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Anathema announce Australian Tour – August 2014

Plovdiv End of gig group shotAnathema’s Australian fans have been waiting patiently for almost 25 years and your innumerable emails and requests have finally borne fruit – Anathema are making their long awaited first visit to our shores!

Anathema have been at the forefront of the UK rock/metal movement for a long time. As influential pioneers of melodic heavy music, the band’s forward thinking, intellectual musicianship has earned them accolades such as Classic Rock’s 2010 and 2012 Prog Album of the Year (2010’s We’re Here Because We’re Here was mixed by progressive rock mainman Steven Wilson).
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Coldplay announce their sixth album “Ghost Stories”

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On Monday 19 May 2014, Coldplay will release their sixth album, Ghost Stories, via Parlophone Records.

Ghost Stories can be pre-ordered now from iTunes worldwide. Fans who pre-order Ghost Stories will receive an instant download of the first single from the album, Magic. The single can also be streamed here.
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Monster Magnet Announce 2014 Australian Tour Supports

KillRockStar Entertainment presents the 2014 Australian return of New Jersey stoner lords Monster Magnet!

**** Tour Update – Supports Announced! ****
Ahead of their upcoming Australian tour Monster Magnet have just named the full line up of local acts who will joining the space rock legends to blow minds across the country this April.

Main support in each city will come from two-piece hell raisers King Of The North. Since exploding onto the Melbourne music scene in early 2012 this guitar/drum duo have had punters and pundits alike raving about their massive sound and killer live shows. Pioneering the 3 from 1 guitar technique (making the sound of 2 guitars plus a bass guitar simultaneously from just one guitar), first timers are often left looking for the extra guitarists amidst the wall of sound. Add to the equation one of the most dynamic and solid drummers around and you have a rock n roll band like no other and one of the country’s most exciting new acts.
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The Jezabels – “Angels of Fire” (Official Video)

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In between recording their new album The Brink, closing the St Jerome’s Laneway Festival dates and international touring, The Jezabels found some time to create their first ever, DIY film clip! Angels Of Fire was filmed in and around London, and is being released exclusively online, watch it below:
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THE DELTA RIGGS new single ‘Supersonic Casualties’ (Official Music Video)

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Renowned for pumping out high-energy jams & ferocious live shows, Melbourne genre-benders The Delta Riggs traveled to NYC late last year to showcase their wares for the industry gold fish bowl know as CMJ Music Marathon.
Amongst the sweaty shows & electric nightlife, the birthplace of hip-hop had a profound effect on the band, returning home to record the follow up to their 2013 debut, Hex.Lover.Killer, with new beats & the intoxication of the city still buzzing through their veins.
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GWAR’s Oderus Urungus releases statement on decapitating Tony Abbott effigy at Soundwave Festival

gwar_5882-LOderus shares his view point on the seemingly major news coverage their bit of stage theatre has been getting in the press.

The band and management have actually received numerous death threat with one wishing them “all to die a fiery death in a bus crash“.

GWAR’s Oderus Urungus releases statement on decapitating Tony Abbott effigy at Soundwave Festival
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Bluesfest 2014 – 8th Artist Announcement

bluesfest 2014 8thBluesfest Byron Bay, Australia’s multi award winning 5 Day Festival, held over the Easter long weekend (17 – 21st of April) at its home, the Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm, north of Byron Bay, announces another instalment of exceptional artists who will be performing at Bluesfest for the 25th Anniversary Festival.

The latest announcement includes some of the best Australian Folk, Blues, Reggae, Funk, Soul, Groove, Hip-Hop and Dub artists, not to mention some of Australia’s youngest talent who are making waves internationally and a special reunion of a much loved 90’s era Australian band.

The announcement also takes us across the globe to New Orleans, the Netherlands, South Africa, Israel, Italy and Japan with a special collaboration of musicians who inspire, connect and bring peace to the world through their music.
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Gary Numan | ‘Splinter’ Australian & NZ Tour 2014

GaryGary Numan is a truly unique artist and everybody knows it. And he is back in black and ready to darken Australia and New Zealand once again!

Never one to let the past remain his legacy, Gary released his 20th album at the end of 2013. Splinter has been described by Filter Magazine as “mechanized, sci-fi mini-operas.. awesomely grandiose”. It can be considered one of the best albums he has ever produced and Numan shows no signs of slowing down with a return tour to Australia confirmed for May 2014!
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Guards of May new single “Arcadia” + Tour Dates

arcadiaGuards of May are keeping the momentum rolling from their previous single release in late 2013 with a brand new single and East Coast tour in April. Recorded predominantly with Matt Bartlem and also with Tyse Lee at Loose Stones Records, the followup to their wildly successful single Numbers, Arcadia, takes things to the next level. The single is out digitally on iTunes, Spotify, Bandcamp and more on Friday March 28, just ahead of their first tour date.
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Origin announce Australian tour – May 2014

originQuite possibly the most destructive and heaviest tour of the year will roar across the nation this May with US tech-death giants, Origin leading, A Million Dead Birds Laughing and Eternal Rest through a six date reign of terror.

One of the most intense and technical forces in the contemporary death metal world, Origin have staked their claim as leaders of the new wave of extremity. Their fifth album, Entity, is a blueprint for frantic, hell paced grinds of sonic torment seamlessly mixed with churning grooves and some incredibly catchy hooks. With new vocalist Jason Keyser out the front, the band are prepped to tear Australia a new one.
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THE FRATELLIS – Australian Tour – April 2014

FRATELLISWe need excitement. We need rip-roaring tunes. We need THE FRATELLIS.

THE FRATELLIS have been creating heart-swelling, lung-bursting anthems since 2006. With a short hiatus in 2009, the lads are now back and in career best form with their new album ‘We Need Medicine’. Three cheers for what’s likely to be the best comeback of the year. “Once you’ve picked your ears off the floor, you’ll agree.” – Take 40
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Phil Smith Releases New Video Ahead Of Album Launch

smithFolk artist PHIL SMITH releases ‘YEAR OF THE DOG’ – an album that pays tribute to the melancholy and mad moments of his life.

Music with stripped-back soul, songs that speak to the inner stillness and sadness, an album that echoes after you stop playing it. This is how you could describe folk-country artist Phil Smith’s latest offering ‘Year Of The Dog’ — his 3rd full-length album, following 2008’s ‘Goldmine’, and 2010’s live studio album ‘Second Hand Heart’ which was produced by Scott Horscroft (Birds of Tokyo/ The Sleepy Jackson/The Panics/ Silverchair).
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Yacht Club DJs Oddity Number 5 East Coast Tour Announcement

DJSToo long have our dance floors lay dormant. Too long has ‘mash’ been of the potato variety. Australia’s favourite mash up maestros Yacht Club DJs will settle the score this April with their Oddity Number 5 Tour – an East Coast run of oddball proportions and the namesake of their fifth infamous mixtape.

It follows the duo’s stint through the UK and US last year; personally invited by Grammy Award winners Mumford & Sons to join them on their Gentlemen of the Road Stopovers, alongside Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, HAIM, The Walkmen and The Vaccines.
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