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As part of the premiere season of All Tomorrow’s Parties, ATP Australia are proud to announce additional tour dates for English space-rock band
SPIRITUALIZED.
The 2009 tour - at the invite of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - sees a seve... [more]
The
St Jerome's Laneway Festival is back, as intimate and boundary-pushing as ever. Featuring a quality line-up pitched straight to the heart of discerning music fans, the boutique street party delivers a collection of bands that lie... [more]
The Frontier Touring Company is pleased to announce the return of
Rise Against to Australia 2009 for their largest headline tour to date. After last thrilling fans on 2007’s Taste of Chaos tour, Rise Against return in support of Ap... [more]
Brisbane alt-rock quartet
Dead Letter Circus will be criss-crossing the nation for a massive 6 week tour to support their new single
Next In Line.
The tour will travel far and wide to the following locations, and D... [more]
Legendary guitarist and songwriter
Eric Clapton has announced three long-awaited Australian shows. There are few who would contest Eric Clapton’s reputation is one of the world’s finest guitarists, often revered as the ‘musician’s... [more]
Two years after the release of his internationally acclaimed debut album King Hokum, the inimitable
C.W. Stoneking – guitar & tenor banjo player, singer/songwriter and raconteur – returns with a new collection of original tunes... [more]
The Frontier Touring Company are delighted to announce a limited number of very special
Crowded House concerts for this November/December, including the band's first visit to Tasmania since reforming two years ago.
It’s be... [more]
BIG DAY OUT GOLD COOAST has SOLD OUT in record breaking time. Punters who missed out need know that the final 5,000 tickets will be made
available for purchase through an online ticket ballot via the Big Day Out website.... [more]
2009 will see the return of one of the country’s most loved single-stage festivals. Since it’s inception, the
BOYS OF SUMMER TOUR has played host to some of the biggest local and international hardcore, punk and rock acts, including Everg... [more]
A necessary rhyme for testing times,
Clockwork is the latest single from Melbourne rapper
Phrase. Clockwork’ is the first single to be released from his forthcoming album,
Burn It Down, due next year. Since its digital release i... [more]
Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson is
Lykke Li, the 22 year old Swede who has set our hearts a flutter. Her magnificently brittle, candy coated vocals have become the underground musical discovery of the year. So with her debut album
Youth... [more]
Avalon Drive are excited to announce their national The View From Afar tour this November and December with special guests Missing Hours as support for all shows.
AVALON DRIVE’s new EP
The View From Afar is in stores now through SO... [more]
At long last
Emiliana Torrini is back with a new album,
Me and Armini, and will be playing some long awaited shows in Australia this November.
As anyone who saw the 2005 tour will know, she is nothing short of a sensatio... [more]
Whilst lots of late-2000s indie bands boast of archaic and/or exotic influences few use them with the playful energy and brash creativeness that
The Dodos do. Country-blues fingerpicking meets African rhythms and metal drumming all... [more]
Drawing from traditions of folk music, pop, choral music and gospel, baroque psychedelic, sacred harp singing, West Coast music, traditional music from Ireland to Japan, as well as film scores,
Fleet Foxes have crafted a simply wonderful,... [more]
After captivating audiences during their visit for the St Jerome's Laneway Festival, stellar Canadian quintet
STARS announce a Melbourne date to their Australian tour this summer in support of the release of their new EP.
Stars in... [more]
Delamare are a five piece pop rock group formed in February 2008 in Adelaide, South Australia. Thanks their dedication to music and performing, the thriving music scene of hometown Adelaide, and their love of a good jam session, the band... [more]
Saul Williams, hip-hop MC, writer, actor and poet, has announced a December Australian tour to coincide with his new album,
The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust, produced by Trent Reznor.
SAUL WILLIAMS Au... [more]
With the planet in peril,
Dan Kelly has taken time off recording his third album to team up with Melbourne’s premier faux Hawaiian duo,
The Ukeladies, to release
The S.U.V Song, which is available as a free download f... [more]
Perhaps the most quintessential band of the New York hardcore punk scene of the late 80s,
Gorilla Biscuits became highly influential in the space of just one album (1989's
Start Today) and EP (1988's
Gorilla... [more]