Following on from their successful national album tour in March, The Holidays have announced an east coast run of new show dates. The dates coincide with the release of ‘Tongue Talk’ – the third single from the band’s popular sophomore LP, Real Feel.
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Following on from their successful national album tour in March, The Holidays have announced an east coast run of new show dates. The dates coincide with the release of ‘Tongue Talk’ – the third single from the band’s popular sophomore LP, Real Feel.
For your chance to win 1 x Double Pass to The Holidays @ Alhambra Lounge, Brisbane on June 20th, 2014 just fill in the form below.
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Following on from their successful national album tour in March, The Holidays have announced an east coast run of new show dates. The dates coincide with the release of ‘Tongue Talk’ – the third single from the band’s popular sophomore LP, Real Feel.
For your chance to win 1 x Double Pass to The Holidays @ Metro Theatre, Sydney on June 13th, 2014 just fill in the form below.
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Brant Bjork. The Low Desert Punk has again put together a band of serious rock players. His most “ideal” unit yet. Featuring Dave Dinsmore on bass (Che, Bl’ast), Bubba Dupree on guitar (Void, Hater) and Tont Tornay on drums (Fatso Jetson, Chuck Dukowski). A new band with old school, heavy, calssic punk and rock roots but also a band with a fresh attitude of fire and urgency. Nightmare Music will bring this new band to Australia for the first time this May/June for their debut tour.
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Apparently you can’t build a tour out of muffins, but Melbourne post-punk loons The Sinking Teeth are out to prove otherwise on a ten date, five state tour this June/July. The tour will celebrate the release of their new single ‘You Can’t Build A Bike Out Of Muffins’, which will be released in coming weeks. The track is the first single from their second EP Salt & Stitches which will be launched on the final date of the tour at The Workers Club in Melbourne on July 26.
In between being naked on stage supporting Calling All Cars and taking promo jobs dressed as Freddo Frog to pay for studio time, The Sinking Teeth have spent the last six months chipping away at writing and recording Salt & Stitches, a follow up to White Water which was released in October of last year.
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There was a rum bar in Puerto Rico that opened up inside the evacuated bowels of a disused swimming pool in 1967. Its muddied blue walls were filled with itinerate journalists, ruthless neighborhood loan sharks, even more ruthless Texan property developers, 14 different kinds of rum and dropouts from every civilized corner of the globe.
Continue reading ALL THE COLOURS Announce Sydney & Melbourne Shows | June 2014
**** Janelle Monáe with Kimbra:
All Shows Cancelled Due To Illness.
It is with great regret that Live Nation announce that the remaining dates for Janelle Monáe and Kimbra’s Golden Electric Tour have been cancelled, due to Janelle Monae’s continuing illness.
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New to the scene are Sydney’s Pulse Mavens! Female fronted “Pop Punk band” Pulse Mavens have burst on to the scene with a debut EP “Fight Back”. Known for their energetic performances, the band are looking forward to showcasing songs from the post-summer release available at iTunes now
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/fight-back-single/id836660731
The EP features five full throttle tracks including the first single “Fight Back” which has been accompanied by a music video in a punk garage setting.
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IEG and Ginnen Group in association with Channel [V] and MAX have announced the very first Australian Tour of legendary 90’s R&B girl group TLC. From humble Atlanta beginnings to global superstardom, 5 x Grammy Winner’s TLC are the biggest selling American female group of all time with a phenomenal 65 million record sales worldwide. With a catalogue of some of the biggest hits of the 90’s including “Creep”, “Aint Too Proud To Beg” and #1 selling single “Waterfalls” through to three Top 5 hits in Australia – “No Scrubs”, “Diggin On You”, and “Unpretty” in the early 2000’s, TLC have left an indelible mark on the music industry. Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins and Rozanda “Chilli” Thomas recently started touring again, and caught the world’s attention with the 2013 release of their VH1 Biopic “Crazy Sexy Cool” which chronicles their rise to fame and their struggles along the way. The ladies kick off their Australian Tour in Sydney on June 6th, and finish in Perth on June 13th.
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With a voice that belies his eighteen years, Adelaide singer-songwriter Jesse Davidson, has announced his first national headline tour to celebrate the release of his debut EP ‘Ocean’.
Davidson has been touring relentlessly for the past few months, making the most of his free time since finishing school last year, supporting the likes of Mac Demarco and Ball Park Music on their respective national tours as well as hitting the road with Eves on a recent joint-headline run.
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Brisbane indie-pop group Friends Of Ben have announced their debut EP “All I Am Sure Of Is All That I See” will be launched at The New Globe Theatre, Brisbane on Friday May 23, 2014.
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Kate Miller-Heidke has the critics raving with her fourth studio album, and first independent release, O Vertigo! The album playfully redefines the boundaries of her unique style of indie pop whilst pushing her voice into uncharted vocal terrain. Made possible by the support of Kate’s army of loyal fans who funded the album through PledgeMusic in a record-breaking 3 days, it was released in March and garnered rave reviews along with a top 5 debut on the ARIA album chart.
Kate launched the album to her fans in capital cities with a sold-out series of intimate acoustic shows, featuring long-term collaborator Keir Nuttall on guitar and musical freak-genius John Rodgers on violin and piano. The trio will now embark on an extensive tour of regional centres to premiere songs from O Vertigo!, along with old favourites. Tickets for Kate Miller-Heidke’s national tour go on sale Thursday 22 May.
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Direct From the UK
50 years since Beatlemania in Australia
Formed from the West End cast of the Broadway musical ‘Beatlemania’; The Bootleg Beatles are the world’s premier Beatles show.
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What happens on tour. Stays on YouTube.
After a hectic few months travelling the East Coast of Australia, The Owls are quickly becoming one of Oz’s hardest working bands, playing over 30 gigs in 2014 and supporting the likes of The Cribs, Wolfmother and DZ Deathrays. Now the Newcastle road warriors are inviting you into their tour van with their latest clip Ocean.
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Purveyor of ambient heartbreak folk-prog, Sydney based solo artist Lëura returns with her highly anticipated second single ‘Shallows’. The poetic sweetheart left airwaves reeling after the widespread acclaim of debut single ‘Drifter’, which received substantial support from triple j and community radio, and praise from heavyweight online press across the UK, Canada and Europe.
Pushing forward off this wave of success, ‘Shallows’ paints a heart-wrenching representation of helplessly watching a loved one slowly drown in depression, whilst simultaneously sinking into the illness yourself. Lyrically, the ballad also echoes the complex agony of unrequited love, where both sides end up unintentionally pulling each other under. “And I sink trying to swim to you / I’m sorry if I sink you too”.
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