Skinnyfish Music have announced that Gurrumul Yunupingu will be joining a host of stars to perform at the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Concert on June 4th 2012.

Gurrumul will be joining artists from across the Commonwealth to perform ‘Sing’, the Diamond Jubilee Song which is written by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and Take That’s Gary Barlow.
Barlow travelled around the Commonwealth working with artists including Gurrumul to produce the track, with its successful debut airing this week on BBC Radio 2.

The concert will be broadcast live on BBC One, BBC One HD and on BBC Radio 2 in the UK and to millions around the world and will feature performances from the likes of Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Tom Jones, Sir Elton John and Sir Cliff Richard.

Gurrumul’s performance at the Diamond Jubilee concert is the latest in a long line of honours for this shy man from the remote Elcho Island, with the University of Sydney recently bestowing an honorary doctorate for outstanding contribution to music.
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Photographer: Naomi Rahim – Design & Photography

Photographer: Naomi Rahim – Design & Photography
Continue reading Photo Gallery: Florence and the Machine @ Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne – 20 May 2012 →

Keith Urban achieves a unique first on this week’s ARIA Album Chart, landing his maiden number one on the main album chart with ‘The Story So Far’, some three years after his #1 achievement on the US Billboard Top 200 with ‘Defying Gravity’. Despite three Australian #1’s on the ARIA Country Chart, Urban’s highest point to date on the main album chart had been a #3 peak for ‘Defying Gravity’. ‘The Story So Far’ offers up 19 tracks from albums ‘Get Closer’, ‘Defying Gravity’, ‘Love Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing’, ‘Be Here’ and ‘Golden Road’, 14 of them US #1 singles, and marks his fourth ARIA Album Chart top 10 result.
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Photographer: Naomi Rahim – Design & Photography

Photographer: Naomi Rahim – Design & Photography
Continue reading Photo Gallery: Mutemath @ The Corner Hotel, Melbourne with The Cairos – 15 May 2012 →

PENNYWISE are one of the most significant bands to emerge from SoCal

A thriving, ground-breaking punk rock band for two decades, the Hermosa Beach group’s relentless, in-your-face, middle finger in the air, anthem-chanting sound has never wavered. In fact, they have just created their most ferocious, engaging and career defining album to date in All Or Nothing.

And just to prove that their live shows have lost none of their legendary vitality for which they are infamous, Pennywise have invited 2 of the most talked about rock bands of the new crop to test themselves against!
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Recent Rock n Roll Hall of Fame inductee and one of the greatest exponents of the electric guitar, SLASH, returns this August for an unmissable tour in support of his new album ‘Apocalyptic Love’.

On his last visit SLASH sold out all of his Australian shows in under 10 minutes. Those shows were moved up to much larger venues and promptly sold out again.

So this time around, he will come not only armed with the most gifted rock vocalist of this generation, Mr. Myles Kennedy and the band of Conspirators, but with an arena production to deliver his fabled show; just as the rock gods intended.
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Check out the new single “The Night Off” by Rockets!

Video: Rockets – The Night Off
Music video by Rockets performing The Night Off. (C) 2012 Creative Vibes
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2012. The Mayans call it the end of the “fourth world”. Some call it the year of doomsday. Others believe it is simply the end of the world as we know it. For Sampology, 2012 is the Super Visual Apocalypse – an audio visual celebration that’s touring Australia and New Zealand from May 31st – June 28th, encouraging us all to party like there’s no tomorrow.

This end of the world stuff has obviously played on Sampology’s mind. His forthcoming single ‘Stars’ featuring Brisbane’s Hannah Macklin beckons us to “look at the stars” if this is your last night on earth, with her vocals adding lushness to this snappy track. ‘Stars’is released May 1st.
Continue reading Tour News: Sampology Announces Australian/NZ Tour | May-June 2012 →

Awaken I Am – It’s Just Business (Official Music Video)
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