Chet Faker’s long-awaited album campaign is off to an impressive start – Built on Glass spent two weeks at the #1 spot on the ARIA Album Chart and is currently sitting pretty at #4 in its third week of release. The Melbourne artist has sold out an incredible four Forums in his home town of Melbourne and three Enmores in Sydney, as well as multiple dates in Perth and Brisbane and more.
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Live Review | The Jezabels @ The Tivoli, Brisbane | May 6, 2014
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The long line of people queueing outside the The Tivoli in Brisbane, waiting excitedly to enter the venue was a good indication of the ever growing popularity of headline act The Jezabels. Touring on the back of their latest album release “The Brink”, the band continues to deliver quality music and live shows and tonight we would witness exactly that.
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Photo Gallery | The Jezabels @ The Tivoli, Brisbane – May 6, 2014
Photographer: Stuart Blythe
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Ladybugs! Curated by Tamara Dawn – Beetle Bar, Brisbane – May 17, 2014
Beetle Bar presents the second installment of the newly reinstated Ladybugs series on Saturday 17th May, showcasing women in Brisbane music.
Brisbane has long been known for its thriving and inclusive music scene. By initiating this regular showcase, a different female musician is invited to curate the event and take the night in whatever direction she feels inspired to, without having to exclude the great pool of male talent that’s ever abundant locally as well.
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Interview with Jaska Raatikainen – Children of Bodom
Ahead of their “HALO of BLOOD” Over Australia 2014 east coast tour, Children of Bodom drummer Jaska Raatikainen took time out for a chat.
Now that ‘Halo of Blood’ has been released for some time how does the album sit with you, in the scheme of your back catalogue?
Jaska: I think it is just normal and natural continuation for the band and sits just perfect to our back catalog. If thinking only music track by track there is maybe a little bigger variety between the songs on the new one. Meaning that we have perhaps the fastest and also the slowest ever song on the new release. And also a one very “rockish” song.
The album has a real clean, yet powerful sound, did the recording/production process for Halo of Blood differ from previous releases?
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Phil Smith Announces Album Tour For ‘Year Of The Dog’
All great music cities have rare treats that can be found in the underground. PHIL SMITH is one of those rare treats.
The new PHIL SMITH album “Year Of The Dog” is without an emotional filter. It is stripped bare on every level in the great tradition of albums like Nick Drake’s “Pink Moon” and Ryan Adam’s “Heartbreaker”.
Since it’s release, “Year Of The Dog” has been receiving rave reviews with particular favor towards PHIL’S well-crafted songwriting. Noel Mengel from The Courier Mail described PHIL SMITH’S music as “a beautifully understated example of Americana songcraft.”
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CORONER touring Australia for the first time – June 2014
CORONER are touring again and for the first time ever here in Australia. Don’t miss out on this one… Visit Hardline Media for all tour details – www.hardlinemedia.net
Splendour in the Grass sideshows announced!
SPLENDOUR IN THE GRASS SPROUTS SIDESHOWS!
All tickets on sale 9am AEST, Friday 9 May Visit secret-sounds.com.au for details
FOSTER THE PEOPLE * LONDON GRAMMAR * BEN HOWARD * KELIS * METRONOMY * GROUPLOVE * THE 1975 * SKY FERREIRA * PHANTOGRAM * FUTURE ISLANDS * SKATERS * JUNGLE * THE STRYPES * MIKHAEL PASKALEV * THE ACID * CIRCA WAVES * THE HEAD AND THE HEART * ÁSGEIR * DARLIA * THE WILD FEATHERS * MAS YSA * RY X
FOSTER THE PEOPLE
Promoted by: Secret Sounds and Handsome Tours
These charming Californians have been on one hell of a ride; their album Torches sold nearly 2 million copies worldwide, reaching #1 on the ARIA charts along with their 6 x platinum song of the year Pumped Up Kicks. Their much-anticipated second release, the triple j Album of the Week awarded Supermodel just dropped with Coming of Age and infectious new track Best Friend in high radio rotation and set to be among the songs of 2014.
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Monday 28 July – Palais Theatre, Melbourne
Tuesday 29 July – Enmore Theatre, Sydney
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Veruca Salt : National Tour | September 2014 ** More Shows **
**** TOUR UPDATE ****
Sydney/Melbourne sold out – new shows added + Perth date change
The September tour for recently reformed Alt Rockers, Veruca Salt has proved to be an absolute smash! With Melbourne’s Corner Hotel show selling out within 8 hours of going on sale and now the Factory show in Sydney has also sold out, it seems everyone needs a bit of Salt in their diet!
The good news? Its been delivered! Extra shows have now been added
Corner Hotel Melbourne – Tuesday, September 30
Factory Theatre Sydney – Thursday, October 2
As a result of the extra shows, the Perth date @ The Rosemount has moved to Saturday, Oct 4
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Featuring All Four Original Members For The First Time Since 1998
Finally! The news Veruca Salt fans have been waiting yeeeears for!
The original members of Veruca Salt, Nina Gordon, Louise Post, Steve Lack and Jim Shapiro recently announced an epic reunion tour that seems them playing their first shows together since 1998, and we are stoked to say Australia has been included in those plans which will see them here in September!
Born in Chicago in 1993 out of singer-songwriter-guitarists Louise Post and Nina Gordon’s desire for a dreamy-grunge band with influences like Big Star, My Bloody Valentine and the Pixies, they soon made the transition from cutesy pop upstarts to big league wet dream rock queens and became one of the most important bands of the 90’s in the process. Their sugary sweet vocal harmonies sat perfectly with their huge fuzzy rawk riffs and it sounded oh so good!
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Event News: Caxton Street Seafood & Wine Festival 20th Anniversary – June 8, 2014
Caxton Street Seafood & Wine Festival 20th Anniversary. Line-up includes: Wolfmother | Slim Jim Phantom (US ) | Ella Hooper | Eurogliders | Sheppard | Tyrone Noonan | PLUDO + more
The Caxton Street Seafood & Wine Festival celebrates its 20th Anniversary on Sunday 8th June with a ravishing selection of seafood, street food, wine and music. What began as a few humble street stalls some two decades ago has become one of Queensland’s most charitable and attended community events. Immerse yourself in the sights, sounds and tastes of Queensland’s premier street party, and help Caxton Street blow out twenty candles over the Queen’s Birthday Long Weekend.
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Tour New | Heads of Charm – “Spain Is On A Roll” East Coast Tour | May-June 2014
Live Review | Groovin The Moo 2014 | Canberra
Review by Scott Singh
Again comes that time of year where a mixture of locals and people from out of the state come together for a chilly day of good music at Groovin The Moo 2014 held at The University of Canberra. There was a clear distinction of who was a local and who wasn’t based on the apparel worn to combat the weather. Though, despite where you came from, the festival provided enough musical diversity to satisfy anyone’s quota for the day.
To start the day, Sweet Shoppe opened with a short but tenderising set that did intrigue many festival goers as they started their day. With a hypoactive sounds that sports a gifted female vocalist, the set was a great representation of the local talent coming from Canberra. It is always encouraging when locals make the effort to come out and support the band they enjoy at the start of the day.
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Meat Puppets | Australia Tour 2014
By popular demand, Meat Puppets have once again extended their upcoming Australian tour, adding two shows at Melbourne’s Ding Dong Lounge on Tuesday 27th May and Wednesday 28th May.
At the first show (27th), Meat Puppets will play a short ACOUSTIC set that will include much-loved Puppets songs ‘Oh Me’, ‘Lake of Fire’ and ‘Plateau’ (best known from the performance with Nirvana, during the band’s iconic MTV Unplugged set in 1993).
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Photo Gallery | Morbid Angel + Impetuous Ritual @ The Hi-Fi, Brisbane | April 22, 2014
Photographer: Rebecca Reid
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Photo Gallery | KC and The Sunshine Band – The Tivoli, Brisbane | April 19, 2014
Photographer: Charlyn Cameron
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