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Melbourne scuzz-punks Reptiles are set to launch their latest EP Come Get Me in Melbourne and Sydney this month.
Catch Reptiles launch at Revolver in Melbourne on Sunday 13 June (Queens Birthday Eve) and at Oxford Arts Factory side stage in Sydney on Wednesday 30 June. |
Continue reading Reptiles “Come Get Me” EP Launch and Shows – June 2010
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They’re two of music’s most acclaimed bands boasting two of music’s most compelling front women – Deborah Harry leading the wondrous Blondie and Chrissie Hynde fronting the mighty Pretenders. As a double-bill, it’s a world first! It’s also an absolute cracker and that’s exactly what fans can savour when Blondie & The Pretenders co-headline a November/December tour of ‘a day on the green‘ winery shows. |
Continue reading A DAY ON THE GREEN – BLONDIE AND THE PRETENDERS NOV/DEC 2010
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Some kids get a clown, others get a pony, and some even get a jumping castle in the backyard…at Coaster, they thought they might shake and spice things up a little. After much deliberation, they just felt ponies and clowns were never going to cut it, so they have enlisted the talents of some of the finest international and local musicians to celebrate their third birthday. |
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New Jersey quintet SENSES FAIL are set to tour Australia this August 2010, fresh out of the studio with producer Brian McTernan (Thrice, Circa Survive). The band’s long-awaited return will happen nearly 7 years after their first visit when they performed on the Taste of Chaos tour.
Senses Fail will be performing songs from their entire catalog, including their most recent Vagrant Records release ‘Life is Not a Waiting Room’, which came out in October of 2008. 7 Australian dates, 5 eager members, and a brand new live DVD scheduled to hit stores later in the year (details to come); this tour will lively demonstrate all of the passion and fury the post-hardcore band is renown for serving. |
Continue reading Senses Fail (USA) Australian Tour – August 2010
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The release of one of 2010’s most anticipated albums can now be announced with Birds Of Tokyo unleashing their self-titled new album on Friday July 23; along with the album artwork revealed above.
As fans come out in droves to see the band perform new material on their current national single tour, Birds Of Tokyo today also announce the release of their first 3D music video for the bands new single ’The Saddest Thing I Know’. |
Using two DSLR cameras (7Ds) side by side, the boys of Birds Of Tokyo discovered a group of creative and innovative film makers who found their own way to create a 3D image, resulting in this unique 3D music video. Continue reading Birds Of Tokyo Announce Self-Titled New Album & 3D Video!
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Following on from QLD support slots with Texan rockers Spoon and the release of their pyromaniac-friendly film-clip for new single ‘Underground’, Brisbane’s most wayward rock quintet get the second leg of The Underground Tour underway next week.
The Underground Tour takes in a dozen dates from the Sunshine Coast to Melbourne. |
It gives audiences the chance to share in the good times that always seem to find the rabble-rousing bunch who are masters of the sharp, short and colourful rock ditty.
Those who like their rock a tad off-kilter, their punk a little clever and their stage antics a lot crazy are encouraged to catch Rocketsmiths as they haphazardly make their way throughout the country, with support on the majority of dates from Melbourne indie-power-popsters Red Ink.
QLD/NORTHERN NSW DATES
Thursday June 10 2010 | Neverland, Coolangatta
w/Red Ink
$10 door
Friday June 11 2010 | Villa Noosa, Sunshine Coast
w/Red Ink & The Marsden Lees
FREE
Saturday June 12 2010 | Great Northern, Byron Bay
THE CANNON BALL: A ROCK & ROLL PIRATE MASQUE
w/The Good Ship, Jimmy Willing & The Real Gone Hick-ups, Rag Tag Band & Burlesque
Tickets: thenorthern.oztix.com.au / $23.50
Sunday June 13 2010 | The Troubadour, Brisbane
(QUEEN’S BDAY EVE)
w/Red Ink, Velociraptor, Bang Bang Bos Kelly
$12 pre
/ $15 door
Tickets: troubadour.oztix.com.au
Related: RocketSmiths – “Underground” : CD Review [LifeMusicMedia]
Live Review: Tom Ugly with The Rocketsmiths and Comic Sans @ The Troubadour, Brisbane
Review: Lana Harris
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Ah, the beach. Golden sands, blistering sunshine and pounding waves are all an integral part of Australian culture, so it’s perhaps surprising that we haven’t heard more surf rock acts spring up locally. Instead, the genre is much more heavily associated with American waves, Hawaiian surf shacks or perhaps the laid back vibes of San Francisco.
Well, The Break are out to change that. They’ve taken rockers who are a part of Australian culture (drummer Rob Hirst, guitarists Jim Moginie and Martin Rotsey, from Midnight Oil) added in |
an American who recently moved to Hobart (ex Violent Femmes bassist Brian Ritchie) and created a surf rock record that should see Australia in general, and The Break in particular, usher in a resurgence of this laid back style of music. Continue reading The Break – “Church of the Open Sky” [CD Review]
Photographer: Stuart Blythe
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[Photo: Stuart Blythe]
Unearth @ The Hi-Fi, Brisbane 2nd June 2010
Continue reading Unearth @ The Hi-Fi, Brisbane 2nd June 2010 [Photo Gallery]
Photographer: Stuart Blythe
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[Photo: Stuart Blythe]
State of Integrity @ The Hi-Fi, Brisbane 2nd June 2010
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ARIA Award Winning King of Hokum and purveyor of the darkest Jungle Blues, C.W. Stoneking announces a rare Australian tour this July.
Across two full-length albums including King Hokum in 2006 and 2008’s ARIA winning Jungle Blues, C.W. Stoneking has rightfully earned the reputation as the leading voice on the Australian roots music scene. Revisiting and re-invigorating the pre-war blues, jazz, calypso and jungle sounds of the 20’s and 30’s, C.W. Stoneking has captured the imagination of a nation with his plaintive nostalgic voice and vivid narrations.
Continue reading C.W. Stoneking and the Primitive Horn Orchestra July 2010 Australian Tour
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Domino announce the arrival of the debut album from Chief, Modern Rituals, on 13th August 2010.
Two years ago the four members of Chief finished their stints at New York University and returned home to the US west coast, their suitcases stuffed full of soaring melodies, shimmering guitars, lovelorn lyrics and heart-stopping harmonies. |
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“This is the new Alexisonfire. This is perfection in balance.” – Punk News
Why don’t we let the squires at Metal Hammer begin our introduction to the phenomenon that is ALEXISONFIRE and their latest album ‘Old Crows Young Cardinals’; “A dense and beautiful heavy rock album with as many hardcore influences as progressive ones: rewarding and utterly gripping” |
Continue reading Alexisonfire Australian Tour – October 2010
Odyssey Presents
Rock For The Regent #1 – with Edward Guglielmino
+ The Show with The Soundcasters + Punxie & the Poison Pens + The Persistence of Freud + Dunsinane
Thursday 08 July 2010 (opening 7pm)
Rock For The Regent #2 – with Wolfmother
+ Blonde on Blonde + The Medicine Show + Princess Rodeo + Miss Bertie Page
Saturday 10 July 2010 (opening 7pm)
Rock For The Regent #3 – with Katie Noonan
+ Tim Loydell & the Deckchairs + Bessy-Lou + Tara Simmons +Inland Sea + Mary-Jane Carpenter
Sunday 11 July 2010 (opening 4pm)
at The Globe Theatre, Brisbane
Ticket through OzTix
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…It’s back…. bigger than ever, and ready to shake the Jubilee Hotel to its foundations with 3 sound systems, and a bangin’ array of sounds especially selected to meet the diverse aural requirements of 4ZZZs listeners and supporters… ;)
…its big – its in its 5th year … it’s BRAIN BANANA 2010! 3 STAGES : The ZED Bandstand – The Reggae/Dancehall Bar – The Electronic Upstairs. This years special guests take no prisoners and will melt the last vestiges of your resistance to downright dirty punk rock(if you had any!)… From Melbourne, the almighty COSMIC PSYCHOS!!! |
And also heading up from Melbourne, to remind you what bass heavy phatness, and double MC lyrical righteousness is all about – COMBAT WOMBAT!!! Throw in Sydney’s reggae rebels SPIN D MUSIC, get The Nam Shub of Enki to round up the best party DJ’s for the electronic room, add some of Brisbane’s BEST local bands, and as usual – BRAIN BANANA adds up to one hell of a party!
SUNDAY 13TH JUNE (QUEENS BIRTHDAY LONG WEEKEND)
STARTS AT 5PM
OVER BY 2AM
JUBILEE HOTEL 470 ST. PAULS TRC
$10 FOR 4ZZZ SUBSCRIBERS
$20 FOR EVERYONE ELSE
Full Line Up:
Zed Bandstand
Cosmic Psychos (MELB)
Teargas
Blank Realm
The Blasted Heath
Combat Wombat (MELB)
Sleepwalks
Swamplords
Geese
* special Zed sub band
Electronic Stage
The Nam Shub of Enki
Monkey Marc (Melb)
Erther
Samedi Sound System
Juga Juga
Reggae & Dancehall Bar
Spin D Music (SYD)
Rhythm Collision Sound
Magala
DJ Wade
Boss Sounds
SUBSCRIBE ON THE NIGHT AND GET FREE ENTRY!
BE THERE!!!!
SUPPORT 4ZZZFM
HAVE A BLAST!
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There’s nothing more that Melbourne alternative rockers BRITTLE want to do but to capture their dynamic live sound and energy in their recordings and that’s exactly what they’ve achieved with legendary producer Mark Opitz at the helm on the band’s new five-track EP titled “The Owls” which will be unleashed on June 14 as a free digital download.
The EP will be backed by a massive tour of the same name that will see the band visiting all capital cities in June, July and August as well as a host of major regional centres around the country. It will be their largest Australian tour since the release of their debut EP ‘Chinese Whispers’ in 2008. |
Continue reading BRITTLE Announce “THE OWLS” EP & National Tour July/Aug 2010