One of the best bands of the year, with one of the best albums of the year, Mumford & Sons are set to appear at the Laneway Festivals this summer and they've also just added a single headline show in Sydney to its itinerary. No news yet on whether there will be other sideshows, so no doubt, this will be one of the hottest tickets to get your hands on.Mumford & Sons released their stunningly, be...
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Londoners Florence and The Machine have had a massive 2009 off the back of their fierce, thrilling, Mercury Prize-nominated debut 'Lungs'.22 year old lead singer Florence Welch is capable of raising roofs with her voice and raising temperatures with her fiery, impassioned performances. Florence is a talent of the kind that emerges only every so often.Replete with soaring melodies and hummable h...
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One of our favourite bands of the year, Hockey, will be playing some sideshows in conjunction with their performances at the Laneway Festivals in February.Dance punk/indie rockers Hockey, hailing from Portland, Oregon will make their way to Australia for the first time.Hockey comprises singer Benjamin Grubin, guitarist Brian White, bassist Jeremy Reynolds, drummer Anthony Stassi and touring key...
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The Black Lips are returning to Australia and unless you'll be out of the country, trusts us, you'll know when they arrive.The Black Lips have a reputation for crazy live shows that have included vomiting (Cole's weird medical condition), urination, nudity, band members kissing (each other and audience members who go on stage), electric mini-car races, fireworks, a chicken, and flaming guitars....
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Liam Gallagher says his songs with his new band are better than Oasis. Of course he does.The 37-year-old singer has been working with every member of Oasis, except brother Noel who quit the group in August, on fresh material and plans to have an album out by July next year.He told MTV Italy: "We've been demoing some songs that we've had about, that we've had for a while. Just doing that, on the...
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Interpol haven't released a new album since 2007's 'Our Love to Admire'. We wish that they would release one every year, but then again, we wish for Radiohead to tour Australia again and that doens't seem likely.Since 'Our Love To Admire', the members of the band have been pretty busy with extracurricular activities: singer Paul Banks' solo project Julian Plenti, bassist Carlos D's short film, ...
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Ellie Goulding is going to be huge. The 22-year-old is the future of pop, if you believe the hype. She is also unbelievably beautiful. She ranks people like Bon Iver, Burial, Passion Pit (she's covered their single Sleepyhead), Bjork, Imogen Heap and, perhaps most intriguingly, Beyonce as her major influences.First taste of Goulding's potential comes in the form of debut single 'Under The Sheet...
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Already causing a stir following their debut EP ‘Mammoth Skull’ and their personally distributed, home-recorded debut album ‘Smoke Over Swanton’, Essex duo Swanton Bombs are set to reach new heights, especially are after their recently released single ‘Doom’ on Young and Lost.The Londoners are making a role for themselves as something like a British Vampire Weekend. Currently putting t
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American band the Local Natives are almost too good to be true. They offer harmonies by the bucket load backed up by a host of instruments. The guys share vocal responsibilities so you’re always going to get a multi-layered different sound, something not many bands can boast. They call themselves a vocal group not a guitar band and apparently spend more time arranging their harmonies than anyth.
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Dinosaur Jr. is an American alternative rock band that first appeared on the scene in 1984.Their distinct sound, characterized by high gain, extensive use of feedback and distortion, and frontman J Mascis's melodic guitar solos, were highly influential in the alternative rock movement of the 1990s, which is exemplified by the success of acknowledged fan Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, among others. The...
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With Big Day Out 2010 well and truly sold out, have no fear for their are some killer sideshows that have just been announced so you can catch your favourite act.Prepare yourself for two weeks of sleep-deprived nights, a burnt hole in your wallet and a liver transplant this January. Dizzee Rascal, Groove Armada, Devendra Barnhart, Calvin Harris, Passion Pit, Mars Volta, Kasabian, The Decemberis...
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NME Magazine have released their 'Top 100 Albums of The Decade' list and The Stroke's debut LP 'Is This It' has been named number one.The Libertines' 2002 debut 'Up the Bracket' came in second, whilst Primal Scream's 'XTRMNTR' came in third.The Strokes' lead frontman Julian Casablancas said: "Does it mean it's a good musical decade or a bad musical decade? I don't know, I'm such a bad judge of ...
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Following on from their stellar performances at last year’s Falls Festival, as well as headline shows in Melbourne and Brisbane and a standout spot supporting Fleet Foxes in Sydney, San Francisco’s raucous, freewheeling, power-percussion, folk-pop sensations, The Dodos, return to Australia in February 2010.Centred around the key elements of fiery drumming and Fahey-infused finger-picking, the
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The 24th Woodford Folk Festival will see 580 acts gathering in the forested valley of Woodfordia, over the six days between the 27th December and the 1st of January. Organisers are eager to point out that whilst Woodford is one of Australia’s largest festivals, the atmosphere remains peaceful and family friendly. It is set in a parkland, one hour’s drive from Brisbane. The site features treed
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Back in June, New York sensations The Rapture announced that co-frontman Mattie Safer had left the group and that the quartet was now a trio. In the blog post announcing Safer's departure, keyboardist Gabe Andruzzi said that the group had "been on a creative tear." The Rapture could have ended, but Pedestrian.TV reports that to harness that "creative tear", they managed to bring in a pretty high c
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We haven't heard much from the Hot Hot Heat camp for a while. Well, apparently they've been stuck inside their new studio working on a new album titled 'Future Breeds'.The Canadian boys have posted a greeting to all their fans on their website explaining their whereabouts."The band and I would like to offer our most sincere apologies for taking so long to finish our most recent recording. The t...
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Though born in California, Canadian raised singer songwriter Patrick Watson, will be performing around the country for Falls Festival (VIC & TAS), Sydney Festival, Sunset Sounds (QLD) and Southbound (WA) as well as a very special performance at the Northcote Social Club.Rising out of Montréal, Canada’s hot spot for inspiring music (Arcade Fire, Leonard Cohen, The Dears and William Shatner!), th
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Experimental Californian noise rock band HEALTH have announced they will be playing three Australian shows in addition to their already confirmed Perth Festival appearance.HEALTH got together in 2007 and quickly built up a reputation for playing free lives shows and were even voted as the Best New Band from California by a Boston newspaper. The band has gone on to support the likes of Nine Inch...
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Those travelling to Golden Plains next March will no doubt be in for a treat when US alt-country band Calexico perform. For those that don't quite make it there, have no fear, for they have just announced that they will be playing a string of sideshows whilst in Australia.After five albums in their catalogue, the band recently released their sixth studio album 'Carried To Dust' to some rave rev...
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Josh Homme (vocals, guitar), Dave Grohl (drums) and John Paul Jones (bass) sneakily got together a few months back and decided to have a bit of a jam together. Well thank god for that 'jam', because they then went on to form Them Crooked Vultures and have just released their self-titled album.Imagine mixing Queens of The Stone Age, Foo Fighters and Led Zeppelin in a blender and adding a smidgen...
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