18 September 2014
Ah, these young rock and roll heartthrobs. Reece Mastin won fans and stole hearts through his 2011 X-Factor journey, a journey which would see him take out top honours before releasing a double Platinum album. With a new album due later in the year, Reece is hitting the road for his first extensive run of shows since late 2012.
18 September 2014
A rave performance at the 2013 Tamworth Country Music Festival’s Telstra Road to Discovery Grand Finals and a 2013 TSA/APRA ‘New Songwriter of the Year’ award are just a couple of accolades country-roots singer-songwriter Gretta Ziller has picked up in her time. Raised on the muddy banks of the Murray River, Ziller’s appetite for music was catered for in what would be a familiar fashion to many of us – through rage and Video Hits.
18 September 2014
When you come across a band who describes themself as “tequila-inspired party pop”, you just have to give them a listen. Then have a drink … then another drink. Sydney outfit The Griswolds is that band in question. The band is on a tequila-soaked high on the back of the release of Be Impressive, their debut album. And impressive is just what they’ve been.
18 September 2014
Bendigo is probably one of the last places you would expect to find Grammy-winner, producer and writer for a stack of chart-topping and platinum-selling singles, BMI Urban Award ‘Songwriter of the Year’ and ‘Producer of the Year’ and BET Award-winner T-Pain, but it is happening.
18 September 2014
Greetings live music listeners, practitioners, prima donnas and roadies, Dan here with an issue that I would like to discuss just to change things up for a week. I’ve been trained as an audio technician and I work The Eastern week to week in which I get to mix many awesome bands and see a great variety of live music. Does this make me a successful audio technician?
18 September 2014
Mia Dyson couldn’t have asked for a better start to the year than she had with the release of Idyllwild. The album scored a Double J feature run, a premiere on US industry bible Billboard and multiple four star reviews.
18 September 2014
If Dave Grohl can swap a pair of sticks for a guitar, By Jove anyone can. Born and raised in Melbourne, Cat Canteri found a music life as the singer-songwriter and drummer for The Stillsons. The Stillsons formed in 2006 to find a warm place within the contemporary roots scene.
18 September 2014
A nod to George Orwell is what greets us in the bio of Melbourne folk-inspired outfit Husky. “George Orwell said that writing should be transparent – like a clear window pane,” says frontman Husky Gawenda. It is something he feels about music. “You shouldn’t notice the music or the art of it; you’re just transported to another place.” It’s a nice little way of looking at things indeed.
18 September 2014
In 2007, seven manly beasts came together to form the heavy metal colossus known as Barbariön. In 2008, they began to perform – and the world was never quite the same. Crowds would begin to experience shows incorporating fire, smoke, skulls, weapons and other battle/heavy metal-themed props.
18 September 2014
Cement Events and Dale Cleves Music have joined forces for the Inlet Battle of the Bands, set to take place in Warrnambool in November. Five local bands will battle it out for a nice little price package which includes a paid slot at the inaugural Outlet Music Festival in Adelaide.
17 September 2014
Go back 110 million years and Australian consisted of four islands, we continued to drift from Antarctica and giant crocodile…
17 September 2014
When Jack Carty’s tour dates came out and Geelong was missing from the list, it’s fair to say there were a few broken hearts out there. Though the trip to Melbourne is easy, nothing quite beats a home show.
17 September 2014
There’s hardly a person in the world that doesn’t wish they may one day be immortalised in a 3D video on YouTube. With King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard’s new clip ‘Cellophane’, they can now tick the achievement off their to-do list.
17 September 2014
Quickly approaching their graduation, local Geelong rockers Where’s Joss? are about to give their all to the music industry. Algebra and plant compositions will no longer rack their brains, instead their focus will be set on music and nothing but.
17 September 2014
Well, as you know the dynamic Ballarat tag-team of Guy Chappell and Gaz Harrison, better known as the Yacht Club DJs, announced earlier in the year that 2014 would be their last year of weird and excessive nudity, stage invasions and boundless energy. Not exactly in those words, but we certainly came to love ’em for their high jinks as much as their mash-ups. The announcement was made in July, leaving fans of their mash-ups and party-style ways a little misty-eyed.
17 September 2014
Love a good laugh? How about supporting a needy cause? Good thing you do, because so do we! Join Dave O’Neil, Hannah Gadsby, Sammy J & Randy and others in their Comedy4Karma show raising funds for the Daylesford Dharma School.
16 September 2014
Described as “an acoustic junkyard – blissful, beautiful, dirty and wicked”, Lily and King is the joyful combination of Lisa Baird and Tony King. Lisa started her musical path playing trombone. You will also see her playing toy piano, percussion and singing.
16 September 2014
Danielle Whalebone is the fearless leader of indie-rock outfit Animal Hands. She, along with the band’s other killer players, celebrated the release of their self-titled EP last year at the Cherry Bar. Lindsay Gravina (Rowland S. Howard, Cosmic Psychos, Magic Dirt) was on hand to produce the EP, which not only excited locally but picked up airplay on L.A. talkback radio.
15 September 2014
Taking the world by storm, one Rolling Stone premier at a time, the Frowning Cloud boys have just released their newest album, Legalize Everything.
15 September 2014
Don’t forget that One Electric Day is making its way to Werribee in November. Basically what you get is a classic Aussie rock serving of Hoodoo Gurus, James Reyne (playing Australian Crawl tunes), Diesel, Daryl Braithwaite, Mondo Rock and Boom Crash Opera.
15 September 2014
Hailing from the Netherlands, Sinister arose in 1988. They released their debut album, Cross the Styx, in 1992, and would tour with bands including Suffocation, Cannibal Corpse and Deicide. With the recent release of album number 11, The Post-Apocalyptic Servant, Sinister show they remain as relevant as ever.
14 September 2014
Don Walker has lived the kind of life that is worthy of a book. He actually released one back in 2009, Shots. It is basically an autobiographical collection of smaller pieces that gives a small insight into rural Australian life and his time with Cold Chisel before they hit it big. There is plenty more to this man, however.
13 September 2014
Olivers Army is a band littered with the music and ramblings of Barossa Valley-born singer-songwriter Ryan Oliver. It’s also the name of an Elvis Costello song. Ryan’s musical journey began around the same time of his travelling journey, with the aspiring songman penning tunes as he travelled North American as a teenager.
13 September 2014
Where can you find yourself a good dose of country/folk, western swing and hillbilly rock ’n’ roll? Anywhere you find Nigel Wearne, a songman who has the spirits and influences of Hank Williams, Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie deep down in his soul.
