Review By: Denis Semchenko

[Photo Credit: Stuart Blythe]

The Dandy Warhols: the post-grunge band who never knew how to take themselves seriously and were ultimately never really taken seriously by the listeners. It was cool to like them. As someone born on the cusp of two different generations (X and Y), I’ve witnessed their heyday first-hand during my late teens and early twenties, while the number of copyists they spawned (the majority of them disappearing almost as soon as they popped up) is quite remarkable. Sure, we’ve all got a soft spot

for simple, catchy ditties like Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth and Bohemian Like You – however most of us have since grown up, whereas the band members themselves have merely got older.
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Red Ant Touring and Warner Music present

Following the huge success of his 2010 tour that saw him sell out Sydney’s Manning Bar, Melbourne’s Northcote Social Club and The Espy, US singer-songwriter Joshua Radin returns to Australian shores this June to support the release of his sophomore album ‘The Rock and the Tide’ due for release on June 10 through Warner Music.

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ART vs SCIENCE are pleased to announce their first headline tour in almost a year, featuring a brand new show including the live debut of tracks from their #2 album The Experiment. As it happens, their self-titled debut EP has just attained Platinum sales. Currently making waves on their first US tour (including five acclaimed floor-shaking performances at SXSW), the three piece continue their steady ascendancy by winning over fans Stateside, one show at a time. They return to Australia next weekend, just in time to play triple j’s One Night Stand event in Tumby Bay, South Australia.

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Video Clip: City and Colour – “Fragile Bird” – from their upcoming album, Little Hell (release June 2011)

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Artist: Trace Bundy Genre Fingerstyle Guitar Hometown Boulder, CO Record Label Honest Ninja Music

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Posted by: Laurie Hartt – at: Lulu’s

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Brisbane boys Blame Ringo are set to wow the Powerhouse with their three- week residency this June. After the release of their 2010 album Too Strange for Avery, Blame Ringo have shunned their folk-pop sounds and tweed jackets. Together with a new line-up featuring Greg Chiapello (Montpelier), Andrew Stone (Montpelier) and Tony Garrett (The Boat People), their new sound has but one goal, to make you sing along.

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Australias best kept secret Syndicate have just produced a groundbreaking debut album with some of the biggest names in rock: Jeff Blue (Linkin Park), Brandon Friesen (Nickelback), Matt Sorum (Velvet RevolverGuns N’ Roses), Mike Fraser (ACDC) – just to name a few… an album of iconic rock songs recorded in Los Angeles to share with the world. Listen to the album in its entirety on the bands facebook page. As Syndicate hit the studio, getting match-fit for their self-titled album tour, they do

so with a bigger goal in mind than simply another string of shows around the country. For as much as this is an album tour, it is most certainly not just that.
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Get funk’n – if it’s infectious and makes you want to groove we do it. Pop, rock, funk, dance, roots, soul and more outdoors in the fantastic natural setting of Hunter Valley Wine Country. Funk n Grooves is about bands that are great live and music that makes you want to move and groove.
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LINE-UP
Cat Empire
Amy Meredith
Hungry Kids From Hungary
Muscles
Ash Grunwald
Batucada Sound Machine (NZ)
Muph and Plutonic
King Tide
Jupiter Menace
Fierce Angle Dance Stage
Local and international DJs
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It’s been over ten years since five kids from Kansas City, USA crashed the party of every punk-leaning teen worldwide with their breathless hooks and feverish intensity. In the blink of an eye THE GET UP KIDS were suddenly the darlings of the underground, cementing their significance with 1999’s seminal ‘Something To Write Home About’… “It’s original, powerful, aggressive, heartfelt… it is simply the greatest pop punk album ever written.” – Sputnik Music After famously calling it a day in March 2005, THE GET UP KIDS stunned the music world in November 2008 by announcing their reformation.

Their comeback album ‘There Are Rules’ challenges the foundations of a scene they helped build and it “truly stands out in the members’ collective catalogs as a completely unique entity, and one that should be viewed as nothing less than an absolutely stunning success” – Alternative Press.
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