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  • Violent Soho Are Back

    After a crazy few years touring America, returning to Brisbane, enduring writer’s block, working horrible part-time jobs and then finally recording their latest album in a

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  • Hermitude: Devils Advocates

    The Blue Mountains duo gear up for January's Falls Festival.


    If any act were made to play Falls Festival, it would be Hermitude. Producers Luke Dubs and Elgusto are...
  • First Splendour In The Grass Leaks

    Sure, Splendour In The Grass is almost eight months away, but it's never too early for details of the bill to start trickling through.


    UK trio London Grammar have...
  • Play A 'Monstrously Huge Cowbell' Onstage With MGMT

    MGMT are offering one fan the chance to join them on stage at this year's Falls Festival.


    The winning audience member will play a "monstrously huge cowbell" during...
  • Ezra Koenig Reviews Drake

    Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig has written a hilarious — and maybe a little patronising — review of Drake's new album, Nothing Was The Same.


    Writing...
  • Grizzly Bear Announce Opera House Sideshow

    Can't get to any legs of the Falls Festival, or WA's Southbound Festival, but can get to the Sydney Opera House? Grizzly Bear have got you covered.


    The...
  • Southbound 2014 Line-up Expands

    WA has rarely had it so good.


    Nearly every single act from the first Falls Festival announcement was also on the bill for its WA sister event, Southbound (The Roots...
  • Falls Festival Line-up Expands

    It's hard to believe, but Falls Festival got a little bigger today.


    The New Year's festival had already announced a massive bill a couple of weeks back, but they've...
  • Southbound 2014 Line-up Announced

    The vast majority of the Falls Festival line-up will also be making the journey to Western Australia for the tenth anniversary of Southbound Festival.


    In fact,...
  • Falls 2013 Line-up Announced

    The Falls Music & Arts Festival — located within the stunning coastal towns of Lorne (Victoria), Marion Bay (Tasmania) and, for the first time, Byron Bay (New South

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  • Beach House: Blooming

    Beach House “easily fall in love with places”, according to multi-instrumentalist Alex Scally. “It’s just the feeling you get in a place. It does something.”


    Last...
  • Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs: Trouble Down Under

    Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs is a dance producer acting like a chef who, having removed the main ingredients of a standard meal, has created something beyond

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  • Bombay Bicycle Club: A Guy Thing

    Last time Bombay Bicycle Club were in Australia, they were supporting fellow English rockers Elbow. Here’s hoping that band’s frontman believes imitation is the sincerest

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  • San Cisco: After Awkward

    San Cisco aren't your ordinary gaggle of teens.


    When I catch up with frontman Jordi Davieson, the indie-pop foursome from WA have just returned from New York (where...
  • The Hives: Viva La Hives

    From experimenting with hardcore punk to enlisting some of the biggest producers in pop, The Hives are like chameleons, continuously adapting their direction.


    And...
  • Falls Music and Arts Festival 2012: New Acts Announced!

    The eagerly awaited Falls Music and Arts Festival has been entertaining Lorne, Victoria, for 20 years and this year once again they are giving us good reason to

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  • Beach House Announce Falls Sideshows

    Returning to Australia in the wake of their fourth album, Bloom, Baltimore dream pop duo Beach House have announced a trio of Falls Festival

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  • Love Lorne: Falls Tickets Sell Out

    Tickets to the anniversary edition of The Falls Music & Arts Festival in Lorne sold out in a heartbeat this morning (assuming your heart beats at 50 minute

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