CABLE35 – Rental Sunshine
Alternative rock band CABLE35 recently released their latest offering in the form of an EP entitled FUNGUS!
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Monthly Archives: May 2013
Live Review | Something For Kate + Courtney Barnett @ Unibar, Wollongong – 29 May 2013
Review by Amy Lee Freshwater
A varied crowd aging from early twenties to people old enough to be parents of the band themselves congregate at the Unibar in Wollongong to see Something for Kate (SFK), a town SFK haven’t visited since 2009. This kind of group creates a lovely atmosphere at a gig, people of many ages and backgrounds coming together to enjoy music from a band that have been consistently impressive for twenty years. There is not a doubtful mind in the room, SFK are sure to impress once again on this chilly May night.
First up is Melbourne lady-rocker Courtney Barnett. Nobody is complaining about the trend of female singer songwriters coming out of Australia at the moment, and Barnett can be added to the list of up-and-comers if she isn’t already. With a powerhouse vocal ability and songwriting skills she blew away the audience that had arrived early. Highlight was her latest single Avant Gardener, which she explained was about the time she was gardening and ended up in hospital and includes funny lyrics like “the neighbours must think we run a meth lab”. Barnett is a great addition to the SFK tour.
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Tour News: La Dispute Australian Tour – June/July 2013 with Pianos Become The Teeth
La Dispute is five close friends from the Upper Midwest with a mutual passion for using music as a means to express, challenge, inform, and connect, but also as a fantastic excuse to have fun, make tons of new friends, and travel anywhere and everywhere that people will have them.
Always learning, often touring, sometimes writing, La Dispute has been making music for 3-6 years now (depending on how you look at it) and intends on continuing to do so for as long as they’re all physically and emotionally able to.
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Photos! Kate Miller-Heidke @ St John’s Cathedral, Brisbane – 28 May 2013
Photographer: Pete Coorey
Photographer: Pete Coorey
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The Good Ship announce The Capital Offensive Tour
THE GOOD SHIP is one of this planet’s truly fearless bands. Their cult following is expanding on the back of their hugely successful March tour of the US and Canada, encompassing SxSW and Canadian Music Week. They returned with their very own booking agent, Artists in Motion, already on the job for a return trip in early 2014 and to a partnership with Premier Artists for The Capital Offensive tour.
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Photos! The Reverend Horton Heat @ The Hi-Fi, Brisbane – 26 May 2013
Photographer: Rebecca Reid
Photographer: Rebecca Reid
Artists: The Reverend Horton Heat
Venue: The Hi-Fi, Brisbane
Date: 26 May 2013
Link: http://www.facebook.com/reverendhortonheat
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Album Review: Deep Purple – “Now What?!”
Review by Carl Dziunka
When you list the great names of rock music from across the decades, Deep Purple has got to be hovering close to the top. Blasting out rock numbers for more than 40 years they have certainly found the formula for success. Releasing the long awaited new album; this comes 8 years after the Rapture of the Deep album released in 2005; the magic is still as strong. With a title like Now What?! it makes you wonder whether the band is thinking that they have done it all. Well actually, they probably have. The current line up works well together and this can be heard from the new 11 tracks that they have laid down.
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Photos! DOUBLEBLACK + Men Into Space @ The Hi-Fi, Brisbane – 26 May 2013
Photographer: Rebecca Reid
Photographer: Rebecca Reid
Artists: DOUBLEBLACK + Men Into Space
Venue: The Hi-Fi, Brisbane
Date: 26 May 2013
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Tour News: Fear Factory Australian tour announced!
FEAR FACTORY’s ‘Demanufacture’ is “a landmark of ’90s metal that defied categorisation and remains a touchstone of the genre. “ – Kerrang!
Metallica’s Black album may have set the marker for highest selling metal album on the 90’s, but only 1 album can lay claim to being the decade’s most innovative and revolutionary: FEAR FACTORY’s ‘Demanufacture’.
Metal Hammer recently exclaimed “’Demanufature’ was so far ahead of its time that bands are still failing to rip it off convincingly today, Fear Factory’s ultra-precise extreme metal attack dragged metal into the future.”
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Single Review: Tigertown – ‘What You Came Here For’
Review by Natalie Salvo
On his most recent tour Bob Evans slapped his head and practically called himself crazy for allowing such a young, talented and attractive band open for him. They were Sydneysiders, Tigertown. And for those that don’t know, they’re a quintet of family members and couples that are like Fleetwood Mac but only if you like your pop music with a little less romantic confusion.
The band are a thoroughly consistent one as new single, What You Came Here For proves. The latest track from their forthcoming as yet unnamed third EP is a continuation of the ideas and sounds that impressed fans on their previous releases, Before The Morning and their eponymous debut.
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P!NK confirms record-breaking 18th Melbourne show!
Due to sustained unrelenting demand for tickets to Pink’s Melbourne shows, a record breaking 18th Rod Laver Arena date has been added to the massive ‘The Truth About Love Tour – Australia 2013’.
Pink will play an unbelievable 18th and definitely FINAL show at Rod Laver Arena on Monday August 26.
Once again Pink’s Melbourne fans lead the way with this incredible final show and more than 200,000 tickets already
sold!
This takes the national tally to 46 shows and more than half a million tickets already sold.
Tickets for this final Melbourne performance will go on sale at 3pm this Wednesday May 29.
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Buried In Verona announce “Notorious: Reloaded”
After spending the past 12 months touring heavily around the globe Buried In Verona will be releasing the deluxe version of their 2012 album “Notorious”. Available Friday 14 June via UNFD, “Notorious: Reloaded” will include the original album, B-Sides, a brand new DVD, revamped artwork and a new never released before single.
The new track “I Am Hate” was recorded while on tour, and is a reaction to the love/hate relationship that Buried In Verona has developed with the hardcore and metal scenes in the past year. While their fanbase has grown considerably, the band has had its share of haters – something they address in the best way they know how – with a bunch of killer riffs, a massive breakdown, a hooky chorus and a big middle finger. “I Am Hate” will be released in June and fans are advised to keep an ear out for news.
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Photos! …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead + Sincerely, Grizzly @ Corner Hotel, Melbourne – 22 May 2013
Photographer: Tony Proudfoot PHOTOGRAPHY for Life Music Media
Photographer: Tony Proudfoot PHOTOGRAPHY
Bands: Trail Of Dead + Sincerely, Grizzly
www.facebook.com/andyouwillknowusbythetrailofdead
www.facebook.com/sincerelygrizzly
Venue: Corner Hotel, Melbourne – http://cornerhotel.com/
Date: 22 May 2013
** Tour Details: Trail Of Dead announce “Source Tags & Codes” Australian Tour – May 2013
The Reverend Horton Heat Announce More Australian Supports!
After recently announcing the addition of Mojo Juju to select Australian shows The Reverend Horton Heat now adds a bunch of quality rockin’ main supports and openers for the remaining shows on their upcoming Australian tour.
In Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne (Billboard) and Adelaide The Reverend Horton Heat will be joined by heavy hitters DOUBLEBLACK, who will bring their white hot, fat backbeat proto-rockabilly to proceedings, gettin’ the rock ‘n’ roll party into high gear. Recently rounded out by former Living End drummer Travis Demsey on the kit and featuring Fireballs founding member Matt Black on guitar and Jason Skewes on the upright, DOUBLEBLACK have a proven pedigree making them one of the most powerful forces on the Australian rockabilly scene.
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3 Songs No Flash – A Photography Exhibition @ Ding Dong Lounge – 20-30 May 2013
The crème de la crème of Melbourne’s live music photography scene take to Ding Dong Lounge next week to display some of their best work. For a limited time, Scott Boelsen, Jesse Booher, Katie Dutton, Rebecca Houlden, Lou Lou Nutt, Naomi Rahim, John Raptis, Brett Schewitz, Richard Sharman, Anthony Smith, Heidi Takla and Elleni Toumpas’s photographs will adorn the walls of the Melbourne venue with images the likes of Metallica, Black Sabbath, Madonna, Garbage, Marilyn Manson, Grinderman and more on display.
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