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It's fair to say that this year's
Falls Music and Arts Festival this year in Lorne and Marion Bay, more commonly known as
The Falls Festival, has gone out of it's way in 2008 to bring what can only be described as thei... [more]
The Byron Bay Music and Arts Festival returns this year with a bang! Heading to the Byron Bay region at Belongil Fields this January 7th and 8th off the back of the almighty Falls Festival, it's a heavyweight return.
This Byron Bay... [more]
The Butterfly Effect have announced the Old Places, Old Faces, New Stories Tour with special guests Trial Kennedy and Sleep Parade.
The Butterfly Effect are one of Australia’s favourite bands & as they grow they continue to kick pr... [more]
Secret Service released this comment today on
The Great Escape's cancelletion:
"It is with considerable regret that we are announcing the cancellation of this year’s Great Escape Festival.
Unexpectedly low ticket sales have... [more]
Wolfmother has announced the resignation of bass/keyboard player
Chris Ross and drummer
Myles Heskett effective immediately.
Citing 'irreconcilable personal and musical differences', Chris Ross left the band followin... [more]
Gearing up for what is set to be a huge 2008, those fearless explorers of new-wave and postpunk
Van She are celebrating the release of their debut album 'V' by hitting the road with their next installment of what's quickly... [more]
The second half of 2008 sees Sydney's
Stone Parade release their debut album
Chase The Setting Sun and
Somebody Will Miss You, the award winning single from the album, both released on August 16th through MGM.
Catch Ston... [more]
The Dandy Warhols are celebrating their new album.
..Earth To The Dandy Warhols...with a trip down under for a full-blown Australian tour. Get into it!
THE DANDY WARHOLS AUSTRALIAN TOUR DATES:
Tuesday, 28th October... [more]
My Disco head out once again on a national tour in support of their second album
Paradise, released earlier this year. The October dates will be the band's last shows before touring Japan to promote the release of
Paradise... [more]
Perth rockers
Gyroscope kick off their national tour of Australia with a gold album under their belt. The band with special guests Shihad and Sugar Army began their Australia tour last night in Cairns.
GYROSCOPE – The Austra... [more]
End of Fashion are pleased to announce they are doing what they love best and heading back out on the road with special guests The Seabellies and Harlequin League, on a national headline tour in September/October to support the rel... [more]
As The Sun Falls is the intelligent, emotional and brutally honest full-length release from Melbourne independent singer/songwriter,
JESS MCAVOY.
The third studio album is the perfect follow-up to her 2006 release... [more]
Sydney based, Grafton raised, electronic-rockers
Grafton Primary have set a date with destiny: September 6 through MGM. It has taken many eras, periods, and epochs to reach this point in time; now the moment has arrived for Grafton Primar... [more]
Internationally recognised as one of the longest running music festivals on the Australian music industry calendar,
Stonefest celebrates its 40th birthday this year. It’s a difficult task trying to find superlatives to sum up forty years... [more]
Leader of Melbourne based Country-rock sextet
Wagons - Henry Wagons will blaze a trail yet again and journey across our vast country, this time in the company of Australian music’s inimitable stalwart, Dave Graney. Henry will enthr... [more]
After storming through the first two rounds of competition two, Newcastle indie punk band,
Here Come the Birds came up trumps of Tooheys Extra Dry UncharTED final on Thursday night. The boys took home the grand prize - a live set on the m... [more]
Homebake returns this December at Sydney's Domain, this year teaming up with Amnesty International under the theme of peace and freedom to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
In order to do... [more]
It’s been two years since the
Bliss N Eso's notorious nationwide sell-out tour, and they have decided their starved fans have been waiting long enough, as they hit the road through September, October and November.
After a year in t... [more]
Adding to the already stellar
Great Escape lineup will Perth's
Tame Impala, The Futureheads (UK), US singer/ songwirter
Phil Elverum, Mount Eerie, I Heart Hiroshima, Mission Control, Dash & Will, Young and Restless, Vio... [more]
If you don’t know who
Beats Working are, they are a fresh new band that take the definition of hip hop to a whole new level, attracting the attention of industry heavyweights and record labels as well as building a solid local foll... [more]