OCTOBER 15 - You shall not pass



There is an amazing video with such a crazy amount of everyones favourite artists and they all sing the Beach Boy's 'God Only Knows' and it's beautiful and you have to go see it (It's the feature vid - scroll down!) ((I will not be offended if you stop reading and go watch it RIGHT NOW!)). Read more...

 

The Gaslight Anthem have announced a 2015 tour. They'll be at the Tivoli at the end of January. Read more...

 

Lamb have announced a 2015 tour. They'll also play at the Tivoli in February. Read more... 

 

Lead guitarist and founding member of the Amity Affliction, Troy Brady, has suddently quit the band, half way through their tour. He cited personal reasons. Read more...

 

Crystal Castles have broken up. There is a bit of a twitter rant, but I'm just gonna say it was because of creative differences. Read more...

 

Taylor Swift covered Vance Joy (riptide of course) and everyone's going mental. Read more... 

 

Bondi Beach's Shore Thing Festival has been cancelled this year. The promoters announced on Facebook that after dicussions with the 'council and stakeholders' that the festival would not be taking part in Bondi this year. Read more...

 

Southpark have finally made a episode about Kiwi teen sensation, Lorde. And word on the street is she actually likes the parody. Shock horror. Read more... 

 

Jake Stone, singer in Aussie band Bluejuice, has been caught on tape calling two guys at one of their Melbourne shows a 'meathead'. Apparently there may have been a bit too much testosterone in the mosh. Read more... 

 

Nine Inch Nails and Green Day have been nominated for the first time for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The winners are announced at the end of the year. Read more...

 

The AIR Independent Music Awards happened, and the big winners were Remi, who picked up Best Independent Hip Hop Album, Courtney Barnett, who picked up best Independent Single/EP, and Violent Soho, who picked up Best Independent Album AND Best Independent Rock Album. Other winners included Dan Sultan, Peking Duck, Sheppard and RUFUS. Read more...

 

However! Violent Soho almost didn't make it to those awards because one of the band member's t-shirts was deemed innappropriate. He was allowed to board at the last minute, but apparently he had to turn his shirt inside out. Read more...

 

There has been a crowdfunding campaign launched to try and stop Canadian band Nickelback from playing a show in London. In a brilliant spin of words, the campaign is called 'Don't Let Nickel Back' and so far they have raised... well... let's just say probably not enough to stop even one person going to the show. Read more...