DMA’s Absolutely Killed Their Like A Version Cover Of Cher’s ‘Believe’ Following on from Violent Soho’s superb cover of Silversun Pickups’s ‘Lazy Eye’ last week, triple j have now gone and tapped Newtown’s favourite sons, DMA’s,...
Aussie Education Minister Responds To “Lifestyle Choices” Controversy As we’ve reported, Australia’s creative community is up in arms over comments made by Education Minister Simon Birmingham when announcing changes to the government’s VET...
Gretta Ray Found Out She Won A $50k Music Prize Whilst Studying For Exams Studying for exams can be a stressful and disheartening time. You may be in the middle of studying for exams right now. If you are,...
The Strokes’ New Album “Hopefully Coming Next Year” The Strokes recently confirmed they’re back in the studio and working on a follow-up to 2013’s Comedown Machine. Guitarist Nick Valensi, who’s currently busying himself...
How A Ground-Breaking Australian Music Festival Gets Born If we asked you to name some Australian music festivals, we have no doubt you’d be able to throw names at us all day. But...
Tempus Sun Crowned Winners Of Melbourne Music Bank 2016 After rounding the long-list down to just four finalists, the organisers of Melbourne Music Bank have crowned Tempus Sun as this year’s winner. The group...
“Days Are Numbered” For Heritage-Listed Aussie Music Venue After Developer Purchase The future of a beloved, heritage-listed live music venue in Adelaide has been placed in jeopardy with the news that a local property developer has...
Tool Have Two Albums’ Worth Of New Music, But Only Five Songs They’re Happy With It appears the rumours that Tool have been hard at work in the studio recording new music for a long-awaited follow-up to 2006’s 10,000 Days...
Gang Of Youths & More Slam Education Minister For Calling Creative Careers A “Lifestyle Choice” If you haven’t checked your Facebook feed this week, Australia’s musicians are standing arm in arm with the creative community to hold up a great...
St Kilda Festival Returns For Its 37th Year In 2017 St Kilda Festival organisers are getting ready to celebrate the festival’s 37th year as Australia’s largest free music festival and as one of Melbourne’s favourite...
Fairfax Journo Labels Musicians “Ungrateful” & “Entitled” For Wanting To Get Paid For Gigs Last week we reported on Sydney reggae outfit Black Bird Hum, who’d taken to their official Facebook page to hit out at Fairfax corporation after...
Tool’s ‘Part Of Me’ & Rage’s ‘Killing In The Name’ Were Written During The Same Jam Session Maynard James Keenan is a man as complex as his music, so it’s no surprise his new authorised autobiography, aptly titled A Perfect Union of...
