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Download 2019 Dates and Venues Announcement “Saturday’s event packed in the fans and sent them home happy…Download was the festival Melbourne’s hard-rock tribes had been waiting three years for.” The Age “Consider Download’s first trip Down Under a success. Same again in 2019 please.” Kerrang! In late March 2018, nearly 30,000 heavy music fans…
Submit your entry or nomination via www.musicvictoria.com.au/submissions The Age Music Victoria Awards 2018 Announce new categories + nominee submissions now open The Age Music Victoria Awards is back for its 13th year in 2018, with what promises to be their biggest year yet, taking place during Melbourne Music Week in November. Co-presented by Triple R…
Australian Tour, November 15th – 17th, 2018 . There are not enough words to describe the sheer magnificence of AMENRA, a band whose powerful and unorthodox music has created waves in the metal world for almost two decades. Hailing from the eerie depths of Kortrijk, Belgium, AMENRA will bring forth the fierce, pulsating sounds of their music to…
Packed with hazy alt-country rock Newcastle’s Demi Mitchell delivers ‘The Overflow’, a glorious debut full length matched with a stack of launch shows. Full of soul, the deeply personal release explores the vulnerability of relationships through dark lyricism, with Mitchell using the album as a means of catharsis. Each track is full of hazy guitars…
We’re proud to announce that COL3TRANE will be joining the Sold Out Listen Out tour in Melbourne, Perth, Sydney and Brisbane. COL3TRANE will be making his debut to Australian stages during Listen Out this September. Raised in London by American and Egyptian parents, this 19 year old integrates cross-cultural musical influences to create soulful R&B,…
Made In Australia: My Maton Collection by Wadih Hanna Made in Australia: My Maton Collection is a Maton book featuring the best collection of vintage Maton guitars on the planet. A guitar collector’s journey covering instruments by Australian guitar maker Maton, representing every vintage and collectible model made. Its a beautiful book showcasing some…
Between stints alongside Circa Survive, Protest The Hero and Dead Letter Circus manic monsters He Danced Ivy have concocted their new single Guillotines; a raging tear thatpulls at the borders between Rage Against the Machine and Avril Lavigne. We caught up with the band to find out what songs they love to dance to Josh’s song Worms of the Senses / Faculties of the Skull – Refused “They told me…
Like a brick wrapped in silk THE KITE MACHINE’s new ‘Sinister Sound’ takes heavy rock riffage and delivers it with such a sweet groove that you’ll gladly take the brain hemorrhage for it. We asked the guys to hit us with their fave vinyls and here is what they hit us with Levi’s…
< p style=”text-align: center;”>Best known as the frontman of the Australian rock n roll luminaires, Eskimo Joe, acclaimed songwriter Kav Temperley is stepping out solo. The first taste of his upcoming album dropped today in the form of new single, Pollyanna – an ominous reflection on the relativity of happiness – the single will be received instantly with all digital…