High Highs kick-off 2013 with debut LP ‘Open Season’; laneway festival appearances + headline sideshows.
High Highs have revealed plans to release their debut album, Open Season, on Fine Time/Sony Music on January 25th. The band will support the release in Australia with an intensive schedule of live appearances, including three at the Laneway Festival, and headline gigs in Sydney and Melbourne.
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CYPRESS HILL TO PLAY HEADLINE SHOWS IN MELBOURNE & SYDNEY THIS FEBRUARY
Soundwave Touring together with Illusive are excited to announce that iconic West Coast hip-hop group CYPRESS HILL will perform two headline shows whilst they are in Australia for the sold out 2013 Soundwave Festival.
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The Gum Ball announces the first round of acts for the 2013 festival.
With a combination of record ticket sales, an extra day in the program, and now an impressive first round line up of local and international artists, the boutique festival known as The Gum Ball is building a solid reputation for diversity and quality.
The Gum Ball will be held over the 25th, 26th and 27th of April 2013, hosted by the Johnston family on their pristine bushland estate ‘Dashville’ in Lower Belford, in the Hunter Valley. The festival is BYO and family friendly. It offers camping, great food, markets and open spaces with an eclectic mix of music and activities suitable for all ages.
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Review by Billy Geary
Let’s start this off by stating the obvious, The Living End are one of Australia’s most loved rock bands. They’ve played at nearly every rock festival this country has offered over the past ten years, sold god knows how many albums and are revered all over the place. However, it is the live environment in which they truly excel. The three Melbourne lads have won stacks of awards for being an outstanding live band over the years, which ultimately cemented them as Australian rock royalty.
Then, as we come to December 2012, The Living End are embarking on their biggest tour yet, playing each of their albums in full one at a time across the country. On Tuesday night, the tour started off in their hometown of Melbourne, playing their phenomenal self-titled debut from start to finish. It was the first of 11 gigs at The Corner Hotel over the space of about two weeks and if it was anything to go by, each night was going to be treated to something special no matter which album was being played.
Continue reading Live Review: The Living End at Corner Hotel, Melbourne – 11 December 2012
Fresh off the back of a three-month international writing stay in New York and a national tour with Missy Higgins and Gurrumul, Brisbane songbird Emma Louise is delivering an exclusive sneak peek of her debut album to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne with a run of intimate shows in January. Playing with a full band, this will be Emma’s first major headline tour since July and the also the first to preview material that is currently being captured on tape in the studio.
Continue reading Emma Louise – Album Preview Tour – January 2013
If you were a kid in the 90s, THE OFFSPRING were one of those groups that made you shout and scream at life. Their ground-breaking album Ignition was that breath of fresh air that a generation needed.
To co-incide with their twentieth anniversary, THE OFFSPRING will be playing their 1992 album Ignition in its entirety along with a set full of new songs and classics!
Continue reading The Offspring Sidewaves announced! – March 2013
Continue reading The Amity Affliction Headlining Push Over’s 21st Birthday Bash – March 2013
Tom Araya / Kerry King / Jeff Hanneman / Dave Lombardo
Ten studio albums, thousands of live shows and nearly three decades into a career that’s made them one of the biggest and most important metal bands in the world, the members of SLAYER know exactly what kind of music they make—brutal but beautiful, punishing yet precise.
This is SLAYER. Do we really need to go on? The only other thing you need to know is that tickets go on sale Wednesday 19 December, 9am.
MONDAY 25 FEBRUARY
SYDNEY, BIG TOP LUNA PARK – 18+
www.bigtopsydney.com /www.oztix.com.au / www.ticketek.com.au
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Presented by Soundwave Touring.
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review by Helen Brown
The art of blending hip hop with a multitude of genres is on the rise and has recently been done by Bliss & Eso and East Londoner Plan B. The latest to be inducted into the fold is Chance Waters, a Sydney hip hop artist with a social conscience.
From crumbling societies and the end of the world, to the joys of young love, Chance Waters has collaborated with the likes of Kate Martin, Lilian Blue and Bertie Blackman among many others to produce Infinity, an album peppered with indie folk, bluesy guitars, piano organs and catchy heartfelt lyrics that fluctuate between bleak and hopeful.
‘Conjure Up A Fire’ is a stand out track reminding us that we have the power to make a difference, that we should never follow the masses and never be afraid to find our voice.
Continue reading Album Review: Chance Waters – Infinity
Photographer: Amy Lee Freshwater
Photographer: Amy Lee Freshwater
Continue reading Photo Gallery – HOMEBAKE Music, Film, Comedy & Arts Festival 2012
The Frontier Touring Company in association with Jacobsen International have announced that the legendary Jimmy Barnes and musical wunderkinds The Rubens will be joining Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band as special guests for their Hanging Rock performance.
Jimmy Barnes is a performer who needs no introduction. Heralded as one of the most popular and best-selling Australian artists of all time, Barnes (JimmyBarnes.com) has tasted fame both as the front man of Cold Chisel and as a solo artist in his own right.
Across a career that spans almost four decades, Barnes has accumulated 9 #1 solo releases, sold hundreds of thousands of albums and scored two inductions into the ARIA Hall Of Fame.
Since bursting onto the scene with Cold Chisel in the late 1970s, Barnes has dominated the music charts and airwaves with instant classics like ‘Khe Sanh’, ‘Flame Trees and ‘Working Class Man’.
Continue reading BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & The E Street Band announce JIMMY BARNES & THE RUBENS as special guests for Hanging Rock show!
Photographer: Robert Geary Photography
Photographer: Robert Geary Photography
Artist: Joe Robinson – joerobinson.com
Venue: Toff In Town, Melbourne
Date: 8 December 2012
One of the world’s most popular instrumental groups, 65DAYSOFSTATIC, have announced their first ever visit to Australia, performing headline shows in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth as well as this year’s Peat’s Ridge Festival. The tour follows the recent announcement of the release of their back catalogue in Australia, beginning with their latest ‘We Were Exploding Anyway / Heavy Sky’ featuring Robert Smith (The Cure), followed by deluxe editions of their first 3 albums.
Formed in 2001 in Sheffield, 65daysofstatic quickly established themselves as one of the most influential post-rock exponents in the UK. Whilst their early EPs showed a band dabbling in electronica and dance-rock, the band was equally at home playing epic instrumentals and math-rock. The success of their 2004 debut LP The Fall Of Math and the follow up One Time For All Time earned the band a personal invitation to support The Cure on their 2007/08 arena tour around the world.
Continue reading 65daysofstatic Australian Tour 2013 – Supports Announced!
KIM CHURCHILL AUSTRALIAN SUMMER TOUR ANNOUNCED
National Tour kicks off January 5th, 2013, with special guest Steve Smyth
Acclaimed singer/songwriter Kim Churchill will return home to Australia this January, kicking his summer tour off with special guest Steve Smyth on January 5th, 2013 at Thornbury Theatre in Melbourne.
Kim is currently headlining a 26-date national tour of Canada that started less than a week after dates with The Beards and The Snowdroppers with his Australian tour covering five states through January and February.
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