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  • Tigertown Are Ready To Pop

    Sydney-siders Tigertown have been touring the US non-stop, playing last year's SXSW festival as well as returning this year.


    With their new EP, 'Lonely Cities', now...
  • The Bennies Share Their Wisdom Machine

    There’s no doubt Melbourne party rockers The Bennies would fit right in with the wild-child euphoria of Woodstock.


    The group's follow up album to 2013's ‘Rainbows...
  • 70 Years Of The Blind Boys Of Alabama: Jimmy Carter Looks Back

    People get ready: The Blind Boys Of Alabama are coming.


    With a career spanning seven decades, The Blind Boys are legends of the industry, and this month they're...
  • 5 B-Side Songs With Silver Sircus' James Lees

    Brisbane band Silver Sircus will return to the stage this weekend (Woolly Mammoth 19 March) for the first time in 2016 (aside from the core band performing the Ziggy Stardust

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  • Sunset Cartel @ Crown And Sceptre Hotel Review

    The selection of bands at Crown And Sceptre Hotel on Saturday night (12 March) was incongruous, no doubt. However, the evening was an energetic snapshot of the strength and

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  • DMA's Home Comforts

    DMA’s released their self-titled EP in 2014, quickly building some serious hype and cementing their place on festival line-ups around the world.


    Since then, the...
  • Melissa Etheridge: Still Evolving

    With the dust from this year's Academy Awards still settling, Melissa Etheridge remains amazed at her 2006 win for Best Original Song.


    “When I was growing up in...
  • 2016 Red Hot Summer @ Sandstone Point Hotel Review

    With a hot summer’s day as the backdrop for a true-blue Aussie rock legends’ concert, The Red Hot Summer Tour at Bribie Island’s Sandstone Point Hotel was this year’s

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  • The Rubens: Hottest 100 Champions Headline Groovin The Moo

    After The Rubens’ single ‘Hoops’ was voted #1 song for Triple J's Hottest 100 in January, lead singer Sam Margin went into shock.


    “We didn't believe it,” Sam says...
  • Cold War Kids: Self-Taught Monkeys

    Matt Maust, bassist for the Cold War Kids, is excited about coming back to Australia.


    The band will be touring later this month for Bluesfest and a string of...
  • Natalie Prass @ Black Bear Lodge Review

    In the country for Golden Plains and Panama festivals, Natalie Prass brought her indie-pop stylings to Brisbane (4 March).


    The night began with support act Julia...
  • Clutch @ The Metro Review

    The Metro (4 March) is a cauldron of stoner druids, merch goddesses and punk devils. Shenanigans are afoot.


    I am born into the womb of rock as King Of The North are...
  • Sleater-Kinney @ The Triffid Review

    When Sleater-Kinney reformed, they were one of the few bands for which that announcement can still garner some excitement and enthusiasm.


    Despite overwhelming...
  • The Beards: Bye Bye, Beardy

    After eleven years of relentless touring and inexplicably producing five albums of songs about nothing but facial hair, Australia’s favourite beardy-weirdies are saying

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  • Ear Candy's Easter Resurrection

    Fifty bands, three stages, two days. 'Ear Candy #12: Resurrection’ will be one of the biggest events to arrive in Brisbane this Easter.


    With a dynamic range of...
  • Tweedy: Like Father Like Son

    Tweedy drummer Spencer Tweedy thinks his parents are much cooler than he is.


    Spencer never went through that awkward phase where he found his parents daggy: at...
  • Transvaal Diamond Syndicate: Van Wreckers

    Christian Tryhorn pulls double duty this March as Mojo Burning organiser and featured act with his band Transvaal Diamond Syndicate (TDS).


    As well as Mojo Burning,...
  • The Flawless Felicity Lawless


    Everyone has a story to tell, and Gold Coast bohemian folk-rocker Felicity Lawless is ready to tell them all.


    Felicity’s second studio album, ‘Tails’, is an...
  • Fun Machine's Chris Endrey Joins The Rock & Roll Writers Festival

    Multi-talented musician, writer and comedian Chris Endrey is coming to the Rock & Roll Writers Festival in Brisbane this April.


    A self-proclaimed “generalist...
  • Violent Soho: Under Siege


    Later this month, Brisbane rockers Violent Soho will release their highly-anticipated third album, 'WACO', the follow-up to 2013's runaway sophomore success, 'Hungry

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