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News: UK folk-punk legend, Frank Turner announces three regional Australian cities solo shows
Folk-punk singer-songwriter Frank Turner has announced the exciting news that he has handpicked a few smaller cities to perform some special solo shows while he’s in the country for Bluesfest and The Counting Crows tour. The three that he has chosen are Darwin (Railway Club), Hobart (Altar) & Newcastle (Hamilton Station), cities that often miss out on more …
News: Sea Sessions Surf Music Festival announces full line-up for June
Yesterday saw the announcement of the full line-up for Sea Sessions at Bundoran Co Donegal on the 16th – 18th of June.Headliners for the weekend are Kasabian for the Friday / Becky Hill for the Saturday and The Coronas for the Sunday.Joining them will be a large array of acts and as with ever year …
News: Chloe Gallardo announces debut album
Debut album ‘Defamator’ released 26th May 2023 Raised by musicians in Los Angeles, surrounded by their work in recording studios and at open mics from an early age, there has never been a moment in the memory of Chloe Gallardo where there wasn’t the ambition to perform. “I would always get this feeling in my chest …
News: Aussie R&B stars, The Teskey Brothers unveil new track, ‘Oceans Of Emotions’ amidst news of upcoming album release date
Australia’s answer to Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett, the four-time ARIA award-winning and Grammy nominated Teskey Brothers, have today served up another delectable treat with the unveiling of album taster, Oceans Of Emotions, a new track which will feature on their upcoming album, The Winding Way. The Winding Way will be the band’s third studio …
News: German indie legends Robocop Kraus break 15 year drought with news of an album, new single and tour.
It’s been a very long 15 years since Robocop Kraus have released any new material, and they have now announced the album ‘Smile’, through Tapete Records, and the first taste – the release of single ‘On Repeat’ – bodes well. While often considered to be the German answer to bands like Franz Ferdinand or Talking …
Album Review: Slade – Nobody’s Fool (Reissue)
1976. A lot has happened since 1976 but a repressing of the Slade classic, ‘Nobody’s Fool’, helps transport you back to the time when these British Rock and Rollers were teaching the music world a thing or two with their unique brand of manic and loud rock. You now have the option of adding a …
Live Review: Black Star Riders 10th Anniversary Tour – Limelight 1, Belfast 11.02.2023
Words & Photos David McEneaney. Anyone who has any interest in hard rock should and probably does know the name Ricky Warwick. If you don’t, it’s time you go take a listen to some of his stuff. It doesn’t really matter where you start with his extensive back catalogue, because as far as I’m concerned …
Live Review: Palaye Royale – KK’s Steel Mill, Wolverhampton 12.02.2023 Plus Gallery
A speedy 30 minutes after the doors open, the queue that once snaked around the building has made it’s way into the venue; the lights dim and a dance track fills the room as we wait for our first act on the night to enter the stage. Starbenders are a high energy glam rock band …
PREMIERE: You Said Strange return with ‘(Song For A) Wasted Land’, announce new album
Toward the end of 2021, Giverny-based quartet You Said Strange released the first part of their second album Thousand Shadows, which followed up 2018 debut Salvation Prayer. We didn’t hear much from them last year, certainly not in the form of new music, but Vol. 1 implied the existence of a Vol. 2, so it …