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Fear Factory Announce 2013 Australian Tour
0 Comments. 353 Views. Posted 23 May 2013 @ 11:53am.
Returning to Australia this July, metal titans Fear Factory will be performing their landmark album Demanufacture live and in full. The band's second studio LP, Demanufacture has stood the test of time and stands as one of the defining artefacts of industrial metal. This tour will be the first time Australian fans can embrace the album wholly in the live setting.   Photo credit: Stephanie... Read More
Earl Sweatshirt
0 Comments. 371 Views. Posted 22 May 2013 @ 10:31am.
Earl Sweatshirt returned from two years at a Samoan reform school with a new song called Chum last year, but instead of a howl of triumph celebrating his freedom, we heard him sounding unusually vulnerable. “I’m indecisive, I’m scatter-brained and I’m frightened,” he admitted, finishing the final verse with, “Been back a week and I already feel like calling it quits.” It wasn’t the... Read More
Babyshambles Announce 2013 Melbourne Show
0 Comments. 599 Views. Posted 21 May 2013 @ 9:29am.
Many were pleasantly surprised to see ol' mate Pete Doherty and co. gracing this year's Splendour In The Grass lineup. Now Melbourne Babyshambles fans are in for a treat, with the band announcing a headline show at The Palace. The upcoming tour will mark Pete Doherty's first ever visit to Australia in any guise, bringing with him Babyshambles well-loved catalogue of hits - plus we can expect a... Read More
Passion Pit Announce 2013 Australian Tour
0 Comments. 313 Views. Posted 14 May 2013 @ 7:34am.
Already announced on the freakin' massive Splendour In The Grass lineup, electro pop maestros Passion Pit have locked in two Melbourne appearances. Last year saw the release of the hugely successfull Gossamer, and album that follows the pristine pop canon established with earlier releases Manners and Chunk Of Change. Read More
Stereophonics to Tour Australia
0 Comments. 271 Views. Posted 10 May 2013 @ 3:24pm.
Welsh rockers Stereophonics will be returning to Australian shores for the first time since 2010. Stereophonics have been making music for over 20 years. In 1998 they won the Brit Award for Best New Band and have had five consecutive UK #1 albums in the lead up to their latest. Their critically acclaimed eighth studio release Graffiti on the Train has been one of the most revered to date.... Read More
The Gaslight Anthem
0 Comments. 222 Views. Posted 9 May 2013 @ 11:19am.
There’s no getting around the fact that The Gaslight Anthem write sad songs. The New Jersey rockers make the kind of tunes that you can put on as you crack open a beer and think about the old days. Even an energetic song likeThe ’59 Sound has an aching sadness at its core. As drummer Benny Horowitz tells it, the guys in the band aren’t the type to talk about their feelings, so it all comes... Read More
Dave Hause
0 Comments. 217 Views. Posted 2 May 2013 @ 11:33pm.
Dave Hause is relaxing pre-show in Syracuse, New York. He crossed the American border a few hours previous and is in need of some time to prepare himself for another night on The Revival Tour, a communal tour organised by Chuck Ragan of Hot Water Music featuring many of today’s most inspiring punk rockers and songwriters. The night previous in Toronto, Canada was a little more demanding than... Read More
Happy Mondays Reschedule 2013 Australian Tour
0 Comments. 398 Views. Posted 30 Apr 2013 @ 10:54am.
Influential UK rockers Happy Mondays have announced rescheduled dates for their upcoming Australian tour.  Replacing Peter Hook's DJ set support, as he is unable to make the new dates, are special guests 808 State, also doing a DJ set. All tickets previously purchased are valid for this next set of dates. Read More
The Buzzcocks
0 Comments. 188 Views. Posted 19 Apr 2013 @ 8:53am.
“For me, punk was more that it was an art movement, because it drew a lot of inspiration from things like Situationists, and Dada, and Surrealists,” muses Buzzcocks guitarist and singer Pete Shelley. “There were a lot of those types of ideas going on, and, also who can forget anarchism?” Shelley had been studying philosophy at college when he met art student Howard Devoto; famously, the... Read More
Public Image Limited @ The Palace
0 Comments. 427 Views. Posted 16 Apr 2013 @ 2:41pm.
John Lydon’s choice of name for his post-Sex Pistols outfit was a typically blunt swipe at both the cynical media-manipulation tactics of Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, and the mainstream media’s puerile attempts at constructing the political agenda. Two days before tonight’s PiL gig – the band’s first journey here in almost 25 years – Lydon again found himself at the centre of public... Read More
Coheed & Cambria
0 Comments. 584 Views. Posted 16 Apr 2013 @ 1:24pm.
It’s impossible to know where to start when introducing someone to the New York-based prog rock and concept-heavy band Coheed and Cambria. Singer, guitarist and creative powerhouse Claudio Sanchez developed Coheed and Cambria in Paris in 1998 when his former band, Toxic Parents, dissolved and his side project moved into a full-time role. Around that time he was also writing his science fiction/... Read More
Matt Corby Announces 2013 Australian Tour
0 Comments. 363 Views. Posted 16 Apr 2013 @ 10:59am.
Australia's foremost folk heartbreaker Matt Corby has announced a huge homecoming tour. The tour will be his first in over a year in Australia, after crushing it majorly overseas. The tour will be a taste of what's to come from Matt's debut album, due later this year.   Joining Matt on tour will be special guest Grace Woodroofe Read More
Super Wild Horses
0 Comments. 187 Views. Posted 11 Apr 2013 @ 12:59pm.
Breaking through with a stripped back, scrappy garage acumen befitting of their two-piece nature on the debut album Fifteen, Super Wild Horses have elevated to a higher aural ground with their second LP Crosswords. Retaining their tonal roots, Amy Franz and Hayley McKee explore a broader gamut of rock‘n’roll history, showcasing a reverence for Spector pop to swirling psychedelia.... Read More
Flamin’ Groovies
0 Comments. 216 Views. Posted 9 Apr 2013 @ 12:46pm.
Flamin’ Groovies guitarist Cyril Jordan has got a stack of rock’n’roll stories, from the deranged to the salacious, from the ridiculous to the downright absurd. But I’m mainly interested in the rumoured narcotic encounter between Jordan and Ted Kennedy, the brilliant but flawed younger brother of John F Kennedy and Robert Kennedy. “In 1968 when Bobbie was running for President, the Flamin’... Read More
Circa Survive
0 Comments. 199 Views. Posted 4 Apr 2013 @ 6:14pm.
“It is a long flight, but it’s one of those things where if it wasn’t worth it, you wouldn’t see so many bands trying to get there so often.” Overseas bands seem to love coming to tour Down Under, despite the epic length of the flight from just about anywhere else in the world, and Colin Frangicetto from Philadelphia based alternative rock band Circa Survive is no exception. “Everyone... Read More
The Black Angels 2013 Australian Tour
0 Comments. 454 Views. Posted 3 Apr 2013 @ 9:28am.
After rapturous acclaim for their Harvest Festival 2012 performances, The Black Angels are returning to our shores armed with their powerful fourth album Indigo Meadow.  Having formed their fearsome reputation in the live realm, The Black Angels will once again deliver their visionary psychadelic sermons.   Check out our Beat TV interview with them here. Read More
The Menzingers
0 Comments. 171 Views. Posted 2 Apr 2013 @ 2:08pm.
This punk band from Pennsylvania in the States has only visited our shores on one previous occasion, and that was for Soundwave in early 2012. Guitarist and singer Greg Barnett, speaking from his home in Philadelphia, has some pretty fond and funny memories of that tour. “It was huge. It was actually quite surreal, hanging out backstage, and it was like, ‘Hey Fred Durst, how are ya?’” he... Read More
Pennywise
0 Comments. 238 Views. Posted 2 Apr 2013 @ 1:04pm.
In 2009, Pennywise’s original vocalist Jim Lindberg departed from the seminal punk-rock four-piece after 20 years of service. Instead of giving up, the remaining three members recruited Zoli Teglas (frontman of melodic hardcore act Ignite) and released their 10th LP All Or Nothing in 2012. However, Teglas’ tenure was short-lived and the band have just wrapped up their first... Read More
Azealia Banks @ The Palace
0 Comments. 545 Views. Posted 26 Mar 2013 @ 1:42pm.
It’s been nearly two years since Azealia Banks burst through with the all-conquering 212. In that time, Banks has been relatively unproductive in the age of rappers’ prolificacy. There has been the middling mixtape, Fantasea, and the solid yet perfunctory EP 1991. People also grew to dislike Azealia Banks. I tried not to, but I did. I like Azealia as an aesthete, heck, I don’t even mind the #... Read More
Peter Hook To Support Happy Mondays
0 Comments. 272 Views. Posted 25 Mar 2013 @ 6:50pm.
Ahead of the first ever Australian tour by the original lineup of Manchester's Happy Mondays, the band have announced that they will be joined by Joy Division and New Order founding member, and Manchester legend in his own right Peter Hook playing a special DJ set at each Australian show. Plus as a special treat for Melbourne fans, Happy Mondays and Peter Hook will also be joined by Australian... Read More
My Bloody Valentine @ The Palace
0 Comments. 241 Views. Posted 12 Mar 2013 @ 5:19pm.
With bated breath, the whole auditorium is on tippy toes (aside from the freakishly tall amongst us) to catch a glimpse of Shields & Co as they make their grand entrance. With few words they launch straight into I Only Said from 1991’s Loveless; it sounds amazing. I have to pinch myself to make sure I’m not dreaming. Can you believe it? In the space of a week, I have seen MBV perform twice!... Read More
Katatonia
0 Comments. 826 Views. Posted 12 Mar 2013 @ 4:17pm.
If there’s one band in the world suited to touring with the mighty Opeth, it’s Katatonia. They come from the same country, and their respective sounds are very complementary to each other. You can draw several parallels between their careers: both formed in the early '90s and both have released nine or ten albums. Oh, and they’re great mates as well. Both bands’ relationships with our country... Read More
Opeth
0 Comments. 187 Views. Posted 8 Mar 2013 @ 7:16am.
Every morning you woke up in the past 18 months there was a 50/50 chance that somewhere in the world Opeth were about to melt some faces. Since releasing their tenth studio album Heritage towards the end of 2011 they have played around 200 shows around the world. They’re about to return to Australia to add a couple more. “We were pretty consistent in the early stages of the tour,”... Read More
Dig It Up! 2013 Adds Local Acts
0 Comments. 288 Views. Posted 26 Feb 2013 @ 9:45am.
After a red-hot first announcement from Hoodoo Gurus' sophomore Dig It Up! invitational, a bevy of local talent has been added to the mix. Added to the Melbourne leg are The Moodists - a post-punk super-group featuring Dave Graney, Clare Moore, Steve Miller, Chris Walsh and Mick Turner - Ron S.Peno & The Superstitions, Super Wild Horses, The Straight Arrows, Bored Nothing... Read More
Cradle Of Filth Announce 2013 Australian Tour
0 Comments. 906 Views. Posted 18 Feb 2013 @ 10:52am.
UK black metal titans Cradle Of Filth have announced their return to Australia with a massive national tour. Crushing bodies and minds for over two decades, Cradle Of Filth showed no signs of letting up with last year's release of The Manticore and Other Horrors - their tenth full-length release.   Prepare for darkness to descend upon Melbourne this May. Read More
Manu Chao To Visit Melbourne
0 Comments. 3,979 Views. Posted 4 Feb 2013 @ 10:14pm.
Along with his festival appearances this Easter, the multilingual and incredibly diversely-influenced Manu Chao and his band La Ventura have been confirmed to play a headline show in Melbourne. Fuelled creatively by the inspiration drawn from street culture and the local bar scene in his now home-base, Barcelona, Chao has eclectically gathered influences from a myriad of genres and styles from... Read More
Pennywise Reschedule Tour
0 Comments. 587 Views. Posted 1 Feb 2013 @ 12:41pm.
Last last year, Pennywise announced the return of original vocalist Jim Lindberg, and have also finally announced their return to Melbourne for a tour in April this year. This year also marks the band's 25th anniversary, with their first album Pennywise released back in 1991.   The band plans to tour in August last year, however had to postpone the shows when then-front man Zoli Téglás... Read More
The Killers @ The Palace
0 Comments. 749 Views. Posted 29 Jan 2013 @ 12:23pm.
Brandon Flowers is a professional frontman. On stage tonight he looked filled with utter glee, gaping with incredulity at both the adoring fans and The Palace Theatre’s intricate architecture. His performance demeanour made the audience feel as if something about this particular show impressed the band, rather than it just being another night at the office. The Killers inspire devotion and there... Read More
The Gaslight Anthem Announce 2013 Australian Tour
0 Comments. 910 Views. Posted 24 Jan 2013 @ 10:49am.
Following on from the triumphant 2012 release of Handwritten, The Gaslight Anthem have announced a sprawling Australian tour in 2013. Rising up from punk knockabouts to one of the most respected rock acts to emerge from contemporary New Jersey, The Gaslight Anthem have taken the world's stages by storm with their uplifting body of work.   Updated: after selling out their first show a second... Read More
Opeth Announce 2013 Australian Tour
1 Comments. 1,070 Views. Posted 18 Jan 2013 @ 9:54am.
In a career spanning two decades, Swedish outfit Opeth have established themselves as the masters of progressive metal. No strangers to our shores, the band have announced their triumphant return to Australia. Opeth have built a reputation for an incredible live show that more than lives up to the legacy of their recorded output.   Previous Opeth tours of Australia have sold out quickly,... Read More
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