Fresh off some killer shows with Grouplove, one of our favourite songstresses, Lisa Mitchell, has announced a brand new headline tour of Australia to support her highly anticipated new album, Warriors! The Something About These Streets tour will take Lisa around the country through October, showcasing music from the new album, including her latest single “The Boys”, a tune that has…
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Long may Client Liaison reign as purveyors of the glam. Purveyors of the funk. Wearers of magnificent power blazers and vests. Fresh out the gate with their new single “Wild Life”, the Melbourne group have come swinging – another musical gem of full of colour, co-written by Geordie Hewitt (Cleopold) and mixed by the master Eric J Dubowsky (Flight…
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An eclectic group of musicians have been selected as finalists for FBi Radio’s Northern Lights competition for 2016! The competition offers the winning artist the opportunity to fly to Iceland to not only performed at the esteemed Iceland Airwaves Music Festival this November, but also record at Sigur Rós‘ Sundlaugin Studio for a day before bringing the music they made…
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HUGE. TLC will be heading out to Australia and New Zealand this November for a tour fans have been hanging out for for a long time. Since the death of group member Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopes in 2002, TLC have continued to tour around the world but haven’t released any new music in over a decade. Until now. With…
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ICMYI recently, Cass McCombs will be back in Australia for a run of hot headline and festival shows in December! Already announced to be performing at this year’s Meredith Music Festival, McCombs will also be hitting venues in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane on either side of the festival show. An acclaimed songwriter, McCombs has been drawing…
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The Pandora party comes to Sydney this October, with news being revealed this week that the music platform and the folk behind the go-to music source will be hosting the first ever Pandora Warehouse event in Sydney. The Warehouse party adds on to Pandora’s world renowned run of events right through the US which include the popular Pandora…
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Last Thursday, Ben Woolner-Kirkham and Harry Sayers, aka two-thirds of certified Aussie electro legends SAFIA joined us for a chat in Sydney ahead of the release of their long-awaited debut album Internal and their huge national tour. Releasing the music video for their latest single, “Over You”, the day of our morning chat, the boys tell us about their shiny…
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Joe Moore has been enjoying great favour in Australia following his progression through to the runner’s up spot on The Voice last year; the release of his record A Thousand Lifetimes hit the ARIA Top 5 and now the dust has somewhat settled on that part of his career, the West Sussex native has made his next step…
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US group Baroness will be bringing their acclaimed new album Purple (not to mention a beloved and much-respected back catalogue) through to Australia at the end of the year for their first ever headline tour of the country! Last in Australia for Soundwave 2014, the band was fast to establish themselves as favourites with heavy rock fans…
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The Gooch Palms have a penchant for making music that is damn near impossible not to have in your head for days after. Latest single “Don’t Look Me Up” is just one of those nuggets from Introverted Extroverts that ends up bouncing around long after the song itself has finished – we’re not mad about it either. Today, we’ve…
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The Byzantines continued to explore the more chaotic fringes of indie rock/pop, gleaning themselves off the direct Brit-pop influences that drove much of their earlier material on new single “She Moves”. We already caught a move in a slightly different, restless direction on previous single release “Jamaica”, but this new gem sees the Adelaide group continue…
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Frank Ocean has brought fans to a new level of a hype today, with his live stream kicking off once again, indicating new music was coming. And it has. But not in the way we were expecting. Ahead of the release of Boys Don’t Cry (money on it dropping this weekend), Ocean has released a 45 minute…
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Brisbane group Future Haunts bring some rich indie rock through on their brand new EP, Rubicon, premiering on the AU today! The latest from the band sees them delve further into some harder, yet more refined, guitar and percussion, while Ben Speight really hits his stride as vocalist. Recorded between Plutonium Studios and Speight’s home studio, Rubicon shows the band…
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Taking Back Sunday will be making their Australian and New Zealand return next year, hitting some great rooms with their new album Tidal Wave in March. Along for the ride is Acceptance, who will be performing their first shows ever out this way – since reforming last year, the group have been working on a new album, so no…
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The first time I remember seeing Violent Soho perform, I want to say it was in one of Adelaide’s smaller CBD venues. Truthfully, all I remember from the night was beer flying and Boerdam almost becoming enveloped by the crowd as he dared to launch into us. The energy was palpable, sweat flinging, noise threatening unprotected ear drums….
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Quality. Peter Bibby and Melody Pool, two musicians who’ve been reaping in the success of two solid album releases recently, have joined up for a co-headline tour not to be missed. For Pool, 2016 has been incredibly fruitful with the release of her acclaimed sophomore album Deep Dark Savage Heart, while for Bibby, the praise has continued to roll in…
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Midas.Gold is here to make you work it out. The latest track from the Brisbane rapper is smooth and catchy as hell – the perfect new beat released to get fans keen for his upcoming September and October tour! Bass heavy, hook laden and slick to the ear, “Work It Out” has producer Jangus lay his…
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We’ve turned the corner and are now weeks away from BIGSOUND 2016; three days and nights of live music, partying and hopefully, little regrets from the night before. Today, the BIGSOUND crew have released their schedule of all 160 live shows right across the festival, while the conference program has also become available for those attendees…
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Usually I’d have some kind of notes written down about a tune I’ve been forwarded to check out. Who’s produced what, where it was recorded, who the artist sounds like. When I was pointed in the direction of Air Max ’97‘s remix “Looking At Myself” by Sydney artist Gussy, there was none of this except for a…
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Already announced for the Meredith Music Festival this year, Sheila E. has also confirmed that she will be playing two extra gigs while out in Australia. Predictably, they’re for Sydney and Melbourne BUT, these ones are definitely going to be worth the money/travel. While her work with Prince is iconic, Sheila E.’s stamp on popular music over the…
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Between Luke Kennedy and Joel Turner there has blossomed quite the musical partnership, one that will be making its hyped debut at the Brisbane Powerhouse as part of Wonderland 2016. The duo present Smooth Criminals – The Songs of Michael Jackson this December: an homage to the late Michael Jackson‘s extensive catalogue in a way that hasn’t been seen before….
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The Rolling Stone Live Lodge has bolstered its 2016 line up in Melbourne today, with the announcement of Jimmy Barnes, Ecca Vandal, The Fauves and more on their second artist announcement. Running from September 21st through until October 8th, The Workers Club in Fitzroy will be playing host to a number of live shows, DJ nights, Q&A sessions and…
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Guns N’ Roses will indeed be heading to Australia for a long awaited tour next year! After months of rumours and that billboard leaking the Melbourne date this week, TEG Dainty have today confirmed the tour dates which will be seeing Axl, Duff and the classic line up performing for Australian fans for the first time since…
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I don’t think it’s much of a stretch to assume that when B Wise drops his debut EP Semi-Pro later in September, it stands to be one of the best hip hop releases of 2016’s second half. What we’ve heard from the MC so far has continued to impress but still, it feels like we’re just scratching the…
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Currently in Australia with their new record Misadventures, Pierce The Veil have wasted no time in making sure the wait has been worth it for the fans who’ve been hanging out for shows for near on three years. Speaking with bassist Jaime Preciado just prior to the band’s return, the feeling has been mutual – absence has definitely…
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SHAKAFEST already stood to be one helluva loose festival outing on the Gold Coast this year, but the organisers have proven today that they’re far from finished doling out the quality names to help bring the party to full, raucous fruition. Announcing their third and final round of artists today, the SHAKAFEST crew reveal details…
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Jack Colwell is soon to be out on the road with his new EP When The World Explodes and we couldn’t be more keen to see this performer bringing his music to more cities outside of Sydney. Visiting venues in Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Canberra as well, Colwell will be joined by Miles Brown of The Night Terrors…
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The Julie Ruin have come through with their new music video for “Mr. So and So”, -co-directed by Kathleen Hanna herself and Becca Albee. Taken from the group’s latest album Hit Reset, “Mr. So and So” focuses in on tokenisation and in an excellently delivered clip, shows Hanna, Sara Landeau and Kathi Wilcox in different stages of stuckness in New York while Carmine…
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Sally Seltmann recently unveiled some new music she’d been working on in “Dancing in the Darkness” and following on from the release of a short film to accompany the single, she has announced two launch dates for October! It’s been a little while since we’ve seen Seltmann headline venues, so these dates at the Newtown and…
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Melbourne’s Mcrobin (aka folk songwriter James McGuffie) today gives us a little hint into what’s in store on his sophomore EP release Shallow Diver, in new single “Concrete Feet”. Set for official release at the end of the week, the new track sees Mcrobin step further out into the spotlight with some rich and rhythmic alt-folk music. Co-produced…
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