Tag: "US"

Tornts
0 Comments. 617 Views. Posted 22 Mar 2012 @ 5:56am.
  It might have taken five albums to build up his profile to this level, but check out his latest work on YouTube to understand why it all takes time. A video like Traumatic Cinema can seemingly change your outlook and point of view towards Aussie hip hop in three fleeting minutes. One of the darkest and most creative clips you’ll see in some time, Traumatic Cinema describes the life of a... Read More
Core - March 14, 2012
0 Comments. 1,047 Views. Posted 15 Mar 2012 @ 1:33pm.
There’s something to be said for bands that just get under your skin and stay there. Have you ever noticed how some of the bands that you were obsessed about when you were 15 still ignite great joy when you hear them again ten years later? What is it about bands that we loved around that impressionable age sticking with us despite everything else we fancied then (I’m looking at you pink studded... Read More
The Temper Trap Announce Vivid Sideshows
0 Comments. 1,655 Views. Posted 15 Mar 2012 @ 10:12am.
Following on from their announcement on the incredible Vivid LIVE lineup this morning, The Temper Trap haven't forgot about giving their Melbourne fans a sample of their long-awaited new record. One of the biggest international breakthroughs of the past few years, Temper Trap have taken over the world - thanks in part to the massive smash hit that is Sweet Disposition.   Currently... Read More
Incubus
0 Comments. 1,224 Views. Posted 5 Jan 2012 @ 8:40am.
Me and Mr Boyd, we got a thing going on. Yes, long before Jason Segal and Seth Rogen forced the word ‘bromance’ into the popular lexicon, I had a man-crush on Incubus singer Brandon Boyd – I fell for him hard. 1999’s Make Yourself and Morning View two years later were prescribed texts in my senior years, the former hinting at Incubus’s yearning to separate from the nu-metal pack with potent... Read More
Santina Amato
0 Comments. 922 Views. Posted 23 Nov 2011 @ 9:40am.
With an exhibition title Horses Shed Their Tails Once A Year In The Fall, how can you not be drawn in?! Drawing on nostalgic symbols of childhood, Santina Amato's initial attraction to the carousel was to explore how she could intertwine a child-like aesthetic into societies perspective of human beauty, attraction, sexuality and death. This is the artist's first solo exhibition since returning... Read More
Q&A: Abbe May
0 Comments. 1,363 Views. Posted 11 Oct 2011 @ 8:59am.
The Jagermeister Independent music awards celebrate independent music - what does it mean to you to be an independent artist?  Hard work. What's the biggest challenge to being an independent artist?    I suppose for most independent musicians there is a lower level of resources at hand to assist you. Less money, less help, But more control creatively.   And the best bit?... Read More
Royal Headache Album Launch
1 Comments. 1,979 Views. Posted 7 Oct 2011 @ 10:56am.
Get excited because Sydney-based Royal Headache have a new self-titled LP featuring punk tunes infused with Motown-inspired garage and rock 'n' soul. The four-piece have often been extolled as one of the leaders of Sydney's resurgent DIY punk scene, and have been compared to such local bands as Straight Arrows, Nintendo Police and Bedwettin’ Bad Boys. Having extensively toured the album across... Read More
Incubus Announce Australian Tour
0 Comments. 2,685 Views. Posted 15 Sep 2011 @ 11:35am.
The excitement that I'm currently feeling for this is unsurpassed by pretty much any other level of excitement that I have ever felt before.   Multi-platinum Californian-based alt-funk rockers Incubus will head down under next February for a national tour in support of their seventh studio album, If Not Now, When? Having already teared up arenas around the US, kicking off with a sold-out... Read More
Sade Australian Tour
0 Comments. 2,095 Views. Posted 5 Sep 2011 @ 3:57pm.
My mum's going to be happy about this one. Timeless songstress, Sade Adu, and her crew are set for our shores this December to play their first Australian shows in more than 20 years. Two decades after they last gave Australian fans a live taste of their flawless blend of R&B, soul, jazz and soft rock, the soulful foursome will return with all of their energy to entertain an audience that... Read More
Joakim Visits New Guernica
0 Comments. 1,620 Views. Posted 26 Aug 2011 @ 3:02pm.
France’s Joakim is a hard guy to pin down.  With a background in classical music, US & UK indie rock and jazz it’s no wonder his music traverses all ends of the electronic music spectrum, earning him a reputation for being one of the forefront experimentalists in dance music today. Not to mention his label Tigersushi, playing host to similarly-acclaimed artists like Maurice Fulton, E.S.... Read More
Dream On Dreamer
0 Comments. 2,233 Views. Posted 19 Aug 2011 @ 9:11am.
In just two years Melbourne six-piece Dream On Dreamer have managed to climb to the top of the Australia hardcore heap, but frontman Marcel Gadacz claims his band still has a long way to go. Nope, they don't plan on taking a minute's breather until their final destination - Berlin, Germany. "It's pretty important to me because I was born in Germany," he explains. "I only just came out to... Read More
Chapterfest 2011 Revealed
0 Comments. 1,875 Views. Posted 11 Aug 2011 @ 10:33am.
For the first time since 2009, venerable local stable Chapter Music will gather a ridiculously impressive roster of talent for the 2011 edition of Chapterfest. Headlining the night's proceedings (which includes cheap records, vegie sausages, and previews of upcoming releases) will be US psychedelic luminaries Wet Hair. Rounding out the killer lineup will be an amazing selection of local... Read More
MIFF Week Two: Reviewed in Limerick
0 Comments. 1,930 Views. Posted 10 Aug 2011 @ 1:13pm.
Well, MIFF is over for another year and after 12 films across the two weeks I'm almost movied-out... almost. Below is a quick review of the movies I saw during week two. Feel free to upload your own or check out more here. The Future (US) While the lead tries too hard to be weird, As a couple these two seem sincere, And as rom-coms go, It's more than so-so, With a narrating cat left to steer.... Read More
Arctic Monkeys Tour
0 Comments. 2,519 Views. Posted 2 Aug 2011 @ 10:26am.
After being the first act announced through the agonizing drip-feeding of the Falls Festival line up, the Arctic Monkeys have added a slew of sideshow dates which will see them finally return to Melbourne.  It's been a big year for the Monkeys, which has seen them release their fourth studio album Suck It And See to vast critical acclaim. They've also recently only just taken back to... Read More
The World Of Hip Hop With Shane Scott
0 Comments. 1,902 Views. Posted 29 Jul 2011 @ 11:14am.
You know what I fucking love? Aside from beer, Italian food and free shit you get on aeroplanes, is watching the evolution of an artist. As I'm typing this I have Purpose's mixtape on spin for the umpteenth time this year and it still blows me away. This is an artist that first came to attention on the battle circuit, back when battles had beats and were relevant, and has evolved himself into... Read More
Metalocalypse
0 Comments. 2,082 Views. Posted 20 Jul 2011 @ 2:34pm.
RAWR! So you're a huge US band and you've been tapped to do a cover story for a certain glossy music mag in Australia. You can't be fucked, because you're a huge US band and, pffft, Australia, right? Fuck Australia. Who cares, it's tiny and full of jailbirds with no money to buy merch when you tour anyway - correct? You dog your interview two times. The second time, you're even at a club and... Read More
Appetising Americana
4 Comments. 2,762 Views. Posted 13 Jul 2011 @ 10:14am.
U-S-A! U-S-A! Ok, now that I've gotten your attention, and my patriotism out of the way, onwards to talk about North American cuisine as a growing franchise here in Melb-town. As a matter of fact, most of our food is as obnoxious as the stereotypes you see on TV (fat, fat, and more fat please). What's more exciting is how that perception is starting to change - and just as quickly as the... Read More
Core
0 Comments. 2,391 Views. Posted 31 May 2011 @ 10:57am.
So Soundwave have confirmed those long-lingering rumours of a Title Fight / Touche Amore tour. Oddly, they also confirmed that the Melbourne show is scheduled to take place at one pretty big venue (Billboard) for two pretty teensy tiny bands. Excuse me for a moment while climb up on my high horse, and pensively stroke at my fictional moustache but this doesn't seem like an entirely sound decision... Read More
Return To Gaza
0 Comments. 2,420 Views. Posted 17 May 2011 @ 3:14pm.
'Return To Gaza' is a moving documentary film about one man’s journey of self discovery, back to his troubled ancestral home and the dramatic events that unfold before his eyes while he is there. Fetah Sabawi is a well known Palestinian-Australian musician, former keyboardist with high profile Australian heavy rock act Superheist and now playing in Melbourne based alternative rock band Jericco.... Read More
Avenged Sevenfold Ready To Tour Australia
0 Comments. 6,094 Views. Posted 12 May 2011 @ 2:34pm.
It's been three years, but Avenged Sevenfold are ready to return to Australia. Since their last Australian tour in 2008, Avenged Sevenfold have gone through a lot. With the death of their drummer Jimmy 'The Rev' Sullivan (or The Reverend Tholomew Plague) the band had to reform, inviting Dream Theater's former drummer Mike Portnoy to fill the gap. With him they continued to work on what would... Read More
Amy Meredith Get Educated
0 Comments. 1,196 Views. Posted 28 Apr 2011 @ 12:43pm.
Amy Meredith are all set to celebrate much recent success with a big party tour this May. The Higher Education tour will see Amy Meredith celebrate the huge success that their latest album Restless has brought them over the last year.    They'll be joined by Tonight Alive, an up-an coming female-fronted five-piece pop/punk group from Sydney. Signed to Sony, they sound like... Read More
The Laramie Project – Ten Years Later
0 Comments. 3,739 Views. Posted 28 Apr 2011 @ 9:50am.
In 1998 a brutal hate crime was committed in Laramie, Wyoming that left a young gay student dead and a town in uproar. The crime brought a media swarm that descended and overwhelmed the community, as well as created a swirl of demand for hate crime legislation in the United States. Members of the Tectonic Theatre Project went to Laramie and through interviews with members of the community devised... Read More
The Volatiles : Death In The US
0 Comments. 988 Views. Posted 27 Apr 2011 @ 10:50am.
This tight, uber masculine garage punk act from Melbourne follow in the rich Meanies/Tote tradition of balls-out pub-rock that never appealed to me but is nevertheless widely adored. Death In The US is the lead single from The Volatiles second EP, due out in August, and it showcases a tidy, growling guitar sound with a barking lead vocal. A decent, meaty rock and roll single.... Read More
DZ Deathrays
0 Comments. 2,755 Views. Posted 6 Apr 2011 @ 11:03am.
Attention Melbourne music fans: read on if you want to experience a Death From Above 1979 reunion show, via Brisbane dance/punk two piece DZ Deathrays (formerly just DZ, but more on that insignificant detail later). “We played our show and then literally ran next door to where Death From Above were playing and the line was massive by then and no one was getting in so we just climbed a fire... Read More
Switchfoot To Rock Eastland Carpark
0 Comments. 2,427 Views. Posted 31 Mar 2011 @ 3:01pm.
San Diego rock quintet Switchfoot are returning to Australia this Easter to performer at Eastland Shopping Centre as part of their 2011 world tour.  Formed out of a mutual love of surfing (hence the name) and rock music, Switchfoot began playing in 1996 and have since travelled around the world.  Originally a success in the Christian rock scene, they gained mainstream recognition when... Read More
Marc Maron
0 Comments. 1,978 Views. Posted 30 Mar 2011 @ 8:12am.
Marc is more pissed off than Woody Allen – as a fan coined, he’s an ‘Iggy Pop Woody Allen’ – and he’s heading Down Under to philosophise on those things that have fallen into the butt-crack of your subconscious. Over the last 15 years, Marc has written and performed raw, honest and thought-provoking comedy for print, stage, radio and television, appearing on just about every show in the US that... Read More
Tessa & The Typecast And Others Sign To Major Label
0 Comments. 2,230 Views. Posted 18 Mar 2011 @ 10:50am.
Last year, branching out from the usual Cheap Monday jeans and Wrangler tees, General Pants Co. started up a music label Major Label which tries to give a helping hand to unsigned performers.    Each month Major Label releases three artists' singles and gives them 100% royalties for their work. This month the label has selected three groups from all over... Read More
Chris Lilley Is An Angry Boy
0 Comments. 4,700 Views. Posted 16 Mar 2011 @ 4:14pm.
Angry Boys is big. Very, very big. Produced in conjunction with HBO in the US and sold to the BBC in the UK Chris Lilley has hit the big time. The 12 part series was filmed in over seven months, in three countries, took an entire year to edit and has nearly 100 main roles. This is big.   Lilley, is well known for his two ABC shows We Can Be... Read More
The Amity Affliction Will Destroy Music
0 Comments. 3,164 Views. Posted 16 Mar 2011 @ 3:32pm.
Slap on your battle jacket and combat boots headbangers, there's a hell of a mosh pit coming your way. The Amity Affliction are heading to Melbourne for the Destroy Music Festival and they're bringing some heavy support in the form of a reformed I Killed The Prom Queen, the eccentric Deez Nuts and US metalcore thrashers Of Mice And Men on their first... Read More
Get Ready To Airbourne
0 Comments. 1,850 Views. Posted 9 Mar 2011 @ 3:47pm.
The Warnambool demons of head banging, fist slamming hard rock Airbourne are back this June for a headlining tour after smaching Big Day Out crowds across the nation.   The Airbourne brand of metallic hard rock has taken European and US audiences by storm and the boys are back to Australia after a hectic 2010 packed full of recording their latest slab of... Read More
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