SOUNDWAVE FESTIVAL 2015 ARTIST ANNOUNCEMENT

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For the first time in its history, Soundwave 2015 will be held over 2 action-packed days…Holy Smokes! This means better value, better staging, better production, longer sets and minimised clashes…

In Adelaide and Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane each days line-up will criss cross between each city.
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Festival of the Sun Announce 2014 Line Up

fotsun2014Release your inner child – FOTSUN is turning 10 years young!

The biggest year of Festival of the Sun is upon us, with Port Macquarieʼs legendary music festival turning double digits!

Gear up for a weekend of childish mischief, as FOTSUN throws a SUPERHERO themed 10th birthday party. This fiesta of fun and frivolity will have you frolicking in the sun with your best mates, dancing wildly to wicked tunes, star gazing while camping in the great outdoors and all the while dressed up as a superhero! The best-dressed kid on the Friday afternoon, will receive goody bags, so be sure to play dress ups as your all-time favourite.
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The Falls Music & Arts Festival 2014 Line Up & Ballot!

falls 2014Get up on this! The Falls Music & Arts Festival’s line-up is here, coolin’ by day then at night workin’ up a sweat! As 2k15 beckons so too does the sparkle of champagne salutes, New Year’s resolutions and Falls Festivals’ rolling-amphitheatre-dancefloors. Appynewyearbrother.

For those ready to cut shapes it’s time to start planning your summer getaway today. Right now. Falls will be laying out more party for you to play out with Byron now extending to a four-day show! Slow clap it out.

Start bundling your ca$h and enter the ticket ballot via fallsfestival.com before it closes on Monday August 25! Packing their aqua socks and swimmin’ britches to meet you on the sunny coastal shores of all three venues will be…
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Interview with Daniel Cavanagh – ANATHEMA

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Distant Satellites – AnathemaWith ANATHEMA making their long awaited first visit to Australia this August (2014), we were absolutely delighted when Daniel Cavanagh took time out to chat with LifeMusicMedia.com

Your August tour to Australia will be your first to our shores in your 25 year history. Why so long?

I don’t know why so long, it’s just the way it happened. Our career trajectory has had a kind of difficult course and hasn’t always had the backing or focus that it needed to really achieve great things. I think it’s only in the last few years that these things have been in place.
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IAN ANDERSON presents The Best of JETHRO TULL; Second & Final Sydney Show

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Due to a huge demand for tickets, legendary rock pioneer, IAN ANDERSON – best known as the flute and voice behind the genre-defying Jethro Tull – will perform a second and final Sydney show at the Sydney Opera House on Friday December 12.
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DMA’S sell out shows | second Melbourne and Sydney dates announced

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Since releasing their debut single ‘Delete’ in February this year, it’s fair to say that DMA’s have certainly made their mark…although they’ll be the first to admit that they’re only just getting started!
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JIMMY EAT WORLD are returning to Australia and New Zealand (November 2014) to celebrate 10 year anniversary of ‘Futures’

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JimmysFrontier Touring have announced they are bringing Jimmy Eat World back to Australia and New Zealand this November in celebration of the ten year anniversary of their iconic album Futures’ release.

After the band’s appearance Down Under earlier this year for a run of very successful festival sets, fans have been hanging for more.

The Australian and New Zealand leg of the tour immediately follows a massive run of US dates in commemoration of the pivotal album. The Futures 10 Year Anniversary Tour will kick off in Auckland before crossing the ditch to visit all Australian capital cities and sees the band performing their pivotal album from front to back.
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Breaking Orbit – ‘Become the Light’ (Official Music Video)

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The video is a visual extension of the single’s sonic journey that seamlessly flows from quiet and contemplative to a controlled and intricate brutality. Displaying the band’s rigorous stage presence, the video twists and turns through alternative galaxies and light formations, masterfully creating an electrifying performance video.
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Earth Rot (WA) announce ‘Follow The Black Smoke’ EP Launches | August & September 2014

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Perth filth merchants Earth Rot are due to release their first full length album “Follow The Black Smoke” next month following their debut EP released earlier this year.
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Animal Hands new single “Roaring Girle” | (Stream)

Gatefold sleeve Single V2.aiDanielle Whalebone has returned with her band Animal Hands to Birdland Studio to record with Lindsay Gravina (Rowland.S Howard,Cosmic Psychos, Magic Dirt). After the successful release of her debut EP at the Cherry Bar last year(2013) her band Animal Hands received international reviews and airplay on Triple R PBS, FBI and on Triple M. As well as LA Talkback radio, college and community radio stations in Australia and across the world including KGRG the station that launched the Seattle sound.
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Spring Break featuring Bombs Away | Selina’s at Coogee Bay Hotel – September 6, 2014

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Not ones to let America have all the fun, Selina’s at Coogee Bay Hotel are bringing the debaucherous Spring Break to Oz this September 6th 2014, enlisting ARIA nominated, chart topping party boys Bombs Away to exploit their expertise in all things party.
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Essick release video for ‘Ghost Towns’

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Essick began life as a bedroom solo project for Ravi in 2011, and Freddy needed a bass player for his band. The two friends found common musical ground and began working together on Ravi’s bedroom tunes, unaware that these songs would become Essick’s first release.
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