Get set to jump in your old Mustang Ford when Swervedriver return to Australian shores this September! This tour will be the worldwide premier of Swervedriver performing their iconic album, RAISE, in its entirety!
The Swervies were perhaps the first band to take scorching, distorted, alternative rock guitars, driving pulsing drums and mesh them seamlessly with dreamy pop aesthetics and song writing – not to mention the slacker swagger of Adam Franklin’s vocals. They innovated an infectious blend of noise and drama that reaches into the souls of audiences, weaving a dream like state of mind and taking the listener on an internal journey through rock ‘n roll. Their live show has been summed up as “perfect, noisy precision” by The Examiner and has been described by DropD.com as feeling “like Steve McQueen himself is shoving your head up against a revving V-6.”.
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Sydney’s RAINDROP have materialised from the musical cosmos to take you by the hand and lead you on a journey of perilously prismatic soundscapes and dreamy vocals. Recorded at iconic REC Studios in Sydney, debut single Killing Me is upon is.
Off the back of Aerosmith’s Australian tour, The Dead Daisies are now preparing an invasion of U.S. soil in August & September 2013 for the fourth annual Rockstar Energy Uproar Festival. Alongside heavyweight rockers Alice in Chains and Jane’s Addiction, the band will Headline the COLDCOCK Herbal Whiskey Showcase Stage which will also feature performances from breaking talent Beware Of Darkness and Charming Liars, with more artists still to be announced. The touring rock music and lifestyle festival is set to make its way right across North America, with twenty-five dates from August 9th to September 15th.
UPDATE: With two Melbourne shows now sold out, PAUL KELLY, and special guest Urthboy, will take to the stage of the Recital Hall for a third and FINAL show on Saturday August 10.
Floridian 5-piece, Anberlin will celebrate their 10th anniversary by bringing brand new anthems and a pair of international support bands to Australia this September.
The Frontier Touring Company confirm Yellowcard will be returning to Australia when Ocean Avenue Acoustic, The Tour hits our shores this October.
Led by “Boomerang,” the songs on GRINNING STREAK unfold with the blend of immediacy, tunefulness and witty sophistication that made such BNL hits as “Pinch Me, “Brian Wilson,” “If I Had $1,000,000” and the chart-topping “One Week” modern-day classics. “Pop is a form that I love—it can be high-energy and intricate,” says Robertson of the genre the band has championed throughout the last quarter century. “When I think of pop music, I think of the Cars and Squeeze—interesting melodic rock is what I gravitate toward and what I’m always striving for. I want guitar-heavy pop/rock that’s intelligent, evocative and thought-provoking. I want it to be singable and relatable, and I want there to be other layers in there for the people who want to go deeper—because not everybody does. I’ve heard so many times, ‘I love you guys ’cause your songs are just fun and easygoing.’ And I’m like, ‘I’m glad you enjoy them, but there’s a dark underbelly that you haven’t mined.’”
Q&A with Caitlin von Berky, vocalist of alternative pop band Belltalk.
Q&A with Ben Tolich of Ambient/Alt/Acoustic band Mali Mali.
Known for their incredible live performances, The Red Paintings are bringing an all-new stage show exclusively to Australia. 
The incredible success of Bluesfest 2013 has been documented in an Economic Impact report undertaken by Lawrence Consulting. The report concentrates on the impact of spending in Byron Shire, the Northern Rivers region, New South Wales and Australia generated by Bluesfest Services Pty Ltd, visiting performers and attendee spending. Festival Director Peter Noble says of the report “We knew 2013 was a huge year but it was still great to see a boost in both employment positions and income and an increase in our overall contribution to Gross Regional Product from 2011, which was also a bumper year for us”
Pressed And is a collaboration between musicians Andrew Hamlet and Mat Jones. The project is founded on a balance, all processed and manipulated through a field of collision, where meditative folk wanderings cross meteors of electronic. Mat, a North Carolina native and Andrew, originally from Atlanta, met as students at UNC Chapel Hill. With Mat working manipulations of his voice (often from parts of his solo material), Andrew adding heavily processed guitar, and both sharing in various electronic triggers and overall production, Pressed And was formed.