…the one and only PRIMUS, whose appearance at the 3rd ever BDO still makes highlight lists of the festival’s best ever performances. Armed with what can only be described as a unique breed of spiral drum crazy, bass-slappin’ rock; Primus has mesmerized, influenced, and occasionally confused, bands everywhere!
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.
Continue reading Bluesfest Fourth Announcement 25th Anniversary 2014 – Damn right we got the Blues!
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.
Catch up on hardcore history and reacquaint yourself with I Killed The Prom Queen’s teaser video below.
Following his stint with Bring Me The Horizon, songwriter and guitarist Jona Weinhofen returns to his role in I Killed The Prom Queen and states:
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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!
The announcement comes alongside their place as co-headliners on the epic line up for next year¹s hugely anticipated Future Music Festival.
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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.
Brisbane Death Pop band Galapogos were established in 2010 and since then they have released one full length album (2011’s “Established Ghosts”) and twenty-two EPs. The bands second album is called “Feel or Suffer” and will be released on the 6th December 2013 via MGM.
Continue reading Galapogos “Feel Or Suffer” Album Launch with Special Guests The Medics and Bree De Rome
Costello’s will play just two headline shows in Adelaide on Thursday 17th April 2014 at the Thebarton Theatre and Sydney’s State Theatre on Wednesday 23rd April 2014. These shows run alongside his already announced festival appearances at Deni Blues & Roots in Deniliquin and Byron Bay’s Bluesfest.
ELVIS COSTELLO has followed his musical curiosity in a career spanning almost four decades with a back catalogue of over 40 albums covering nearly every genre of music. He is probably best known for his performances with The Attractions, The Imposters and his solo shows with pianist Steve Nieve.
A swag of nominations and awards litter his historic trail (including Grammy Awards, ASCAP’s prestigious Founders Award, an Oscar Nomination and being inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame) evidence of the respect and awe this performer commands from his peers. Such diversity and credibility over the decades tells its own story of legend.
Continue reading Elvis Costello & The Imposters return to Australia in 2014
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.
“I’m so excited to be performing at this year’s ARIA Awards in the beautiful city of Sydney,” said Keys. “It’s been a little while since I’ve been in Australia and I’m ecstatic to be back!! Being on tour is an incredible journey and I’m so honored that I get to share it with my family all over the world. No better way to set off the last leg of my worldwide tour in Australia than on the ARIA Awards stage!!”
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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.”
The Jezabels are arch players of this contradiction. With The Jezabels there’s always a twist and they delight in toying with the darkness that somehow cloaks us all and yet channel it into songs that are layered with bright, chiming seams of pop.
Continue reading The Jezabels new single “The End” (Official Music Video)
K A D A V A R (Germany)
Over the past few years there’s been immense rise in popularity, or should I say, a wide spread re-discovery, in all things 60’s and 70’s psychedelic rock. With numerous bands blowing minds across the sea, there’s one band in particular that shines above the rest, who have fast become one of the most talked about bands in heavy music today, that band, is KADAVAR.
Hailing from Berlin, Germany, KADAVAR are a super charged psyched out power trio that look and sound like the real deal, and from a distance, very much live and breathe the rock n roll dream.
Continue reading Kadavar (Germany) & Blues Pills (Sweden) – Australian Tour – November/December 2013
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.
Excited to be home after a stint in the US, KINGSWOOD head straight back on the road with new single ‘Sucker Punch’ in hand. Flying in from a studio in Nashville, gritty indie rock four piece from Melbourne, KINGSWOOD have been finishing off their long awaited debut LP. Recorded in Nashville with esteemed producer Vance Powell (Jack White, Arctic Monkeys, Kings of Leon) the album is set for release in early 2014. This will be your last chance to see KINGSWOOD in smaller, louder venues before they head out on the national Big Day Out tour through January and February.
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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
Any ticket holders entering the Lorne or Byron festival by vehicle will require a pre-purchased car pass, and in a bid to encourage carpooling the festival will provide refunds onsite to those who arrive with 3-4 ticket holders in their vehicle. Read all of the alternatives available below and start planning you road trips!
Continue reading Car Pass & Transport Options for The Falls Music & Arts Festival
The critically acclaimed release is described by Tommy Rogers (vocals, keyboards) as ‘A conceptual journey that takes the listener to worlds that seem familiar and worlds that make you scratch your head.’
Continue reading Between The Buried And Me performing ‘The Future Sequence’ in its entirety + special guests The Contortionist – November 2013
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.
Presented by Social Family Records, The Harbour Agency and MAX, “Feed The Birds Part II” will kick off with two “A Day On The Green” shows with Jimmy Barnesin Clare Valley, South Australia and Yarra Valley, Victoria; followed by headline dates in Merimbula, Wollongong, Coffs Harbour, Laurieton, North Brisbane, Gold Coast, Albury, Batemans Bay, Rooty Hill, Revesby, Ipswich, East Brisbane, Dee Why and Belmont.
Continue reading Baby Animals are Back with a Brand new National Tour in 2014
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.
The exhibition features many items from the Mushroom Group’s extensive memorabilia collection, plus a number of items from the personal collections of Michael Gudinski, Ian ‘Molly’ Meldrum, Kylie Minogue, Skyhooks, Split Enz and Crowded House never before seen in public exhibition.
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