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2010’s biggest tour is rolling back into Europe this month and BON JOVI will be giving fans across the globe a chance to experience the live show from the comfort of their homes.
The record breaking band will be streaming the first 30 minutes of their show live from Olympic Stadium in Munich, Germany in front of an 80,000 strong crowd and millions watching via the internet, courtesy of Ustream. |
Our Last Enemy – ‘Fallen Empires’ – Album Review
Review by: Billy Geary
 Fallen Empires – Our Last Enemy |
Industrial metal is somewhat a non-event in Australia; something not surprising considering the genre’s tiny market. Sydney five-piece Our Last Enemy are one of the few industrially minded bands that have been somewhat successful at their craft. Fallen Empires is the band’s debut and while it suffers from a lack of originality, it is the promising serving of industrial metal that the Australian scene is severely lacking.
Infusing their sound with much more metal than industrial, it is obvious throughout the album that Our Last Enemy listen to a lot of Fear Factory and the like. |
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Album Review | The Bloodpoets – ‘Wings’
Review: Sibel Kutlucan
The Bloodpoets, indie rockers hailing from Brisbane have continued their infectious streak with their new EP ‘Wings’.
Wings teases the listener with 6 tracks, each as unique as the other, broadcasting the diversity of the Bloodpoets style. It is great to hear real instruments amongst so much of the heavily synthesised and edited muck that is disguising itself as music nowadays. The Bloodpoets aren’t afraid to showcase their talents and diverse tastes; from trombones, trumpets and saxophones on “Sunny Day”-an amazing jazzy number, to violin and the melodic combination of male and female vocals with band’s Tom Murphy and Bec Plath complimenting one another on “She Feels It” –the definite favourite for me.
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New Super 8 Promo Arrives – Trouble hits town…
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Take Five with Stu Larsen – Interview
‘Old Man’ – Neil Young
:: What is your favourite Album ::
‘God Willin’ & the Creek Don’t Rise’ – Ray LaMontagne & The Pariah Dogs.
:: Favourite Quote ::
As I lie here awake I am surrounded by unfamiliarity, yearning for something that I recognise, hoping for even a hint of normality, but knowing my desire will remain unfulfilled, leaving me to ponder the reasons for committing to such an endeavour, questioning the very same beliefs which convinced me not only of the value of being here, but of also merely being. – author withheld.
:: When on tour, you can’t live without ::
Lagavulin.
:: When you think of Australia, you think ::
Three month road trips!
:: Worst thing to happen to music is ::
People encouraging people who shouldn’t be encouraged..
:: Best thing about the current music industry ::
The Folk Revival!
:: Biggest influence ::
Ray LaMontagne.
:: Childhood hero ::
Elvis Presley
:: When you were younger you wanted to be ::
Cricket’s best fielder. (I couldn’t really bowl or bat amazingly well…)
:: Last album bought ::
‘I Want That You Are Always Happy’ – The Middle East.
:: First album you ever bought ::
‘Frogstomp’ – Silverchair
:: First concert you went to ::
Steve Grace – surely one of Australia’s hardest working, most travelled artists.
:: Last concert you went to ::
The Chemist at The Republic Bar in Hobart.
:: Favourite current band ::
Fleet Foxes / The Middle East.
:: Favourite drink ::
Whiskey.
:: Favourite book ::
‘A Fortunate Life’ by A.B. Facey.
:: Favourite actor ::
Owen Wilson
:: Favourite website ::
http://theleftoversessions.wordpress.com/
:: The best boredom buster is ::
Making little videos on my phone for friends –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8plnjDquXgU
:: The best film you ever saw was ::
Apocalypto
:: Your ultimate snack is ::
Banana Loaf from Vargabar, Newtown, Sydney.
:: The first thing you do when you wake up is ::
Wonder which day it is and what it might bring.
:: Best piece of advice you’ve received ::
Don’t settle for being comfortable.
:: Your biggest aspirations ::
To continue travelling the world playing music for people all along the way.
:: Best gift you’ve ever received? ::
‘The Open Road’ – a little leather bound poetry book published in 1906, a friend found it in a little Christchurch bookshop.
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Helmet ‘Seeing Eye Dog’ Australian Tour – June/July 2011 – Tour News & Tickets
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Seminal hard rock band HELMET released their seventh full-length album Seeing Eye Dog – in September last year -their first since 2006’s critically acclaimed Monochrome. After sold-out tours of the U.S. and Europe, the LA post-hardcore rockers are gearing up to head back to Australia this June/July for the first time in Three years! |
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Stu Larsen + The Trouble With Templeton @ The Old Museum, Brisbane – Gig News
STU LARSEN has no fixed address, no job, few possessions and little money – just a lot of generous friends who seem to let him sleep on their floor or couch, or in their spare room as he ventures onward. He appears to be on a journey of sorts, perhaps searching for something greater than can be found in one’s own backyard. The last months have seen him exploring & wandering all o…ver the world. Through Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States, road tripping with friends, playing unexpected shows in unexpected places, staying in the homes of old and new friends all along the way.
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Photo Gallery | Track & Field @ The Old Museum, Brisbane – 4 June 2011 w/ Ball Park Music, The Belligerents, The Jungle Giants
Blue King Brown @ The Tivoli, Brisbane – 3 June 2011 – Photo Gallery
Photographer: Chris Dornan Photography
Photographer: Chris Dornan Photography
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THE MARS VOLTA Headline Australian Shows – August 2011
Prog-rock pioneers THE MARS VOLTA are known to send audiences into a frenzy and their upcoming headline shows in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide this August will be no exception.
 [Photo by: Matt Palmer] |
The Grammy winning Texan ensemble, fronted and founded by guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López and vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala in 2001, are renowned for their crucial role in the development and popularity of the prog-rock genre through their five standout releases which have spawned captivating tracks such as ‘Wax Simulacra’, ‘Viscera Eyes’, ‘Cotopaxi’ and more. |
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Miami Horror “The Summersun” Tour – June/July 2011 – Tour News & Tickets
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In the midst of a highly successful world tour, MIAMI HORROR have announced their last Australian shows for 2011. Come August, the indie-electronic adventurers will re-locate to L.A for a busy Northern hemisphere summer spent performing and writing new material.
The June/July Summersun Tour will end a snowballing run of dates across the globe. Including standout showcase performances at South By South West in Austin, Texas, where they played to crowds who jammed themselves into clubs and venues so tight that fire marshals had to eject some punters due to overcrowding. The crazed tour has seen MIAMI HORROR gather in-store airplay at H&M throughout Europe, a #1 airplay song in |
Denmark, radio and music TV play in Switzerland, sell-out shows in L.A and Mexico and dates from Vegas to Rio.
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Album Review | Heroes For Hire – ‘Take One For The Team’
Review: Sibel Kutlucan
Take One For The Team, the second full-length album from Sydney pop punk act Heroes For Hire definitely has a strong pop punk sound that plants them on the same page of any well known Fueled by Ramen band.
When I first heard the intro of track 1, “No Milk Will Ever Be Our Milk”, I was flooded with memories of being 14 and bouncing around to Simple Plan and Fall Out Boy in my bedroom. For those who don’t favour the whiny vocals and energetic drumming and guitar riffs reminiscent of bands like Blink 182 and Sum 41, then this definitely isn’t an album for you.
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Steve Kilbey (The Church) & Ricky Maymi (BJM) Announce The Wilderness Years, By David Neil
Steve Kilbey (The Church) & Ricky Maymi (BJM) Announce The Wilderness Years, By David Neil
Who is David Neil? An enigmatic and ephemeral rock star from days past, who somehow slipped through time’s arbitrary clutches; his premature death (or triple death, as the coroners put it) seeing him drizzle down a clotted drain hole into a dank sewer, joining the collective waste and wonder of many a has-been and never-was. Lying there stagnant, his music could only be heard in ghostly whispers by sewer rats and underground junkies alike for decades, until, legend has it, his touring bassist Steve Kilbey (of The Church) dug it up.
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Popcorn and Cell Phones – Video Clip
Dead Letter Chorus – ‘Yellow House’ – Video Clip
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The Official Music Video for “Yellow House” by Dead Letter Chorus off their forthcoming album “Yearlings” due out July 2011 on ABC/Universal. |
Video Directed by Emma Tomelty for Cooper St. Films
Produced by Kristy Allen
DOP – Alex Dufficy
edited by Kaz Rassoulzadegan
The outside footage was shot at Oran Park House which is an amazing heritage listed property in South-West Sydney
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