A privileged few may have booked the first available seats on Virgin Galactic’s maiden outer-space voyage for 2009, but they needn’t have bothered come August 2007, as the Midnight Juggernauts prepare to launch their debut album ‘Dystopia’ onto an unsuspecting musical public. Interstellar space travel has never been quite so within arm’s reach, available to one and all in a single concentrated 50-minute supersonic burst.
Throughout its 13 tracks ‘Dystopia’ lays a common thread of vigilant optimism, although it’s a mood often shrouded with a dark and sinister disposition. Already the relentless stomp of techno-meets-disco singles ‘Road To Recovery’, ‘Shadows’ and ‘45 And Rising’ have scored the band airplay on Triple J and independent radio Australia wide, while further into the stratosphere they’ve found themselves pounced on by BBC1 and MTV2 UK/Europe, the latter going so far as to mark them as “artists we’re tipping for the top in 2007”.
Cinematic in its scope, ‘Dystopia’ is the sound of a band exploring time and space. It’s like watching new stars burn into existence, and then disappear in a single flash. It’s the sound of a black hole imploding under the weight of a sweat-soaked, heaving dancefloor. It’s the future, past and present, all rolled into one; but it’s like nothing you’ve ever experienced before.
Onelove and Hardware Corporation are proud to unleash the covers on their starting line-up for Stereosonic 08. Don’t be surprised if they add more exciting news over the coming months including performers and production highlights. [more]
Onelove and Hardware Corporation are proud to unleash the covers on their starting line-up for Stereosonic 08. Don’t be surprised if they add more exciting news over the coming months including performers and production highlights. [more]
by angy on March 5th, 2008
2007 was without a doubt the year of the Midnight Juggernauts, with their debut LP 'Dystopia' proving to be a hit and a massive presence on the summer festival circuit. And the next step? They’re taking their music to the world. [more]
by i_have_ADD on July 26th, 2007
The hype for the Midnight Juggernauts' debut LP has been steadily rising ever since they released their first EP. ITM caught up with Vincent Juggernaut recently while the band were on tour in Paris to talk about the long awaited debut; 'Dystopia'. [more]
Pushing the indie-electro cross-over sound that is undoubtedly en vogue on the underground music scene globally, none do it better than local heroes the Midnight Juggernauts. [more]
2006 is indeed the year of the Midnight Juggernaut, and their schedule shows no sign of slowing down anytime soon with the guys keeping their eye firmly trained on the UK market. [more]
So, you kids still haven't been exposed to the addictive, deep, dirty, electro-pop synth-rock stylings of Melbourne duo the Midnight Juggernauts? Well, let me be the one to introduce you to it's two co-pilots Vincent (Noriega) and Andy (Gadaffi), otherwise known as the Midnight Juggernauts. [more]
In a year where Australian electronic music was arguably given its best ever showing, the results were better than anyone could have expected. The Presets dominated the ARIAs with a scoop that saw them take home several of the most prestigious awards [more]
The line-up of dance and hip-hop talent nominated at the 2008 ARIA Awards is perhaps the strongest in recent memory. [more]
World beating indie-electro three-piece the Midnight Juggernauts are winging their way back to Australia in October, set to play their first shows down under since March of this year! [more]
Fast growing into Australia’s very own version of the UK’s coveted Mercury Music Prize, the AMP (or Australian Music Prize) for 2007 recently announced their shortlist of albums in the running to take home the $25,000 cash prize. [more]
Having been shortlisted for the 2007 AMP (Australian Music Prize) for their stunning debut Dystopia, Midnight Juggernauts are gearing up to play a show at the University of Canberra on Friday 7 March. [more]
Cult French act M83 is set to tour Australia for the first time ever this March, supporting indie-darlings the Midnight Juggernauts on their east coast tour. [more]
Eat the Beat set times have been announced, plus the Espy will be open extra late especially for new years! [more]
Having had a rather momentous year in 2007, as the Midnight Juggernauts look towards the future it's obvious they have no intentions of slowing down, with details just announced of their biggest headline tour to date taking place in March, 2008. [more]
Beat the heat and Eat The Beat at Melbourne’s favourite beachside venue, The Espy, this NYD. [more]
It’s that time of the year again - the Australian Independent Records Labels Association (AIR) has announced the nominees for the 2007 Jagermeister AIR Awards. [more]
The first ever Fore Shore festival is rapidly approaching and it's set to be one of the biggest events in Canberra this year! [more]
Following yesterday's record sell out of the Big Day Out in Sydney, Queensland has followed suit and snapped up all tickets for the Gold Coast leg of the tour, and in less than one day! [more]
It certainly has been a manic week for festivals and sell-out events, but the madness aint over yet… The Sydney leg of the Big Day Out went on sale at 9am this morning and within less than an hour, all tickets had completely sold out. [more]
OK we all know Rage Against the Machine will be headlining and there have been whispers of Bjork – well now we can finally put the rumours to bed as the Big Day Out 2008 first line-up is revealed! [more]
It’s a story that inthemix has been following with keen interest for a few weeks now, with info coming in bit by bit that Ministry Of Sound would be hosting their very own festival this December. [more]
The Midnight Juggernauts and Katalyst have been announced as the latest nominees for the 2007 J Award, standing alongside the likes of Silverchair, John Butler Trio, Josh Pyke, Architecture in Helsinki and more in the competition to take out the cove [more]
Busy circumnavigating the country on their debut album launch tour, after a string of sold out shows the Midnight Juggernauts have decided to add further dates to their seemingly never-ending journey. [more]
Groove Armada, The Go! Team, Gotye, Blackalicious and the Midnight Juggernauts have been confirmed for Southbound 2008. [more]
They’ve just dropped their debut album ‘Dystopia’ and this Thursday they’ll be playing a special surprise DJ set at Sydney University’s massive seasonal shindig Snowball. Tickets on sale now at ITM! [more]
The Midnight Juggernauts' album is hotly tipped as one of the biggest and best of 2007, and to get you prepared we're streaming the tracks 'Into The Galaxy' and 'Road To Recovery' on our exclusive Artist In-depth page right now! [more]
The annual all-Aussie rock event staged in the Domain will take place on December 8, with the ladies taking centrestage this year and Cut Copy and the Midnight Juggernauts heading up the dance contingent of what’s been announced so far. [more]
With the date of Oz's favourite mid-Winter music festival rapidly approaching, lucky buggers who managed to snap up one of the golden tickets for this year's Splendour In The Grass will be excited to learn of the newest additions to the line-up. [more]
They’re one of the hottest indie/dance crossover acts out there at the moment and they’re just about to drop their debut album. Get a taste at the following gigs! [more]
Winter is well and truly upon us but you don’t want that to hinder your hedonistic behaviour over the Long Weekend. Never fear because the ITM VIP tent at We Love Sounds will feature warm cosy heating as well as sound pumped straight from Hordern. [more]
You can't say we didn't warn you! [more]
Haven’t got your tickets yet to the biggest festival happening this side of the summer season? Then get cracking cause it’s about to sell out this weekend. [more]
ITM VIP members are used to getting pampered and the upcoming winter festival in Sydney will be no different, offering both a space to chill out as well as to get up close and personal with the performers. [more]
With less than two weeks to go until the massive Future Music Festival returns to Randwick Racecourse, eager fans now have the chance to plan out their day. [more]
With only less than 2 weeks to go the Future Music Festival is well underway and ITM has just been given the breakdown of arenas and lineup. [more]
With a reputation as one of the hottest events of the Sydney Festival thanks to a diverse range of musical styles presented at the venue throughout January, the 2007 Beck's Festival Bar looks to be one of the best yet. [more]
It’s hard to imagine what the dance music community would be like in Canberra without Landspeed records. [more]
Cut Copy will be stepping out of the studio and onto the stage performing LIVE for their first headline show of 2007 at Billboards Nightclub on New Year's Eve. "The NYE Spectacular" will also feature the Midnight Juggernauts. [more]
The 2006 Allen & Heath DMAs are rapidly approaching, with the main event set to take place on Friday November 17th at Home Nightclub. [more]
They might have only just left our shores, trekking to Europe in an all conquering tour to take their indie electro sound to new audiences, but upon their return Melbourne's favourite scenesters the Midnight Juggernauts will hit the road. [more]
This year Fuzzy have joined forces with Future Entertainment to present the first Parklife in Melbourne. With a great lineup of interstate, local and international acts, heres the set times so you can plan your day. [more]
This Wednesday 20th September MTV will be hosting the launch of it's new show 'Meet or Delete' at Billboard Nightclub. [more]
Melbourne punters can once again catch hot Sydney dance-pop sensations The Valentinos when they return to Melbourne for the second time in two weeks! [more]
A longtime favourite on the Australian summer festival calendar, Homebake returns again this December, to the familiar surrounds of The Domain. [more]
The official launch happens tonight in Melbourne at Public Office, where the night will be kicking off with some kick flying rock mayhem and madness from leather-clad Sydney-siders The Valentinos, who'll be followed by The Midnight Juggernauts before Cut Copy DJs come to clean the dancefloor... [more]
Earlier this year Cut Copy launched their own 'Cutters' record label, it's first release was KIM (Kim Moyes of The Presets). The label are preparing for their second release, this time from fellow-Melbournites the Midnight Juggernauts. [more]
It has just been announced that Cut Copy will be touring Australia to celebrate the release of the second single off the debut album - Saturday. [more]
Hip-hop pioneer Grandmaster Flash remixing famed Aussie indie-electro trio the Midnight Juggernauts... Sounds interesting, doesn’t it? [more]
At this very moment Melbourne three-piece the Midnight Juggernauts would be somewhere between London and rural Scotland, on their way to the massive Rockness Festival where they play on Sunday... [more]
Continuing on their never-ending quest for domination of the worldwide indie scene, Melbourne boys the Midnight Juggernauts have announced a summer of massive European festival appearances! [more]
Modular favourites Cut Copy have 22 March penciled in for the local release of their second album In The Ghost Colours, but they won’t be here for the happy day. Their excuse? A little trip round the USA, culminating in the desert for Coachella… [more]
Midnight Juggernauts have just been confirmed to play one of the world’s finest music festivals: Coachella. [more]
The Midnight Juggernauts have just announced that they'll be packing their gear and heading Stateside to support so-hot-right-now French electro duo Justice on their American and Canadian tour this October. [more]
Midnight Juggernauts are preparing for a tour of Europe and China to coincide with the release of their Road To Recovery single. [more]
Sounds in the Grounds was packed, not just with talent but with people enticed by a line-up featuring some of the best emerging bands in the country and a sweet ticket price. [more]
Like a belated O-Week party populated by first year kids celebrating the freedom of partying on a school night, the young crowd were feverishly eager for their heroes the Midnight Juggernauts to hit the stage. [more]
The Juggernauts salute Sydney farewell with a mix of synthetic space-disco and edgy rock that only they can fuse together such ease. [more]
It was the true description of a balmy summer evening in Perth, and with all tickets selling out around a week before, Bourgeois Bogan’s 'Big Night Out' at Shape promised to be perhaps the finest night in the venue’s short but colourful history. [more]
A perfect weekend music event is well organized and has both bands you know and love as well as some surprising acts that blow you away unexpectedly. My weekend at Southbound got all of the above. [more]
The last and only Meredith I’ve ever been to was back in 2000, which was its 10th year. It was pretty small then. I remember being able to stand right up the front for any band I wanted to see. This year was a bit different! [more]
by SparklingSam on December 18th, 2007
It was a nice summery day to be outside with friends and hear some good music. OK, call me greedy but I had such a fantastic time and I really wanted the sets to go longer. Kudos to Ministry of Sound for bringing out such quality acts. [more]
All in all, the ‘Ladies Domain’ went off on Saturday, and with Paul Kelly and Cut Copy wrapping up the proceedings, I couldn’t have asked for a better way to end a day of watching great Australian rock, dance and live music at its absolute finest. [more]
A sold out crowd celebrated the first day of summer by getting wet, muddy and rowdy with Foreshore. The longest queue I’ve ever seen in this city braved poor conditions to see an impressive line-up of local, interstate and international acts. [more]
It was a cold and rainy Friday night in Perth, but this did nothing to deter the hundreds of eager fans queing up outside Club Capitol to catch a show from Australia’s current electro-indie darlings, The Midnight Juggernauts. [more]
It was an electro infused rock fiasco at the Australian National University on Saturday night as Midnight Juggernauts packed out the refectory for one night only. [more]
The Juggers meteoric rise to fame shows no sign of waning when their live show has been finessed to elevate recorded material. Jump on their bandwagon and launch into intergalactic planetary alignment. Spectacular. [more]
There's little doubt that winter can be a miserable time of year. But somehow every June long weekend the Sounds Group manage to get around 12,000 people to crawl out of beds to rock out to some of the best acts this city has ever seen. [more]
The timewarp 80's electro-rock beast that is the Midnight Juggernauts found themselves eclipsed by the raw talent and energy of Adelaide's own Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire!on this night- not without shaking some asses, mind you. [more]
We hyped, we partied and now we reminisce. It is a inevitable fact of life that the good times fly by far too quickly...and boy, wasn't Future Music Festival 2007 fun! [more]
Sydney University and the infamous Manning Bar have always been known to throw pretty good parties. When you mix fresh uni students, cheap drinks and great music, you can't really go wrong. [more]
Melbourne sees the launch of the Future Music Festival. A massive outdoor party that heralds the end of the summer season... [more]
It was a great night, a true birthday bash anticipating many happy years ahead. [more]
This particular Eve promises auspicious line-ups all over town and often boasts massive international acts. All these options pale into insignificance when you throw in the opportunity to farewell 2006 by cutting a move to The Cutters choons. [more]
Congratulations to all the nominees and winners at this year's DMAs. With so much new talent and competition constantly emerging, just to be nominated was a big enough honour. [more]
The Middies bring some much-needed panache to proceedings. 80s influences may be intrinsic to their sound but it’s definitely not regurgitation. [more]
Great day, great lineup, great party… Melboure will be gagging for our next Parklife installment I'm sure. [more]
The timing couldn’t have been better for the Midnight Juggernauts first ever gig in Adelaide. On this occasion the MJ’s were on display at the sweetly setup Rocket Bar to launch their new 5 track EP, ‘Secrets of the Universe’. [more]
For Session 52 we chat to the Midnight Juggernauts, plus we’ve got super fresh new music from local favourites Jamie Lloyd & Poxymusic, as well as new releases from Miss Kittin, Junkie XL and more. [more]
We've got what we think is probably our biggest podcast yet! Midnight Juggernauts, Hot Chip, Gotye, Infusion, Chris Fortier, Chromeo and more... What you waiting for, eh? [more]
Get ready for delectable tracks and remixes from from Krafty Kuts, Midnight Juggernauts, Matt Rowan, T-Rek, Kid Kenobi vs Rogue Element and more! [more]
The hype surrounding the release of this album has bordered on ridiculous. Off the back of two highly acclaimed EPs, this debut LP from Melbourne trio Midnight Juggernauts has had press kits claiming greatness of interplanetary proportions. [more]
This is an astonishingly good EP, from one of the most exciting local bands to emerge in recent years. [more]
VHS Or Beta have continued the trait of again choosing excellent and so-hot-right-now artists to do the remixing duties on 'Burn It All Down'. Fred Falke, Midnight Juggernauts and Surkin have all been enlisted to fill the B-sides. [more]
The newest single from Melbourne's shining stars of 2006, Midnight Juggernauts, is 'Road to Recovery'. It showcases more of the Juggs' dark, shimmering and atmospheric production. [more]
With remix duties passed onto electro synth-rock duo the Midnight Juggernauts, electric vibes were thrown into the mix almost instantly. [more]
We’re now up to podcast session 36, and we’ve got what we think is probably our biggest one yet... Midnight Juggernauts, Hot Chip, Infusion & Gotye, Chromeo, Chris Fortier and more! [more]
Busy circumnavigating the country on their debut album launch tour, ITM recently caught up with the Midnight Juggernauts backstage before their sold out Sydney shows. [more]
Busy circumnavigating the country on their debut album launch tour, ITM recently caught up with the Midnight Juggernauts backstage before their sold out Sydney shows. [more]
Is there an Australian band that straddles the dance/indie divide better than the Midnight Juggernauts? [more]