Local Music News
Gigs In Brief: Los Tones, Library Siesta, Naked, Damn Terran
Friday, May 17 2013
– New Band Alert graduates Los Tones are zipping down to Melbourne this weekend to pack three gigs into just two days. That includes …Read News
Premiere: TV Colours ‘Beverly’
Thursday, May 16 2013
It’s taken Canberra’s TV Colours six years to make a debut album, thanks partly to scrapping two completed versions along the way. But now at last we have ‘Beverly’, the first single from Purple Skies, Toxic River. The album’s centrepiece, it crackles with noise-saturated density and barked-from-afar lyrics before hit…Read News
Festival News: Vagabond, Moduluxxx, FWMF
Thursday, May 16 2013
– Hoped to be a winter alternative to Splendour in the Grass, Kangaroo Valley’s inaugural Vagabond Music Festival is a camping event spread over the Queens Birthday long weekend (June 8-10) on a farm that was formerly a fruit orchard. The line-up includes Fishing (pictured), Guineafowl, The Bedroom Philosopher, The Money Go Round, Apes,…Read News
New Band Alert: You Beauty
Thursday, May 16 2013
Band: You Beauty. Members: Will Farrier (vocals), Flyn Mckinnirey (bass), Joshua Phuah (guitar), Kino Verzosa (drums). Summary: Quartet split between Sydney, Wollongong and Melbourne. Features members of Absolute Boys (Farrier, Verzosa), Mere Women (Mckinnirey) and Hira Hira (Joshua Phuah), with three for…Read News
Gigs In Brief: New Estate, The Clits, Mix CD Social
Wednesday, May 15 2013
– It’s been a solid decade now for Melbourne’s New Estate, who played their first gig in March of 2003 at The Great Britain Hotel in Richmond. Since then the quartet has released four albums, including last year’s “beautiful and simple” Recovery. They’re marking the milestone with a Sunday residency in July at [The Grace Darling](http://thegracedarlin…Read News
Forthcoming: Pond
Wednesday, May 15 2013
What: Hobo Rocket by Pond. When: August 2 through Modular. Key notes: Fifth album from the Perth all-stars, featuring Tame Impala’s Nick Allbrook and Jay Watson, Cam Avery from The Growl, Mink Mussel Creek’s Joseph Ryan and Jamie Terry. Follows last year’s *[Beard, Wives,…Read News
Community Radio Stations ‘May Be Forced To Shut Down’
Wednesday, May 15 2013
Community radio stations across Australia are under threat after last night’s federal budget failed to provide key funding needed for the development of digital services. The lobby group Commit to Community Radio has been campaigning on behalf of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA) to have the go…Read News
Today On Mess+Noise
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Triple J Magazine Drops To Annual Edition
After eight years and 68 editions, News Custom Publishing has decided …
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News In Brief: Melted Ice Cream, Ears Have Ears, Adam Curley, VICE
– Christchurch label/collective Melted Ice Cream showcase 13 bands fr…
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Tote Reunion, Reissues For Powder Monkeys
A decade after the death of founding singer/bassist Tim Hemensley at a…
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