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BROKEN STONE RECORDS Showcase @ The Empress Hotel, Melbourne – 4 March 2011 [Gig News]


  A BROKEN STONE RECORDS SHOWCASE IN MELBOURNE

Grab your binoculars, ladies and gent – the BROKEN STONE RECORDS (BSR) stable is coming to town for ONE NIGHT ONLY…

Featuring Sister Jane, Caitlin Park, The Maple Trail and Magnetic Heads.

With a suitcase full of spanking new EPs and full-lengths from recent debutantes Sister Jane and Caitlin Park, and the promise of forthcoming records from Magnetic Heads and The Maple Trail, BSR promises a great show. You’d be nuts to miss it.

One Night Only
March 4th
The Empress Hotel Brunswick 704 Nicholson St North Fitzroy
$10, Doors at 7pm

Broken Stone Records is a wholly independent record label based in Sydney.
Check out all of the bands : music, photos, vids & info at www.brokenstonerecords.com

MAGNETIC HEADS – BLIND from Magnetic Heads on Vimeo.

WHITE LIES announce Melbourne & Sydney shows – April 2011 [Tour News]

THE FRONTIER TOURING COMPANY PRESENTS
WHITE LIES – MELBOURNE AND SYDNEY SHOWS ANNOUNCED!

  The Frontier Touring Company confirm the return of indie rock dark princes White Lies to Melbourne and Sydney this April to celebrate the success of their second studio album Ritual.

The UK trio is renowned for their epic anthems, moody musings and sweeping grandeur. With remnants of Interpol and Joy Division in their veins, the band’s debut To Lost My Life hit #1 in the UK charts upon

its 2009 release and went on to sell over 750,000 copies globally, securing the highly coveted #2 position in NME readers’ esteemed Album Of The Year poll that year.
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Kate Nash @ Billboard The Venue, Melbourne – w/ Tessa and The Typecast – February 18th, 2011 [Photo Gallery]

Photographer: Naomi Rahim

Photographer: Naomi Rahim
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STONEFIELD – Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Newcastle shows! March/April 2011 [Tour News]

STONEFIELD
ADELAIDE, MELBOURNE, SYDNEY
and NEWCASTLE SHOWS!

Stonefield have been busy. Very busy. Keeping the momentum going, the band will play a string of special shows through March and April – your last chance to check them out before they travel to the UK to rock the Glastonbury and Great Escape Festivals.
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Amy Meredith tickets available exclusively through fans!

Sydney rockers Amy Meredith last week announced a new tour, and for the first week tickets are only available via fans.

Fans can go to POSSE and get a link that they can post out on Facebook, Tweet or email to friends. If friends click on the links to get tickets then they’ll be able to buy tickets a week before they go on sale to the general public. Plus the Posse member gets paid $2.50 for each ticket sold through their link!

Amy Meredith recognise that fans promoting to their friends on social networks is the most effective form of advertising they can get. They’re transferring the budget they used to allocate to poster advertising and offering it to fans instead.

Amy Meredith lead singer, Christian Lo Russo says: “There are so many ways to get a band’s profile bigger and the music to the masses. TV and Radio are two. But the best and most effective way is word of mouth. The fans are one of, if not the most important part of a band’s success. When your best friend is raving about something, you’re more likely to give it a go so in turn we always like to give something back to the fans.”

Fans sold a massive 40% of tickets to Amy Meredith’s tour in late 2010, which meant the band were able to sell out multiple nights at the same venue. This time they’re sweetening the offer by holding private sound-check parties for every fan who sells four tickets to a show.

To promote Amy Meredith’s exclusive pre-sale, Join Posse Here, then search for Amy Meredith show.

This week on Posse you can also earn $5 promoting Future Music Festival, $4 promoting Creamfields, $3 promoting Groovin’ the Moo, $5 promoting MS Fest, $8 promoting Supafest and many more!

Head to POSSE to get started.


AMY MEREDITH embark on National Headline Tour to celebrate a massive 18 months… [Tour News]

AMY MEREDITH embark on National Headline Tour to celebrate a massive 18 months… [Tour News]

  You are invited to Amy Meredith: Higher Education. One of Australia’s great breakthrough success stories are packing their bags once again ready to hit the road for the National ‘Higher Education’ tour. The boys will up the ante this time around, playing seventeen dates through May and June in venues across Australia.

In what will be a massive six-week party, this tour will celebrate the band’s epic achievements since the release of their debut record Restless in July last year. Over the past eighteen months, the five-piece outfit have well and truly cemented their status as one of Australia’s hottest acts. The smash hit single Lying cracked the ARIA Singles Chart top 10 and claimed Platinum status in January, the band wowed audiences at an international showcase and chalked up dual 2010

ARIA Awards nominations for Breakthrough Artist and Most Popular Australian Artist.
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DRAWCARD – We Won’t Break [MP3 Stream]

DRAWCARD – We Won’t Break

  DrawCard have just put the final touches to their self titled mini Album due for release in March 2011. Have a listen to the first single ‘We Won’t Break’ (above) and let us know what you think!

The guys are pumped to have some fresh material to showcase once again!

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LAMB @ Prince Bandroom, Melbourne w/ Oh Ye Denver Birds – February 17, 2011 [Photo Gallery]

Photographer: Naomi Rahim

Photographer: Naomi Rahim
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OWLS OF THE SWAMP new single ‘SO FAR AWAY’

So Far Away (single edit) by Owls of the Swamp

  Following his fifth European tour, Melbourne-based international dream-folk troubadour Pete Uhlenbruch (aka Owls of the Swamp) is set to release his second full-length album, Go with River in mid 2011. The songs were recorded during a five-week solitary stint in a beach shack in Inverloch, Victoria, infusing the album with a captivating, spellbinding pace.

Fleshing out his reflections on solitude and nature, Uhlenbruch evoked guest performances from a worldwide cast of musicians before enlisting the masterful ears of J. Walker (from Machine Translations) and Andy Stewart who mixed the album in Gippsland., and Adam Dempsey who mastered the album in Melbourne.
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Veteran Hard Rockers KING KOBRA Announce New Album

  Veteran Hard Rockers King Kobra are back with a venomous new album

Frontiers Records has announced the release of the Self-Titled come back album from KING KOBRA on April 15th in Europe and May 5th in North America.

Formed in 1984 by legendary drummer Carmine Appice (Vanilla Fudge, Rod Stewart, Ozzy Osbourne), Los Angeles heavy metal outfit King Kobra recorded two critically acclaimed albums for Capitol Records – the 1985 release ‘Ready to Strike’ and 1986’s ‘Thrill of a Lifetime‘.

Along with Carmine, the band featured four relatively unknown musicians at the time – David Michael-Philips and Mick Sweda on guitar, Johnny Rod on bass and Mark Free on lead vocals. King Kobra toured the U.S., Canada, Europe and Mexico playing shows with Kiss, Iron Maiden, Quiet Riot, Ted Nugent, Queensryche and Autograph.
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A Day To Remember and Underoath – Australian Tour – May 2011 [Tour News]

With Brisbane selling out in under a day we are thrilled to announce that the Sydney show has now sold out as well! Never one for resting on their laurels, A Day To Remember will now be playing a second and definitely FINAL Sydney show on Saturday 14 May at the Big Top, Luna Park.

 

The ability to evolve and push boundaries has never been more important than it is now. While the mainstream becomes safer, the dynamic, genre-bending acts are driven underground, to be discovered by a whole new generation of music fans not content with the identikit bands pushed at them through the major media. It is this hallowed place that A DAY TO REMEMBER has not-so-subtly taken over, from stereos to mosh pits across the world.

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Birds of Tokyo – Queensland Shows – May 2011 [Gig News]

  Having recently been hailed for their killer live performances across the Big Day Out tour, Birds Of Tokyo now announce two Queensland shows for May 2011. The band will play The Tivoli in Brisbane on Wednesday May 11 and the Lake Kawana Community Centre on the Sunshine Coast, Thursday May 12.

Birds of Tokyo need no introduction. In 2010 the band released their chart topping self titled third studio album which is still sitting comfortably in the top 20 eight months after release with sales well surpassed platinum.
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DATAROCK Australian Tour – May 2011 [Tour News]

Photo_by_Tom_Oxley   Norway’s red tracksuit party masters Datarock are excited to announce they will be returning to Australia in May for Groovin’ the Moo and will be partying it up with special headline shows along the east coast.

Datarock will be performing at The Zoo in Brisbane 4th May, Oxford Art Factory in Sydney 5th May and East Brunswick Club in Melbourne 12th May.

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Jeff Martin 777 ‘The Ground Cries Out’ Tour – May 2011 [Tour News]

Former Tea Party frontman JEFF MARTIN forms new band with J Cortez (The Sleepy Jackson/The Armada) and Malcolm Clarke (The Sleepy Jackson/The Basement Birds).

The Jeff Martin 777 project officially came together in 2010. While Jeff spent the majority of the year touring constantly both here & abroad, inbetween shows, Jeff, J (bass) and long-time friend Malcolm (drums) would come together to knock out songs at Malcolm’s Yo-Yo Studio in Perth. The end result sees this super-tight trio come up trumps with their debut studio album, The Ground Cries Out.
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