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  • leadfimger euAfter almost a decade of hanging around the fringes of the Australian music business, Leadfinger are making their first trip to Europe to play a run of gigs this October.

    The tour kicks off in Paris before zig zaging across France with support from locals Asphalt Touregs, who feature former Fixed Up singer/guitarist Francois Lebas.

    After a layover in Switzerland to play Geneva and a spot of recording in southern Spain, the tour ends with a couple of gigs in Barcelona and Madrid with fellow Aussies, James McCann and the New Vindictives.

    Leadfinger is one the best underground rock’n’roll bands in Australia right now.

    Since forming in 2007, they have released five albums through various labels, including Spain’s Bang! Recordsand Australia's Citadel Records.

    The most recent Leadfinger album, "Friday Night Heroes” - out through Conquest of Noise Records - was met with high praise as their best yet.

  • LibertatiaLike the financial affairs of a retired politician, it’s amazing what you find in rock and roll if you dig deep enough. Japan’s The Deadvikings are a prime example. 

    These Far Eastern brothers-by-another-mother of the Hellacopters have been going for 10 years and have numerous releases behind them. They’ve done a split single with UK reprobates The Sick Livers and The Hip Priests (but don’t judge them by the company they keep.)

    They’ve toured Europe and China. They’re hitting Australia in November, with their Sydney mates Bunt.

  • los chicos ozSpain's premier garage party band Los Chicos is heading back to Australia for their fourth tour.

    Dates are mostly in Victoria with the boutique Boogie festival the centrepiece but Sydney punters are lucky to have scored a show at Marrickville Bowling Club where they'll be supported by a specially-reformed 300 StClaire. 

    If you haven't experienced the frenetic mobile party that is Los Chicos then you need to get your sorry arse to a show.

    Think of them as something like The Fleshtones on sangria.

    Los Chicos Australian Tour
    MARCH
    Friday 18 - Marrickville Bowls Club, NSW
    Saturday 19 - The Tote, Collingwood, vic
    Sunday 20 - MEMO. St. Kilda, VIC
    Wednesday 23 - Sooki Lounge, Belgrave, VIC
    Thursday 24 - Baha, Rye, VIC
    Good Friday 25 - Eastern Hotel, Ballarat, VIC
    Saturday 26 - Boogie! Festival, VIC
    Sunday 27 - HOLA!, Barwon Club, Geelong, VIC

  • steiner-headshotNorwegian musical troubadour Mark Steiner has had a ongoing love affair with Australia since 2008 when he first visited our shores, fulfilling a self-promise after hearing the music of Rowland S. Howard when he was a teen growing up in New York in the ‘80s. He’s now making his fourth trip Down Under, playing songs from his latest album, “Saudade”, in and around Melbourne in January.

    A purveyor of melancholic lounge-noir compositions, Steiner’s commanding voice and dark, sinewy rhythms of electric guitar have been described as “the epitome of a booze-soaked evening in a dirty clandestine bar and an ashtray full of pain”

  • klondike-red-stratThe announcement of an Australian tour by a re-tooled Radio Birdman has provoked a savage reaction from overlooked guitarist Chris Masuak.

    Speaking from his home in Spain and amplifying his comments via his Facebook page, Masuak described his exclusion as “cowardly and vindictive”.

    “Despite my declared readiness, willingness, and assurances to put the band's interests and reputation well ahead of any personal differences I am ‘not invited to participate’ in the upcoming tour and promotion of the ultimate release of a band I have been associated with for 40 years,” Masuak said.

  • Mucho Band Photo

    They’re a six-piece, face-melting, horn-infused punk rock band from Newcastle in Australia, if you didn’t know, and Mucho Sonar are hitting the road to promote their fifth and first live album, “Live at Punkfest”, in October and November. You can have a sneak preview of the LP here.

  • Mucho Band Photo

    They’re a six-piece, face-melting, horn-infused punk rock band from Newcastle in Australia, if you didn’t know, and Mucho Sonar are hitting the road to promote their fifth and first live album, “Live at Punkfest”, in October and November. You can have a sneak preview of the LP here.

  • The New Christs have announced dates for their European tour to promote their new studio album, "Incantations", on Impedance and "Live" LP on Pitshark. Stay tuned for Australian gigs.

  • birdman-2014The re-tooled Radio Birdman (from left) is Jim Dickson, Dave Kettley, Rob Younger, Deniz Tek, Pip Hoyle and Nik Rieth.

    Radio Birdman has announced the line-up for its October-November Australian tour with Nik Rieth drumming and Dave Kettley of the New Christs on guitar.
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    Rieth, the former Celibate Rifles and briefly Visitors member, was behind the traps for a handful of Birdman shows in 2006. 

    Kettley is a long-standing member of the New Christs and played a one-off gig in Tek and Younger, the band assembled for the Dig It Up! festival in Sydney in 2012.

    They will join original members Rob Younger, Deniz Tek and Pip Hoyle, and longstanding bassist Jim Dickson. Longtime guitarist Chris Masuak is a notable omission. 
     
  • oblivians-chuck-trendChuck Trend photo

    For the first time in their 21-year existence, Memphis garage rock legends The Oblivians are touring Australia.

    As well as the Golden Plains Festival near Meredith in Victoria, The Oblivians will play headline dates at Newtown Social Club in Sydney (March 4), Brisbane Hotel in Hobart (March 5), Barwon Club in Geelong (March 9), Wooly Mammoth in Brisbane (March 14) and a special three-night residency at Melbourne's iconic The Tote on March 11, 12 and 13.

  • rolling-stones-sydneyHard to pick when I first heard the Stones. They've always been around, the songs, like a family member, those classic ‘60s hits: “Ruby Tuesday”, “Paint it Black”, “Get Off My Cloud”, “Mother’s Little Helper” and so on.

    I knew heaps of Stones songs growing up. “Get your Ya Yas” out was popular at parties in Brisbane in the ‘70s. Flogged, it was. “Midnight Rambler” goes right alongside some drunken maniacs lurching around in a Brisbane backyard dancing the Pre Vomit Shake.

    "You heard about the Boston" THUMP !

  • Four years ago, identical twins Art and Steve Godoy - ex-professional skateboarders, inventors, tattoo artists, patent holders, unicyclists and musicians - toured Europe as the rhythm section for Deniz Tek and The Golden Breed. Here's part one of a video diary of their time on the road. 

    Art and Steve Godoy in: 'Deniz Tek and The Golden Breed USA/European tour through OUR eyes' from Godoy Twins on Vimeo.

  • bible bashers tourHow many rock and roll tours have you heard about where the people booking the run are doing it out of the goodness of their hearts for a band they’ve never met? That’s the unlikely scenario behind the Australian East Coast visit by Perth’s The Bible Bashers.

    Brisbane’s endearing gutter punks HITS andJames Doyle from Raygun Mortlock are the benevolent bookers getting right behind The Bible Bashers' tour starting in Queensland tonight. 

    HITS and The Bible Bashers will meet for the first time at Stones Corner Hotel In Brisbane ,and the pairing will continue all weekend with shows at Curummbin Creek Tavern on the Gold Coast (Saturday) and Condong Bowls Club in NSW (Sunday). 

    Gigs in Newcastle and Sydney follow with a finale at The Record Crate in Sydney on October 1.

    You can have a listen to The Bible Bashers on Bandcamp and, if so inclined, see them in person at one of their shows. They also hang out on Facebook.

    Turn up early as all the supports are behind this tour, too.

    Bible Bashers East Coast Tour
    Stones Corner Hotel, Brisbane with HITS - Sept 22
    Currumbin Creek Tavern, Gold Coast with HITS - Sept 23
    Condong Bowls Club, Condong with HITS - Sept 24
    Lass O'Gowrie Hotel, Wickham with The Grounds - Sept 27
    The Union Hotel, Newtown with Thee Evil Twin - Sept 28
    Time & Tide Hotel, Dee Why with The Mis-Made - Sept 29
    Frankies Pizza, Sydney with Mumbofish + Marvel - Sept 30
    The Record Crate, Glebe, NSW - Oct 1

  • aints adelaideThe Aints in full flight: Peter Oxley, Paul Larsen and Ed Kuepper, with Alastair Spence obscrured. Mandy Tzaras photo.

    You knew something special was up in Adelaide tonight because as you approached The Gov, heading determinedly back to the carpark was a small group of lone pushing-toward-pensioner men, each clutching the same record: “The Aints Live at The Sarah Sands 1991”. There can’t be too many left of this, they only made 300; get yours at the gig; two LPs, $50.

    Now then.

    Ever hear of Reid Fleming, World’s Toughest Milkman? Good. Now you have

    The first comic came out, it must’ve been 30 years ago. I had a T-shirt, gave it to Bob, who has cherished that damn thing for about 25 years now. I did my heart good to see Bob bouncing around tonight in that tattered t-shirt. “I thought I told you to SHUT UP!” Fleming bellows from the shirt. It perfectly matches the night.

  • Poison IdeaSome 34 years after they formed, punk rock icons Poison Idea are finally making it to Australia.

    Four dates have been announced for the influential band from Portland, Oregon. Catch them at The Enigma Bar in Adelaide (May 14), Crowbar in Brisbane (May 15), The Baldfaced Stag in Sydney (May 16) and The Bendigo in Collingwood, Melbourne (on May 17.) Ticketing details and supports are still to be revealed.

    Poison Idea has been cited as an influence by bands and musicians like Nirvana, Zeke, Turbonegro, Eyehategod, Pantera, Napalm Death and Machine Head. They formed in 1980, broke up in ’93 and have been gigging only sporadically since '98.

  • primal scream 2018

    Acid house hedonists and shape-shifting rock ‘n rollers, Primal Scream, have built a 30-year career on the art of reinvention and are bringing their incendiary live show back to Australia next month.

    Vocalist Bobby Gillespie is arguably the consummate rock 'n' roll star. Willowy, wispy and radiating swagger, he struts around the stage, mic in hand like the genetically-engineered love child of Mick Jagger and Jim Morrison. He and his band are playing an all-encompassing greatest hits set including tracks from their legendary 1991 album "Screamadelica".

  • A surprise tour by a re-configured line-up of Radio Birdman has been announced to promote the forthcoming box set. The line-up features foundation members Rob Younger, Deniz Tek, Pip Hoyle with Jim Dickson and other friends.

    Friday, 31st October 2014
    Cambridge Hotel - Newcastle NSW
    Tickets: www.bigtix.com.au

    Saturday 1st November 2014
    Manning Bar - Sydney NSW
    Tickets: www.oztix.com.au

    Sunday 2nd November 2014
    Corner Hotel - Melbourne VIC
    Tickets: www.ticketscout.com.au

    Monday 3rd November 2014
    Corner Hotel - Melbourne VIC
    Tickets: www.ticketscout.com.au

    Friday 7th November 2014
    The Hi-Fi - Brisbane QLD
    Tickets: http://tickets.thehifi.com.au/

    Saturday 8th November 2014
    The Gov - Adelaide SA
    Tickets: www.oztix.com.au

    Sunday 9th November 2014
    Rosemount Hotel - Perth WA
    Tickets: www.heatseeker.com.au \ www.oztix.com.au
    and Heatseeker/Oztix Retail Outlets

  • Iconic underground products of the Sydney music scene, Radio Birdman and Died Pretty, are undertaking a double-header tour of Australia.

    Although they formed 11 years apart, Birdman and Died Pretty had their roots in the same Darlinghurst breeding ground. Died Pretty's Ron Peno was a patron at the Oxford Funhouse and a member of Birdman support act The Hellcats. Birdman's Rob Younger has been a production hand at critical points of their recording career.

    Muscially, they veered in disparate directions. Spirit-wise, the bands shared a common sense of independence and going their own way. Both bands will be alternating headline positions.

  • radio-disappears

    Chris Masuak's exclusion from the Radio Birdman Australian tour has prompted an immediate reaction from fans with expressions of disbelief on social media and the launch of an online petition. 

    The petition is live here

    In other news, supports have been announced for all shows except Adelaide with Hard-Ons and HITS on most bills: 

    Friday 31st October, 2014 – NEWCASTLE – Hard-Ons and Hurricanes
    Saturday 1st November, 2014 – SYDNEY – Hard-Ons and HITS
    Sunday 2nd November, 2014 – MELBOURNE - HITS
    Monday 3rd November, 2014 – MELBOURNE - HITS
    Friday 7th November, 2014 – BRISBANE - HITS
    Saturday 8th November, 2014 – ADELAIDE - tba
    Sunday 9th November, 2014 – PERTH – The Volcanics

     

  • sunny sideof stage

    Five years into their reformation and you could be forgiven for thinking the Sunnyboys revival was on the wane. Wrong. 

    With two Sydney shows selling out in just four days, setting a sales record at Sunshine Coast venue The Shed by selling a third of capacity in the first eight hours and eclipsing their previous best first-week sales in Melbourne, Sunnyboys are the hottest alternative ticket of the Australian summer. 

    Due to overwhelming demand Sunnyboys are pleased to announce three new shows.