Photographer: Chris Dornan Photography
Photographer: Chris Dornan Photography
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DATAROCK Announce Australian Supports – May 2011 [Tour News]
Norway’s red tracksuit party masters Datarock are excited to announce Australian supports…
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Wednesday 4th May @ The Zoo in Brisbane: Mitzi and Tortoiseshell
Thursday 5th May @ Oxford Art Factory in Sydney: Goldfields Thursday 12th May @ East Brunswick Club Melbourne: Wearefans |
For the past decade DATAROCK have melded indie dance, new wave, pop, and funk into a custom sound responsible for a steady stream of unforgettable tracks and performances.
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Status Quo “In The Army Now 2010” [LP Review]
Review: Natalie Salvo
Status Quo are a group of Englishmen known for their brand of boogie rock and have gotten a lot of mileage over the years from power chords and the furious sounds of fighting. Now it seems the band are giving a little something back by releasing a charity single titled “In The Army Now”. This release serves as part teaser to their forthcoming studio album, “Quid Pro Quo” and support for the British Armed Forces with profits from its sale going to the British Forces Foundation and Help For Heroes charities.
The Quo covered this track back in 1986 and scored a hit on the UK singles chart.
The 2010 version sees the lyrics get a revamp (to be more pro-army) plus an update to the music. But rest assured, there are still power chords aplenty and a chorus of angry young men (as the band are assisted by The Corps of Army Music). But strangely there are also hints of the atmospheric and in particular (and I kid you not) Phil Collins’ “In The Air Tonight”.
This mini-LP comes with the two 2010 versions of the title track including full length and radio edits. There are also two studio rarities “I Ain’t Wasting My Time” and “One By One” and five live Quo numbers taken from shows performed in England in 2008 and 2009. These include their classics “Caroline,” “Whatever You Want” and “Down Down”. There are also videos for the title song and “Beginning Of The End”.
Quo fans won’t be disappointed with this collection of music as it showcases more of their boogie rock with big beefy guitar riffs that hint at AC/DC, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple, but all while having an added rock and roll bent – almost like what would happen if Little Richard did his musical thing but replaced his piano with an arsenal of guitars. With the speed of a freight train, energy of a battalion and the heavy firepower of modern artillery, Status Quo prove they’ve still got the chops to go into battle and take a stand for what they believe in. Basically it’s three power chords and the rock uncouth.
Title: In The Army Now 2010
Artist: Status Quo
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Review by: Natalie Salvo
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Dead Kennedys @ The Hi-Fi, Brisbane – April 7, 2011 [Photo Gallery]
Photographer: David Burness
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Bang Bang Boss Kelly – “Drunk & Happy” [LMMtv Video]
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Bang Bang Boss Kelly singing Drunk and Happy backstage at the Brisbane Powerhouse prior to their final residency Video recorded by the students of Music Industry College. |
LifeMusicMedia.com is creating a new feature portal, namely LMMtv.
LMMtv group [at Vimeo] is a place for bands/artists to submit a video of themselves performing a song of their choice, recorded on video as a raw live take.
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City Riots – Video Tour Diary #1 – on the road with British India [Video]
Check out the brief rundown of torn jeans, live shows and hotel rooms in the City Riots camp in first 10 days of supporting British India on the ‘March into the Ocean’ Tour around Australia.
CITY RIOTS PLAY THE FOLLOWING DATES ALONGSIDE BRITISH INDIA AND BOY IN A BOX
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LMMtv: Trent Williams performing Amazing Grace [Video Clip]
This week we’ve selected to showcase Trent Williams performing “Amazing Grace”
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LifeMusicMedia.com is creating a new feature portal, namely LMMtv.
LMMtv group [at Vimeo] is a place for bands/artists to submit a video of themselves performing a song of their choice, recorded on video as a raw live take.
Continue reading LMMtv: Trent Williams performing Amazing Grace [Video Clip]
Interview with DANDY WARHOLS guitarist PETER HOLSTROM – Australian Tour, Cash and Creativity
Interview by: Dermot Clarke
DANDY WARHOLS guitarist PETER HOLSTROM chats briefly about the band’s upcoming Australian tour (2011), and the way cash and creativity affect each other.
“It felt like after we did Parklife we hadn’t really performed to our fans,” a laid-back sounding Peter Holstrom says.
“We’d performed to a lot of people who were going to a dance music festival, and that was fun and great but we needed to come back and do shows for our fans, the ones who didn’t want to spend however much it was for a festival ticket to just see a few bands that they might like on it.”
The decadent rock outfit’s strong touring relationship with Australia can be traced back to their visit in 2000, on the back of their landmark album Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia. When they walked onstage for their Livid Festival set, they were met with such a screaming wall of white noise from the audience that they changed their set list on the spot, opening with the high-paced feedback dirge “Fast Driving Raveup With the Dandy Warhols”.
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ARIA Chart News: w/c 11 April 2011
For the first time this year, a local act has triumphed at the peak of the ARIA Album Chart, Perth’s Drapht enjoying his first taste of number one success! His new album “The Life Of Riley” has held off all comers to triumph in top spot, easily eclipsing his previous album chart effort of #64 with “Brothers Grimm” in June 2008.
Snoop Dogg delivers his second ARIA Singles Chart #1, with “Sweat (David Guetta Remix)” moving up from #2 this week to bump Jennifer Lopez into second spot. It’s almost six years since Snoop’s previous ARIA #1 single, “Signs”, which spent two weeks at the top of the chart in May 2005.
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Sparkadia @ The Hi-Fi, Brisbane – April 08, 2011 [Live Review]
Review by: Lauren Sherritt
I headed to Sparkadia’s show on Friday April 8 at the Hi Fi in Brisbane with much the same feeling of trepidation that I had on hearing that the band was releasing a new album in March this year. Technically, I knew that the songs on the record were superb, just as I knew that the hype building about the The Great Impression tour and Sparkadia’s new live show had to mean something. I was troubled, though, by clear memories of a gig on the eighteenth of September in 2008 that had changed the way I viewed live music and made me worried that there was only disappointment to come by way of comparison.
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Destroy Music feat. The Amity Affliction and I Killed The Prom Queen – May 2011 [Tour News]
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Heavy music fans in Australia are set for yet another treat this year with Destroy Music – a festival headlined by The Amity Affliction and a recently reformed I Killed the Prom Queen. The undercard is just as unrelenting, featuring Deez Nuts and US band Of Mice and Men. |
For The Amity Affliction, Destroy Music marks the band’s first Australian capital cities headline tour since hitting the road last July on the back of their sophomore release “Youngbloods”. Since then they have notched up two UK tours, a mainland European run and returned home to play to tens of thousands of people on the recently completed Soundwave Festival, where they turned heads as the Australian heroes on a 70 band bill. They’ve scored a #6 ARIA debut, multiple magazine covers, topped almost every heavy music poll, had Triple J singles and garnered ARIA and AIR nominations for “Youngbloods”. The Amity Affliction juggernaut is showing no sign of slowing down either. In March and April they will embark on their first ever US tour, taking in close to 40 dates, including SXSW, before returning to Australian shores for Destroy Music.
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GOOD CHARLOTTE @ Brisbane Entertainment Centre – 8 April 2011 [Photo Gallery]
Photographer: Stuart Blythe
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Photographer: Stuart Blythe
Artists: GOOD CHARLOTTE
Venue: Brisbane Entertainment Centre
Date: 8 April 2011
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Tim Barry @ Rosies, Brisbane – 02 April 2011 w/ Wollard and Burns, Jud Campbell [Photo Gallery]
Tim Barry @ Rosies, Brisbane – 02 April 2011 w/ Wollard and Burns, Jud Campbell [Live Review]
Review by: Stephen Goodwin
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Some invisible barrier seems to prevent punters from encroaching closer than five metres from where local Jud Campbell is punching out a solid set of folk-punk. Maybe he has cooties, because a little later everyone is crowding the stage’s edge as if to hear every muted note and whispered vocal in Wollard and Burns’ back-porch set. |
Stage’s edge is still too distant for Tim Barry. Early on, the American drops the lead from his acoustic and plays unplugged amidst the crowd, harnessing their enthusiasm for a sing-along full of roaring voices and grinning faces.
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