFS, NOT DROWNING, WAVING, THE NUMBERS, PAINTERS & DOCKERS, THE PASSENGERS, THE PORKERS, THE RAOULS, RODDY RAY'DA, SALAMANDER JIM, SEKRET SEKRET, SPENCER P. JONES, SPY V SPY, THE STEMS / DOM MARIANI, THE STEPFORDS, THE SURVIVORS, TISM (THIS IS SERIOUS MUM), TRILOBITES, US AND DOWNS, VISITORS, WET TAXIS / LOUIS TILLET

OR WHAT ABOUT The assassins, black chrome, bodysnatchers, british jets, chosen few, club of rome, credits, das, flying calvittos, fun things, fungus brains, invader, johnny dole & the scabs, just urbain, kelpies, kicks, klerks, last words, leftovers, mansons, marching girls, microfilm, mystery of sixes, numbers, popgun men, the press, progression cult, proles, psychosurgeons, public execution, quick and the dead, razar, rejects, relatives, replicas, skunks, slugfuckers, clint small, sputniks, suicide squad, Sunday painters, survivors, tenants, u-bombs, undertakers, vacant lot and z-cars???

LOOK UNDER THE BED,IN THE ATTIC,IN THE GARAGE.CONTACT YOUR EX BAND MEMBERS AND GET YOUR SONGS ON OUR DIGITAL SERVICE.WE ARE SELLING TO THE WORLD. PLEASE EMAIL US AT archive@missinglink.net.au

Freebie Fanzine for Mailorder Customers or via our Counter & Wed Update

17 Feb 2010

There's a new ish of Stained Sheets out now (32 pages this time) which a few of here are involved with. It costs FUG ALL and has pieces on VENOM P. STINGER, THE TRAITORS (Melbourne 1979),THE BITTERS, COCK SAFARI, TOUGH TROUBLES and more. Anyone who Mailorders stuff from us gets one (just like our shop Newsletters from times past) and there's quite a bit of raeding in there we reckon so check it out. ______________________________ What else is happening? well we have put out another huge array of Bruce's LP's if you love your vinyl & wish to make some of these gems your own, we have a couple of big instores this week (RUMJACKS and CONSTANT MONGREL /TACO LEG), We have those Spacemen 3 LP reissues on Fire you've been asking about, we'll have the new Eddy Current Suppression Ring album on Friday (LP to follow soon),and those people asking after that new My Disco 12", we'll have it early next week ok. Loads of mad 60's/70's Vinyl Reissues out in the racks this week too sport. We've also beefed up our UK Punk CD section too, so lotsa neat albums to check out from the Cockney Rejects to the Icons of Filth. And of course Melbournites don't forget next Tuesday is the SLAM march outside the State Library at 4pm.

MISSING LINK DIGITAL MEDIA - COMING SOON!!!!

16 Feb 2010

Missing Link is excited to announce our plans for the launch of Missing Link Digital Media. As we all know we are living in a digital world and to help out our customers we will be offering a new legal download service as of May 1st. The service will include tracks from many of Missing Links favorite labels. The tracks and albums available for download will directly represent the history of Missing Link as well as new and exciting releases. Our site will become the number one spot if you want any brand new releases, we will have them available the very moment they enter our doors. Also included on the site will be rarities, B-Sides, Live tracks and Live video. We will continue to strive to deliver the best possible service from your trusted Missing Link Staff with all our normal news, reviews and other comings and goings of the store. Stay tuned to missinglink.net.au for more updates and details of the launch, look out for gigs to celebrate the launch in your major city!

Crate Diggin' Record Update

10 Feb 2010

Just an update from us to the below post re: the Bruce Milne collection which we are currently hosting here at the shop, we've had a few people call from interstate and email from overseas etc.. regarding specific items etc.. and as we've always said with our website, we like to be able to be available to anyone anywhere, so if there are records you are chasing and we may have them amongst these second hand items... you can purchase them via our website, just like a mailorder transaction so email me (scotti@missinglink.net.au) and we shall give you info on your fave band/artist etc.. thanks.

Vinyl Lovers Unite !

8 Feb 2010

As of tomorrow am we take on the LP/7" collection of Bruce Milne, which incorporates decades of indepth fandom across a wide range of genres. Amazing Original Pressings and Red Hot Rarities, this really is a breathtaking array of Music & goes to help Bruce as he farewells The Tote & takes on new challenges in 2010. Bruce Milne began his Retail tenure at Missing Link, in the late 70's, along with his initial label beginnings with Au-Go-Go which kicked off when he was still employed at the link, so some of these rekkids are from that specific time and there really IS something for everyone, so come on down and have a dig & grab some gems to treasure just as these have been over the past 30 odd years.