Australia’s biggest band, Powderfinger, announced details of their most extensive Australian tour to date at a press conference today together with the news that they will be disbanding following the tour.
This will be Powderfinger’s first major national tour since the hugely successful Across the Great Divide tour with Silverchair almost 3 years ago.
Continue reading Powderfinger announce Sunsets – The Farewell Tour – Sep/Oct 2010
Lollapalooza 2010 is set to take place from August 6-8 2010 at Chicago’s Grant Park.
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As it stands now, the complete Lollapalooza 2010 bill looks like this:
Soundgarden, Green Day, Lady Gaga, Arcade Fire, The Strokes, Phoenix, Social Distortion, MGMT, Jimmy Cliff, Hot Chip, the Black Keys, the National, Spoon, Devo, Cypress Hill, Cut Copy, The New Pornographers, Erykah Badu, Slightly Stoopid, Grizzly Bear, Gogol Bordello, Chromeo, Wolfmother, Yeasayer, X Japan, MUTEMATH, Metric, Dirty Projectors, AFI, Mavis Staples, Matt & Kim, the xx, Drive-By Truckers, Blues Traveler
Continue reading Soundgarden, Green Day, Arcade Fire head Lollapalooza 2010
EMI MUSIC TO RELEASE LIMITED EDITION JOHN LENNON VINYL EXCLUSIVELY FOR RECORD STORE DAY: APRIL 17
‘John Lennon Singles Bag’
To support Record Store Day on April 17, EMI Music will release an extremely limited edition John Lennon vinyl package.
John Lennon Singles Bag (limited edition) includes:
· Individually numbered Kraftpak envelope with button & string closure; custom plastic adaptor hub
· 24” x 36” poster + three postcards
· Three 45 RPM vinyl singles with replicated original artwork:
– Single 1: John Lennon “Mother” / Yoko Ono “Why”
– Single 2: John Lennon “Imagine” / John Lennon “It’s So Hard”
– Single 3: John Lennon “Watching the Wheels” / Yoko Ono “Yes, I’m Your Angel”
For further information on Record Store Day Australia 2010, head to: http://www.recordstoreday.com.au/
‘John Lennon Singles Bag’ available exclusively for Record Store Day
– Buy: John Lennon at iTunes
Riot Entertainment announced the signing of Black Label Society to its roster for Australia and New Zealand. Riot Entertainment Owner/CEO John Howarth stated, “Riot’s and my history with Zakk Wylde and Black Label Society goes way back to the beginning of Black Label Society’s career. We have released every BLS album down here ever since, except for one. Zakk is like family and it’s an honour to work with BLS again. We are really excited about the reports we are receiving and can’t wait to hear the finished product. We are getting ready to fire up the machine and really push the new album over the top here in Australia. Zakk knows we will get down and dirty again to push this album. We are really looking forward to Zakk and the boys touring again here in 2011!”
Continue reading News: Riot Entertainment signs Black Label Society directly for Australia & NZ
Sam Clark has announced the title of his second single, ‘Send Me a Sign’ that will feature in Neighbours on April 22. ‘Send Me a Sign’ is the follow up to his debut single ‘Broken’ which hit the #1 spot on the ARIA Physical Charts, Top 15 on the ARIA Australian Artists Chart and into the Top 40 ARIA Combined Chart.
Continue reading Sam Clark announces second single and Easter appearances at Warner Bros. Movie World
HIGHEST SELLING NEW ALBUM IN 2010 and RECORD BREAKING DIGITAL SALES!
– Angus & Julia Stone available at iTunes
As Sydney siblings Angus & Julia Stone make their way around the country on a sold out national tour, their sophomore album ‘Down The Way’ has debuted on the National ARIA album chart at #1, with more than double the sales of the number 2 album this week.
In fact, the First Week digital sales are so strong they have broken the record for 1st week digital sales by an Australian Artist, putting them in the league of Coldplay and Pink for opening week digital sales.
Continue reading Angus & Julia Stone – NEW ALBUM ‘DOWN THE WAY’ #1 ARIA CHART DEBUT
The Frontier Touring Company have announced LA rock band Carney will perform a headline show at the Oxford Art Factory in Sydney next Wednesday 31 March with special guests The Delta Riggs.
Carney, with their vivacious energy, broad versatility and polished instrumental talents, the captivating musicians meld blues with rock to create a sound that really moves you, a sound that is uniquely Carney.
Continue reading News: CARNEY headline show at Oxford Art Factory, Sydney 31 March 2010
In a world of cyber-bulling, Facebook and consumerism can the constantly stimulated Gen Y handle a show about… waiting? Queensland Theatre Company presents an Education Performance of Waiting for Godot – Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett’s iconic play about life, the universe and patience.
Director Joseph Mitchell commented “Waiting for Godot is a show that everyone should see at least once in their life. It’s a play that skilfully balances philosophical questioning with outrageous comedy and, at its very heart, a search for hope and belonging. Continue reading Brisbane’s Waiting for Godot – 22 April – 7 May 2010
Brisbane’s The Optimen are proud to announce the impending release of their sophomore outing The Out Of Money Experience – out nationally on Saturday April 10 through Red Tape Entertainment/Inertia.
It’s been a long wait for fans for The Optimen’s follow up to their 2005 Boomtown, the band taking time to work on their label Red Tape as well as other projects. Receiving strong triple J play on the hip hop show in particular and community radio nationwide, first single Fire Fighters heralded their return late last year, and finally they’ve arrived with The Out Of Money Experience due in April.
Continue reading The Optimen – to release 2nd album “The Out Of Money Experience”
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Australia’s most exciting new surf rock outfit THE BREAK are primed to deliver a power packed set when the band perform tracks from their debut album ‘Church Of The Open Sky’ live at a venue near you during April and May. Audiences will be treated to a mind blowing experience as classic surf meets spy-fi psychedelia when the three core members of Midnight Oil; drummer Rob Hirst, guitarists Jim Moginie and Martin Rotsey, join with bass player Brian Ritchie of Violent Femmes to present a whole new and contemporary approach to the surf music genre.
THE BREAK’S first official tour kicks off on the Easter weekend with festival appearances at Victoria’s hip and happenin’ Boogie Fest and the esteemed Blues Fest in Byron Bay. On Good Friday the band will take their unique surf sounds to The Westernport Hotel on Victoria’s Phillip Island – an area renowned for its pumping surf – which is particularly apt as many of the tracks from the album are named after hot surf breaks. |
Following a stupendous introduction to Sydney fans in February, the band will return to The Annandale Hotel on April 11th to officially introduce their new album ‘Church Of The Open Sky’ released on April 16th on the independent Bombora label through MGM. On April 20th they’ll turn on the local Newcastle fans with a special show at Lizotte’s at Lambton. From there THE BREAK team up with their mighty mates The Hoodoo Gurus as special guests for select shows on The Gurus ‘Purity Of Essence’ tour. Being old mates expect the unexpected as the two bands hit the road for the first time ever!
Continue reading Fresh swell on the horizon set to BREAK!
REGINA SPEKTOR – SYDNEY & MELBOURNE CONCERTS SELL OUT IN MINUTES!
SECOND SHOWS ADDED TO MEET DEMAND!
Regina Spektor fans in Sydney and Melbourne have snapped up tickets to her Sydney and Melbourne shows, with both shows selling out in just minutes. Second shows in both cities have been added to meet the high demand at Sydney Opera House Concert Hall on April 28 and Palais Theatre in Melbourne on May 1.
Regina’s fifth and latest album release, Far, continues to captivate listeners with sharp observations about the world around us. An insightful album full of universal appeal which maintains the intimate dialogue that is trademark Regina Spektor, the album peaked in the Top 10 on the ARIA Album chart and continues to win hearts across the nation.
Tickets to both new shows are on sale at 9:30am today – 16 March 2010
REGINA SPEKTOR
Australia & New Zealand – April/May 2010
NEW SHOWS ON SALE AT 9:30AM TODAY
Wed 21 April Riverside Theatre, Perth All Ages
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Fri 23 April AEC Theatre, Adelaide All Ages
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Sun 25 April QPAC – Concert Hall, Brisbane All Ages
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Tue 27 April Sydney Opera House – Concert Hall, Sydney All Ages
Wed 28 April Sydney Opera House – Concert Hall, Sydney All Ages NEW SHOW
SOH Box Office 02 9250 7777 www.sydneyoperahouse.com.au
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Fri 30 April Palais Theatre, Melbourne All Ages
Sat 01 May Palais Theatre, Melbourne All Ages NEW SHOW
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Mon 3 May Opera House, Wellington All Ages
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One of Baltimore’s most loved/hated bands, Ruiner, is kicking off their world tour, …And Hell’s Coming With Me tomorrow in West Virginia. Over the next two months, the band will tour the continental US from east to west and back again. Additionally, Ruiner will be flying overseas to China, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand and Canada for several weeks of shows – an amazing feat and a lot of uncharted territory covered for any band. |
Continue reading Ruiner’s World Tour- …And Hell’s Coming With Me
Frontiers Records signs Sweden Sleaze Rock’s finest CRASHDĎET for the release of the band’s third album “Generation Wild” out on APRIL 23rd in Europe (excluding Scandinavia)
Napoli, March, 2010 – CRASHDĎET was born in a new millennium where the rock n roll scene had almost died out. No looks, no tricks, no flash and balls and definitely a lack of big songs. Inspired by bands like SKID ROW, GUNS ´N ROSES, KISS and W.A.S.P, CRASHDĎET brought back the big shows, the rough-edge sleaze anthems and the rawness of an unpredictable and dangerous band.
Continue reading Frontiers Records signs Sweden Sleaze Rock’s finest CRASHDĎET
Every now and then a band arrives onto the music scene without fanfare and hype, just doing what they are born to, and what follows is large audiences and a fanatical following. And then at a certain point the industry wakes up and says “where did that come from?”
JACKSON JACKSON is one of those bands. They have become a solid live touring favourite throughout Australia since they launched a couple of years back. They are that band that supposedly no one knows about, who just happen to pack out every venue they play, many nights over. And the fans like it that way.
Continue reading JACKSON JACKSON – Residency @ The Evelyn, Fitzroy – April 2010
New single ‘This Too Shall Pass’! from the new album “Of the Blue Colour of the Sky” available at – iTunes
Directed by James Frost, OK Go and Syyn Labs. Produced by Shirley Moyers. The official video for the recorded version of “This Too Shall Pass” off of the album “Of the Blue Colour of the Sky”. The video was filmed in a two story warehouse, in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA. The “machine” was designed and built by the band, along with members of Syyn Labs ( http://syynlabs.com/ ) over the course of several months
