Roll along the open highway and let the scent of nature carry you away. Delve into an experimental landscape and be welcomed into the oasis of Groovin the Moo (GTM) 2015.
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Category Archives: Festival
XAVIER RUDD & THE UNITED NATIONS – New Album “NANNA” + National Album Tour
Xavier Rudd is pleased to announce details of his new album Nanna, and the subsequent national Nanna Tour this March & April, 2015. Nanna is out in Australia independently on March 13th via Salt X/Universal. Internationally, Xavier Rudd & The United Nations are excited to announce their new home at Nettwerk for North America, the UK and Europe.
Xavier Rudd’s eighth studio album, Nanna, was mixed by living legend Errol Brown at the Tuff Gong Studios and follows the wildly successful #2 Gold-selling album Spirit Bird (2012). Spirit Bird was led by the huge single “Follow The Sun”, which went Gold in Australia, reached Platinum sales in Italy and led Xavier Rudd to his largest touring itinerary to date, covering every continent during a 30-month world tour.
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Marilyn Manson + Apocalyptica + Deathstars announce Soundwave Sidewaves
Very rarely does an artist come along that defies the boundaries of convention and remains relevant in a storied career spanning over two decades selling in excess of 50 million albums. Blazing a trail of controversy and originality, MARILYN MANSON remains a complete spectacle delivering one of the most creative and entertaining live shows in the world today and something that should without question be on everyone’s “List of things to see and do before you die” – Sounds Magazine
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Lamb Of God with Killer Be Killed + Guests announce Soundwave Sidewaves
There are metal bands and then there is LAMB OF GOD.
Hitting with the force of an invading apocalyptic army, LAMB OF GOD will be storming the stages on Soundwave this summer. The Virginian natives are back to inject Australia with a crippling dose of pure metal and will be performing two Sidewaves in Sydney and Melbourne. It’s the live arena where they truly become a force of nature though…
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El Grande Festival – announcing 2015 2 Day Festival Lineup + El Grande #BNE
El Grande Festival expands for its 4th iteration March 20th-22nd – the event is now a 2 Day Festival at the Grand Hotel in Gladstone on Saturday and Sunday and this time, Brisbane also gets a taste of the grandiose event at the Hi-Fi Bar on Friday night – March 21st.
This time around the 3 day, 2 city event features headliners 28 Days, DZ Deathrays, Dream On Dreamer, Tiki Taane (NZ), D At Sea, Voyager, Sydonia, Ezekiel Ox, Drawcard, The City Shakeup and many more local artists from Gladstone to Brisbane and everywhere in between.
Brisbane’s event on Friday 21st March – El Grande #BNE – will be a fiesta of heavy rock goodness. It features a mish-mash of genres and flavours – from crowd favourites 28 Days through to some of Australia’s best new up and comers – Dream on, Dreamer, Voyager, Sydonia and Guards of May – punk to hardcore to metal and prog.
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Interview with DJ of AREA-7
Interview by Stuart Blythe
We caught up with AREA-7 Keyboardist DJ to chat about Soundwave Festival 2015, touring and the year ahead.
You’re playing at Soundwave 2015. What are you most looking forward to about the festival?
Oh that’s easy… touring, playing on huge stages, seeing other acts. playing to people who have never seen us and hoping to give our regular fans a highlight festival show.
What’s your favourite/least favourite festival experience?
Only ‘least favourite’ I can think of is not playing more festivals! Favourite’s are Main stage St Kilda Festival, sun setting over the beach as a backdrop and a sea of thousands’n’thousands of people out front. Also, as last band on at Warped tour on the Gold Coast, it’s pissing down and the show is running behind, they’ve gotta get everything to the next show so the crew are packing the stage up around us. We’re getting rained on, most of the stage was down before we finished and ran straight in to the bus to the next show.
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Interview with Craig Selak – The Bennies
Interview by Stuart Blythe
We caught up with THE BENNIES bassist CRAIG SELAK to chat about Soundwave Festival 2015, touring and the year ahead.
2014 was a massive year for The Bennies. Touring with the Dead Kennedys, shows with NOFX, a US tour and the release of your second EP Heavy Disco just to name a few highlights. What were the standout moments of 2014 for you?
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SLASH feat. Myles Kennedy + The Conspirators and Steel Panther announce Soundwave Sidewaves
A rock god that needs no introduction, but we’ll well and truly give him one anyway.
SLASH has been churning out some of the most iconic guitar riffs and solos in modern rock for more than three decades. A member of the Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall Of Fame for his role in the classic line-up of Guns N’ Roses and the spine-tingling opening riff he penned for the band’s trademark hit Sweet Child O’ Mine topped the list of ‘The 100 Greatest Riffs’ as voted by readers of UK’s Total Guitar magazine.
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Interview with Matt Young – King Parrot
Interview by Stuart Blythe
We caught up with KING PARROT vocalist MATT YOUNG to chat about Soundwave Festival 2015, touring and the year ahead.
You’re playing at Soundwave 2015. What are you most looking forward to about the festival?
It’s always a good time playing on the big stages in front of festival audiences, and to be on a lineup with so many great bands is really an honour. We’ve also been in the US for most of the last 6 months, so I’m really looking forward to coming home to some good weather.
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Incubus + Antemasque + Le Butcherettes announce Soundwave Sidewaves
Iconic rock gods, INCUBUS are unparalleled in their ability to shift moods and textures at the drop of a dime, proving that they have become a rare thing: a modern rock band that actually grows and improves with each album. Through their double decade-long rise to the top, INCUBUS have notched up over 13 million album sales and have amassed an arsenal of sing-a-long hits including Drive, Nice To Know You, Wish You Were Here, Are You In?, Pardon Me, Megalomaniac, A Certain Shade Of Green… come on, you know you’re guilty of belting out any one of these tunes on a drunken Karaoke night!.
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FUTURE SUMMER ’15 | SVEN VÄTH to headline Cocoon stage
It’s the final day of Future Music Festival’s massive week of announcements, and we’ve got one final stage rundown to unveil: the one and only Cocoon Stage!
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FUTURE SUMMER ’15 – introducing electronic main stage ‘Supernova’
It’s been a big week of announcements at Future HQ, with the unveiling of two stage rundowns, brand new singles and line-up additions. Now, it’s time to reveal all the details of our most spectacular production set-up to date: introducing Supernova Stage, a mind-blowing, custom-built EDM experience headlined by the one and only biggest DJ on the planet, Avicii!
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BLUESFEST 2015 SIXTH ARTIST ANNOUNCEMENT!
Bluesfest, held over the 5 Day Easter Long Weekend from Thursday 2nd to Monday 6th of April 2015 adds another superb array of artists to its ever-growing festival bill. The 26th Annual Bluesfest will be held at its custom built event site at Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm just outside Byron Bay.
HOZIER
THE WATERBOYS
SWITCHFOOT • HUNTER HAYES
FLY MY PRETTIES
MUSIC MAKER PRESENTS SUPER CHIKAN AND VASTI JACKSON
DIESEL • JEFF LANG
PHIL WIGGINS & DOM TURNER
WATUSSI FINAL PERFORMANCES
NIKKI HILL • THE RUMJACKS
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MARILYN MANSON – Australian Exclusive! ‘The Pale Emperor’ Pre-Release Album Stream
MARILYN MANSON releases THE PALE EMPEROR next Friday January 23rd, 2015 and you can stream the new album exclusively
HERE: http://www.soundwavefestival.com/about/news/australian-exclusive-marilyn-manson-pale-emperor-stream
Conjured from a seance into a true renaissance. This is, without a doubt, bonafide Marilyn Manson.
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Photo Gallery – FIELD DAY 2015 – Sydney, Australia
Photographer: Ruby Boland Photography
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