Regular John are inviting you to take a trip when they bring their Strange Flowers to life this September.
Strange Flowers is the second album from the Sydney based four piece. The follow up to 2009s ARIA nominated The Peaceful Atom is a Bomb is out now!
With the intoxicating sweetness of spring unfolding across Australia, the timing for a tour couldn’t be more perfect.
Continue reading Tour News: Regular John – “The Strange Flowers” 2012 Spring Tour
Low High is the first single taken from Ella Hooper’s debut solo album, ‘In Tongues.’
Produced & recorded by Jan Skubizewski (Owl Eyes, Illy, Way Of The Eagle) chiefly in his Smith St Collingwood studio, the track features guest performances by horror-country act Graveyard Train.
Low High is a rhythmic call and answer affair, that marks the first solo effort from Ella who’s previous credits include lead vocals in iconic Australian pop punk band Killing Heidi and alt-country act The Verses.
Continue reading Ella Hooper – Low High (Official Music Video)
Bluesfest, Australia’s multi-award winning 5 Day Festival, presents its 1st artist announcement for Easter 2013 (March 28 – April 1) held in beautiful Byron Shire, at its dedicated event site, the Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm.
“This is our Year” says Peter Noble, Festival Director. “We are delivering one of our absolute best artist line-ups ever, and the first announcement is only the beginning.
Continue reading Ben Harper, Santana, Iggy & The Stooges, Chris Isaak, Bonnie Raitt and more announced for Byron Bay Bluesfest 2013!
Interview by Stuart Blythe
It’s been a busy year for singer/songwriter Mark Lowndes. Performing *and reaching the finals* on Australia’s Got Talent, recording his latest EP “Present”, running workshops for younger musicians and recently kicking off on an extensive tour. Life Music Media caught up with Mark for a chat.
LMM: Hi Mark, it was great to see you performing and reaching the finals on Australia’s Got Talent.
It must have been a great experience?
Mark: It was an experience that I will never forget.
So many things I learnt behind the scenes about the commercial world, things I’ll never forget.
LMM: Your song “Afternoon” received rave reviews from the judges. How did you feel about that and how much do you take on board from their comments?
Continue reading Interview with Mark Lowndes
The Big Day Out 2013 sideshows have been announced! The Killers, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Band Of Horses, Bloody Beetroots, Alabama Shakes and Crystal Castles are hitting venues around the country to offer fans a second opportunity to see them outside of the Big Day Out. Don’t blink you might miss the chance to attend what are sure to be the most talked-about gigs in January!
THE KILLERS
SUPER INTIMATE SHOWS!
With their roll call of anthems THE KILLERS are renowned for their epic stadium shows but, after a two year hiatus and a new album in Battle Born, the band are offering Australian audiences a unique live experience with these intimate sideshows.
Sydney: Wednesday 16 January at The Metro
Melbourne: Tuesday 22 January at The Palace
On Sale 9am Friday 21 September at www.bigdayout.com
New Single – Was It Worth It
In Store September 28th 2012
Talisman Tour 2012
Out of the studio and on the road, Fremantle’s soulful raconteur Mama Kin, is bringing her new sound and expanded line-up to a venue near you.
With a widespread reputation for stirring live shows, Mama Kin returns to the stage with a swag of new songs that confront the veil between darkness and light.
Continue reading News: Mama Kin – Talisman Tour 2012 and New Single – “Was It Worth It”
Charles Laughton plays Kidd, a merchant captain who cons the King of England (Henry Daniell) into allowing him to take to the sea to recover a lost treasure and escort a ship back to London.
Continue reading Movie: Captain Kidd (1945)
Image of American guitarist Jimi Hendrix taken by Rob Bosboom
Source: Dutch National Archives, The Hague, Fotocollectie Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau
On This Day: September 18, 1970 James Marshall “Jimi” Hendrix died in his London apartment at the age of 27
Continue reading September 18, 1970 – James Marshall “Jimi” Hendrix died in his London apartment
The film centers on the life of Tod Lubitch (John Travolta), who was born with an improperly functioning immune system. This means that contact with unfiltered air may kill him, so he must live out his life in incubator conditions.
He lives with his parents, since they decided to move him from the hospital where he was being kept as a boy.
He is constricted to staying in his room all his life, where he eats, learns, reads and exercises, while being protected from the outside world by various coverings.
Continue reading Movie: The Boy In The Plastic Bubble (1976 – With John Travolta, Glynnis O’Connor, Robert Reed, Diana Hyland)
With a healthy saturation of first single ‘Be Gone’, Brisbane singer and musician Tara Simmons has unveiled the full details for her second full-length album It’s Not Like We’re Trying to Move Mountains, scheduled to drop Friday September 28 2012.
It’s been a long-winded 12 months for Simmons, who buried herself in the studio with producer Yanto Browning (Kate Miller-Heidke, the medics, The Jungle Giants, Art of Sleeping) to make something a little different to the sample-driven folk-pop she had cut her teeth making. She pulled aesthetic influence largely from the Scandinavian pop of the likes of El Perro Del Mar, Lykke Li and Robyn, threw in some direction from purveyors of the wonky-synth like Metronomy and Chairlift and emerged with arguably her best and definitely most ambitious effort yet.
Continue reading Album News: Tara Simmons – ‘It’s Not Like We’re Trying To Move Mountains’
Isaac, Taylor and Zac Hanson are household names in Australia and it’s no surprise – in 1997 one in ten Australian households owned a copy of the band’s smash album Middle Of Nowhere and the nation’s airwaves, hearts and minds resonated to the infectious sound of the band’s smash hit MmmBop. Now, after a 7-year absence, HANSON are back with a brand new album and tour that is sure to capture the attention and imagination of a nation that has always embraced the band as their own.
Native sons of Tulsa, Oklahoma, HANSON have been making music together for nearly two decades. Thirteen years ago, their out-of-the-blue, soul-inspired brand of American pop-rock ‘n’ roll was introduced to the world. Unaffected by charts or fads, they’ve spent more than a decade building a community of fans connected to one another and fuelled by the energy and craftsmanship of three brothers and their music. On their fifth studio album, Shout It Out, released digitally in Australia on the 7th of August on the band’s 3CG Records label, they deliver a powerful group of soulful, melodic tunes that will leave you with a contagious sense of optimism for the future and welcomed reminiscence for American rock ‘n’ roll.
Continue reading HANSON – Shout It Out
Photographer: Naomi Rahim – Design & Photography
Continue reading Photo Gallery: Hanson @ The Palace, Melbourne with Matt Wertz – 14 September 2012
Gorgeous Festival is an annual boutique music, food and wine festival. Gorgeous Festival will return on Saturday November 24th 2012. Like its name Gorgeous Festival is exactly that for every audience member. Not simply a music festival it is an experience of the abundance of the region.
In 2012 the Gorgeous Festival returns with a stunning musical line up, new wines, some great additional restaurants and the new Gorgeous Art Prize! On top of all this Gorgeousness there will be a new children’s space & award winning chef demonstrations!
Continue reading Festival News: MISSY HIGGINS to headline Gorgeous Festival 2012 – McLaren Vale, South Australia
After eleven years, BIGSOUND has well and truly cemented its place on the global scale as the official Twitter hashtag, #bigsound trended worldwide last night.
BIGSOUND 2012 was the home of an intimate, frank and deeply personal keynote speech by Steve Earle, revelations of industry spats from the Are Artists Being Paid Too Much panel, or the passionate discussions of the creation and development of ground-breaking albums in the Making Records That Matter panel.
Continue reading News: BIGSOUND Trends Worldwide, Announces 2013 Dates
