The Frontier Touring Company confirm that English band of brothers The Cribs are returning to Australia this January, bringing along their charming brand of garage rock.
Coinciding with their performance at Pyramid Rock Festival, the trio will be performing two rocking headline shows for lucky audiences in Sydney and Brisbane.
Music has flowed through the Jarman brothers’ veins from an early age; the trio hosted their debut performance at a family party in the late 80s when twins Gary and Ryan were nine years old and younger brother Ross was just five.
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Just about every time you think music is becoming stale, over-saturated or downright boring, there’s always a band ready and waiting to put your faith back in music. Twelve Foot Ninja are one of those bands. Forming in 2007, Twelve Foot Ninja quickly rose to prominence, releasing two EPs packed with genre bending moments of reggae, metal, funk, dub and hardcore, sometimes within the same song. Their debut album, Silent Machine shows the same tendency, with added heaviness and polish.
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Q&A with Mik Easterman, drummer of Gold Coast 5 piece 
Gaynor Crawford Presents has announced that Ben Sollee returns to wow Australian audiences in January 2013, this time as a duo with the hyper-versatile percussionist Jordon Ellis.
The final heat to find Australia’s best Latin band took place in Sydney and the motors are well and truly running now. Each week the competition has grown harder and the musicians better and better. Sydney’s Australian Latin bands did not disappoint. Two weeks ago in Brisbane everything started to wake up, last week in Melbourne the movement got more intense, this week in Sydney the anticipation for the grand finale has brought the entire Australian Latin scene one week away from an all mighty climax.
Destroy All Lines and Blue Murder announce a rare and heavily anticipated tour from recently reformed Swedish death metal legends At The Gates this October/November.
“Was It Worth It” is the first single from WA Soul singer Mama Kin’s forthcoming album, The Magician’s Daughter and highlights her ability to consistently write good songs. The combination of rhythmic drums, floating *almost haunting* backing vocals and Mama Kin’s smooth soulful voice delivering reflective lyrics make this song almost hypnotic. 
So let’s set the scene of the Sydney leg of the Whiplash Festival “IV”: It’s been a 35-degree day of hot winds and sweaty butt cracks, but there’s been nowhere quite as hot as the insides of the iconic Sandringham Hotel in Newtown. Sadly, the heat is not all related to the scorching Aussie metal found within. This old venue is a steaming hot, sweaty, stinking series of boxes with stages and you feel the oppression from the moment you walk through the front doors. If the venue has air-con, you wouldn’t know it.