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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.
Continue reading SYNDICATE “National Album Release” Tour – June/July 2011 – Tour Info and Tickets
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
Continue reading Funk n Grooves Festival – Hunter Valley, NSW – September 2011 – Festival News
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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.
Continue reading The Get Up Kids ‘There Are Rules’ Australian Tour – August 2011 – Tours News & Tickets
On May 6th 2011, ex-Butterfingers front man Evil Eddie released ‘(Somebody Say) Evil’, the second single from his soon to be released debut album tentatively titled “Welcome To Flavour Country”.
Now it’s time for the video, featuring:
– rioting kids,
– a giant chicken,
– a tattooed fairy,
– a clown,
and is that…..SARAH PALIN?
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Its Karnivools first full Australian tour since the New Day tour in June and July 2010, but theyve hardly sat on their hands since then as soon as the last slab of fat bottom end rang out from that run, the band got on a plane and headed to Europe to play on the main stage at Sonisphere Festival in the UK (along with Slayer, Alice in Chains, Pendulum and Iron Maiden) before spending 5 weeks headlining throughout the US and Canada. Not content with this they again crossed continents headlining and selling out major |
venues throughout mainland Europe and the UK, proving that not even Europes coldest winter in a decade could keep the band off the road. Having your merch snowed in and selling out iconic venues like the Melkweg in Amsterdam and Scala in London was a new experience for Karnivool, but added to the fun!
Continue reading Karnivool to play The Hi-Fi, Brisbane on 4th July 2011 – Gig News
Photographer: Stuart Blythe
Photographer: Stuart Blythe
Artists: The Dandy Warhols , The Dandy Warhols
Venue: The Tivoli, Brisbane
Date: May 31st, 2011
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Tattoo of Kurt Cobain
Todays Band/Artist related Tattoo is sent in by Meghan Player Meghan Explains: |
Photographer: Chris Dornan Photography
Photographer: Chris Dornan Photography
Continue reading Hungry Kids Of Hungary @ The Hi-Fi, Brisbane – 28 May 2011 – w/ The Chemist, Andy Bull, Daniel Lee Kendall – Photo Gallery
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Global Superstar Lady Gaga takes over Sydney!!
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In an ‘All-Time’ exclusive, Mother Monster is heading to Sydney to celebrate the release of her new album “Born This Way”. On July 13, in an unprecedented move, Sydney Town Hall will be transformed into the Sydney Monster Hall when Lady Gaga takes the stage to perform her smash hits including tracks from her latest album that have made her the most influential artist in the world today.
Die-hard Gaga fans from all over the country will have the opportunity to demonstrate how they honour their inner monster. Their reward? Tickets to attend Sydney Monster Hall for this spectacular, one-off exclusive event, hosted by 2DAY FM and Take 40’s Kyle and Jackie O. |
Continue reading LADY GAGA LIVE AT SYDNEY MONSTER HALL 13+7+11
This weeks Band/Artist related Tattoo of the Week goes to Tiffany Dimmack!
How awesome if this!
Tiffany explains:
“I asked Tim Rogers to say my name after a gig, recording it onto my phone, then imported the audio into ProTools and took a screen shot of the audio waveform and got that tattooed to my arm…. He’s seen it and really liked it!”
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Review by: Ben Connolly
Musical legacies are fickle beasts. For the privileged few, early bravado can lead to a lifetime of open doors and opportunities; for most, thorough, their own massive shoes are rarely filled again, leaving a life of painfully striving either to attain the same heights, or failing to convince the world that there’s more to give. For those at the pinnacle, the ones whose exploits drew a definite line with which others would measure themselves, this is arguably even more acute: audiences are liable to bay for more brilliance, and are vocally deflated when their lofty expectations are not met (take, for example, the expectation of larger-than-myth Bob Dylan, whose audience is rudimentary brought down to earth every time his never-ending tour juggernaut rolls through town).
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CHRIS CORNELL, the Grammy winning rock icon and one of the greatest male voices of our time, brings his solo acoustic “Songbook” tour to Australian theatres in October after his hugely successful sold out run in the United States.
Having sold over 21 million albums, Cornell has experienced both critical and commercial success as a singer/songwriter |
for his bands Soundgarden, Audioslave and Temple of the Dog, as well as his own solo work.
Continue reading CHRIS CORNELL – Songbook Tour – Australia, October 2011 – Tour News
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The Frontier Touring Company are pleased to announce the return of longtime genre-blending stalwarts Modest Mouse for headline shows this July that are sure to be an essential addition to any music lovers’ must-see list for 2011.
Modest Mouse’s extensive 18 year career has been on a constant upward trajectory since their formation in 1993. After developing a cult-like following with their earlier work, their 2004 offering Good News For |
People Who Love Bad News and its massive hit ‘Float On’ propelled the band further into full fledged stardom and primed the world stage for their most recent and immensely successful fifth album, 2007’s We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank.
The album hit No.1 on Billboard album charts and critics were quick to bestow praise on the American group:
‘Modest Mouse should be championed for exposing a larger audience to a sound in line with classic indie rock, rather than aiming for more traditional rock sounds like many of their more accessible indie contemporaries.’ – Pitchfork
’Brock has never sounded more charismatic, or chameleonlike, as he alternately croons, spits, and bronchially howls through lyrics.’ – Entertainment Weekly
‘Is there another “Float On”? It scarcely matters: 10 years into their career, Modest Mouse have stumbled into their best album yet.’ – Blender
‘Much of We Were Dead feels like a culmination of the sound that Modest Mouse have spent the last decade or so honing.’ – Alternative Press
‘This is a band working at the very top of their game, and this album is a beautiful, brilliant beast.’ – MusicOMH.com
In the years since, Modest Mouse have continued to cement their place as revolutionaries of the indie-rock genre, as the band recently were in the studio working with hip hop heavyweight and OutKast rapper Big Boi on a couple of new songs.
Catch Modest Mouse if you can, tickets are sure to be in high demand. For tour information and details please see below.
MODEST MOUSE
JULY 2011
Frontier Members pre-sale via www.frontiertouring.com 12 noon AEST, Wednesday 25 May to 12 noon AEST, Thursday 26 May
General public on sale from 9am local time, Friday 27 May 2011
Mon 21 July – Prince Bandroom, Melbourne – 18+
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Mon 25 July – Metro Theatre, Sydney – 18+
Ticketek 132 849 or www.ticketek.com.au
Wed 27 July – Prince Bandroom, Melbourne – 18+
Prince Bandroom 03 9536 1168 or www.princebandroom.com.au
Mon 1 Aug – Powerstation, Auckland – 18+
Ticketmaster 0800 111 999 or www.ticketmaster.co.nz