Achoo! Bless You, a Sydney folk-pop duo comprising singer-songwriters Ashleigh Steel & Ross James Tipper, first came to light in 2012 with the debut EP No Island. Their lead single ‘Before We Say Goodbye’ caught the attention of FBi and triple j Unearthed at radio and saw them share stages with the likes of Passenger (UK), Slow Club (UK), Tim Rogers, Tiny Ruins (NZ) and most recently, The Trouble With Templeton on their Australian national tour.
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Tour News | Biffy Clyro are set to return to Australia in September!
Scottish rock band, Biffy Clyro, have announced that they will return to Australia in September for a national headline tour. Having just finished touring on Soundwave Festival with two SOLD OUT headline shows in Sydney and Melbourne, punters should move quick to see the band in all major cities.
Biffy Clyro have firmly established themselves as one of the biggest bands in the UK following the amazing success of their current album Opposites – which debuted at #1 in the UK and #22 in Australia. The album features radio hits Black Chandelier, Biblical and Sounds Like Balloons. The band just released an exclusive Australian Tour Edition of Opposites to support their recent appearance on Soundwave 2014. The tour edition is a 2CD pack including the standard version of Opposites plus ‘Opposites – Live From Glasgow’ featuring tracks from Opposites as well as Biffy classics – Mountains, Many Of Horror and Living Is A Problem Because Everything Dies.
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Against Them announce Vita Nova EP launch!
Against Them celebrates their sixth release at the Vita Nova EP Launch.
Against Them is a Brisbane-based quartet made up of four diverse characters drawn together by a driving passion for hard rock and creating music on their terms. With five independent releases already in the market they are set to launch their sixth release, the Vita Nova EP.
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Boris The Blade announce The Desolation Tour
Melbourne’s BORIS THE BLADE are preparing to unleash their crushing debut album ‘The Human Hive’ on May 19, 2014.
‘The Human Hive’ is the eagerly anticipated debut full length that follows the devastating heavy EP ‘Tides Of Damnation’ which was released back in 2011.
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Interview | Vorpal Suicide – SuicideGirls
Interview by Stuart Blythe
SuicideGirls – “the sexiest, smartest,most dangerous collection of outsider women in the world” – are bringing their Blackheart Burlesque Tour to Australia this March – 2014.
Life Music Media catch up with SuicideGirls’ Vorpal Suicide for a chat.
LMM: For those who aren’t aware, what is Suicide Girls?
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Tjintu Desert Band herald in the new sound from the Central Desert
“For our community of around 200 people there is one general store, one school, no mobile phone range and little access to the internet. But Ikuntji [aka Haasts Bluff, NT] is much more than the town itself – it’s the rocky hills, the red earth, the country of our Dreaming, our grandfathers’ country.” Tjintu Desert Band.
Upon listening to the debut album by Tjintu Desert Band [pronounced Jin-Too] it is evident these five young Aboriginal men from the remote Central Australian NT towns of Ikuntji and Kintore have a connection to their land, its spirits and a transcendent magic that captures the atmosphere and sound of the desert.
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Beth Hart announces Sydney and Melbourne shows – April 2014
**** TOUR UPDATE ****
**** Second Sydney Show Added ***
Powerhouse singer-songwriter Beth Hart’s debut appearance on our shores has been welcomed with overwhelming demand and a second Sydney show has been added at The Basement on Sunday 13th of April. Tickets will be available from 9am Thursday 6th March 2014.
“sounding like Janis Joplin reincarnated with Stevie Nicks’s high-speed vibrato, (Beth) Hart turned the act of singing into an out-of-body experience” – Slant Magazine
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Anathema announce Australian Tour – August 2014
Anathema’s Australian fans have been waiting patiently for almost 25 years and your innumerable emails and requests have finally borne fruit – Anathema are making their long awaited first visit to our shores!
Anathema have been at the forefront of the UK rock/metal movement for a long time. As influential pioneers of melodic heavy music, the band’s forward thinking, intellectual musicianship has earned them accolades such as Classic Rock’s 2010 and 2012 Prog Album of the Year (2010’s We’re Here Because We’re Here was mixed by progressive rock mainman Steven Wilson).
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Tour News | Iced Earth ‘Worldwide Plagues’ Australian & New Zealand Tour – March 2014
Following the huge success of their first trip to Australia in 2012, ICED EARTH return to entrench their live reputation in this country with a blazing onslaught!
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Coldplay announce their sixth album “Ghost Stories”
On Monday 19 May 2014, Coldplay will release their sixth album, Ghost Stories, via Parlophone Records.
Ghost Stories can be pre-ordered now from iTunes worldwide. Fans who pre-order Ghost Stories will receive an instant download of the first single from the album, Magic. The single can also be streamed here.
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Monster Magnet Announce 2014 Australian Tour Supports
KillRockStar Entertainment presents the 2014 Australian return of New Jersey stoner lords Monster Magnet!
**** Tour Update – Supports Announced! ****
Ahead of their upcoming Australian tour Monster Magnet have just named the full line up of local acts who will joining the space rock legends to blow minds across the country this April.
Main support in each city will come from two-piece hell raisers King Of The North. Since exploding onto the Melbourne music scene in early 2012 this guitar/drum duo have had punters and pundits alike raving about their massive sound and killer live shows. Pioneering the 3 from 1 guitar technique (making the sound of 2 guitars plus a bass guitar simultaneously from just one guitar), first timers are often left looking for the extra guitarists amidst the wall of sound. Add to the equation one of the most dynamic and solid drummers around and you have a rock n roll band like no other and one of the country’s most exciting new acts.
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The Jezabels – “Angels of Fire” (Official Video)
In between recording their new album The Brink, closing the St Jerome’s Laneway Festival dates and international touring, The Jezabels found some time to create their first ever, DIY film clip! Angels Of Fire was filmed in and around London, and is being released exclusively online, watch it below:
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THE DELTA RIGGS new single ‘Supersonic Casualties’ (Official Music Video)
Renowned for pumping out high-energy jams & ferocious live shows, Melbourne genre-benders The Delta Riggs traveled to NYC late last year to showcase their wares for the industry gold fish bowl know as CMJ Music Marathon.
Amongst the sweaty shows & electric nightlife, the birthplace of hip-hop had a profound effect on the band, returning home to record the follow up to their 2013 debut, Hex.Lover.Killer, with new beats & the intoxication of the city still buzzing through their veins.
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GWAR’s Oderus Urungus releases statement on decapitating Tony Abbott effigy at Soundwave Festival
Oderus shares his view point on the seemingly major news coverage their bit of stage theatre has been getting in the press.
The band and management have actually received numerous death threat with one wishing them “all to die a fiery death in a bus crash“.
GWAR’s Oderus Urungus releases statement on decapitating Tony Abbott effigy at Soundwave Festival
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Bluesfest 2014 – 8th Artist Announcement
Bluesfest Byron Bay, Australia’s multi award winning 5 Day Festival, held over the Easter long weekend (17 – 21st of April) at its home, the Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm, north of Byron Bay, announces another instalment of exceptional artists who will be performing at Bluesfest for the 25th Anniversary Festival.
The latest announcement includes some of the best Australian Folk, Blues, Reggae, Funk, Soul, Groove, Hip-Hop and Dub artists, not to mention some of Australia’s youngest talent who are making waves internationally and a special reunion of a much loved 90’s era Australian band.
The announcement also takes us across the globe to New Orleans, the Netherlands, South Africa, Israel, Italy and Japan with a special collaboration of musicians who inspire, connect and bring peace to the world through their music.
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