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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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

When it comes to up-and-coming female vocalists, no one can match the rise of New Zealand born, Melbourne based Kimbra, who tonight sold out the Metro with ease. I arrive slightly late but just managed to catch “Limbo”, off her debut album Vows, which would of course be the focus of the set. Despite the…

Download the track ‘One By One’ from the album ‘Hope & Ruin’, which was released in Australia earlier this year. http://tinyurl.com/422s2n6

Cut Copy return with a truly wicked clip! Check it out here: Here’s what Vimeo has to say about the above video, the new one from Australia’s Cut Copy: “The Blink And You’ll Miss A Revolution video was found in a rusty chest in an ancient grotto in Saint-Maximin, France. From what archaeologists can ascertain…

Another week, another venue is born (though some may argue reborn) and another takes it’s final breath (Tone, at least in it’s current location). Yesterday saw the launch of The Standard at Kinselas, in what used to be the Lo-Fi Collective art room. Embracing it’s early 90s NYC warehouse heritage, which featured bands from around…

After announcing release plans for their ‘Get Loved’ project last week, Faker is delighted to today reveal details of their first national tour in three years. Kicking off in Byron Bay on 20th October, the Faker: Live! national headline tour will take in fourteen dates through five States & Territories this October and November, wrapping…

Following on from the 2010 Indent Tour featuring Urthboy, Indent is pleased to announce Australia’s most exciting pop-punk outfit, Tonight Alive as this year’s headline act. Tonight Alive have been quick to forge a name for themselves as one of the best up and coming bands. In their short time together they have been named…

We said that ‘Black Tooth’ was music to rob banks to, well, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard‘s next single, ‘Dead Beat’ is the soundtrack to the pre-heist party. ‘Dead Beat’ encapsulates King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s unique and celebratory brand of menace. The second single to be taken from the band’s forthcoming EP,…

Songwriter and story-teller Lachlan Bryan will visit six of our eight states and territories this October, November and December for a series of intimate live shows. The tour will follow a short visit to Nashville for the 2011 American Music Association (AMA) Festival. Lachlan (best known as front man of Melbourne alt-country darlings The Wildes)…

Domino is to release Mount Wittenberg Orca, the collaborative album from Dirty Projectors and Björk, on physical formats for the first time on October 21st. Mount Wittenberg Orca was written by David Longstreth and performed by Nat Baldwin, Björk, Amber Coffman, Haley Dekle, Angel Deradoorian, David Longstreth and Brian McOmber. The album was recorded at…

On Friday night Perth band The Brow Horn Orchestra launched their debut EP. Yeah that’s right their debut EP. Though given the scale on which they launched their latest creation, you’d be forgiven for thinking they were releasing their second or third album. The Brow clearly does not do anything by half measures – with…

Just hitting the stage as I arrived at the Oxford Art Factory, Melbourne’s The Frowning Clouds mirror bands like The Beatles, The Kinks, The Monkees and The Rolling Stones with total conviction. From their hair and clothes to their 7 inches – they’ve committed to a 60s aesthetic and are doing it ample justice. It…

It’s been a long five years since I last caught the Austin, Texas based alternative rock quartet …And They Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, in which context they were supported by Blood Brothers at a truly memorable performance in Vancouver. Since then, the iconic group have released two albums: The Century of…

Part of the Sydney Fringe Festival, Ups & Downs held an album launch at Sydney’s Annandale Hotel with guests Knievel and The Worker Bees – the new outfit for Greg & Darren of, Ups & Downs. Pete Dovgan was there with his camera and brings you these photos.

It was a night of art wank at one of Melbourne’s hippest venue’s, where the cooler-then-thou love to show off their vintage threads and and self-importantly spout off their knowledge of obscure underground artists amidst a haze of booze fuelled electronic soundscapes. First off the bat was local Angel Eyes whose music is far better…

Sunderland quintet Frankie and The Heartstrings’ debut album Hunger, is a shout back to doo-wop from decades back. It oozes poppy, milkshake-in-a-diner type melodies mixed with the type of innocent romanticisms that make holding hands seem like you’ve hit a home run. Opening track “Photograph” contains jangling, summer guitar, strolling bass, complete with a thickened…

Who are you and were might we know you from? Mikelangelo, I’m playing with my surf ‘n’ western band The Tin Star at Changing Lanes. You may also know me from my Kabaret Noir group The Black Sea Gentlemen or from the Famous Speigeltent’s circus/sideshow extravaganza La Clique. A story you’ve probably told far too…