Local Music News
Wagons Preview New LP
Monday, February 16 2009
Wagons will take the concept of between-song banter to unprecedented extremes at The East Brunswick Club on April 9. Part VHI Storytellers, part Classic Albums, the "event" (because "gig" underplays such…Read News
Sweden, Bjorn And Blasko
Friday, February 13 2009
Bjorn Yttling from Peter, Bjorn & John will produce the new Sarah Blasko record in Sweden. The pair hooked up after Blasko noticed Yttling’s production credit on albums by some of her favourite artists including Lykke Li and Camera Obscura. “I sent him a letter and some music and within about a week he got back to me and said he was interested so I went and visited him in S…Read News
V Round Two
Friday, February 13 2009
Okay, so we weren’t that enthused (to put it mildly) with V Festival’s first announcement. So have organisers atoned with round two? Not really, but at least they’ve added a couple more local heavyweights to the bill. Wolf & Cub, Children Collide and Aussie ex-pats Howling Bells, who are returning “home” to promote their new album …Read News
YAI On Labour Day Eve
Thursday, February 12 2009
With two shows in two days, You Am I look set for a labourious Labour Day weekend. While most bands would be sipping Pink Flamingos after a Saturday evening performance at Golden Plains, You Am I will head straight back down the Westgate for a show at Melbourne’s Corner Hotel on March 8. They will be joined on the bill by fellow rock Mafioso Magic Dirt and Dave Graney and Th…Read News
The Wolfmen Cometh
Thursday, February 12 2009
Instead of two people to creatively stifle and push around, Wolfmother’s Andrew Stockdale now has three. After Chris Ross and Myles Heskett departed the group last year, Stockdale has hand-picked a rag tag mob of local musicians including Aiden Nemeth (guitar/keys), Ian Peres (bass) and Dave Atkins (drums). Stockdale and his new cohorts made their live debut as “White Feathe…Read News
ACCC To Address Laneway Complaints
Wednesday, February 11 2009
Despite the promise of a personal apology to disgruntled ticket-holders from St Jerome's Laneway Festival co-organisers Jerome Borazio and Danny Rogers , the event may yet face the wrath of The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). According to reports in The Age today, the ACCC is looking into claims that organisers of the festival misled Melbourne ticke…Read News
McLennan's Brave New World
Wednesday, February 11 2009
He's one of the artists in line for the $30,000 Australian Music Prize (AMP), but Ross McLennan shows no signs of complacency. The former Snout mainman will play an ambitious show at Melbourne's venue du jour, the Thornbury Theatre, on February 13. Accompanied by strings, woodwinds and a choir, collectively known as the "New World Sympathique", McLennan will perform songs fr…Read News
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