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News: Bluesfest Byron Bay release stunning second artist announcement for the 2025 festival on news of renewed hope for the continuation of the festival into the future
The second artist announcement for Bluesfest Byron Bay has dropped today, and fans and attendees are in for an amazing treat with 18 Australian artists named in the second lineup announcement. Across blues and roots to contemporary, this announcement has something for everybody – festival favourites making a return, upcoming artists, a special ‘re-uniting for …
Live Gallery and Review: The National at the ICC, Sydney 1.03.2024
The National captivate Sydney audience with lead singer Matt Berninger engaging extensively with the crowd and creating an unforgettable, intimate experience.
News: UK Punk Rock leaders Desperate Measures return with new single ‘Back To The Rats’
New Zealand born, London based rockers Desperate Measures return on May 12th with a banging brand-new single titled ‘Back To The Rats’. Featuring a blazing duel vocal from frontman Eugene Butcher and guitarist Gaff, the song gets to the root of the bands tight, yet chaotic maelstrom of urgent rock n’ roll and hits hard and fast. “It’s …
News: Sea Sessions Surf and Music Festival – Bundoran Ireland, 17-19 June 2022
Festival season is back with a bang and one of Irelands most prestigious festivals is only a few weeks awaynot only a festival but also Irelands biggest beach party. The highly anticipated return of Sea Sessions Surf & Music Festival, the organisers have just added a host more acts to their already jam packed weekend line-up that includes Kodaline, …
News: Swedish rock superstars The Hellacopters sign to Nuclear Blast records – a new album’s due spring 2022
Legendary Swedish high energy hard rock band The Hellacopters have signed with Nuclear Blast records, with a new studio album already in the bag slated for an early 2022 release. Whilst the excitement over a new album – their eighth studio album, and the first all-new material since 2005’s Rock and Roll is Dead (and …
News: Rock fans rejoice as 10,000 gather at Download Pilot Festival
IN A ground-breaking experiment as part of the second phase of the Government’s scientific Events Research Programme, Download Pilot invited 10,000 rock and heavy metal fans back to the hallowed grounds of Donington Park for a three-day camping festival over the weekend of June 18th to 20th. Yes you read that right; no social distancing, no …
See: The video for the riffin’ psych garage swirl of TEKE::TEKE’s ‘Yoru Ni’
MONTREAL’S adopted TEKE:TEKE, the Japanese psych-prog-garage septet who are busy doing all the great things Japanese bands do to trippy guitar music, have released another little cracker ahead of their early May debut for Kill Rock Stars. It’s called “Yoru Ni” and it’s a delicious swirl of back-from-the-grave surf twang, trilling flutes, riffs, cooing vocals, …
News: Apparat to release limited ‘Soundtracks’ vinyl box set mid-April; hear ‘Joel’
SASCHA RING, the German electronica artist who plies his trade as Apparat, is set to release a limited edition four-album box set through Mute in mid-April collecting together a quartet of his recent soundtrack works. It’s the first time these soundtracks will have been available on vinyl, and this rather lush edition will also include …
News: Andy Bell announces trio of EPs and a compilation; see the GLOK remix of ‘Indica’
RIDE guitarist, singer and sonic explorer Andy Bell has announced a series of three EPs and a compilation to keep you satiated with leftfield shoegazey pop supreme right the way from spring to midsummer. It looks lush; see for yourself. The series of EPs is entitled Ever Decreasing Circles and will begin on April 9th …
NEWS: experimental composer and Cocteaus collaborator Harold Budd reported to have passed, aged 84
SAD NEWS this evening as reports began to circulate across social media that the poet, avant-garde composer and pianist Harold Budd, a progenitor of the modern ambient piano style, has died at the age of 84. Budd was born in May 1936 in Los Angeles, but was raised in Victorville, in the Mojave desert. He …