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APRIL 1 - You've been punked?
Big venue news - apparently all the Hi-Fi venues have gone into new management. They will be rebranded as 'Max Watt's'. Read more...
Ashton Kutcher posed as a JB Hifi employee in Sydney. There's a video. You should watch it. Read more...
Ben Stiller's high school band 'Capital Punishment' is re-releasing their debut album, Roadkill. Read more...
Groovin' The Moo has announced heaps of local bands to their lineup. Read more...
The former Guns N' Roses manager has let slip that Michael Jackson was one of the reasons the band split up. Apparently Slash wanted to play a set by MJ but Axl was supper against it. Read more...
New lockout laws might come to Brisbane. At the moment we have a 3am lockout law, but the new law might mean a 1am lockout and a 3am forced closure. Read more...
Zayn left One Direction and now there are hundreds of hilarious videos of teenage girls crying (it's amazing). Read more...
Coachella and Lollapalooza have both banned selfie sticks. Read more...
APRIL 8 - Do you want Kayne at your festival?
Tame Impala have released the first track of their upcoming album. The track is called 'Cause I'm A Man'. Very 70s psychodellic - maybe even more than their previous tracks. Read more...
There was an April fools joke going around that Kanye West made a petition to headline every festival ever. Not so unimaginable since there have been all those petitions trying to get Kanye off massive international music festival headlines.
The Haim family band (the one where their parents were in the band too) reformed over the weekend with some huge special appearences from Ke$sha, one of the guys from Grizzly Bear and Vampire Weekend (just to name three). Read more...
In really interesting actually could change the world news (rather than heaps of multimillion dollar celebrities launch platform that is like spotify except double the price, and call it lifechanging) a website has popped up that is the same concept as Airbnb, but for music studios. Read more...
APRIL 22 - The tours are only going to get better
Splendour In The Grass lineup came out and boy oh boy is it a gooden. Read more...
Birds of Tokyo have announced a new tour, they will be in Brisbane in June. Read more...
AC/DC have added a few more shows to their November/December aussie tour. Read more...
Alpine have announced their big Australian tour. They will be in Brisbane in July. Read more...
In an interesting twist, a few Sydney venues have been granted exemption from the lockout laws. Here's the kicker - they're all pokies rooms. Read more...
Glastonbury has announced its lineup which includes our very own Courtney Barnett. Read more...
Jack White has announced he will be taking a break from touring. Read more...
Coachella happened. Highlights include Kanye crashing a set (because why not?), J-Biebs was allegedly thrown out and Madonna snogging Drake on stage. Read more...
APRIL 29 - Sideshow city(s)
A Sydney deathcore band has had to change their upcoming album art due to its controversial nature. The original art by the band Thy Art Is Murder had a child strapped with explosives. Read more...
The magazine that released those 'break the internet' photos of Kim Kardashian has published an interview from her husband, Kanye West. In the interview he apparently denies being a part of the illuminati. Read more...
Mumford and Sons have revealed the reason they got rid of the banjo in their sound is for their own sanity and that it is very 'freeing' knowing anyone can pick up any instrument. Read more...
Splendour sideshows have been announced and they include Blur, Everything Everything, Urban Cone, Johnny Marr, The Wombats, Circa Waves, Of Monsters and Men, Ryan Adams, MS MR, Purity Ring, Porter Robinson, Wave Racer, Azealia Banks, Best Coast, The Vaccines, and Wolf Alice (just to name a few). Plus in exciting news, Mark Ronson has joined the party - if somewhat late - and has announced three sideshows too. The bad news is you're going to have to roadtrip to Sydney, Melbourne or Perth to actually get to any of these shows. Read more...
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