Ball Park Music @ East Brunswick Club, Melbourne | Live Review

Review by Ben Connolly
There’s a buzz in the air tonight – a full house and the Ball Park Music headlining debut album launch tour tends to give out a special vibe. And it’s been a long, well-worn track to get to this point: singles and free downloads leading to early Triple J recognition, signing to a supportive management company and releasing one of them most anticipated EPs of recent memory, seemingly tour after tour as the perpetual bridesmaids before finally knuckling down to carve out the first full-length offering.
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GOOD CHARLOTTE – Brisbane Bound and Set to party!

  With the Good Charlotte boys hitting Brissie with their own original take on the classic Weezer album Blue, The JD Set are pleased to announce that the party plans have just gone into overdrive with news that joining the line up alongside the headliners and Amy Meredith are Melbourne rockers Trial Kennedy and Gold Coast rock quintet Nine Sons Of Dan.

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Only The Sea Slugs @ Yah Yahs, Fitzroy – October 27, 2011 | Live Review

Review by Ben Connolly

  Rock can be such a bitch of a game. One day you’re the toast of the town, an EP in the shops, a film clip on Rage and some choice words thrown your way from the national youth music broadcaster. Then you decide to cram all your gear into a van and tumble a thousand kilometres south only to be greeted by a mid-week pub, almost empty apart the other bands on the bill and a few uneager passers-by; shitty sound only adds to the drama. And that’s where it all goes pear-shaped for Sydney-siders Only The Sea Slugs with its recent gig at Melbourne’s Yah Yah’s.

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2012 – BLUESFEST First Artist Announcement!

  Today BLUESFEST, Australia’s multi-award winning and internationally renowned Festival, unveils its first artist announcement for the 2012 Festival.

One look at the star studded array of artists confirms that BLUESFEST 2012 is on track to deliver yet another red-hot Festival.

“This 1st announcement is our big launch for 2012” comments Festival Director Peter Noble, “We certainly have hit our groove with the festival and continue to grow our recognition at home and internationally. BLUESFEST 2012 will include plenty of exclusive performances that are not to be missed. “
This is the first in a series of exciting announcements to come.
This year the Festival leads off with some massive names in Blues, Rock, Country & Progressive Rock, rounded off with some funk magic and guitar wizardry.
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Interview with Danielle Spencer – Hopeful, Excited and Ready

Interview by Stuart Blythe
Australian singer/songwriter Danielle Spencer, currently on her “The Alone & Together” tour with Steve Balbi, is set to release her 6 track acoustic EP on November 18th (2011).

Danielle Spencer chats with Life Music Media.

You’ve been in the studio recently to record acoustic remakes of tracks from your first album ‘White Monkey’. How did this come about?
When I got back out on the road and starting playing some shows last year there were a lot of requests for tracks from my debut album ‘White Monkey’ and so we started playing them live and then people starting asking where they could buy them. The album was released in 2001 through EMI and is now deleted and largely unavailable, so I decided to record a 6 track acoustic EP which is available for sale at all the shows and online from November 18.
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Matt Corby Melbourne EP Launch Show SELLS OUT with Second Date On-Sale Now!

  Matt Corby’s EP launch show at The Toff In Town, Melbourne, has sold out just two weeks after going on-sale. A second show has been added for Thursday December 1 and is on-sale today. The Sydney based singer songwriter is receiving a lot of love from National Alternative radio, who have picked up his current single ‘BROTHER’ from the forthcoming EP release ‘Into The Flame’.

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KYLIE MINOGUE AND THE WIGGLES TO BE INDUCTED INTO THE ARIA HALL OF FAME!

With just under four weeks until the 25th Anniversary ARIA Awards, the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) today announced further details of what will be a massive celebration of Australian music at the 2011 ARIA Awards to be staged at Allphones Arena, Sydney Olympic Park, on Sunday, 27 November, 2011.

The ARIA Hall of Fame is a wonderful club that is growing bigger each year. This year, another two worthy recipients will join the ranks of those illustrious artists already inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame, a list that includes bona fide music legends such as AC/DC, Dame Joan Sutherland, Olivia Newton John, Johnny O’Keefe, Paul Kelly, John Farnham, INXS, Slim Dusty, Jimmy Little and many more.
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Flaming Lips to play at Harvest Festival – November 2011

  Don’t miss your chance to see The Flaming Lips live at the ‘HARVEST’ music and arts festival (taking place in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne in November 2011)

Wayne Coyne – Lead vocals, guitar, keyboards
Steven Drozd – Drums, guitar, backing vocals
Michael Ivins – Bass, keyboards, backing vocals
Kliph Scurlock – Drums, percussion
Derek Brown – Guitar, keyboards

The Flaming Lips are an American alternative rock band, formed in Norman in 1983.

Melodically, their sound contains lush, multi-layered, psychedelic rock arrangements, but lyrically their compositions show elements of space rock, including unusual song and album titles—such as “Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus with Needles”, “Free Radicals (A Hallucination of the Christmas Skeleton Pleading with a Suicide Bomber)” and “Yeah, I Know It’s a Drag… But Wastin’ Pigs Is Still Radical”. They are also acclaimed for their elaborate live shows, which feature costumes, balloons, puppets, video projections, complex stage light configurations, giant hands, large amounts of confetti, and frontman Wayne Coyne’s signature man-sized plastic bubble, in which he traverses the audience. In 2002, Q magazine named The Flaming Lips one of the “50 Bands to See Before You Die”.
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All Shall Perish Australian Tour | November-December 2011

STRIKE HARD BOOKINGS & KILLYOURSTEREO
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  When people like Kirk Hammett and Rob Flynn cite your band as favourites, you know you’re onto a good thing. And for Oakland, California’s ALL SHALL PERISH that is precisely the case. With new album This Is Where It Ends newly unleashed on the world, the Californian quintet is set to hit Australia for the second time this November and December.

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Uneven Structure – Februus | Album Review

Review by Billy Geary

If our friends on the other side of the globe the French are known for one thing, it most certainly isn’t for their music scene, let alone experimental metal. With their debut album Februus, French metallers Uneven Structure are about to change all of that. Combining the atmosphere of bands like Pink Floyd with the intensity of Meshuggah, the French sextet have created an album that is both brutal and beautiful, often at the same time. Continue reading Uneven Structure – Februus | Album Review

The Jezabels – An Exhibition By Christopher Doyle

 
The Jezabels
An Exhibition By Christopher Doyle
December 8th – 14th Mart Gallery Surry Hills NSW

Though Christopher Doyle is an internationally recognised and awarded designer – in 2009 he was named one of InDesign Magazine’s Top Ten Faces and Forces Of Design – fans of Sydney band The Jezabels will know him simply as the man responsible for the band’s stunning CD artwork, images of which will be on display at Mart Gallery this December (2011).

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