Today Bluesfest Byron Bay, Australia’s multi award winning 5 Day Festival, held over the Easter long weekend (17th – 21st of April) at its home, the Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm, north of Byron Bay, opens the fourth chapter to its 25th Anniversary special edition and the message coming from the Bluesfest HQ is that there will be at least one more artist release before Christmas – after all the Festival still has many of its artists left to announce.
Reports also say that Bluesfest 2014 Tickets, in particular the 5 day Festival ticket will sell out in the near future.
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Trailblazing Australian metalcore outfit, I Killed The Prom Queen is back and have officially signed to Epitaph Records worldwide. After a six year album hiatus, the band will release their long-anticipated, third studio LP in 2014. 
Future Music and Frontier Touring have confirmed that Grammy-award winning French quintet Phoenix are set to bring their inimitable blend of genre-twisting synth-rock and high-energy performances to Sydney and Melbourne for headline shows in March 2014!
Galápogos syndrome (ガラパゴス化 Garapagosu-ka) is a term of Japanese origin, which refers to an isolated development branch of a globally available product. The term is a reference to similar phenomena Charles Darwin encountered in the Galápagos Islands, with its isolated flora and fauna, which were key observations in the development of Evolutionary Theory. The term Galápogos syndrome (ガラパゴス化 Garapagosu-ka) arose as part of the dialog about Japan’s position as an island nation, and related anxiety about being isolated from the world at large. It has been claimed that the indigenous American automotive industry has suffered from the Galapogos Syndrome – its products have evolved separately from the rest of the world. “The Galapogosization” of Japan continues. According to a survey released today, a shocking two-thirds of the country’s white-collar workers said they didn’t want to work abroad…ever.
Fourteen-time Grammy® Award-winning singer, songwriter, producer and global superstar, ALICIA KEYS is confirmed to perform a medley of her international hit song, ‘Girl On Fire’ and her brand new single, ‘Brand New Me’ at the 27th Annual ARIA Awards on Sunday, December 1 at The Star Event Centre, Sydney.
Ask Hayley Mary of The Jezabels what the difference is between complexity and accessibility in pop music, and she doesn’t miss a beat. “There isnʼt one,” says The Jezabels front woman, “or at least, there doesn’t need to be. To me, pop is the darkest music of all. If you look not at what pop artists are consciously doing but at what they’re reflecting about the world, pop is the most twisted, weird and scary stuff. If you wanted to study the Earth from an alien perspective, listen to pop music.”
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KINGSWOOD and CALLING ALL CARS have announced the Life’s A Beach tour 2014, rolling into a salty destination near you soon. Once Christmas is over, the days are long and the evenings balmy. Throw in two of Australia’s hottest rock n roll bands in the best beachy beer barns our wide flat brown land has to offer and you have a long, loud hot summer night to remember.
Coastal towns get really busy over summer, so in an effort to ease traffic on the roads leading to Falls in Byron and Lorne and to ensure the farms have lots of space onsite, they’ve introduced a car pass system. Passes are on sale now via the Falls Festival website – fallsfestival.com 
Hot off the success of their first studio album release in 20 years, This Is Not The End, and its Top 20 ARIA Album Chart debut, iconic Aussie rockers Baby Animals have announced a string of new Australian tour dates in 2014 – a continuation of this year’s national capital city tour. 
Music, Melbourne + Me: 40 Years of Mushroom & Melbourne’s Music Culture, the much anticipated retrospective exhibition will open its doors to the public at 11am on Tuesday 19 November. The free exhibition is open daily until 22 February 2014 at RMIT Gallery on Swanston St in Melbourne’s CBD.
In 2012 ARIA celebrated its very first ARIA Week – a week-long program of gigs, showcases, conferences and events taking place in and around Sydney in celebration of Australian music in the lead-up to the Annual ARIA Awards. It was deemed such a success, by industry and fans alike, that ARIA Week is back bigger and better in 2013.