Know Your Onions

Featuring a catalogue of John Lennon’s greatest songs, Through a Glass Onion is a loving tribute to a favourite songwriting son.

Beautiful You, Beautiful Waifs

In January this year The Waifs entered 301 Studios in Byron Bay with producer Nick DiDia and just several weeks later the beautifully raw and emotional release Beautiful You was made.

Yours Acoustically, Pete Murray

The nicest present to Pete Murray fans has come with the announcement of his 33-date Yours Acoustically national tour stopping by in every state.

To Put it Mildly

Post-rock, shoegaze outfit Fierce Mild kicked off their August by collaborating with visual artist Stephanie Peters in curating their own shoegaze/psych and video art festival, Stargazed: In Search of lost Time.

Seven Times A Charm

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard are well known for their ability to pump out albums and anything music related.

High as a Kite

Let the good times roll with The Paper Kites, who recently announced their first tour of the year. Their lateness to the touring game in 2015 is due to the fact they have been busy with album number two, twelvefour. For the curious, the album is called as such because it was written entirely between midnight and four in the morning – pretty good shift work, if you can get it.

Rainbow Serpent announce first line up

Rainbow Serpent is back in 2016 for their 19th festival and a massive line up announcement has been made today to get your head spinning.

Queenscliff Music Festival Announce International Acts

While the Queenscliff Music Festival was already shaping up to be a good one with acts like Angus & Julia Stone, Hoodoo Gurus and Kate Miller-Heidke already announced

British India announce new tour

The Boy’s from British India are back and all set to tour through regional areas in the lead up to Chrissy

Gang of Youths new video

Gang of Youths have released the officially awesome video for new single “Magnolia’. Watch the video below.

Lorne Arts Festival

For the fifth year, the Lorne Arts Festival is set to take over the seaside town this month. From Falls Festival regulars to schoolies, the holidaymaker to the Great Ocean Road trekker, Lorne is a hugely popular destination for people of all ages. While its population may be only a little more than 1000 (2011 Census figures), this number swells often throughout the year – including the some 4000 visitors that are expected to pop along to the Arts Festival.

FReeZA Push Start Battle of the Bands: Residual Returning to Their Routes

Geelong indie rock band, Residual, will pay homage to their routes and inspire other young musical talent when they return to headline the Push Start Battle of the Bands competition in August. The 2015 FReeZA Push Start Battle of the Bands competition will be held at the Meredith Memorial Hall on Friday 14 August.

DLC go regional

Regional faves Dead Letter Circus have just announced their national album tour happening in October

Rudd slams racism

Xavier Rudd has been the latest Australian to lend his voice to the racism debate currently engulfing the nation.

Drunk Mums new album!

Melbourne garage rock kings and general legends Drunk Mums are coming to rock the Karova on October 9th.

Roped Into Music

For the past few years he has served as the co-songwriter for punk-grass band Cherrywood, and now Joshua Seymour is thrilled to present a collection of his own tunes on his debut LP, Rope Tied Hope. Recorded in Texas over a six-day period at David Willingham’s the Echo Lab – a Grammy-winning engineer responsible for more than one hundred albums – the album is an Australian take on Americana.

Traces of Gold

Released in 2001, the animated fantasy film Spirited Away became the most successful film in Japanese history. Often ranked among the greatest animated films of all time, it won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and tied for the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Welcome to the Gun Show

Cherrywood, Saint Jude, Twin Beats, Sheriff, The Bakers Digest, The Yard Apes, Willow Darling and Green Tin all joined Mightiest of Guns throughout their recent residency at the Old Bar in Melbourne. It was a fitting venue for the dark, slacker country band, who launched their debut EP, Strange Birds, to a sold-out crowd at the venue back in 2013.

Falls Festival Line Up!

No plans for New Years this year? Think again as the Falls Festival line up has dropped and you’re going to want to be a part of it.

Celebration of a Nation

If it is possible for a band to be full of flavour, Sol Nation would take honours. Featuring Paulo Almeida (The Dili Allstars), Colin Badger (Painters & Dockers) and Deline Briscoe (The Black Arm Band), and with their colourful mix of reggae, samba, funk, salsa, East Timorese folksong and African dance music, the seven-piece outfit is a reflection of their multicultural home of Melbourne.

With These Final Words

It’s time to rock along to Wollongong punk rockers Born Lion with me. In celebration of their debut album Final Words, the awesome foursome is heading out on the road – and it all kicks off at Geelong’s Workers Club on August 21. Warrnambool fans can also get in on the action with the band hitting The Loft on October 16.

At Peace with War

Alt-country psych collective Immigrant Union hit the road next month for their Anyway’ tour. The story goes that one day Brent DeBoer of The Dandy Warhols had a chance meeting with Melbourne’s Rob Harrow.

Doin’ the Chicken Strut

Once upon a time, Chris Russell took to the stage with little more than an open-tuned sea-foam green Danelectro and a Goldentone Reverbmaster. By the close of 2011, a year which kept the songman busy with shows in Australia and the US, Dean Muller (Cosmic Psychos) had joined on drums.

Lily & Her King

Bendigo will receive a double dose of the musical junkyard known as Lily & King next month.

 

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