It’s a new year, but it’s the same, awesome podcast. Metal Postcard Records’ Sean Hocking helps us round up some of the hottest local, regional, and international tunes. And this year, we want your creations – upload your demos and recordings to drop.io/timeouthk, and you might be the next artist on our fortnightly, downloadable musical offering. This is what we’ve got happening this episode:

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UNiXX Perfect Betrayer
www.unixx.net
After five long years, these local purveyors of dark, noisy garage rock are launching their follow up to Nasty Fantasy, going dark and moodier than on 7 Deadly Sins. They launch the Lona Records release on January 16 at Hang Out.

The Pancakes Even Together
www.thepancakes.com
As The Pancakes, Dejay has been playing synthy twee-pop for ten years, releasing seven albums and being featured in numerous TV commercials. To mark the occasion, she plays Hang Out on January 9 and 10. This track is from her 2002 album All Already Ready.

LMF Liberty
www.alivenotdead.com/LMF
Their Wild Lazy Tour gigs are over, but not knowing when they’ll next be performing, we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to put the legendary Canto-metal-hip-hop pioneers on the podcast. This new track was released to coincide with their comeback tour.

Pure Vibracion Mi gal
www.myspace.com/purevibracion
Malaysia’s Pure Vibracion are a good vibes reggae band who released their debut album Love And Peace in 2009, making the Malaysian charts with this poppy reggae number. The album
also features a couple of songs
sung in Bahasa.

The Slits (Remixed By The Emergency) Crew War
www.theslits.co.uk; www.myspace.com/theemergency
Metal Postcard outfit The Emergency remix legends of punk funk dub The Slits. The Slits were the original riot girl group 20 years before the term even existed. 2009 saw the release of only their second studio album Trapped Animal.