Al Newstead

SRH Festival: Suicidal Tendencies, Unwritten Law, The Dudesons

Melbourne nightclub Billboard got considerably tougher when punk rockers, Suicidal Tendencies and Unwritten Law, along with Finnish mischief-makers The Dudesons rolled into the joint for...

Three Aussie Acts Make Top 50 Most Blogged Artists List For 2012

As the year draws to a close, many notably industry and music media institutions have added to the pile of year-end lists. There was Spotify’s...

Aussie Vintage Guitar Retailer Goes Under, Takes $850K Of Consigned Stock With It

It’s been a sorry year for music retailers, what with the Allans Billy Hyde debacle that saw the popular retail chain placed into receivership, with debts...

Bombay Bicycle Club

Though they’re three albums deep in their young careers – and with number four in the works – Bombay Bicycle Club have clocked up a...

360 Abruptly Splits From Booking Agency, Sets Sights On USA

Following on from claiming the ARIA award for Best Breakthrough Artist at this year’s ceremony off the back of his double platinum selling album Falling & Flying,...

Australians Stream Half Billion Videos, But Local Acts Snubbed

Just as the Music Network’s Hot 100 poll revealed that commercial radio’s most heard songs of the year showed a disastrous lack of Australian talent,...

The Key Of Sea: Live Concert

Acoustic ballads, jittery Mediterranean folk, smoky melodies, Kurdish traditional instrumentation, frenetic Aghani love songs, gypsy-esque pop-rock, blasted South African jazz, low-key crooning, explosive Afropop… For...

Gotye

A self-entitled “show of contrasts,” Mr. Wally De Backer, aka Gotye’s concerto performance at Brisbane’s Riverstage was, as stated, a performance. There’s an indistinct yet...

Alexisonfire

It’s a surreal experience knowing something is going to be the last time. A year after the announcement of Alexisonfire’s split came the news of...

Iconic 70s Live Music Venue Calls Last Drinks In Melbourne

It’s been a tumultuous year for live music venues across Australia, with just as many opening their doors as closing them, but one iconic pub...

Django Django

Django Django are not named after the pioneering jazz guitarist Django Reinhart, the new Quentin Tarantino movie, or the web framework (probably). Rather than wasting...

Dave Grohl’s All-Star Rockumentary Gets A-Grade Soundtrack

With its historical rock subject and all-star list of names, Dave Grohl’s Sound City: Reel To Real, a documentary about the LA studio of the same name...

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