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MAY 6 - Everyone is coming back
Daniel Johns has announced his album will be out at the end of May and will be called Talk. Read more...
One of the members of Kingswood is appearing in a Beatles cover band that will tour later this year. Read more...
Tame Impala has announced their new album, Currents, will be out in July. Read more...
Kanye West has changed the name of his upcoming album - it will now be called SWISH. Read more...
Weird Al Yankovic has announced he will be touring Australia late this year. Read more...
Elton John has announced he will be coming back to Aus as well, later this year.
MAY 13 - Everyone has turned a little insane...
Passion Pit have announced an upcoming Australian tour. They'll be in Brisbane in late August. Read more...
Death Cab For Cutie have announced a few Splendour sideshows... alas none are in Brisbane but if you're a hardcore fan you can see them pretty much anywhere else... Read more...
Daniel Johns fell and hit his head outside a bar on the weekend and had to be taken to hospital - don't worry, he was released, all is ok. Read more...
Someone turned the first few lyrics of Nick Cave's 'Red Right Hand' into a Dr. Seuss book and you definitely have to see it. If I didn't know the song and picked the book up I would swear that it was legit. Read/See more...
Waka Flocka Flame the America rapper, tv star, and apparently presidential candidate has been denied entry to Australia. Read more...
A Daft Punk tribute band have been making a mint off the fact that the real Daft Punk don't tour anymore. Daft as Punk consists of two irish guys and apparently they already have a string of tour dates. Read more...
The director of the hit tv show Vice is apparently in talks with Kanye West to make an episode about him for their new channel. While at the moment we don't have many (if any) real details, there are whispers that it would take the audience in a journey into Kanye's mind. Read more...
Sony have been pulling a lot of their catalogue from the hit music streaming website, Soundcloud. Apparently the site doesn't create enough revenue for their liking. Read more...
Justin Timberlake has starred in a advertisment for tequila.... as a lime. No, I'm not kidding. Read/Watch more...
MAY 20 - Billboard delivers
Taylor Swift previewed her new song/video 'Bad Blood' at the Billboard Music Awards. The song itself features Kendrick Lamar, but the video has cameos from Kendrick, Selena Gomez, Karlie Kloss (VS model), Jessica Alba, Martha Hunt (another VS model), Lena Dunham, Ellie Goulding, Hayley Williams, Lily Aldridge (yet another VS model), Ellen Pompeo (Grey's Anatomy), Mariska Hargitay (SVU), Cara Delevingne, Cindy Crawford and so many more. Read more...
Apparently Kanye West was boo-ed in the introduction of his closing sets at the Billboard Music Awards. His performances were also heavily censored which has sparked a bit of controversy. Read more...
Tyler, The Creator has announced an Australian tour. He will be in Brisbane at the Tivoli in September. Read more...
Stonefield have been working with Kram from Spiderbait on their latest album, and have released a track from it called Golden Dream. Read more...
Toowoomba's EasterFest won't be back next year due to a decrease in sales this year. Read more...
MAY 27 - 5th out of 27 ain't bad
Sweden won Eurovision. We actually did really well in Eurovision - coming 5th! Not bad for our first go. No news as of yet to whether we will be invited back next year. Read more...
There is a new festival in town - and it's at the Sunshine Coast! It's called the Maroochy Music and Visual Art Festival and is at a golf course in August. Read more...
John Jaratt aka Mick Taylor in Wolf Creek has released a debut song called 'Killer In Me'. Totally not terrifying at all. Read more...
Mark Ronson has let slip that he will have guest vocals from Daniel Merriweather, Theophilus London, Keyone Starr, Andrew Wyatt from Miike Snow and Kevin Parker from Tame Impala in his upcoming tour. Read more...
Coldplay made a Game of Thrones musical for Red Nose Day. Read more...
Rekorderlig Cider have announced they will be hosting a series of music events at Thredbo in Winter. Crooked Colours and Client Liason have already been announced. Read more...
Some guys have made basically a 'how-to' alt-J video. It involves them eating rice cakes and playing with a sound machine, and is scarily accurate. Read more...
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