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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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…
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)…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
