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Kingbayler launch their long awaited new EP Bleary Eyed Boys And Girls this Friday October 30 at the John Curtin Bandroom. The first in a trilogy of EPs to be released over the next 12 months, Bleary Eyed Boys And Girls is the first recording Kingbayler have released since their move from Sydney to Melbourne, [...]

Melbourne International Arts Festival has announced its highest ever box office takings and paid attendances in the Festival’s 24 year history, defying tough economic times across all industries including the Arts.
The 2009 Melbourne Festival box office income of $2.6 million dollars represents the highest ever, with the previous highest in 1997 with $2.5 million.

Blow the Fuse is a night of funk, grooves and electronics guaranteed to get your body movin’ and groovin’. Held at Bar 303 in High St, Northcote on the 5th of November, the evening will take you on a musical journey from the immersive sounds of electronica to the stirring blasts of funk. Three bands, [...]

Good news to long suffering Australian fans; The Decemberists will make their debut in Australia and New Zealand performing this January as a part of the annual Big Day Out Festival. After 5 albums and countless tour dates around the world, The Decemberists are now not only playing the sold out national Big Day Out, but [...]

ABC Radio has launched a new temporary digital radio service using its well established partnership with the Melbourne International Arts Festival, to create, ABC Melbourne Festival Radio, the latest special event broadcast offered on digital radio.
Although ABC digital radio is only three months old we’ve already revisited the historic Apollo 11 moon landing mission and [...]

The Queenscliff Music Festival’s 2009 program just got a whole lot bigger with the announcement of a huge array of new acts for the program. Joining the already wide array of artists on the festival stage will be the fantastic saltwater sounds of Broome’s The Pigram Brothers, the sublime blend of kora, virtuosic Indian tabla [...]

As last weeks Bakery Hill and Koko Black Whisky Session was a sell out and such a success, we have decided to conduct an encore Session next Wednesday the 14th of October. Please find invitation below. We look forward to welcoming David Baker, Koko Black and yourself.

ENTRIES ARE NOW OPEN!
St Kilda Film Festival short film competition
SoundKILDA music video competition
Have you made a short film or a music video?    Would you like the opportunity to have your film screened as part of Australia’s Top 100 short films of the year or your video included in SoundKILDA – Australian music video competition?   [...]

The St Kilda Festival is turning 30 so it’s time to check in. We want to hear from you what you think of the Festival now, and what you want to see from here.  The future of the St Kilda Festival is up for grabs, make sure you get to have your say!  Did you [...]

Bach-inspired jazz and Latin-grooved Beethoven… Classical piano maestro Simon Tedeschi and virtuoso jazz violinist Ian Cooper are at it again mixing the best of their worlds in a concert of gypsy jazz, classical, basement blues and wild abandonment.

Melbourne folk outfit Tinpan Orange will showcase their brand new LP, The Bottom Of The Lake, due in store August 17th, with launch shows in Sydney, Melbourne & Perth and appearances at more of the country’s Spring festivals you can poke a stick at in between.

The Bottom Of The Lake, is the follow up [...]

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have been creating music together for more than fifteen years, with The Bad Seeds, Grinderman and The Dirty Three. More recently, they have collaborated on soundtracks for such films as The Proposition (2005) and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007). White Lunar, a two CD [...]

The latest collection of Meredith performers have been announced for 2009. Joining the already awesome list will be Yacht from the US, Kes, Oh Mercy, Silence Wedge, Tim Sweeney, The Fauves and more.
See below for the now complete lineup:

Manchester Lane has closed after eleven years, citing lack of mid-week numbers, financial pressures, including the cost of licensing of live acts.
This is not good for live music in Melbourne.  Get out there everybody, and support live music.  Especially mid-week.  This is how new bands get started and established.
Manchester Lane web site

The second round of the 2009/10 Falls Festival Lineup has been released, and it includes some big names, both local and international.
DATAROCK (Norway)
JAMIE T (UK)
WOLFMOTHER
LITTLE RED
DAPPLED CITIES*
KID SAM*
AMANDA BLANK (USA)*
YACHT CLUB DJ’S^
THE INSPECTOR CLUZO (France)*
WASHINGTON*
BERTIE BLACKMAN*
MIAMI HORROR*
WAGONS*
OH MERCY*
JORDIE LANE*
THE BEARDS*
(*Vic only, ^Tas only)

Tickets for the Lorne festival have completely sold out (super-desperate festival [...]

By a thread CD Launch

It clearly was going to be a special night… as we walked in to the Jazz Lab at Bennetts Lane we were met with a circle of trumpeters occupying the middle of the room.  And not just any trumpeters, but around a third of the finest of that sub-species in Melbourne, sharing their [...]

Join the official closing celebration of the 2009 Darebin Music Feast with the ninth annual High Vibes festival.
With a great mix of bands playing at more than 20 venues, new music stages, delicious food plus a Kids Zone for the little ones, the 9th High Vibes is a seriously unmissable event.

The line up for the 2009/10 Pyramid Rock festival has been released, and this year is set to be a doozy.
EMPIRE OF THE SUNTHE CAT EMPIREUGLY DUCKLING (US)THE BUTTERFLY EFFECTARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKIFAKERTHE BEAUTIFUL GIRLSLCD SOUNDSYSTEM (DJ SET)BLUE KING BROWNTHE DRONES

A reminder for Melbourne’s metal, punk and alternative fans to get set for the release tomorrow, Friday 28 August, of early bird tickets to the 2010 Soundwave Festival.
This year’s festival features a huge lineup including Jane’s Addiction, AFI, Faith No More, My Chemical Romance, Taking Back Sunday (imagine the crowd all singing And will you [...]

We all know how it is. We look forward to the weekend where we can finally do what we want, and then Saturday night comes and suddenly we have too many options to choose from.
Which venue do I want to go to? Looking through the gig guide I find 3 or 4 gigs that I [...]

Magic Dirt fans have been shocked by the news that 37 year old bass player Dean Turner has passed away of cancer.
Led by singer Adalita Srsen, the Geelong band have been stalwarts of the local rock and grunge scene for almost twenty years. In this time they have garnered much critical success, though this has [...]

Eminently sensible suggestions from Geoffrey Rush on how to save the VCA

For more information go www.savevca.org

Its official! The first round of this year’s Meredith Music Festival line up has been released:
Akron/FamilyAnimal Collective
Bag RaidersCity of Ballarat Municipal Brass Band
Jarvis Cocker
Combo La Revolution
Crocodiles
Eddy Current Suppression Ring
Sia
Heavy Trash
Paul Kelly

When I was around eight years old, I took weekly piano lessons from a tall, thin, pale man named Robin.
Robin had long dark hair and longer fingers, perfect piano playing digits in fact. I thought he was very mysterious and groovy then, and time has only intensified this sentiment. Occasionally, as I banged out the [...]

…in the beginning it was just a bunch of musos (and a trombonist) out to earn a few extra dollars busking in Brunswick on a Saturday night… it just happened to turn into a fully-fledged street party…

Thanks to Will Sackfield, the site is now working properly again. Yeh!

Despite their best efforts, organisers haven’t been able to keep this year’s Falls Festival lineup at bay.
So here it is!
YEAH YEAH YEAH’S (USA)MOBY (USA)HILLTOP HOODSGRIZZLY BEAR (USA)RODRIGO Y GABRIELA (Mexico)THE TEMPER TRAP
XAVIER RUDD

The Night Cat City

Grand opening!

with The Bamboos

Friday August 7th
279 Flinders Lane, CBD
FREE!
Bamboos play from 11pm

It’s not often that a metal fan can claim to have seen one of the founders of American death metal. These seminal bands that were up and coming during the late eighties and early nineties are now usually disbanded, horribly washed up, or a combination of the two, and as a result, it is often [...]