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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]
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]
After selling out their first show, and with tickets to the second show selling as fast as something akin to hotcakes,
Little Red are thrilled to announce a third show at the Corner in Melbourne. The band squeeze in another date to... [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]
What does a bowling green + magnificent water views + an awesome line up of Australian beats make?
GREEN BEATS! That’s right all of you knights in shining sequins on the quest for the Holy Grail of heart thumping, soul warming beats this... [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]
American guitarist and ethnomusicologist
Bob Brozman will be heading to Australia this September. Brozman is well known for his use of National resonator instruments from the 1920s and 1930s, as well as National Resophonic resonator instr... [more]
Black Francis, frontman for the iconic
Pixies has been announced he will headline shows in Fremantle, Adelaide, Brisbane and Melbourne this September/October – his first in over a decade.
This tour will see Black Francis perform in... [more]
The Whitlams' "Best of". Released on August 2, 2008 through Warner Music,
Truth, Beauty & A Picture of You – The Best of The Whitlams is a comprehensive look at the amazing journey of the ARIA award winning band, f... [more]
The band members of
Uncut White Noise have served their fair share of time in Blood Duster, Earth, Abramelin, Uptown Killers, Steel Affliction, Scale, Tigernaut, Stiff Meat, Pillow, The De Loreans and Dread; a list so great it’s impossibl... [more]
To celebrate their latest album release '
...And Then Tomorrow Came',
Muph & Plutonic have announced their national tour through August, September & October.
In the last 18 months Muph & Plutonic have extensive... [more]
You've probably heard whispers around the grapevine, but
You Am I will be following up 2007's massive
Convicts album with latest record
Dilettantes this early September!
Released through Virgin, the album promises t... [more]
With less than a week to go before the release of her third album
A Loud Call,
Holly Throsby, Spunk Records and Lunatic Entertainment are very pleased to announce Holly’s most extensive Australian tour ever.
A LOUD CALL NATION... [more]
It's been a massive week for
Little Red and it's only Tuesday!
Not only did the Melbourne quintet's debut album
Listen To Little Red come in at number 29 on the ARIA album charts, it also hit the number one spot on t... [more]
Three years after the release of her critically-acclaimed debut album
All The Pretty Boys,
Sophie Koh’s long awaited follow up arrives in the form of the stunningly opulent
All Shook Up.
Sophie calls
All Shook Up “an a... [more]