we’re washing in dirty water
cause we never flaunt our assets or our business schemes
take 15 grams of Quinine with a bottle of Sal Volatile
smoke Chesterfield non-filters and then jump in the sea
when Dr Suess is painting in the sky
you’ might catch a glimpse if you raise your focus higher
(Dr Seuss is painting in the sky, off Wake 2013)
If Dr Seuss was painting in the sky we would all look up, take a moment to pause, allow ourselves to imagine a world beyond ourselves. This is the opening gambit that Australian songwriter and musician David Bridie, of Not Drowning, Waving, My Friend the Chocolate Cake, producer and film composer, on his new album Wake, challenges us with.
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Jet Trails is the title of Casey Barnes’ fourth album. It’s also the story of his life. Casey’s music has made an impact around the world. He’s had dance hits in Europe, written songs in America, appeared in a top-rating TV show in Australia, and played alongside many international stars. 
Telstra customers will be among the first in Australia able to purchase tickets to the Australian leg of U.S rock legends Bon Jovi, Because We Can – Australian Tour.
Three years on from their last album ‘Engineering The Soul’, Central Coast rockers Something With Numbers stage a return with long-awaited album ‘Eleven Eleven’, and a national tour to support the hotly anticipated release! Kicking off on June 14 at the Mona Vale Hotel, Something With Numbers are set to take Australia by storm once again with the signature rock swagger that has been their trademark since day one. 
Owls of the Swamp, the musical moniker of Australian multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Pete Uhlenbruch, has just released his luminous new single ‘The Hypnotist’. Recorded in various locations across Europe, the single features special guest Marketa Irglova (the Swell Season) on backing vocals and pianos as well as additional production, mixing and mastering by Sturla Mio Thorisson (Greenhouse Studios, Reykjavik, Iceland). 
The Rev in Fortitude Valley was once hailed as a premier venue with its intimate settings and tonight it has reopened its doors to live music to host the first show on the Australian Funeral For A Friend tour.
Q&A with Angelo Conway, vocalist/guitarist of alternative indie rock band THE SHORT FALL.
There’s always something special about country town festivals. For the locals, there’s the rare joy of rocking out with your house key in your pocket; for the ring-ins, there’s the extra heady buzz of a sugar fuelled roadtrip, or skanky train chug at the end of the night. From the get-go this buzz was palpable at Bendigo’s fifth turn on the Groovin’ The Moo carousel.
Hailed by Rolling Stone as “a genre unto herself,” Kaki King is a true iconoclast, a visionary musician/artist whose singular work rightly stands out amongst the easily formatted. Over her decade-long career thus far, the Brooklyn-based guitarist/composer has recorded five extraordinarily diverse and distinctive LPs, performed with such icons as Foo Fighters, Timbaland, and The Mountain Goats, contributed to a variety of film and TV soundtracks (spanning Golden Globe-nominated work with Eddie Vedder and Michael Brook on Sean Penn’s Into The Wild to teaming with Carter Burwell on his blockbuster Twilight score), and played to ever-growing audiences on innumerable world tours.
The Frontier Touring Company has announced that 7-time GRAMMY winner and international superstar Taylor Swift is heading down under with her blockbuster THE RED TOUR. The talented singer songwriter today confirmed she will be performing stadium shows in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth, as well as an arena date in Auckland, later this year as the first overseas leg of her acclaimed THE RED TOUR.