Music Man’s Massive Mission
22 September 2016
As you may have caught in our last issue, Bendigo’s Music Man Megastore is attempting to raise around $20,000 to…
22 September 2016
As you may have caught in our last issue, Bendigo’s Music Man Megastore is attempting to raise around $20,000 to…
21 September 2016
Tickets remain for Isaiah Mitchell’s show at The Barwon Club, Geelong on October 1.
21 September 2016
We love a good co-headlining tour, and the combination of Melody Pool and Peter Bibby is an absolute beauty.
21 September 2016
Gathering together a handful of singer-songwriters to share their songs and the stories behind them is by no means a…
20 September 2016
Queenscliff Music Festival has added the finishing touch to its stellar 2016 lineup with a cracking local lineup.
20 September 2016
With album number two due for release in 2017, Perth-based hardcore/metal outfit Aveira Skies will give fans a feel of…
20 September 2016
Earlier this month, traveller and musician Kaurna Cronin completed a huge 60-date tour throughout Belgium, Netherlands and Germany. Life on…
19 September 2016
The Loft in Warrnambool has been bringing great live acts to town for more than 10 years and when they’re not bringing you the biggest acts, they’re helping create them.
19 September 2016
Lead singer/guitarist Steve Boyd chats to Forte about the punk, blues and roots music scene, performing with his band Steve Boyd’s Rum Reverie, and memories from the 90s.
19 September 2016
Melbourne folk/indie duo Wolf and Willow (long-time friends James and Tim) kicked off their music career last year by throwing their very first gig in a backyard. We chat to vocalist and guitarist Tim Richardson about what they’ve been up to since then.
19 September 2016
Another gig that is a little way off but certainly worth a mention is that of Abbe May and her spot at Geelong’s Workers Club.
19 September 2016
Ana Popović is a guitar-playing demon with a hell of a back story. Born in Belgrade in 1976, she was forced to flee with her family to the Netherlands to escape war. Somehow she went from émigré to living in Memphis and sharing the stage with the world’s best bluesmen.
19 September 2016
Here are a few cafes that are a must-try and that come recommended by a Ballarat local.
18 September 2016
While seeing things explode with all manner of CGI is fun, sometimes it’s nice to watch something that challenges your mind. You know, the kind of thing you leave the cinema actually thinking about.
18 September 2016
In early 2013, as a reference to ‘Hollywoodland’, a local artist installed large letters spelling ‘Glassellland’ in the vacant hills…
18 September 2016
After more than 550 entries into the 2016 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize were made, gallery director Jason Smith (alongside Victoria Lynn, Director, TarraWarra Museum of Art, and Lisa Sullivan, Curator, Geelong Gallery) faced the difficult task of choosing the final 33 to be exhibited and the sole recipient of the overall prize – totalling $30,000.
18 September 2016
Guantanamo Baywatch are an American band. That might seem like a broad term, but given their current geographical circumstances, it has to be. The band’s current line-up is comprised of four members – vocalist/guitarist Jason Powell, bassist Chevelle Wiseman, drummer Chris Scott and guitarist Jordan Owens; who was recruited as a touring member last year – and they’re currently all spread across three very different parts of the land.
18 September 2016
“When I finished recording it, I took it around to my nan and she loved it. She’s always been my biggest fan and to have her tick of approval means we are doing something right.” Taylor Henderson speaks about one of the biggest critics of his new album to be released in the near future. Although tight lipped, Henderson speaks avidly about what he is about to release to the world.
18 September 2016
With five songs clocking in at the 44-minute mark, Holy Serpent’s Temples (due for release September 30) is a value-for-song album if ever there was one.
17 September 2016
The Daylesford Dharma School is the first primary school in Australia to offer an education based on Buddhist principles.
17 September 2016
After cutting their teeth for several years in Lorne, business owners and friends Matt Griffiths and Kyall Hollmer decided it was time to venture up the Great Ocean Road.
17 September 2016
Although only 23 years old, whiz-kid Darren Hart has already asserted himself as someone who is dedicating his entire life to music. Since 2008, he has been performing under the moniker of Harts; blending a love of proto-funk, spaced-out psych-rock and sugar-rush pop that has won him fans on a global scale and praise from the late, great Prince. He is now poised to drop his second studio album Smoke Fire Hope Desire.
17 September 2016
For fans of Northeast Party House, the wait for their sophomore album has been epic. Now, following on from their 2014 debut, Any Given Weekend, they have just released their latest record Dare.
