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’.
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. Continue reading KYLIE MINOGUE AND THE WIGGLES TO BE INDUCTED INTO THE ARIA HALL OF FAME!→
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”. Continue reading Flaming Lips to play at Harvest Festival – November 2011→
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.