Review by Life Music Media
Brisbane singer-songwriter Tara Simmons is known for her powerful vocals, catchy hooks and honest lyrical content. The release of Tara’s second full-length album It’s Not Like We’re Trying to Move Mountains reaffirms this position.
Having bunkered down in the studio with producer Yanto Browning (Kate Miller-Heidke, the medics, The Jungle Giants, Art of Sleeping), Tara has taken her distinctive synth-riffs, pushed her boundaries, delivering a killer album.
Stand-out tracks from the album include “Weekend Of Hearts”, “Where Do You Go”, “Honey” and “Be Gone”
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After announcing themselves to a new legion of fans with their sophomore effort, ‘Riot’, 
Introducing 
In a pairing of innovative musical minds, Brisbane’s 
Mexican guitar heroes Rodrigo y Gabriela return to Sydney with their virtuosic mix of speed-metal heroics, Flamencan instrumentals and for the first time, in collaboration with prodigal Latin jazz pianist Alex Wilson. Hailed by critics as ‘one of those acts you have to see to believe’, Rodrigo y Gabriela promise an evening of jaw-dropping musical mastery and mind-boggling genre bending, veering between pin-drop intimacy and rhythmic ecstasy. Theirs is a soundscape that traverses not only the organic musical roots of their Latin heritage but pays joyous homage to their own musical heroes, the likes of Led Zeppelin and Metallica to Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix.
Future Entertainment announced that FMF 2013 tickets will be on-sale from noon in your local market today – Thursday 18th October 2012. After an overwhelming response to both our pre-sale and the announcement of our almighty 2013 line-up (that quite literally left our website cactus) FMF tickets will be officially on the market from midday! 
If there was a class for new bands looking to build huge amounts of buzz in as short a time as possible Take Us To Vegas (TUTV) would make perfect teachers. They have picked up over 17,000 new followers on Twitter in the last few months and have doubled their amount of likes on Facebook. Today they have released their new single and film clip “Apparently It’s Frowned Upon” and just upon one listen you can tell that this band is about to take over the airwaves. (Check out the video below)
Australian death metal fans generally aren’t quite as lucky when it comes to high-profile gigs like their brethren who enjoy less-heavy strains of metal. You could probably blame the state of the music industry for the lack of international death artists all the way over here to our little patch of dirt in the middle of nowhere.
Last week in Brisbane the sleeping giant was awakened and it began to walk and feel its surroundings. This week in Melbourne that giant danced all night and drew a line across the sand to identify the level which must be reached in order to earn the title of Clave Contra Clave 2012 winners.
Tex Perkins has shown us many faces over the journey.