+ Mixtape #7—Yeasayer – Henrietta Trust cosmopolitian Brooklynites Yeasayer to follow up the kaleidoscopic pop of 2010′s Odd Blood, with a self-describ...

+ Prince Secret Brisbane Club Show Details Leak, It’s Tonight—You may have missed out on tickets to the Purple One’s Australian tour after they were snapped up in a matter of minutes, but for a few lucky fa...

+ Win Tickets to See East 17—The 90s revivals just keep on coming! 20 million albums, eighteen top 20 singles, four top ten albums, no 90′s pop revival could ever be complete with...

+ ‘Jack White Is Wrong’ Says Guinness World Records—Yesterday, we reported how Jack White slammed Guinness World Records as an “elitist organisation” over their decision to snub his submitte...

+ Chugg Throws Support Behind Bluesfest’s Battle For Byron Bay—The sour fight over the Byron Bay Shire and live music continues, following Bluesfest’s director, Peter Noble, slamming the local council’...

+ Bono To Become World’s Richest Musician Thanks To Facebook—As if Bono wasn’t already one of the more unlikeable men in modern music, now’s he’s going to be filthy, stinking rich too. NME repo...

+ Disco Queen Donna Summer Dies At Age 63—Donna Summer, responsible for super disco breaks like ‘I Feel Love,’ ‘Hot Stuff’ and ‘She Works Hard For The Money’...

+ Tenacious D – Low Hangin’ Fruit—Music video by Tenacious D performing Low Hangin’ Fruit. (C) 2012 Columbia Records, a Division of Sony Music Entertainment [Category: Featured, ...

+ More Trouble For The Wiggles As Three Members Abruptly Quit—Are you ready for a wiggly, wiggly bombshell? The Beatles of children’s music are about to undergo a drastic face-lift. It was only a few months...

+ South Australian Government Launches Financial Assault On Music Venues After Lock Out Defeated—The South Australian government will be introducing new fees to venues with liquor licensing looking to stay open after 2am, that will come into effec...

+ Jack Black Says His Album Is Better Than Jack White, Foo Fighters, & Gotye Combined—Think you’re Tenacious D’s biggest fan. Well, unless your name is Jack Black, you’d be wrong. Black thinks his latest record, Rise O...

+ Eddie Spaghetti Announces First Solo Australian Shows—Rock and roll wildman Eddie Spaghetti, of Supersuckers fame, is bringing his long-awaited solo show to Australia and Tone Deaf is proud to present his...

+ Jack White Slams ‘Elitist’ Guinness Book Of World Records—Following the recent news that the Guinness World Record for ‘longest guitar solo’ had been broken, Blunderbuss maverick Jack White has sl...

+ Fun. And Paramore Team Up For Gotye Cover—As the old saying goes, ‘if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.’ New York trio Fun. are currently stalled at no. 2 on the Bill...

+ Blanche DuBois – The Sum Of My Parts—The Sum of My Parts Performed by: Adriana Begovich and Nadija Begovich Creative Director: Gino Premici Director/Director of Photography/Colorist: Just...

+ Promoter Remains Upbeat After The Aussie Music Festival Curse Claims Another Victim—It seems that Australian Festivals are well and truly cursed. With 2012 already seeing the cancellation of Perth’s On The Bright Side festival, ...

+ Patrick Wolf Australian Tour 2012 Announced—A Patrick Wolf Australian tour 2012 has been announced for this September will see the return of charismatic performer Patrick Wolf to our fine shores...

+ Blanche DuBois Australian Tour 2012—Following the release earlier this year of the bands third studio album, Young Heart, the Blanche DuBois proud to announce upcoming national tour date...

+ The Killers Release First New Song In Three Years—Ok, so maybe not three years if you count a certain Christmas compilation, but if like us you prefer to ignore such indiscretions then it’s been...

+ Slash Australian Tour 2012 Dates Leak—Since emerging with Guns N’ Roses, SLASH has been one of the world’s most sought after guitarists. Michael Jackson, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Quenti...

+ Kindness Announces Pair Of Australian Dates—Kindness, aka Adam Bainbridge, will be bringing his soulful dance party to Australia next week, playing headline shows in Sydney and Melbourne. Be pre...

+ Gyroscope Guitarist In Motorcycle Accident, Recovery Could Take Months—Perth rock act Gyroscope were set to play their first hometown show for 2012 in June, announced only a few short weeks ago. Now, the band have been fo...

+ ‘Emo Haircuts Are Bad For Your Health’ Says Australian Doctor—The flop-sided fringe style known popularly as the ‘emo cut’ is now a familiar sight, but a recent report suggests it might be ruining the...

+ Man Breaks World Record For Longest Guitar Solo—As of last night, a man in Austin, Texas now holds the new world record for the longest guitar solo of all time. David DiDonato, a member of local ban...

+ Jackson Firebird Embark On Tour For Their Debut Album—Fire up your engines, Mildura garage rockers Jackson Firebird are ready to launch their high-octane debut album Cock Rockin’ on June 8, 2012. Known fo...

+ Local Live Music Venue Shattered After Brazen Theft—A local live music venue and community have been left shaking their heads after brazen thieves made off with the band room’s vintage cash regist...

+ Sugar Army Announce New Single And National Tour—With a new album in the pipeline, Summertime Heavy, and a brand new single from it in ‘Hooks For Hands’, Perth rockers Sugar Army are gett...

+ Man Surgically Attaches iPod To His Wrist, Brain Still Missing—Forgot all those sci-fi flicks about cybernetic implants, the future is here and it’s happening right now. An American has just become the first...

+ Huge Overhaul Recommended For Grants Process & Australian Music Funding—Funding for the arts and music is set to have a major shake up with a government appointed panel recommending sweeping changes to the way the Australi...

+ AC/DC Guitarist Discovers He’s Less Famous Than Folk Singing Cousin—AC/DC guitarist Malcolm Young learned he was less recognisable in his native Scotland than his folk singer cousin on a recent trip with his family to ...

+ Best Coast Launch Fashion Line Inspired By ‘Valley Girl Look’—Best Coast are releasing their second album, The Only Place, but frontwoman Bethany Consentino is already adding another feather to her creative pluma...

+ Prince Secret Melbourne Club Show Details Leak, It’s Tonight!—You may have missed out on tickets to the Purple One’s Australian tour after they were snapped up in a matter of minutes, but for a few lucky fa...

+ Black Keys To Star In ‘Bromance Comedy’ Film—The director for a forthcoming documentary on The Black Keys has said that his film will not be a typical tour doco, but instead “a buddy comedy...

+ So This Happened. Tennis Star Serena Williams Has Recorded A Rap Song—Tennis superstar Serena Williams has stepped away from the court in a new bid to take her athleticism to a new hobby: rap. Yes, you read that correctl...

+ School Of Seven Bells Announce Australian Shows—New York-based dream-pop duo School of Seven Bells are returning to Australia as part of the Hi Fi Shoreline Series, playing a whirlwind leg across al...

+ Azealia Banks Unleashes Jumanji—While the world waits for the Harlem femcee’s highly-anticipated debut album, Broke With Expensive Taste,which will probably not feature LilR...

+ Community Radio Gets Shafted By Gillard Government—The dust is beginning to settle on last week’s federal budget but for some, like the Australian Music Radio Airplay Project (AMRAP) who help loc...

+ Coldplay Australian Tour 2012 Announced—Shortly after pulling out of their Australian commitments to attend the Grammys last February, Coldplay promised they would be “definitely touri...

+ Is Anyone Sick Of This Gotye Song Yet? Apparently Not—Here in Australia, we were naturally the first to cotton on to the success of Gotye and and his duet with NZ-born Melbourne-based Kimbra, but now the ...

+ Mixtape #5—World’s End Press – Second Day Uptown The funk infused synthesisers of World’s End Press’ new single will undoubtedly fill the disco dance floor. With...

+ Cherry Bar Founder Waves Goodbye, Sells Stake In Business—It’s the end of an era for one of Melbourne’s strongest rock n roll institutions, Cherry Bar, as founder Bill Walsh sells his share in the...

+ Band Of Skulls Announce Extra Perth Sideshow For Splendour—Fresh from performances at Coachella, a UK tour with The Black Keys and a mass of North American shows, Band Of Skulls had already announced they̵...

+ Fresh from performances at Coachella, a UK tour wi...—Fresh from performances at Coachella, a UK tour with The Black Keys and a mass of North American shows, Band Of Skulls had already announced they̵...

+ PBS Enlisting Heroes For Membership Drive—Melbourne’s airwaves are at risk of being suffocated by bland, oppressive mainstream radio. Every day music loving citizens are subjected to con...

+ Win A Double Pass To See City And Colour—The three time platinum certified project lead by Dallas Green has become a household name within the indie music community for their distinctive fusi...

+ ‘Women Are Disempowered In Music’ Says Garbage Frontwoman Shirley Manson—Shirley Manson, the singer of Garbage, has lamented the current position that female performers hold in today’s music industry. Manson feels the...

+ Iggy Pop Slams Record Labels, ‘All They’ve Done Is Humiliate Me & Drag Me Down’—Iggy Pop has slammed record labels over the release of his latest solo record at a recent press conference in Paris. Speaking to NME at the launch for...

+ Steel Panther Australian Tour 2012 Announced—Get your balls out! A Steel Panther Australian tour 2012 has been announced that will see the homage to the hair metal bands of the 80s, known for the...

+ UK Introduces Streaming Charts, Australia Still In Stone Age—In an industry first, the UK is set to introduce a new chart that will judge the popularity of artists based on how often they are streamed on service...

+ Alabama Shakes Storm The Charts, Hint At Big Day Out 2013—If you’ve haven’t heard of Alabama Shakes, a rock and soul four-piece from (you guessed it) Alabama, then you’ve probably been livin...

+ Miike Snow Announce Splendour Sideshows—The Swedish trio who call themselves the “three headed band with the one man name” have already been announced to play Splendour In The Gr...

+ ‘I Want To Play A Record In Space’ Says Jack White—Jack White has already conquered the hearts and minds of rock purists with The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, The Dead Weather and most recently, his ...

+ Gotye Teams Up With Katy Perry Hit Maker—Another day, another dose of Gotye news. This time the certified global superstar is set to work with Katy Perry’s hitmaker Dr. Luke. With the a...

+ Demos From Scrapped Foo Fighters Album Leak Online—What was previously a little-known footnote in Foo Fighters’ illustrious history has, as with all things the way of the web, become public knowl...

+ Against Me! Frontman Bravely Admits ‘I’m Transgender’, Plans To Become A Woman—Tom Gabel, the frontman for punk band Against Me! has bravely revealed publicly that he’s transgender, and plans to live as a woman under the na...

+ Kate Miller-Heidke Says Q&A Producers Blindsided Her With Issues She Knew Nothing About—Following yesterday’s news of Kate Miller-Heidke responding to criticisms about her appearance on ABC’s Q and A by calling Anthony Callea ...

+ Regurgitator To Headline Red Deer Music Festival 2012—Hold onto your glow sticks – the wait is finally over. Brisbane’s Red Deer Music Festival has returned with a vengeance and will this year headl...

+ What Does The 2012 Budget Have In Store For Australian Music?—Music, unfortunately, was never a popular topic discussed in the lead-up to the federal budget. With the government’s National Cultural Policy b...

+ Kate Miller-Heidke Attacks ‘Pot Kettle Fuckwit’ Anthony Callea—Former Australian Idol contestant Anthony Callea has the felt the vicious sting of Kate Miller-Heidke following his criticism of her appearance on Mon...

+ Best Coast Looking To Tour Australia Late 2012—Best Coast fans are already rejoicing at the recent announcement of sophomore record The Only Place, due May 18. Now, there’s another reason to ...

+ Azealia Banks Slams Lil’ Kim After Recording Fall Out, Publicist Denies They’ve Even Met—Up-and-coming Harlem femcee Azealia Banks has struck out against Lil’ Kim, criticizing her rapping ability over a feud on Twitter. The 20-year o...

+ Dolphins Overdose On Heroin At Rave Music Festival—Last November, in one of music’s more bizarre stories, two dolphins at a marine park in Lipperswil, Switzerland died after a rave festival was h...

+ Beastie Boys Slapped With Lawsuit As They Mourn MCA’s Death—Coming only days after the passing of Adam ‘MCA’ Yauch, the Beastie Boys have been hit with a lawsuit over four tracks from their first tw...

+ New Aussie Music Festival Announced, Kimbra & Lana Del Rey To Headline—Missed out on Splendour In The Grass tickets? Thought all the cool bands were bypassing Adelaide this year? Well think again because this year Adelaid...

+ Gotye Cracks YouTube’s Top 30 Most Watched Videos Of All Time—The unstoppable march of popularity that is Gotye’s Somebody That I Used To Know continues with news that its infamous body-paint clip is closin...

+ Melbourne Loses Another Live Music Venue—It’s curtains for yet another live music venue in Melbourne today, this time thought it’s not a long established site but a fresh-faced en...

+ Yunyu Announces Twisted Tales Tour Dates—Unique songwriter-come-storyteller Yunyu offers a skewered perspective on classic fairytales through her pop-styled anime, and now she’s set to ...

+ Mudhoney Announce Exclusive Splendour Sideshow—Mudhoney have announced one Australian headline show only around their Splendour in the Grass appearance this July. The landmark Seattle band will pla...

+ Another Aussie Music Festival Canned, Will 2012 Be Another Bloodbath?—Following yesterday’s reports that Andrew W.K. taunted his audiences to bottle him during his Groovin The Moo set, today sees further ugly news ...

+ fun. Australian Tour Splendour Sideshows 2012 Announced—The fun. Australian tour Splendour In The Grass 2012 sideshows have been announced that will see the New York popsters with a number one single to the...

+ Ben Folds Five Offer First Taste Of New Record—The newly reformed Ben Folds Five have offered up an unmastered cut from their newest studio album, the band’s first in thirteen years. The song...

+ No Doubt To Release First New Album In Over A Decade—With Gwen Stefani supposedly on top of her multiple duties as the mother to Gavin Rossdale’s child, the head of fashion label LAMB, and of cours...

+ Howlin’ Steam Train Announce EP Launch Dates—Melbourne’s Howlin’ Steam Train are bending their railroad tracks towards New South Wales, with the first dates announced in support of th...

+ Andrew W.K. Gets Bottled At Groovin The Moo During Train Wreck Performance—In another sour note for Australian musical festivals, ‘Party Hard’ rocker Andrew W.K.  goaded fans into bottling him during a less-than-stellar perfo...

+ The Craziest Music Conspiracy Theory Ever. This Can’t Be True, Or Can It?—An unidentified individual has released a confession that details a secret conspiracy linking the rise of gangster rap in the nineties with the profit...

+ Kimbra Retools Album, Unveils Brand New Song For United States—With all this fuss about Gotye it’s easy to forget sometimes that his breakthrough hit ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’ is actually a ...

+ Aussie Rapper Narrowly Survives Drive-By Shooting In Melbourne—Over the weekend Australia nearly got its own answer to 50 Cent when Sydney-based Emcee Kerser was the target of an unsuccessful drive-by, perhaps the...

+ Melbourne Band To Play In Abandoned Hospital For The Insane—Converse is launching a new series of live music events designed to disrupt the traditional live music and tour mentality, by asking selected Australi...

+ Beastie Boys Co-Founder Adam Yauch Dead At 47—Adam Yauch, one-third of the pioneering hip-hop group the Beastie Boys, has died at the age of 47 overnight after losing his battle with cancer. Yauch...

+ Lana Del Rey Splendour Sideshows 2012 Sell Out, New Shows Added—Tickets to Lana Del Rey’s Splendour In The Grass 2012 sideshows have unsurprisingly sold out, and to keep up with demand promoter Secret Sounds ...

+ Gotye Makes US Chart History, Talks Next Album—The unstoppable Gotye juggernaut continues to defy the odds by clocking a third week atop the Billboard Hot 100 singles charts in the United States fo...

+ Billy Corgan Actually Makes Sense, Says ‘Fame Has Supplanted Artistry’ In Music—Most the time Billy Corgan is making headlines around the world it’s because he’s gone off on one of his infamous rants. But a lot of his ...

+ Aussie Hip Hop Group TZU Release Comic Book With Comeback Single—Are you in a band and finding it hard to promote your latest single? Maybe you should follow the lead of Australian Australian hip hop group TZU who h...

+ Simple Plan Australian Tour 2012 Adds Far North Queensland Dates—The Simple Plan Australian tour 2012 has added far North Queensland dates to the tour after fans from Mackay and Townsville bombarded social media to ...

+ Harvest Festival 2012 Confirmed, Sigur Ros Rumoured To Headline—The surprise late entry of Harvest Festival last year into an already crowded Australian festival market was greeted with at first with scepticism, bu...

+ My Brightest Diamond Australian Tour 2012 Supports Announced—Melbourne band Seagull have been announced as the main supports for My Brightest Diamond’s imminent Australian tour. My Brightest Diamond (Shara Worde...

+ Think Aussie Festivals Are Bad? Check This Disaster Out—Festivals can be a lot of fun, but behind the scenes they are far from a walk in the park, so when amateurs attempt to pull off something of the magni...

+ Soundgarden Release First Music Video In 15 Years—That new Soundgarden record is just around the corner, the grunge veteran’s first LP since Down on the Upside was released in 1996 where it went...

+ The Smashing Pumpkins Splendour Sideshows 2012 Announced—The Smashing Pumpkins Splendour In The Grass sideshows 2012 have been announced, following last Friday’s record sellout of this year’s Splendour in th...

+ Ride’s Mark Gardener Australian Tour 2012 Announced—A Mark Gardener Australian tour 2012 has been announced that will see the frontman of showgaze masters Ride tour Australia to celebrate the 20th anniv...

+ Flo Rida Evades Lawyers For Aussie Festival, Gets Served Via Facebook—Rapper Flo Rida may have avoided being served with a damages claim during his recent shopping mall tour here in Australia, but in the 21st century the...

+ Prince Australian Tour 2012 Adds Third Sydney Show—Sydney fans rejoice! Prince has added a third and final show for his forthcoming tour, after record demand saws tickets fly out the door for the other...

+ PNAU Team Up With Elton John For Collaboration Album—It’s official. The long rumoured collaboration between Elton John and Australian electro duo PNAU is actually happening and a release date for a...

+ Is Sex With A Bearded Man Better Than Gotye?—Lanie Lane has topped the nominations for the APRA Music Awards this year, but while the logical conclusion is that Gotye and his track Somebody That ...

+ Ainslie Wills Launches Her New Single In Melbourne—The time has finally come! Melbourne melodist Ainslie Wills will be launching her acclaimed single Fighting Kind at The Worker’s Club in Melbourne on ...

+ Chet Faker Signs US Record Deal With Downtown Records—Electronica artist Chet Faker has signed a record deal in the United States with the legendary Downtown Records, home to Santigold, Spank Rock and Gna...

+ DevilDriver Australian Tour 2012 Cancelled—The DevilDriver Australian tour 2012 has been cancelled just days before it was scheduled to kick of in Brisbane on Friday, before heading around the ...

+ Want An Album Of Bad 80s Metal Sung by Tom Cruise? Didn’t Think So.—Just when you thought it was safe to turn on the radio, comes news that not only has some dipshit agreed to fund turning stage production Rock Of Ages...

+ The Offspring’s New Song Is A Joke, But Who Is Laughing?—Californian pop punks The Offspring, have released a taste of their forthcoming 9th studio album and it’s left commentators and fans speechless....

+ dEUS Announce Supports For Australian Tour 2012—dEUS have announced that veteran Australian musicians The Paradise Motel will be joining the dEUS Australian tour as support for both the Sydney and M...

+ Lana Del Rey Australian Tour 2012 Splendour Sideshows Announced—The Lana Del Rey Australian Tour 2012 Splendour sideshows have been announced that will see the 25 year old chanteuse play shows in Melbourne and Sydn...

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