Marcia Howard announces CD launch shows

With a career spanning 30 years, including time in triple Aria award-winning band Goanna and as a The Voice Season 5 contestant, talented Australian musician Marcia Howard has announced two launch shows for her fifth studio album, Everything Reminds Me.

Bill Chambers with Arna Georgia, Nancie Schipper at The Loft

Bill Chambers will be gracing the stage at The Loft on Wednesday September 6 to share his brand of diverse heart warming country music that is engrained with deep blues roots.

The Beards Release Video of Their Last Ever Show On Comb-Shaped USB Stick

Because why the hell not?!

Matt Joe Gow serves his time

Matt Joe Gow came to our attention through The Dead Leaves before releasing his debut solo album.

Salad Boys: the healthy choice

New Zealand’s Salad Boys took their first steps in 2012.

Heartsounds Announce East Coast Australian Tour

Kickass San Fran punk rock quartet Heartsounds have announced an Aussie tour this Spring.

London Grammar on their festival-ready album ‘Truth Is A Beautiful Thing’

For Dominic ‘Dot’ Major, Hannah Reid and Dan Rothman, their band London Grammar has unintentionally lived up to its name.

Grampians Music Festival – big mountains and huge sounds

Setting up in one of Australia’s most picturesque national parks next February, three-day Victorian event Grampians Music Festival is one to mark on the calendar.

King Parrot Announce ‘Ugly Produce’ Australian Tour Dates

Australia’s unhinged extreme metal villains King Parrot return with Ugly Produce, their third and finest long player to date, later next month (Sep 22).

Lakyn Releases New Single ‘West’ and October Tour

Receiving its first play this week on triple j’s Home & Hosed, ‘West’ is about Lakyn’s own ambition and self-worth

Melbourne headliners are confirmed for next year’s For The Love

Lock in February 17 under the palms at Riva St Kilda, the music & Lifestyle brand offers an amazing experience high profile artists and create unforgettable summer moments at iconic locations around the world.

PUP release the coolest video ever!

An interactive, choose-your-adventure video for “Old Wounds”

Benny Walker embarks on solo tour next month

Taking to the road for a solo tour titled ‘Wine Women & Soul’ Benny will play in a ‘cabaret seating’ at intimate venues across Australia this October.

Geelong’s Tiber drops his intense new track

Tiber (aka Daniel Modica) has made a career of jumping to the next level and had just released his immense new single, ‘Good 4 U’.

The Cactus Channel on all things in cactus country

When a group of high school friends were drawn together by a shared interest in music, The Cactus Channel would quickly come to be.

Maldon Folk Festival – what you should expect at the 44th legendary folk experience

The Maldon Folk Festival has been going for more than four decades, and it still offers festival goers a legendary folk experience across 12 venues over four days.

Full of the Devil Electric

Devil Electric is a Melbourne band that likes to mix blues tones with the darker shades of rock’n’roll.

Pete Murray tickets remain

ickets still remain for Pete Murray at Geelong’s Wool Exchange and Entertainment Complex Saturday night, August 26.

Sister duo, MAIIAM take the crown at Melbourne’s Your Shot DJ comp

Sister duo, MAIIAM (aka Dijok Mai and Titchiang Mai) – models, designers, and now DJ’s, put on a fantastic show at this years Your Shot competition which earned them the winning title for Melbourne, alongside wild card The Fields A.K.A. Andre Stahlohofen & Dajana Dedic.

Surf Coast’s Immy Owusu releases his ‘Narcissistically Self-Titled and Debut EP’

Surf Coast denizen Immy Owusu is a multi-instrumental songwriter, known primarily as the drummer for young indigenous powerhouse Yirrmal and former drummer for Surf Coast rockers Children of the Sun. And he has just released his debut EP.

Kim Churchill on his sixth studio album Weight_Falls

As far as his tens of thousands of fans across the country and around the world are concerned, the sandy-haired, ex-barefoot busker we know and love as Kim Churchill can do no wrong.

Beloved live music venue is set to close its doors

Suttons House of Music recently announced that they will be closing at the end of October. Since opening as a music venue in 2014 they have hosted 600 gigs, with a wide variety of performers passing through the doors.

Stone Sour on pushing themselves, expanding on the past and their most experimental release to date

After accumulating countless Grammies in the past, there was no surprise when Hydrograd, Stone Sour’s sixth studio album debuted at number one on three different Billboard charts.

Jess Locke heads to Ballarat alongside Jeff Rosenstock

Jess Locke will be heading to Ballarat and recently announced her new album Universe will be released on October 20 via Pool House Records / Remote Control Records.

 

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