Filmed at Peats Ridge Festival and at Festival of the Sun, we find out the New Years Resolutions of bands from around Australia for 2012. Including The Brothers Grim, The Medics, Pigeon, The Holidays, The Delta Riggs, Microwave Jenny, The Snowdroppers, Benjalu, Hungry Kids of Hungary, Minnie Marks, Thundamentals, Sietta and Richard Cuthbert.

Backstage at the Festival of the Sun in Port Macquarie - December 2011 - Larry Heath from the AU review catches up with 3 parts of Sydney's The Snowdroppers, to chat Red Dog, their headline show at the Metro Theatre, what's to come in 2012 and more.

Camera: Yaya Stempler, Editor: Larry Heath.

The last day of The Queenscliff Music Festival thankfully provided some welcome respite from the rain, in fact the sun was out and we could once again walk the streets of the pretty little town on the Bellarine Peninsula.

Upon arrival at the festival grounds, Kimbra, the woman out of the moment, was in full flight, belting out a selection of tunes from her hit debut Vows, as well as some newer material.

Day 2 of The Queenscliff Music Festival began with surprisingly drinkable coffee from a van, and an interesting discussion about the current state of the Australian music industry at The Vue Grand, a beautiful hotel in the middle of town, which was organised by Music Victoria and mediated by its CEO, Patrick Donovan.

Many of you will probably have heard of this project by now, and it is certainly a remarkable proposition; Rewiggled: A Tribute to the Wiggles gathers together twenty of Australia’s most popular artists from the last ten years and has each of them tackle a song from the catalogue of the world’s most popular children’s group.

CHANGING LANES FIRST RELEASE SOLD OUT AND SECOND ROUND OF ARTISTS ADDED!

MAPS Entertainment is excited to announce the first release of tickets for Changing Lanes has sold out!

Second release tickets are now on sale and we’ve got a handful of new artists added to the line up as well.

2nd ANNOUNCEMENT:

Big Scary
Canyons DJs
Brous
Ellesquire
Cameras
Spookyland
The Black Cherry DJs
Domeyko/Gonzalez DJs
Colonel Dubya P Flawstane

The Queenscliff Music Festival takes place over the weekend of 25-26-27 November and the organisers are clearly revving up the heat this summer with the critical first round of artists revealing some significant names on the cards with old school meeting modernity meeting new wave… showcasing the best in past, present and future Australian and world music.

After the huge success of STONEFEST 2010, The Frontier Touring Company and University of Canberra’s UC Live! have teamed up again to present the lineup for the much-awaited STONEFEST 2011 taking place on Saturday 29 October.

Check one, two… Festival of the Sun is back to finetune your summer, with 3,000 mates, a surfside location and a rocking homegrown line-up.

Just barely making this online before the end of the day, but it still counts! We're back once again with our weekly Music Video Monday! We kick things off with our video of the week, which goes to an electronic artist from Los Angeles who I only discovered over the weekend: Deru (Benjamin Wynn). The track here is "Fadeaway" from the album Say Goodbye To Useless on Mush Records.