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  • Future Music Festival @ RNA Showgrounds Review

    Last Saturday, March 1, Brisbane hosted the first of the Future Music Festival events at the RNA Showgrounds.


    At the Future Music Stage, 17-year-old Dutch DJ Martin...
  • Avenged Sevenfold Sydney Review @ Big Top Luna Park

    For a headliner that’s filled arenas like the Entertainment Centre, it’s surprising that Avenged Sevenfold (A7X) hasn’t managed to sell out The Big Top. But that’s OK — it

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  • Jimmy Eat World Sydney Review @ The Hi-Fi

    It’s a Monday night. A school night. Doors to The Hi-Fi won’t open until 7.30pm, and yet, like a rite of passage, the black shirted punk fans are sitting diligently outside

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  • Earth Frequency 2014 Review

    For someone who’s been to all kinds of different festivals and music events during the last decade or so, the experience I had at Earth Frequency will be a lasting

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  • Soundwave Brisbane Review 2014

    It was gloomy, grey and overcast as thousands of metal fans of all shapes and sizes converged upon the RNA Showgrounds for Soundwave on Saturday (February

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  • Bruce Springsteen Live Review: Perth

    Bruce Springsteen opened his sold-out Australian tour with the first of three shows at the Perth Arena last night, less than a year after his 2013 Wrecking Ball tour of the

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  • Laneway Festival BNE 2014 Review

    “You guys are very fuckin' lucky.”


    Frightened Rabbit frontman Scott Hutchison takes a break during the Scottish folk rockers' set to remind us of...
  • Port Royal Street Party Review 2014

    When the Fennell Street neighbours decided to host an old-school street party, they enlisted some festival-savvy friends to bring to life a dream of live punk rock bands,

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  • Snoop Dogg & Major Lazer Live Review

    The Snoop Dogg, Major Lazer and Flosstradamus Big Day Out sideshow was an opportunity for Brisbane punters to get up close and sweaty with some true giants of their

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  • Big Day Out 2014 @ Metricon Stadium Review

    Reviewers Rohan Williams, David Miso and Myjanne Jensen take on BDO's first year at its new home.


    Pretty, pretty, pretty good.

    These are my first...
  • Mudhoney + Feedtime @ The Zoo Review

    For more than 25 years, Seattle's Mudhoney have lead the 'grunge' rock movement and they've not lost an once of the energy that launched both them and the Sub Pop record

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  • Video: Let Them Eat Cake 2014

    On January 1, 2014 revellers made their way to Melbourne's Werribee Mansion to enjoy a sold-out Let Them Eat Cake Festival.


    It promised a one-day-only...
  • Falls Festival 2014 Byron Bay Live Review

    I didn’t know what to expect from the inaugural edition of Falls Festival at North Byron Parklands; however, the music, the art, the food, the atmosphere, the amphitheatre,

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  • Me First And The Gimme Gimmes @ The Hi-Fi 04.10.13

    The Hi-Fi in Brisbane’s West End played host to infamous punk rock cover band Me First And The Gimme Gimmes as they passed through town on their current Australian tour with

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  • Sprung Festival Review 2013

    As the sun’s rays shone down from above, Brisbane’s Aussie hip hop massive descended on Victoria Park for the third incarnation of Sprung.


    Arriving just in time for...
  • BIGSOUND 2013 Live Night Two Review

    After the first night of BIGSOUND Live rocked the collective socks off an unsuspecting populace, could the second night possibly live up to its memory? James Pearson, Daniel

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  • BIGSOUND Live Night One Review 2013

    Fortitude Valley scrubbed itself up for BIGSOUND once again this week, playing host to the music industry's most respected power players and most entertaining degenerates.

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  • Guttermouth @ Tempo Hotel 31.08.13

    Southern-Californian punk rock staples Guttermouth recently hit Australian shores for their last ever tour down under, and with an epic list of tour dates including “some of

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  • Barefoot Divas - Brisbane Powerhouse - 26.07.13

    Through story and song The Barefoot Divas empower women on their Walk A Mile In My Shoes tour.


    Radiating from the stage is raw emotion in its purest form, vibrating...
  • Splendour In The Grass 2013 Review

    We may as well get the obligatory mud mention out of the road first: wading through mire at the new Splendour site was unavoidable this year, but as usual, it was nothing

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