Al Newstead

New Music Gadgets Unveiled Including Motörhead’s Anti-Beats Headphones

The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) sees companies and technology developers the world over showing off their latest electronic innovations, goofy gadgets, and fancy designs...

New Three Day Music Festival Planned For The Whitsundays

Regional parts of Australia have been getting a lot of love from music festival organisers in the last 6 months, and now, following on from...

SXSW 2013 Confirms 40 Aussie Acts, Announces Aussie BBQ

With SXSW 2013, the world’s largest and perhaps most influential music industry conference, drawing ever closer, the complete list of artists who’ll be flying the...

David Byrne & St. Vincent

“I first heard David’s music when I was 3 years old,” says Annie Clark ahead of the evening’s first of two encores. “In a movie...

Beach House

One guy playing a violin has never been so enthralling to watch and Wintercoats, aka James Wallace, is exactly that. With the help of an...

Metal Drummer Seeks Aussie Asylum After Fleeing Iran’s ‘Evil Music’ Prejudice

While 2012 may be remembered as the year that controversial Russian punk collective Pussy Riot were jailed, gained support from the music industry and humanities...

Music Retail Giant HMV Goes Into Administration

The crumbling of the Allans Billy Hyde music retail empire last year, sinking amongst debts of nearly $40 million with hundreds of job at risk,...

Sydney’s Newest Music Venue Bridges Gap But Faces Stigma

Following a year of severe flux to its music scene, Sydney could certainly use with a more positive spin on its live music scene following...

The Killers

As its namesake suggests, Battle Born – the fourth studio album from Las Vegas’ most famous musical exports, The Killers – was indeed birthed from...

Every Member Of Pond To Release Solo Album On The Same Day

You’d think that after what was a mightily successful year behind them, that the members of Perth’s band of the moment Tame Impala would have earned...

New Gods

Having supported the likes of Alt-J and The Rubens in 2012, as well as releasing an extremely accomplished debut EP, Melbourne five-piece New Gods were...

Nightwish

Finnish symphonic metal legends Nightwish return to our shores, pushing their self-confessed grandiose boundaries with the launch of Imaginaerum, an audio and visual production. Their...

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