
Krakow's Coke Live Music Festival has just announced the addition of Wu-Tang Clan to the line-up along with a bevy of talented female performers. Already announced are Florence and The Machine, Franz Ferdinand and Biffy Clyro.
Now joining them are Regina Spektor, Katy B and Brodka, all musical femme fatales in their own right. This will be a diverse and interesting two day festival with more to be announced I'm sure.

This week we say farewell to a legend, breathe life into the forgotten stomping grounds of St Kilda, and celebrate the birthday of an industry icon. Here is this week’s news.


This week in the State Of Affairs: Fun times at the top of the ARIA singles chart, the Unsigned Only finalists are announced with a few local talents getting through to the final stage, many new signings from the musical to the hard edged, plus are Australians paying too much for music?

From high atop the Sydney Harbour Bridge, we had the unique opportunity last night to join some 120 climbers as they helped (literally) light up celebrations for launch of Sydney's fourth annual VIVID Festival. Battling cold and blustery conditions, the climbers, covered in lights, were just one of the many ways the city was celebrating the launch of the festival.

Pictured: Florence And The Machine.

The Jezabels are set to hit the stage with long list of big names, including Black Sabbath, at this years Lollapalooza festival in Chicago.

Welcome back to another installment of The AU Crew Poll! This time we asked our lovely contributors to tell us which albums are currently on high rotation and why. The variety of responses not only reflect the diversity of music tastes, but also how far in the past they went, as there were mentions of albums released over the last decade. Here are what some of our contributors had to say...

An interesting line up this week for releases especially from Aussie artists including Airborne, Yacht Club DJs and Underlights. Also release from big names, Florence and The Machine, Jack Johnson, Sean Paul and legendary Neil Young. Plenty of diversity and lots to listen to!

It’s about that time – come May 25th Sydney will begin to take a whole new form as the areas around Circular Quay and The Rocks will be transformed into a colourful canvas of light. It will be the fourth edition of Vivid Sydney and this year they are pulling out all the stops to top last year’s overwhelming success.

Fanning the flames of a fire started just under two years ago, Florence + The Machine are set to ignite stages across the country when they return to Australia & New Zealand in May 2012 for a national arena tour.


MasterCard is excited to announce the 3rd and final show of the Debit MasterCard Priceless Music series for 2011 with another must-see performance, this time by UK pop phenomenon, Florence + the Machine.