By: Bek Grealy
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After blitzing, wooing and sometimes insulting the crowds at the Peats Ridge and Woodford Festivals at the end of 2010 in what was his live solo debut, ex-Butterfingers front man EVIL EDDIE (EE) chats with LIFE MUSIC MEDIA (LMM) before hitting the road again in February and March 2011 for a run of East Coast shows. |
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What doesn’t kill us takes a long time to make us stronger. It’s a statement that the four individuals from the mid-north coast of New South Wales who comprise ROYAL CHANT bid you consider well, through the ten tracks of their debut album RAISE YOUR GLASS & COLLAPSE.
‘Ghosts’ is the first track from the their debut album RAISE YOUR GLASS & COLLAPSE – due out mid 2011. |
Listen to the track here…
Royal Chant – Ghosts – Genre: Garage/Folk/Indie
Catch ROYAL CHANT live this February to a number of shows in Melbourne, Sydney and Port Macquarie, including a 3 week residency at Sydney’s Oxford Arts Factory.- Check here for full details!
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Official video for Bombazine Black’s song ‘Annelets’ From the 2010 album Motion Picture. http://www.bombazineblack.com There’s a great little background story on the video at theexistentialbunnyrabbit.blogspot.com |
Genre: Cinematic art rock
Bombazine Black on facebook
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Lion Island are a 6 piece out of Brisbane. After two years of hard gigging, the band is a formidable live act and have recorded a debut album due for release in the coming months. The sound is full and dynamic with so many instruments, and their varied influences combined with solid pop sensibilities help make both entertaining and interesting music.
Genre: Rock/indie/new wave |
Catch Lion Island live at the Brisbane Powerhouse every Friday in February 2011. Shows are free and all ages – more details at facebook.com/lionisland
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Dark, moody and complicated.
For anyone who ever thought that making good music was a lost art, Melbourne 5-piece LAURA compels you to think again. Listen to LAURA’s ‘This Grey Earth’ below and check out their ‘Mark The Day’ video clip here Genre: Alternative |
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Band: GO/NO-GO
Genre: Rock/indie/new wave Members: Daniel Arena – Guitar/Keys/Vox |
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TroubleKarmaFlow, a 4-piece Roots band from Brisbane, Australia.
Members: Ben Matheson, Nicole Murphy, Kurt Brumley, Lee Johnston
Continue reading Discover: TroubleKarmaFlow [Explore Music]
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Luscious three-part harmonies soaring above striking melodies and catchy guitar hooks is the sound of Melbourne pop-darlings The Little Stevies. Each song’s a story you’ll want to hear again, as the personalities of all the band members come shining through. Cheeky, charming, moving.
Check out The Little Stevies – ‘Feel It’ [Video Clip] which is the first single from the album Attention Shoppers, due for release March 4, 2011. |
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Having just finished a tour with Lior, it has been a busy year for GOSSLING, having already supported the likes of Lamb, The Whitlams, Jamie Cullum, Newton Faulkner, Whitley and Mark Scholtez in 2010. In addition Gossling impressed crowds at her own headlining shows in Melbourne and Sydney, all off the back of her EP “If You Can‟t Whistle‟. The impressive debut features the sublime “Days Are Over” which quickly became a regular feature on Triple J’s play list. |
Interview: Kenada Quinlan
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Approximately 24 months old, POLAR are a hardcore statement that are already making waves across Europe while securing suport slots with the likes of Gallows. Part of an ever increasing UK hardcore pack, this 5-piece from Guilford, England obliterate the boundaries of hardcore bringing guts, melody and musical intelligence to the fold.
Off the back of the band’s recent signing to independent label A Wolf At Your Door Records, an excited Life Music Media (LMM) catches up with vocalist Adam Woodford (AW) to talk all things hard, fast, loud and Jager. LMM – How have the last 12 months been?
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| We are really proud of our first EP which is called ‘This Polar Noise’ this then got us noticed by Wolf At Your Door and has led us to be signed with our first release to be out in February 2011. |
LMM – The most memorable experience…
| AW – The most memorable experience we have had is being main support for Bring Me The Horizon for there album launch, it was a very good experience to play with one of the biggest bands in the world and to much younger audience which was a challenge and we feel we won over some new fans. |
LMM – Can you tell us about the song-writing process…
Continue reading Interview: POLAR – The New Noise
By Pepa Wolfe
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Take Five with Alinta Chidzey |
:: Is there a character that you’d give anything to play? ::
Oh. Um… (thinks) I’d love to play Velma in Chicago. That is one I would love to play, for sure.
Continue reading Take Five with Alinta Chidzey
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Evil Eddie releases his debut solo single, ‘Queensland’. With the song already added to rotation on triple j, the video for ‘Queensland’ is also causing quite a stir around the country. Complete with Gold Coast Meter Maids, bananas, crocodiles, and everything else quintessentially Queensland, the video has (not surprisingly) racked up quite a bit of online exposure, and was featured as Rage’s Indie Clip of the Week |
This video was filmed by our good friend Patrick Self (www.patrickselfvisuals.com)
Life Music Media are fostering Charlie Mayfair in a competition to play at Sunset Sounds in 2011!
“To celebrate, we’ve decided to make some videos of acoustic covers of songs written by our favourite Sunset Sounds artists. THIS IS NUMBER TWO!
It’s an amazing song written by Paul Kelly called ‘To Her Door’. “… Charlie Mayfair
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“When you listen to ‘ROPES’, the debut EP from Perth natives LACEY, one of the first things you’ll notice is the band’s incredible penchant for writing sobering, incisive lyrics, phrased perfectly in the sweetest pop melodies. Their rhythms are tight and infections and their tones, soothing. The end result is a sound that unintentionally seductive, but defiantly addictive…” LACEY |
READ PART 1 OF THIS INTERVIEW HERE. – READ PART 2 OF THIS INTERVIEW HERE.
LMM – I also wanted to talk about the different producers on your last two albums and their contribution to the finished sound on both releases. What was the best thing about working with Adam Dutkiewicz on Horizons?
WM – With Adam?
LMM – Yeah. He’s had his fair share of musical experience. How did it first come about that he worked on the album with you?
WM – He worked on the first two albums we did which was absolutely wonderful. He came along at a time when we were still a young band and had no idea what to do and came up with the idea of either recording in Australia that would be a very national sounding recording or do something overseas that would really stand out in the international scene.
Continue reading Interview with Winston McCall of Parkway Drive [Part 3]
