The band will release its new 10 track album Wilt on August 11. The latest offering was recorded by Jay Maas (Defeater) at Woodriver Studios, Newcastle.

The band took some time in the studio to expriement, which they say has resulted in some “offbeat ideas”. 

 "Whether it was using an old telephone as a microphone, singing backwards and then reversing it in post or using kid’s musical toys in sections,” the band’s singer and songwriter Paul Pickles said.  

"We’ve made the songs a bit more standard structure-wise but crammed those structures with our weird tendencies.”

Suburban Haze will perform at The Cambridge on August 8

RAISED on a diet of The Doors, Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley and Crosby, Stills & Nash, Belmont’s Nicholas Connors is a child of the ‘60s - except he’s only 23.

Connors’ striking baritone has been filling rooms around Newcastle and Maitland lately, including Beach Street 6 and the Grand Junction Hotel. Last Friday he dropped his debut EP, True Love, which sounds like The Doors doing Van Morrison.

“It’s just real music man, there’s no bullshit,” Connors said of his love for ‘60s music.

Connors and his band launch True Love at the Cambridge Hotel on July 7.     

THE Dashville crew are heading out of their Lower Belford gates and hitting the bitumen to showcase some of the Hunter’s finest music to Sydney.

James Thomson, Baghead, Melody Pool, Magpie Dairies, Dave Wells, Deanna Rose, Demi Mitchell, Jason Walker and Lyle Dennis are confirmed for the four-hour bonanza, which begins close to home at Branxton’s Royal Federal Hotel on July 7.

The next night Dashville On The Road travels to the Brass Monkey at Cronulla, before finishing on July 9 at the Bearded Tit in Redfern. 

The tour will be Pool’s first shows since relocating home to Kurri Kurri from Melbourne.