Q&A with Caitlin von Berky, vocalist of alternative pop band Belltalk.
:: What is your favourite Album ::
Grizzly Bear – Vekatimest
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Q&A with Ben Tolich of Ambient/Alt/Acoustic band Mali Mali.
:: What is your favourite Album ::
I have a lot but right now “Kid A” by Radiohead
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Known for their incredible live performances, The Red Paintings are bringing an all-new stage show exclusively to Australia.
Based between Australia and Los Angeles, The Red Paintings are a five-piece orchestral art rock group (guitar, bass, drums, piano, cello & violin) who incorporate additional performance art features wherever possible. With elaborate staging, costumes, themes, painters and other artists, their shows combine sound and visuals to create a living canvas that stimulates the senses and minds of the audience.
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The incredible success of Bluesfest 2013 has been documented in an Economic Impact report undertaken by Lawrence Consulting. The report concentrates on the impact of spending in Byron Shire, the Northern Rivers region, New South Wales and Australia generated by Bluesfest Services Pty Ltd, visiting performers and attendee spending. Festival Director Peter Noble says of the report “We knew 2013 was a huge year but it was still great to see a boost in both employment positions and income and an increase in our overall contribution to Gross Regional Product from 2011, which was also a bumper year for us”
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Pressed And is a collaboration between musicians Andrew Hamlet and Mat Jones. The project is founded on a balance, all processed and manipulated through a field of collision, where meditative folk wanderings cross meteors of electronic. Mat, a North Carolina native and Andrew, originally from Atlanta, met as students at UNC Chapel Hill. With Mat working manipulations of his voice (often from parts of his solo material), Andrew adding heavily processed guitar, and both sharing in various electronic triggers and overall production, Pressed And was formed.
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South Australian contemporary rock band ‘Undermine’ release the first single “Lie To Me” from their long awaited debut album.
‘Lie To Me’ is a strongly dynamic contemporary rock song about a kid just trying to understand what life is all about and sometimes feeling like it’s always an uphill battle.
Sonically speaking, the track is pretty much an ‘all in one’ fusion of Foo Fighters, Nickelback and Pearl Jam.
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Grinspoon, one of Australia’s most loved live rock bands have confirmed a new run of shows on their 2013 Black Rabbits Tour which will see the band touring through Western Australia before heading back east to Jindabyne, Sydney and Melbourne.
In September last year Grinspoon released their seventh studio album, Black Rabbits, which debuted at No. 8 on the ARIA Album Chart making it the band’s 7th Top 10 album.
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This music is for the true adventurer. It is extreme music. It is not Industrial. It is not Death Metal. It is not Black Metal. It is The Amenta. So state the band on their own website and it’s true. Definitely not for the faint hearted and not even for the majority of the metal hordes.
For the past eleven years, the institution known as The Amenta has steadfastly refused to do anything by the book.
Continue reading The Amenta: “Flesh is Heir Tour” with special guests Ruins – July Tour 2013
CABLE35 – Rental Sunshine
Alternative rock band CABLE35 recently released their latest offering in the form of an EP entitled FUNGUS!
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Review by Amy Lee Freshwater
A varied crowd aging from early twenties to people old enough to be parents of the band themselves congregate at the Unibar in Wollongong to see Something for Kate (SFK), a town SFK haven’t visited since 2009. This kind of group creates a lovely atmosphere at a gig, people of many ages and backgrounds coming together to enjoy music from a band that have been consistently impressive for twenty years. There is not a doubtful mind in the room, SFK are sure to impress once again on this chilly May night.
First up is Melbourne lady-rocker Courtney Barnett. Nobody is complaining about the trend of female singer songwriters coming out of Australia at the moment, and Barnett can be added to the list of up-and-comers if she isn’t already. With a powerhouse vocal ability and songwriting skills she blew away the audience that had arrived early. Highlight was her latest single Avant Gardener, which she explained was about the time she was gardening and ended up in hospital and includes funny lyrics like “the neighbours must think we run a meth lab”. Barnett is a great addition to the SFK tour.
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La Dispute is five close friends from the Upper Midwest with a mutual passion for using music as a means to express, challenge, inform, and connect, but also as a fantastic excuse to have fun, make tons of new friends, and travel anywhere and everywhere that people will have them.
Always learning, often touring, sometimes writing, La Dispute has been making music for 3-6 years now (depending on how you look at it) and intends on continuing to do so for as long as they’re all physically and emotionally able to.
Continue reading Tour News: La Dispute Australian Tour – June/July 2013 with Pianos Become The Teeth
Photographer: Pete Coorey
Photographer: Pete Coorey
Continue reading Photos! Kate Miller-Heidke @ St John’s Cathedral, Brisbane – 28 May 2013
THE GOOD SHIP is one of this planet’s truly fearless bands. Their cult following is expanding on the back of their hugely successful March tour of the US and Canada, encompassing SxSW and Canadian Music Week. They returned with their very own booking agent, Artists in Motion, already on the job for a return trip in early 2014 and to a partnership with Premier Artists for The Capital Offensive tour.
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Photographer: Rebecca Reid
Photographer: Rebecca Reid
Artists: The Reverend Horton Heat
Venue: The Hi-Fi, Brisbane
Date: 26 May 2013
Link: http://www.facebook.com/reverendhortonheat
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Review by Carl Dziunka
When you list the great names of rock music from across the decades, Deep Purple has got to be hovering close to the top. Blasting out rock numbers for more than 40 years they have certainly found the formula for success. Releasing the long awaited new album; this comes 8 years after the Rapture of the Deep album released in 2005; the magic is still as strong. With a title like Now What?! it makes you wonder whether the band is thinking that they have done it all. Well actually, they probably have. The current line up works well together and this can be heard from the new 11 tracks that they have laid down.
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