Big Day Out Fires Rogue Worker For Stunt Urging Girls To ‘Get Em Out’ The Gold Coast Big Day Out already made news when Cub Scouts frontman Tim Nelson was involved in an unprovoked attack that left the pianist/vocalist...
Tame Impala Lead Nominations For NME Awards 2013 What Australian artist can say they had a better 2012 than Perth’s beloved psychedelic rock outfit, Tame Impala? Unless your name rhymes with Otye, not...
Groovin The Moo 2013 Lineup Leaking? TMBG, Tegan & Sara Confirm Aussie Tours Groovin The Moo has been one of the happier music festival success stories in recent years, finding a niche in regional Australia starved of contemporary...
SXSW 2013 Announce Clive Davis As Featured Speaker Austin, Texas’ annual industry and music conference, South By Southwest (SXSW) is shaping to be quite the show for this year’s event, with 40 Australian...
New National Live Music Coordinator Sets Agenda, ‘Time To Cut The Red Tape’ This week, Sounds Australia and Federal Arts Minister Simon Crean appointed Dr Ianto Ware as Australia’s first National Live Music Coordinator, using his expertise to...
New Study Insists Listening To Metal & Hip-Hop Encourages Teenage Delinquency It’s official, listening to Metallica, Eminem, Marilyn Manson, and Skrillex will turn you into a delinquent. At least, that’s according to research from a new...
Bob Dylan To Play Splendour In The Grass 2013? Following on from The Polyphonic Spree’s Tim DeLaughter spilling the beans that the cult-sized psychedelic pop ensemble would be heading to Australia for Splendour In...
Vengaboys Metropolis Fremantle was warped back in time on Saturday as the Vengaboys took the vibrant crowd back to the 90s. With cowboys, sailors, sequins, fluoro,...
MySpace Accused Of Stealing Artists’ Music Following Recent Launch With celebrity popstar Justin Timberlake and investor group Specific Media at the helm, the slick new MySpace re-launched last week, and following years in the social...
PPCA Announces Record Year Of Royalty Payments To Musicians In 2012 In an encouraging result for Australian recoding artists and record labels, the Phonographic Performance Company of Australia LTD (PPCA), the non-profit organisation that provides licenses...
Cub Scouts Frontman Attacked At Gold Coast Big Day Out The Big Day Out is currently jetting its way around the country after completing its first leg, including a successful opening in Sydney last Friday,...
New Order Call Ex-Bassist’s Joy Division Memoir “Bitter & Twisted” The split between former bassist Peter Hook and his old bandmates in New Order has been one of music’s most bitter feuds since 2007, and...
