Melbourne group Maefire have had a hectic 2016 littered with new music releases and impressive shows to boot. While in Singapore for Music Matters last month, the boys sat down with Larry to chat about their experience, new single “Crawling” and more. Beginning the year with the release of popular single “Without You”, Maefire have been…
The Naked and Famous have provided fans with another slice of goodness from their forthcoming album Simple Forms with a new music video released for single “The Runners”. Continuing to showcase a refined and slick brand of electro-driven pop, “The Runners” fits in perfectly alongside “Higher” and “Laid Low” – a glistening example of the direction the New…
Ahead of releasing their highly-anticipated sophomore album Black Opal due October 7, Australiana-pop outfit Shining Bird are kicking off their huge album launch tour tonight in Canberra, seeing them through Deadlam Festival (Brisbane) plus shows in Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales and the Northern Territory. Inspired by living in the Blue Mountains and immersing themselves in…
Following from their critically-acclaimed debut album Dread Marches Under Bloodied Regalia released last 2015, Roundtable are set to take on the east coast with a handful of shows due to make heads turn. This Melbourne trio find themselves somewhere in the realm of doom/sludge metal, with their sound distinctly tinged with a healthy dose of stoner…
With her last solo performance over two years ago, Bree Tranter fans will be stoked to hear her headline tour announcement today, bringing the ex-The Middle East member to Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane this November for her Another Night on Earth East Coast Tour. The multi-instrumentalist’s critically acclaimed debut, Another Night on Earth, will be…
Solange Knowles‘ A Seat At The Table may very well be the album that brings the artist to breakthrough-levels of success but for those who have been following her music for the last few years, this 21-track epic is the result of a creative talent that has been thriving and developing outside the mainstream for quite some time….
At the official ARIA Award nominations event in Sydney today (still underway), Flume‘s 2016 album Skin has cleaned up, taking away three awards for Best Cover Art, Best Engineer and Producer of the Year. “We’re making incredible music here and everyone should be very proud of that.” engineer Eric J Dubowsky said, accepting his award for his work on the…
Baddies! The Adelaide crew is back with new single “Mob Rule”, the first taste of the new album that has kept Bad//Dreems squirrelled away a decent part of 2016. Dropping ahead of their national tour with DMAs, the single comes packed with that gritty, gnarly energy that first put the band on the map. It doesn’t feel…
It was all about Blue Neighbourhood, Skin, Nonagon Infinity and Wildflower at the 2016 ARIA Awards nominations event in Sydney this morning, with all the award nominees finally being unveiled. Leading the charge this year is Flume (with 11 nominations) and Troye Sivan (7 nominations), the former’s 2016 album Skin already taking away three Artisan awards this morning (Producer of the Year,…
Panda. Panda? Panda, panda, panda. That’s right – Desiigner is going to be out in Australia for a brief bit in the New Year, being confirmed to play the FOMO Festival in Adelaide, Brisbane and Sydney in January. The dates will be the first for the rapper and they’ll also be exclusive to the tour, so if you’re…
In a sneaky 1am announcement, Frontier Touring have revealed that Green Day will be returning to Australia and New Zealand for their “Revolution Radio Tour” next April and May. They’ll be taking in a run of massive indoor arenas along the way. The band’s first Australian headline tour since 2009, these ones have obviously been…
While at Music Matters in Singapore, we had the opportunity to meet some incredible Australian musicians and get to know them a bit better, as they made some invaluable connections and impressions on a market that is in itself, very large and diverse. One of those bands was Bad Pony, a Sydney five-piece who are going to…
Irish duo Hvmmingbyrd come to us with their debut EP Know My Name; released in September, the first offering from Deborah Byrne and Suzette Das sees the ladies step out from the alt-folk realm their music once occupied, in favour of some ethereal and distinctly more electronic soundscapes. What results is five tracks of promising material from a duo who,…
Long before the lockout laws, something else was killing the vibe among Sydney’s party scene: competition. One or two day festivals across the country were dropping like flies and it seemed like Fuzzy’s long-running Parklife was about to meet the axe, until the business made the wise decision to go boutique. Downsizing and effectively avoiding…
Finally, the 2016 Melbourne Music Week program is here in full for music lovers to sink their teeth into properly, after weeks of drip-fed news tidbits to keep the fires burning. As we knew already, the weeklong music celebration is levelling up for its seventh year; the State Library Victoria has been named as the MMW…
Animals As Leaders, soon to release new record The Madness of Many, will be back in Australia next February and March! The instrumental heavy rock group will hit venues nationally from February 25th, supported by PLINI and Nick Johnston. The band is currently finishing up a tour of Europe before their return to the States to take their new…
For the first time since 2013, Justin Bieber will be back in Australia and New Zealand, hitting some of his biggest venues yet. Unfortunately for South Australian fans, they’ve gone without on this tour announcement, arriving overnight. Bringing his Purpose World Tour down to us, the countdown posted on the Frontier Touring socials this week indicated to…
And so, our crush on Bec Sandridge continues to strengthen, as her new single “High Tide” makes its rounds. The latest tune from the songstress, who has been recently impressing on stages around the country with Montaigne, comes packed with clever guitar work, not to mention melody and perhaps a softer, hazier side of Sandridge’s musicality…
Laura Marling recently launched a new podcast project back in August named Reversal of the Muse and is definitely a must listen for any fan of Marling’s and indeed, music fans keen to lock into something a little different. The podcast focuses of Marling in conversation with guests (predominantly female, though some male guest are involved)…
The 2016 Vanda & Young Songwriting Competition shortlist has today been unveiled, with 90 finalists being selected to proceed forward to the final stage of judging. Three prizes are up for grabs as always: the $50,000 first prize courtesy of APRA and Alberts Music, a $10,000 second prize thanks to AMPAL (Australasian Music Publishers Association) and…
December will see Sydney pop foursome Tigertown bring The Papernote Tour across Australia in celebration of their recently released single, ‘Papernote’. Following up from their debut EP Lonely Cities, the Papernote EP is due to be released October 28 and promises a selection of sunshiny, powerhouse tunes. The past twelve months was packed with international touring for…
A huge reveal for Bluesfest Byron Bay this morning with the iconic Neil Young + Promise of the Real set to join the line up next April, playing an epic three hour set out in Byron Bay. Joining an already stacked line up of international players, this addition has made the idea of spending Easter Weekend out at the Tyagarah Tea…
Supporting last year’s extremely successful debut LP In A Restless House, City Calm Down seem more at home than ever. Straight off the line up from Splendour in the Grass, the electronic-rock band excitably rounded out their month of touring with a string of homegrown gigs at Melbourne’s own 170 Russell. Although a gradual crowd welcomed City Calm…
We’re entering ARIA Award territory for another year, with the first round of nominees (Fine Arts, Artisan and Best Comedy) being announced, the winners to be announced at the official ARIA Nominations Event in Sydney this Wednesday. Already, Flume and The Avalanches have had their latest records recognised across all three artisan categories, an impressive indicator of…
The now LA-based Perth native Cameron Avery has a new music video doing the rounds, this time for the dreamy, yet charged up single “Ces’t Toi”. Directed by Mike Bennett and Nathan Lewis (the Joy Collective), we see Avery perform the tune, written about ‘the last time he fell in love’. Recorded with Jonathan Wilson (Father John Misty, Elvis Costello), Avery’s vocals are a…
Last Friday, Solange released her highly anticipated new album, A Seat At The Table. The 21 track record, accompanied by an e-book, has already been reaping in the praise and today, she’s shared two official music videos to bolster the great vibes surrounding the follow up to 2012’s True. The music videos, co-directed by Solange and her husband,…
The annual AmericanaFest has become a mammoth event on the US music calendar, with a wide range of artists hitting Nashville for a SXSW-style celebration of everything Americana, country and all else that draws itself under the banner. Out in Nashville with his new album GLASSELLLAND, Jordie Lane immersed himself in AmericanaFest for the first time in a…
The Camp Cope legends have announced that their final show for the year will be a party at Melbourne’s Northcote Social Club – definitely one not to be missed. Come December 17th, the girls will be hitting the stage alongside Harmony and Two Steps on the Water to celebrate what has been one hell of a year of shows and…
Melbourne Pixies fans rejoice! The band has confirmed a second and final date in the city as part of their March Australian tour. The gigs will be the band’s first in Melbourne in six years, seeing them take to the Margaret Court Arena. Pixies have of course been celebrating the release of their new album Head Carrier…
Fifteen years after penning the lyrics to “Maybe Memories” The Used frontman Bert McCracken is living his dream of making music and playing it on the road. Whether his dream included that The Used would go on to amass a fiercely passionate international fan base and that those shows would be sold-out, or that one…
