Core - April 25, 2012
0 Comments. 564 Views. Posted 26 Apr 2012 @ 6:02am.
Core- April 25 Dear Inexperienced Security Staffers Assigned to Various Venues When Bands of the Punk/Hardcore Persuasion Are Headlining, I hope this letter finds you well, and that it does not long distract you from lifting heavy things before your beaming reflection. I would like to suggest a couple points of basic etiquette that are expected from you at a show. Though a security expert I may... Read More

ahab @ The Toff In Town
0 Comments. 882 Views. Posted 3 Apr 2012 @ 2:48pm.
Port Fairy might sound like a quiet hamlet of elderlies, but a few weekends ago, more than 150,000 folk fans spilled through the little town for the annual Port Fairy Folk Music Festival. And it would seem, from the turnout on Thursday March 15, that a large portion of them were floored by London four-piece ahab. Hailing from the borough of Hackney, ahab’s sound is straight from the American... Read More

Jackson Firebird : Quang Dang
0 Comments. 815 Views. Posted 28 Mar 2012 @ 1:42pm.
The Mildura two-piece have served up a by-the-numbers garage rock number that's even dryer than the Murray River. Distorted vocals, stout rifts and a general lack of cohesion. Skip. Read More

Push Over 2012 @ Abbotsford Convent
0 Comments. 1,644 Views. Posted 20 Mar 2012 @ 8:34am.
  It’s summer and it’s Melbourne, one of the greatest cities on earth for live music so it goes without saying that there are tons of gigs and festivals to go to if you’re a music fan. But with more gigs being 18+ these days, what are you going to do if you ‘re a music loving youngster? Push Over 2012, Melbourne’s greatest all ages event, that’s what.   Held this year on labour day at... Read More

Q&A: Pieta Brown & The Sawdust Boys
0 Comments. 894 Views. Posted 7 Mar 2012 @ 9:06am.
Define your genre in five words or less: Prairie stomp.   So, someone is walking past as you guys are playing, they then go get a beer and tell their friend about you... what do they say? "Wow!  Pieta Brown really has her own sound!"   How long have you been gigging and writing? I've been gigging for ten years...writing in my notebook and making up songs since I can remember.... Read More

Radio Monash Launch Party
1 Comments. 1,129 Views. Posted 1 Mar 2012 @ 10:14am.
With an illustrious history behind the station that extends all the way back to 1965, entirely student-operated community radio station Radio Monash has developed a fearsome reputation for inspiring and cultivating a passion for the music industry among the generation’s brightest young minds, and trust us, they breed 'em right.  Join Melbourne's most dedicated team of new-generation party... Read More

Yacht Club DJs Tour
0 Comments. 1,600 Views. Posted 9 Feb 2012 @ 10:04am.
Beat are proudly presenting Australia's own mash-up maestros the Yacht Club DJs, when they hit the road throughout March and April on the “They Mostly Come At Night...Mostly” tour.  Frightening both capital cities and regional towns, including Toowoomba, Byron Bay, Gold Coast, Geelong, Ballarat, Hobart, Wollongong, Canberra and Newcastle, Yacht Club DJs take to the stage with their take on... Read More

Harry James Angus Band
0 Comments. 870 Views. Posted 8 Feb 2012 @ 9:09am.
  “The last time I played at St Kilda Festival was with Jackson Jackson and it was the day of the bushfires, and it was a strange feeling,” recounts Harry James Angus. “It was hot and everyone just heard that something was happening out in the hills, you know such a strange vibe. So hopefully this will be a bit more fun than last time.” The Melbourne based musician has got to be one of the... Read More

Grouplove, Wednesday January 4, The Corner Hotel
0 Comments. 1,067 Views. Posted 24 Jan 2012 @ 2:46pm.
  Undercolours staged a flaccid, unadventurous set, effectively typifying the fate of your average support act - that is to say, while there was nothing truly objectionable about the band, that may have been the problem precisely. Undercolours’ complacent Triple M rock repertoire failed to pack much of a punch, any lasting impressions eluding the Corner crowd. Their set, while accomplished... Read More

Core - January 18, 2012
0 Comments. 888 Views. Posted 19 Jan 2012 @ 12:44pm.
  Well well well. Look what we have here. A Refused reunion . For years now I’ve been hearing rumours about the substantial sums of money Coachella have been offering similar seminal bands to forget their past indiscretions and reform for the festival. Apparently with each new year the offers become more and more generous, making it harder and harder for bands to resist the urge. At The... Read More

Meredith Music Festival 2011
0 Comments. 5,216 Views. Posted 13 Dec 2011 @ 1:44pm.
Well, that was a special one. We braced ourselves, mentally and gumboots-wise, for what was set to be a storm to rival that of the infamously soggy 2008 incarnation. It seemed like everyone overcompensated when the weather turned out to be as perfect as you could hope for, with a rubberband effect ensuring the hardest party-hard mindset imaginable. The lads from populace local outfit King... Read More

Spicks And Speck-tacular Adds Fourth Show
0 Comments. 1,248 Views. Posted 28 Nov 2011 @ 10:03am.
Unlike our good friend John Farnham whose farewell tours seem more frequent than a regular person’s trip to the bathroom, the Spicks And Specks team have called it quits for good!  Much to the displeasure of many Australian fans, the show ended after seven years, 277 episodes, more than 150 guests and a whole heaps of laughs. Melbourne, you love them and they love you! Due to an... Read More

Melbourne Fringe Festival Awarded Best Major Event
0 Comments. 943 Views. Posted 16 Nov 2011 @ 4:11pm.
Substantially beneficial for Victoria on an economic, cultural and artistic level The Melbourne Fringe Festival was awarded Best Major Event or Festival at the RACV Victorian Tourism Awards generating a total expenditure of $21.4m last year. Melbourne Fringe reflective of independent arts, each year comprises a large and diverse range of art forms and audiences who come together to experience... Read More

Snowy Belfast : Stones
0 Comments. 1,210 Views. Posted 9 Nov 2011 @ 3:24pm.
On Stones, Melbourne's Snowy Belfast play a kind of beardless bushranger folk. The recording is a bit flat, but the drums are clearly meant to thunder, the banjo meant to roll ominously. The biggest problem is singer Esther Holt, whose voice is tuneful but dull, a clean and bloodless chorister's voice that is just no good for the dark ambitions of their music. Read More