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First establishing themselves as in-demand producers – mixing for the likes of Franz Ferdinand, Gorillaz, Klaxons, Ladytron and Roots Manuva –
Metronomy have recently found fame for their very own bright, synthpop hooks and electro... [more]
After wowing audiences in 2007,
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals will return to our stages in 2009. The Frontier Touring Company is pleased to confirm that The Cardinals will perform in Australia in 2009.
The Cardinals will return in sup... [more]
Rock It, WA's biggest and best locally programmed & produced rock and roll event is back for edition number 10.
KINGS OF LEON take the throne as the latest and possibly greatest headline artist to date.
Rock It is an inde... [more]
Seminal UK band
STEREOLAB head to our shores for the first time in six years for the Laneway Festival, and have announced a couple of rare sideshows. If cascading harmonies, mesmerizing synths and inordinately pretty songwriting ar... [more]
Roll up! Roll up! Rock ’n’ roll ringmaster
SERJ TANKIAN has donned his top hat and will be cracking the whip at some very special shows in Australia. With System of a Down on hiatus, the frontman has gone solo with the multi-layered album... [more]
Who’s gonna play ghetto-tech to the indie kids? Acid to the housed-up hordes? Who’s gonna put the psychedelic wobbliness and the electro sci-fi in BIG DAY OUT 2009? Get ready to dance your arse off, ’cos the answer is…
SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO... [more]
From Perth to the world… now
PENDULUM are swinging their way home for summer With UK No.2 album
In Silico under their belts, the drum’n’bass upstarts have morphed into something altogether new – a post-rave mash-up, perhaps? Whatever... [more]
Summer Down Under is so hot, we had to call in the head-spinning wordplay of Chicago hip hop trailblazer
LUPE FIASCO. Once protégé to Kanye, Jay-Z and Pharrell, this his smart, charismatic and energetic performer’s second album,... [more]
When you feel that burning desire to get on the floor, there is only one band to call: please welcome back everybody’s favourite synth-wielders, London’s
HOT CHIP. “The most effortlessly cool band in Ravesville” (thanks, NME) are set to s... [more]
They won’t fit in any musical pigeonholes, New York five-piece
TV ON THE RADIO draw on post-rock, gospel, new wave and deep dub, and have won critical praise and defied preconceptions. Their third album, the spanking new Dear Science, has... [more]