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The Dead Daisies – a new five piece super-group put together by Jon Stevens and David Lowy – launched their eagerly awaited Australian tour last night with a performance at The Governor Hindmarsh (The Gov) in Adelaide. The gig came as the band’s self-titled debut album was released today, February 7th, nationally. It is available…

The latest two bands to announce massive Soundwave Sidewaves for 2014 are Avenged Sevenfold with Five Finger Death Punch in support. Having played massive Entertainment Centre shows back in 2011, these Sidewaves for Sevenfold will be an intimate chance for Sydney and Melbourne based fans to see one of the world’s most in demand live…

The lineup for this year’s Governor’s Ball Festival has been announced, and boy is it something else. The New York City festival held on Randall’s island includes a slew of mouth-watering names for the June event. A freshly reunited Outkast headline the event alongside Jack White, Vampire Weekend and New York City’s very own darlings,…

Earlier today on Twitter and Facebook, the internationally renowned EDM event Ultra Music Festival opened up accounts that indicated they’ll be heading to Australia very soon. For those not in the know, Ultra occurs every March, just after SXSW, in Miami, Florida. In 2013 alone, 330,000 people headed to Bayfront Park for the mammoth event….

Ever since they were announced on the Big Day Out lineup, fans have been waiting for announcements on their sideshows. And now that time has arrived. Playing Sydney are the Deftones, Melbourne will get a The Hives sideshow while Ghost will play both Sydney and Melbourne. Check out the dates and details here: DEFTONES +…

We’ve been asked to be a part of the exciting tag project #youin this Summer by XXXX Summerbright Lager (@xxxxsummerbright), and we’re passing on the invitation to you as well, for the chance to win a prize pack worth over $200! Summer is all about making the most about every day; it’s the feeling that…

It’s been almost four years since the John Butler Trio‘s record April Uprising was released. It went on to go platinum in Australia while the band toured the world. Now, it’s finally time for a new JBT record to see the light of day, with the band finishing up Flesh & Blood set to be…

The Bluesfest Touring season is expanding by the minute as it delivers the incredibly diverse second installment in a series of sideshow announcements. Peter Noble, Director of Bluesfest describes the announcement as “an eclectic mix of trip-hop, hip-hop, funk and not to mention a little bit of free-jazz and psychedelia, an unmissable series of shows…

It’s not the first time Nick Cave has lent his music as a score, but it’s not every day an artist of his calibre supplies it for a commercial. Check out the classy campaign above for a new campaign for Bulleit Whiskey. This isn’t an original track however – it’s called “Martha’s Dream” and was…

The fourth annual Filter Magazine Culture Collide Festival has kicked off in Silverlake in Los Angeles, serving as a lead in for next week’s CMJ Festival in New York and embracing music from all around the world – including three acts from Australia: Miami Horror, Plastic Plates and The Novocaines. The festival has launched with…

After heading on sale at Noon today, Future Music Festival sold out its first release allocation of tickets in 35 minutes in Sydney, under two hours in Melbourne and just over three and a half hours in Brisbane. Second release tickets are on sale now in these cities, while First release allocations remain in Perth…

Bluesfest Byron Bay, Australia’s multi-award winning 5 Day Festival, held over the Easter long weekend (17 – 21st of April) at its home, the Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm, north of Byron Bay, has announced the second list of legendary artists set to grace the event’s 25th Anniversary special edition! After the first announcement focused on…

He might have been saying that the lineup wouldn’t be as “big” as the Metallica helmed 2013 event, but AJ has still delivered an incredible first announcement for the 2014 Soundwave Festival, with Green Day, Avenged Sevenfold, Stone Temple Pilots, Placebo and past Soundwave favourites Alice in Chains and Rob Zombie sitting at the top…

As we celebrate our fifth birthday, one band who go back almost to the beginning of the website (check out my first review of the band playing QBAR in Sydney in early 2010 HERE) are local-boys-done-good Boy and Bear, who today have released their eagerly anticipated sophomore album Harlequin Dream, available in stores and on…

After revealing it to the industry live on stage at the Helpmann Awards last week, this morning Baz Luhrmann, alongside the creative team from Global Creatures (responsible for the recent Melbourne premiere of King Kong, his wife Catherine Martin, Premier Barry O’Farrell and some sequined dancers, held the official media announcement for the April 2014…

There has been so much speculation, Twittering, ‘leaking’ and guesswork surrounding the Big Day Out lineup for 2014, but tonight, at a special announcement party in Sydney, Adam Zammit and co dropped the official details, which are sure to impress many. The artists set to feature on the national festival tour next year are: Pearl…

In this issue: Ed Kuepper adds extra dates to national tour, Rudimental announce support for Australian tour, Tonight Alive changes Adelaide venue, Fat Freddy’s Drop adds third Melbourne show to tour, Xavier Rudd adds extra Melbourne date to tour; City and Colour sell out Hobart and Sydney, What About Tonight announced as R5’s Sydney support…

UK DJ ‘Pangaea’ aka Kevin Mcauley, has announced that he will playing select cities from across the country. Hailing from North London via Leeds, Pangaea will be bringing his banging dubstep sets to Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Sydney. Australian Tour Dates Friday 9th August: Melbourne, Brown Alley Sat 10th August: Adelaide, Sugar Fri 16th August:…

The Grates have added two sideshow dates in conjunction with their performance at Brisbane’s ‘Red Deer Festival.’ The band will be playing with The Bleeding Knees Club’s Alex Wall. Tour Dates Thursday, September 5: Spotted Cow, Toowoomba $22 +BF pre / $25 door Friday, September 6: Elsewhere, Gold Coast Price: $22 +BF pre / $25…

Sydney pop-punk band, Tonight Alive, have announced a national tour in September with special guests Hands Like Houses and D At Sea. Tonight Alive are also set to play the The Vans Warped Australian Tour in September. Australian Tour Dates The Hi-Fi, Sydney – Thursday Sept 5 Alhambra, Brisbane – Saturday Sept 7 The Zoo,…

American rock band, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, are coming to Australia thanks to an entirely crowd sourced tour. The tour will follow a ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ concept, meaning that the band will play six Australian cities and it is up to the fans to decide exactly which cities they play. Pledging opened on the…

The Aussie hip hop due Jackie Onassis have announced their first headline tour in the “Smoke Trails Tour”! The pair, Kai Tan and Rapheal Dixon, will kick off on the Gold Coast and will be playing all major cities across the country. Having gained a strong reputation overseas and having made a killer impact on…

Musicians Making a Difference and the Salvation Army have teamed up to create a charity dance party. On July 26, the two organisations are putting the call out for Australians to get involved in the country’s biggest dance party – all you have to do is dance for one hour. It can be anywhere you…

Seja,Ginger and the Ghost and Jenny Broke the Window will be teaming up with Fbi Radio to perform at the Desmond and Molly Jones Salon in Surry Hills. The space, a two level live music space, is set to be the next hottest thing, with the following live performances to be only the first of…

Sydney songwriter Iluka will be touring her debut EP Glory Days across the country this August. Having worked with noted producer Pip Norman for some of the sessions, Iluka’s upcoming EP showcases some pretty tight and excellently executed moments of music. The singer has released her EP track “Sweet Marianne” for free download (http://official.fm/tracks/o12j). Tour…

Back by popular demand, The Drones will be performing their second national tour of the year off the back of their album I Sea Seaweed. Having already done awesome things around the country with their last national tour, it seems that The Drones are getting ready to do it all again, this time, taking the…

One of our favourite artists here at the AU for many years now has been Pluto Jonze, the Sydney based electronic artist who has been making waves with tracks like “Plastic Bag in a Hurricane”. After a long wait, our patience is finally being rewarded with the release of his debut album Eject, being released…

When triple j took their annual regional, free, all ages, drug and alcohol free One Night Stand event to Dubbo earlier this year, they attracted over 18,000 punters, making it the largest One Night Stand ever. To celebrate the night, and ensure no one ever forgets their experience – whether they were watching/listening to it…

As drummer and frontman for Staying At Home, Animal Shapes and Lights Out, Nick Van Breda has been an active member of the Australian music industry for the last decade. Over the past two years, Nick has been workign with Sydney producer Dylan Adams (Sticky Fingers, Sailmaker) on his own solo material, which has resulted…

With C3 Presents a huge part of Big Day Out now in Australia, the US festivals Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits now play a huge part in lending us our predictions for the yearly Australian event (C3 also put on the two mentioned events). With Lolla already announced, today we also have been graced with…