Day: 21 September 2011

The Hoodoo Emporium to hit the Vanguard next month with The Jitterbug Club: Exotica

The Hoodoo Emporium (Mojo Juju, Taryn van Kan & co.) welcome you, to yet another time and another place. After entirely SOLD OUT seasons in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide Cabaret Festival, they have given their Jitterbug Club a little revamp. Last time they surfaced, they journeyed deep into 1930’s Harlem, a world full of hot…

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The Vasco Era & Papa Vs Pretty Announce National Tour

On October 14, The Vasco Era will release a brand new, independent, self-titled album. Recorded live at Melbourne’s Sound Park Studios with producer Steven Schram, The Vasco Era is bursting with nearly freeform metal lashings of noise that whip around the bands blues. To celebrate the new album, The Vasco Era and Sydney’s Papa vs…

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Mutemath to release new record Odd Soul in Australia next week

New Orleans’ rock innovators MUTEMATH have announced that they will release their third album for Teleprompt/Warner Bros. Records, entitled, Odd Soul, on September 30th, 2011. The album, which was produced by the band, is the follow-up to 2009’s Armistice, which debuted at No. 3 on Billboard’s Digital Albums and Alternative Albums chart, No. 4 on…

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More acts added to GoodGod Smash Hits on October 1st, as part of their birthday celebrations

If you thought our bumper birthday line up was already massive, well think again! We are very excited to announce some new recruits to the party. Joining the bill for Saturday October 1st will be: GOOD HEAVENS: Finally the wait is over, the new project from Sarah Kelly has arrived! You might know her from…

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Howard Barker's "Judith" opening at Bondi Pavilion Theatre

The Australian premiere of British playwright Howard Barker’s powerful story of the Israelite heroine, Judith, opens at the Bondi Pavilion Theatre on 18 October. On the eve of an attack on her home town – her people due to be annihilated – Judith, a beautiful Jewish widow, sets off to seduce then slay the General…

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Deadlines fast approaching for entries to the Telstra Road to Discovery 2011 talent development program

Independent music artists from New South Wales have until 9 October to enter the Telstra Road to Discovery talent development program for a chance to showcase their music to the nation and make serious connections in the Australian music industry. Up to six local musicians will be chosen to perform at the Windsor heat of…

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Oh Mercy Announce Supports For Last 2011 Headline Shows

Two very special guests have been announced to join Oh Mercy at their last headline shows of 2011. The Sydney show happening at the Oxford Art Factory on October 14 will see Oh Mercy joined by Brous, while in Melbourne at The Hi-Fi on November 25, Owl Eyes will grace the stage. Having taken acts…

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Peaking Lights sign to Weird World and announce Album Release

It is with great excitement that we announce the signing of West Coast dub-pop duo Aaron Coyes and Indra Dunis, AKA Peaking Lights, to Domino label Weird World. The husband-wife duo’s first release for the label will arrive on November 18th 2011 with this year’s highly acclaimed “936” album, hitherto only available as a much…

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The Ettes sign to Shock Records and release Wicked Will in Australia on October 14th

THE ETTES have finished Wicked Will, the first local release from the rowdy and relentless Nashville garage rock on their own imprint Fond Object, a joint venture with Krian Music Group. It reunites the band with analogue guru/producer Liam Watson (THE KILLS, WHITE STRIPES, FABIENNE DELSOL), who recorded their 2006 debut Shake the Dust at…

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Seeker Lover Keeper to tour churches around Australia this November and December

SEEKER LOVER KEEPER, the hugely successful collaboration between Sarah Blasko, Sally Seltmann and Holly Throsby, returns to centre stage for a final series of intimate shows as part of the new HEAVENLY SOUNDS national tour this summer. For the first time in Australia, this unique tour will take place in some of Australia’s most beautiful…

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Way to Blue: The Song of Nick Drake to be performed in Sydney and Melbourne this November

Here is a truly rare concert event for Australian music lovers. Following acclaimed, sold-out performances across the UK, a special evening called “Way to Blue: The Songs of Nick Drake” is on its way to the Sydney Opera House November 11 and the Melbourne Recital Centre November 14 and 15. Curated by Nick Drake’s original…

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Montreal’s the Planet Smashers to tour Australia this October

Montreal’s the Planet Smashers are an institution across the world having released 7 full length albums, played on the world renowned “Vans Warped Tour” across North America five times, toured across Europe, Japan and the Americas and shared the stage with AFI, GOB, Satanic Surfers, Sick of it All, Death By Stereo, Mustard Plug, Samiam,…

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Atlanta Pop Rockers Cartel announce Australian tour

Atlanta pop-rockers, CARTEL, are set to Tour Australia this November, bringing their back catalogue, and new EP, In Stereo, with them for a showcase of large hooks, and explosive live shows. Also known as MTV’s ‘Band In a Bubble’, the band have impressed the world over, while entering into the band’s 8th year. With an…

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Jinja Safari announce the Locked By Land national tour for November

Jinja Safari are once again chasing a little mischief around the country and are calling upon their nation-wide friends to help them find it. Just months after selling out virtually every nook and cranny of their “Mermaids & Other Sirens” tour, Jinja Safari are please to announce the “Locked By Land” tour – an adventure…

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Adelaide Festival to launch Bernstein's Mass featuring a cast of more than 200

There’s big – and then there’s Bernstein. From West Side Story to Candide, celebrated Broadway and classical composer Leonard Bernstein knew how to make a big song and dance. This Tuesday 20th September at 8pm, the Adelaide Festival will launch Bernstein’s ‘Mass’ as part of the Adelaide Festival and Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’s programs. This new…

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Jeff Martin announces national solo tour running through October and November

JEFF MARTIN (The Tea Party) returns to the intimate solo format this October, after a year of high praise with the formation of a new band 777 that stormed across Australia in May and The Ground Cries Out Album, to a sell out run of shows with the resurgence of The Tea Party in Canada,…

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New Sydney based artist run initiative Alaska Projects to launch on October 5th

Alaska Projects, Sydney’s newest ARI, will officially launch on Wednesday 5 October 2011 with the Car Park Project; a collaboration with the City of Sydney to establish a unique artists’ project space within the forgotten mechanics’ office located in the basement of the Kings Cross Car Park. Alaska’s first exhibition, Lorem Ipsum: Opening Group Show…

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Queen Street Studio & MOB to launch PeepShow Augmented Reality smartphone app

Launching at Heffron Hall on the weekend of 15-16 October as part of Art & About Sydney 2011 is PeepShow AR, a smartphone app which will use augmented reality (AR) technology to celebrate the creative spaces and industries within the 2010 postcode. Straight from the palm of your hand, PeepShow AR will offer unique curated…

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USA outfits Pour Habit and Smoke or Fire join forces for October national Australian tour.

Once every now and then a tour comes along that makes you give yourself a little pinch; just to see whether your dreaming or not, well, sit back, take a breath and get ready because this October CHOPDOG, BOMBSHELLZINE & BUDWEISER are proud to present two of FAT WRECK CHORDS heavyweight punk bands POUR HABIT…

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Germany's Mad Sin touring Australia in November

With attitude delivered through a solid combination of Rockabilly, Psychobilly, Punk, 50’s Rock n Roll, Country and Surf, Germany’s very own MAD SIN bring their much anticipated live show to Australian shores in 2011 to celebrate the release of their thirteenth album – ‘Burn and Rise’. Legendary front man Koefte DeVille recently endured several encounters…

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