Interview with Danielle Spencer – Hopeful, Excited and Ready

Interview by Stuart Blythe
Australian singer/songwriter Danielle Spencer, currently on her “The Alone & Together” tour with Steve Balbi, is set to release her 6 track acoustic EP on November 18th (2011).

Danielle Spencer chats with Life Music Media.

You’ve been in the studio recently to record acoustic remakes of tracks from your first album ‘White Monkey’. How did this come about?
When I got back out on the road and starting playing some shows last year there were a lot of requests for tracks from my debut album ‘White Monkey’ and so we started playing them live and then people starting asking where they could buy them. The album was released in 2001 through EMI and is now deleted and largely unavailable, so I decided to record a 6 track acoustic EP which is available for sale at all the shows and online from November 18.
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Matt Corby Melbourne EP Launch Show SELLS OUT with Second Date On-Sale Now!

  Matt Corby’s EP launch show at The Toff In Town, Melbourne, has sold out just two weeks after going on-sale. A second show has been added for Thursday December 1 and is on-sale today. The Sydney based singer songwriter is receiving a lot of love from National Alternative radio, who have picked up his current single ‘BROTHER’ from the forthcoming EP release ‘Into The Flame’.

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KYLIE MINOGUE AND THE WIGGLES TO BE INDUCTED INTO THE ARIA HALL OF FAME!

With just under four weeks until the 25th Anniversary ARIA Awards, the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) today announced further details of what will be a massive celebration of Australian music at the 2011 ARIA Awards to be staged at Allphones Arena, Sydney Olympic Park, on Sunday, 27 November, 2011.

The ARIA Hall of Fame is a wonderful club that is growing bigger each year. This year, another two worthy recipients will join the ranks of those illustrious artists already inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame, a list that includes bona fide music legends such as AC/DC, Dame Joan Sutherland, Olivia Newton John, Johnny O’Keefe, Paul Kelly, John Farnham, INXS, Slim Dusty, Jimmy Little and many more.
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Flaming Lips to play at Harvest Festival – November 2011

  Don’t miss your chance to see The Flaming Lips live at the ‘HARVEST’ music and arts festival (taking place in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne in November 2011)

Wayne Coyne – Lead vocals, guitar, keyboards
Steven Drozd – Drums, guitar, backing vocals
Michael Ivins – Bass, keyboards, backing vocals
Kliph Scurlock – Drums, percussion
Derek Brown – Guitar, keyboards

The Flaming Lips are an American alternative rock band, formed in Norman in 1983.

Melodically, their sound contains lush, multi-layered, psychedelic rock arrangements, but lyrically their compositions show elements of space rock, including unusual song and album titles—such as “Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus with Needles”, “Free Radicals (A Hallucination of the Christmas Skeleton Pleading with a Suicide Bomber)” and “Yeah, I Know It’s a Drag… But Wastin’ Pigs Is Still Radical”. They are also acclaimed for their elaborate live shows, which feature costumes, balloons, puppets, video projections, complex stage light configurations, giant hands, large amounts of confetti, and frontman Wayne Coyne’s signature man-sized plastic bubble, in which he traverses the audience. In 2002, Q magazine named The Flaming Lips one of the “50 Bands to See Before You Die”.
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All Shall Perish Australian Tour | November-December 2011

STRIKE HARD BOOKINGS & KILLYOURSTEREO
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  When people like Kirk Hammett and Rob Flynn cite your band as favourites, you know you’re onto a good thing. And for Oakland, California’s ALL SHALL PERISH that is precisely the case. With new album This Is Where It Ends newly unleashed on the world, the Californian quintet is set to hit Australia for the second time this November and December.

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Uneven Structure – Februus | Album Review

Review by Billy Geary

If our friends on the other side of the globe the French are known for one thing, it most certainly isn’t for their music scene, let alone experimental metal. With their debut album Februus, French metallers Uneven Structure are about to change all of that. Combining the atmosphere of bands like Pink Floyd with the intensity of Meshuggah, the French sextet have created an album that is both brutal and beautiful, often at the same time. Continue reading Uneven Structure – Februus | Album Review →

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The Jezabels – An Exhibition By Christopher Doyle

 
The Jezabels
An Exhibition By Christopher Doyle
December 8th – 14th Mart Gallery Surry Hills NSW

Though Christopher Doyle is an internationally recognised and awarded designer – in 2009 he was named one of InDesign Magazine’s Top Ten Faces and Forces Of Design – fans of Sydney band The Jezabels will know him simply as the man responsible for the band’s stunning CD artwork, images of which will be on display at Mart Gallery this December (2011).

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Interview with Robbie Guertin | Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

by Stuart Blythe
With CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH set to grace our shores in November (2011) to play at Harvest Festival and a number of headline shows, Life Music Media caught up with Robbie Guertin (guitar, keyboard, backing vocals) about their new album, festivals and touring.

For fans who have not yet heard your new album “Hysterical”, tell us a little bit about the it. How has the creative process for the “Hysterical” album compared to that of the first two?
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The Bon Scotts – Kids in Counterfeit | Single Review

Review by: Victoria Nugent

  It may come as surprise to listeners to discover that The Bon Scotts do not specialise in AC/DC covers, but instead ramshackle folk pop tunes that are quite catchy. Now that oft repeated but necessary disclaimer is out of the way, let me tell you about the infectious sounds spun by this Melbourne group with multiple vocalists and a mish mash of instrumentation.

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