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The Jungle Giants – On Tour this March, April & May 2014

Jungle GiantsWith a huge 2013 behind them and a series of Big Day Out performances under their belts, The Jungle Giants have announced one last round of capital city dates.

The tour – which the band has lovingly named the ‘Tuss Tour’ – includes All Ages and Under 18s shows. It will also see The Jungle Giants take over the lane way behind historic Fortitude Valley venue Ric’s for ‘Ric’s Big Backyard’; a block party of epic proportions. The line up includes The Jungle Giants, Millions, Little Odessa, ShortStraw and Moses Gun Collective as well as DJ sets from some of Brisbane’s finest party DJs.
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Lisa Marie Presley – “Storm & Grace” Tour – Australia March 2014

LMPLisa Marie Presley will perform with her five piece band for eight Australian shows only when she tours in March as part of her STORM & GRACE WORLD TOUR. It’s her first Australian tour in eight years.

With all the hoopla that has surrounded her, it’s easy to forget that Lisa Marie Presley is at heart a simple Southern girl whose earliest musical memories are of obsessively listening to 45’s in her bedroom at Graceland and of her dad catching her singing into a hairbrush in front of a mirror at the age of three.
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To Hell With Honour – “Not Now Not Ever” Tour

noIf you haven’t heard of To Hell With Honour, you are about to and their introduction isn’t going to be polite, either. Their brutality is lauded in Western Australia and they are about to give the rest of Australia a taste.

To Hell With Honour’s EP ‘Conscious’, featuring single ‘Not Now Not Ever’, is a devastating blast to the head from the Perth 5 piece. They are hitting the ground running in 2014 and making their first foray into the East Coast metal scene with an upcoming tour.
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Avenged Sevenfold + Five Finger Death Punch + Asking Alexandria announce Soundwave Sidewave shows!

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In what promises to be monster night of music, metal superstars AVENGED SEVENFOLD, one of the most explosive live bands on the planet, will take to the stage for two shows only in SYDNEY and MELBOURNE!

Don’t miss this extraordinary opportunity to see the mighty AVENGED SEVENFOLD harken back to their club days, before they became one of hard rock’s premier headliners, and perform in a club setting for the first time in Australia since 2008. This is an incredible and rare opportunity created especially for Australian fans to experience the band up close and personal in small, intimate venues, and they promise to be blistering nights of epic proportions.
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Jimmy Eat World / Panic! At The Disco / Alkaline Trio sell out Melbourne Sidewaves show!

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MELBOURNE SOLD OUT!

The SOLD OUT signs are starting to come through thick and fast for the 2014 Sidewaves.

Next in line to go is the JIMMY EAT WORLD, PANIC! AT THE DISCO and ALKALINE TRIO Melbourne Sidewave show!

Sydney fans your tickets will be gone by the weekend so you have been warned!
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HIM / Nostalghia / The Defiled announce Soundwave Festival Sidewaves shows!!

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HIM ARE A FORCE LIKE NO OTHER!
Their trademark Heartagram has left its indelible stamp on the globe. With over 8 million records sold and the distinction of recording the best-selling single of any Finnish artist to date with Join Me In Death from 1999’s Razorblade Romance, as well as being the first Finnish band to receive gold certification in the United States for 2005’s Dark Light, Since 1992 these veteran song-smiths have peddled their unique fusion of forlorn balladry and heavy, synth-laden sounds to create a uniquely potent brew. Tears On Tape – their eighth studio release written acoustically and then translated into the language of volume and heavy distortion is the stuff that latter-day classics are made of.
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Eagles of Death Metal w/ Rocket From The Crypt & Mutemath – Soundwave Festival Sidewave shows!

eodmGet ready for a ‘blissed out dirty rock ride’! EAGLES OF DEATH METAL are bringing their unique blend of double – entendre boogie to Australian stages again for the first time in 7 years! It’s Jesse Huges! Its sex, humour and fun! It’s churning guitars and hook-driven choruses and a band whose only agenda is to have a good time! With the band in the studio recording new music, 2014 just got a whole lot shinier! “Hughes delivered a powerful dose of his sex-charged tongue-in-cheek ’70s swagger pastiche” – CraveOnline
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BLISS N ESO | announce ‘Circus Under The Stars’ colossal 15-date outdoor tour with Horrorshow & Seth Sentry

Bliss N Eso Local giants Bliss N Eso aren’t pulling any punches after a massive 2013 with the announcement of their biggest tour to date and what is sure to be Australian hip-hop’s most monumental outing ever. Illusive and Frontier Touring will be taking the Sydney trio on a goliath ‘Circus Under The Stars’ 15-date outdoor tour throughout April and May in support of their ARIA #1 album ‘Circus in the Sky’.
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Richie Sambora announces Sidewave shows!

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Celebrated American rock icon RICHIE SAMBORA will play just two intimate sidewaves while in the country for Soundwave Festival 2014! For the first time EVER, Australian fans will have the opportunity of a lifetime: To see one of the greatest musicians and singer- songwriters of our time performing material from his solo records with a few surprises thrown in. With three acclaimed solo albums that have highlighted a more personal and intimate side to Richie’s songwriting, (1991’s Stranger in This Town, and 1998’s Undiscovered Soul and 2012’s Aftermath of the Lowdown, which spawned the powerful single “Every Road Leads Home To You.” this promises to be a mind-blowing night of rock and roll!
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Live Review | Periphery + Animals as Leaders @ Metro Theatre, Sydney – February 1, 2014

Review and photos by Ben Hosking – www.hoskingindustries.com.au – for Life Music Media
2014_PeripheryEven before Animals as Leaders take to the Metro stage, the venue is rapidly filling with excited, guitar-crazy punters. There are scores of Periphery shirts circulating and it’s almost impossible to find more than one of the same design – a testament to the band’s proactive approach to merchandise and self promotion.

Despite this, it’s clear that just as many of the assembled throng are here to see Tosin Abasi and co. perform their unique brand of instrumental, 8-string rock fusion. For what is really an odd instrumental line-up (both Abasi and fellow guitarist Javier Reyes playing 8-string Ibanez guitars and drummer Matt Garstka), the mix rings true and clear and the band do an excellent job of recreating tracks from their first two albums – announcing to the eager crowd that they’ve just finished work on album number three. Watching Abasi and Reyes navigate their large fret boards with such ease and confidence definitely makes you feel insignificant – Reyes’ incredible, simultaneous bass line and melody counterpoint work was particularly breathtaking.
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Biffy Clyro announce Soundwave Sideshows!

biffyFirmly established as one of the biggest bands in the UK following the amazing success of their current album Opposites – which debuted at #1 in the UK and #22 in Australia – Biffy Clyro have announced two side-shows ahead of their appearance as part of the 2014 Soundwave Festival.

Biffy Clyro’s live chops are well established internationally, the band having headlined the infamous Leeds and Reading Festival in the UK last year as well as collecting a slew of awards in 2013 – including Best Live Band (Kerrang Awards), Best British Band (NME Awards) and Best album for Opposites (Q Awards) to add to those won in previous years.
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Live at Your Cosmic Mind to Take Over Brighton Up Bar – February 2014

COSMIC MIND POSTERFriday the 21st of February will see the first Live at Your Cosmic Mind event take centre stage at Sydney’s Brighton Up Bar. A sonic-visual hybrid experience in every sense of the word, Live at Your Cosmic Mind will bring together art and music in a bewitching, unpredecented mindmeld.

Sydney artists Sindy Sinn and Mike Watt will take you on a journey that will push the boundaries of the mind until they shatter, taking their art to the wall as they sculpt the trajectory of a trip. Meanwhile, bands you may have heard of Raindrop, Glass Skies, Gypsys of Pangea and Grand Oyster Palace, will be scoring the trip, their psychedelic soundscapes working in tandem with the visuals to generate an unforgettable, mindblowing experience.
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Caspian announce Australian tour for March 2014 with Meniscus

caspianCASPIAN have announced their first ever Australian tour dates for March 2014.

Known in post-rock circles for their impressive live show and melodic instrumental epics, the tour supports the release of their watermark record ‘Waking Season’ through Australian independent label Hobbledehoy.
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