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Alex Lahey Punks Out A New Version of The Ramones’ ‘Merry Christmas’

‘Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want To Fight Tonight)’ is a brand new version of The Ramones’ Christmas song from Melbourne singer songwriter Alex Lahey.

Tagged as: 10s, Alex Lahey, alternative, Australia, rock

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Courtney Barnett To Stream Concert From Melbourne In Cinemas Globally

by Paul Cashmere

Courtney Barnett will perform from the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne for a global event that will stream live to cinemas all over the world on 17 December.

Tagged as: 00s, 10s, alternative, Australi, cinemas, Courtney Barnett, Melbourne, rock, Royal Exhibition Building

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King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Release 22nd Album In 10 Years

by Paul Cashmere

Is there a band anywhere in the world more prolific than Melbourne’s King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard? They’ve just released their 22nd album in a decade.

Tagged as: 10s, alternative, Australia, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, rock

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Badly Drawn Boy Reaches Five Years of Sobriety

by Music-News.com

Damon Gough (aka Badly Drawn Boy) has reached the milestone having not touched a drop of booze for half a decade and revealed he no longer gets any urges to drink alcohol when he’s around other drinkers.

Tagged as: 90s, alternative, Badly Drawn Boy, Damon Gugh, folk, UK

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BMG Drops Morrissey

by Music-News.com

Morrissey has confirmed he has been dropped by BMG, insisting the news was “perfectly in keeping with the relentless galvanic horror of 2020”.

Tagged as: 80s, alternative, BMG, Morrissey, rock, The Smiths, UK

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Damian Cowell, That Guy From TISM, Has A New Project

by Paul Cashmere

Damian Cowell, the artist formerly known as the drummer from TISM, is working on an adventurous new project that includes a double concept album and a web series and he has taken to Pozible to fund it.

Tagged as: 90s, alternative, Australia, Damian Cowell, Damian Cowells Disco Machine, rock, root, The DC3, TISM

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The White Stripes To Release Greatest Hits Album

by Paul Cashmere

The White Stripes first ever greatest hits record ‘My Sister Thanks You and I Thank You: Greatest Hits’ on 4 December.

Tagged as: alternative, greatest hits, My Sister Thanks You and I Thank You, rock, USA, White Stripes

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Birds of Tokyo To Go To Prison

by Paul Cashmere

Birds of Tokyo will pay at the historic Fremantle Prison in 2021.

Tagged as: 00s, 10s, alternative, Australia, Birds Of Tokyo, rock

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Chester Bennington Linkin Park. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Linkin Park Expand Hybrid Theory For 20th Anniversary

by Paul Cashmere

Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory has been given a 20th anniversary make-over with a massive 5CD, 3DVD and 3LP box set release.

Tagged as: 00s, alternative, Hybrid Theory, Linkin Park, rock, USA

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Stone Temple Pilots To Live Stream Purple

by Paul Cashmere

Stone Temple Pilots will perform the classic ‘Purple’ album on 16 October.

Tagged as: 90s, alternative, rock, Stone Temple Pilots, USA

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Peter Hook and the Light photo by Ros O'Gorman http://www.rosogorman.com

Peter Hook Is Up For A New Order Reunion

by Music-News.com

Peter Hook wants to sort out his “difficult” relationship with his former New Order bandmates by sitting down and listening to their seminal 1983 album Power, Corruption & Lies.

Tagged as: 80s, alternative, electronica, New Order, Peter Hook, UK

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Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh Recovers From Covid After Being On A Ventilator

by Paul Cashmere

Devo co-founder Mark Mothersbaugh nearly died after contracting COVID-19 and spending time on a ventilator.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, alternative, Devo, Electronic, Mark Mothersbaugh, rock, USA

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Something For Kate Announce Details Of First Album in Eight Years

by Paul Cashmere

Something for Kate will released ‘The Modern Medieval’, their first album in eight years in November.

Tagged as: 90s, alternative, Australia, Melbourne, rock, Something For Kate

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Mike Noga of The Drones Has Died Aged 43

by Paul Cashmere

Mike Noga, the former drummer for The Drones, has passed away at the age of 43.

Tagged as: 90s, alternative, Australia, Mike Noga, rock, The Drones

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Patti Smith Talks Songwriting

by Music-News.com

Patti Smith says she admires the people who can combine “poetic elements” with melodies that find the formula to mainstream pop success.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, alternative, new wave, New York, Patti Smith, Patti Smith Group, punk, rock

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Nick Cave Denies He Is Working With Kanye West

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Nick Cave has poured cold water on speculation he’s recorded a collaboration with Kanye West.

Tagged as: alternative, Australia, Kanye West, Nick Cave, R&B, rock, USA

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Hayley Williams To Participate In Best Coast 10th Anniversary Gig

by Music-News.com

Paramore’s Hayley Williams will be among the special guests helping Best Coast celebrate the 10th anniversary of their debut album Crazy For You.

Tagged as: 00s, 10s, alternative, Best Coast, Hayley Williams, Paramore, rock, USA

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Lou Reed New York Expanded

by Paul Cashmere

An expanded edition of Lou Reed’s ‘New York’ is on the way.

Tagged as: 70s, alternative, Lou Reed, rock, USA

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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, 2013, Photo By Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, Photo

Nick Cave Requests A Grand Piano

by Music-News.com

Nick Cave has nursed a bruised ego after attempting to ‘sell’ his soul to land a free Fazioli piano.

Tagged as: 80s, 90s, alternative, Australia, Nick Cave, rock

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Primal Scream Backing Singing Denise Johnson Dies At Age 56

by Paul Cashmere

Backing signer Denise Johnson, who performed on recordings by Primal Scream, Pet Shop Boys and Electronic, has died at age 56. A cause of death has not been revealed.

Tagged as: 90s, alternative, Denise Johnson, Primal Scream, rock, UK

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Hoodoo Gurus Dave Faulkner Doesn’t Hold Back In Frank Political Conversation With Noise11.com

by Paul Cashmere

In a new conversation with Noise11.com, Dave Faulkner doesn’t hold back when it comes to truth, justice and the American way.

Tagged as: 80s, alternative, Australia, Dave Faulkner, Donald Trump, Hoodoo Gurus, politics, rock

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Something For Kate ‘Waste Our Breath’ Filmed At Melbourne’s Palais Theatre

by Paul Cashmere

The video for Something For Kate’s new song ‘Waste Our Breath’ was filmed in an empty Palais Theatre in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda.

Tagged as: 00s, 90s, alternative, Australia, rock, Something For Kate

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Nick Cave To Stream Solo Performance

by Paul Cashmere

Nick Cave’s solo performance from London’s Alexandra Palace will stream globally next week.

Tagged as: 80s, 90s, alternative, Australia, Nick Cave, rock

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Tex Perkins, Beasts Of Boubon. Photo By Ros O'Gorman

Tex Perkins Introduces The Show With Tex Perkins

by Noise11.com

Tex Perkins has started a new online show called The Show with Tex Perkins.

Tagged as: 80s, 90s, alternative, Australia, root, Tex Perkins

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COVID-19 Survivor Marianne Faithfull Thanks Hospital Workers

by Music-News.com

Marianne Faithfull has broken her silence after her coronavirus ordeal to thank the healthcare professionals who aided her recovery.

Tagged as: 60s, 70s, 80s, alternative, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Marianne Faithfull, rock, UK

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Dave Faulkner To Join Delivered Live This Week

by Paul Cashmere

Hoodoo Gurus frontman (and also The Victims) Dave Faulkner will appear on Delivered Live this week.

Tagged as: 00s, 80s, 90s, alternative, Australia, Delivered Live, Hoodoo Gurus, rock

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Rivers Cuomo Weezer at Etihad Stadium on Tuesday 30 January 2018. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Weezer Become Simpsons Characters

by Paul Cashmere

Weezer have become Simpsons characters. The band will appear in the show 10 May 2020 as a cover band called Sailor’s Delight.

Tagged as: 90s, alternative, rock, The Simpsons, USA, Weezer

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Weezer Release Second Song From ‘Van Weezer’

by Paul Cashmere

Weezer have released the second song from their upcoming 14th album ‘Van Weezer’.

Tagged as: 90s, alternative, rock, USA, Weezer

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Bluey’s Dad Bandit’s Band Custard Have A New Song

by Paul Cashmere

Custard have a new song ‘The Min Min Lights’, an album ‘Respect All Lifeforms’ on the way and singer David McCormack is a hit with everyone 5 and under as the voice of Bandit in ‘Bluey’.

Tagged as: 90s, alternative, Australia, Custard

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David Greenfield of The Strangers Dies From COVID-19 At Age 71

by Paul Cashmere

The Stranglers’ keyboard player David Greenfield has passed away at the age of 71 after contracting COVID-19 in a UK hospital.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, alternative, David Greenfield, Jet Black, punk, rock, the stranglers, UK

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Brian Johnson AC/DC Etihad Stadium, Rock Or Bust World Tour. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

AC/DC Sales By The Numbers

AC/DC ‘PWR/UP’ was not only the number one album in Australia this week, it sold more than the next 15 best-selling albums combined.

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Wolfgang Van Halen Releases Video For ‘Distance’, His Tribute To Dad Eddie Van Halen

Wolfgang Van Halen, the son of Eddie Van Halen and Valerie Bertinelli, has released a video in honour of his father Eddie Van Halen.

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Watch Midnight Oil ‘First Nation’ With Jessica Mauboy and Tasman Keith

Midnight Oil have a video for ‘First Nation’, a song from their first album in 18 years, ‘The Makaratta Project’.

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Bruce Hearn Debuts ‘All You Fascists Bound To Lose’ Video

Former Strange Tenants member Bruce Hearn has debuted his version of Woody Guthrie’s ‘All You Fascists Bound To Lose’ in a new video with The Machinists.

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Palace Intruder Michael Fagan Once Recorded ‘God Save The Queen’

If you have been watching ‘The Crown’ you will have seen the episode dramatizing the real-life situation when commoner Michael Fagan broke into Buckingham Palace and made his way to the Queen’s bedroom. The year was 1982.

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Cliff Williams Says Malcolm Young Would Like AC/DC ‘Power Up’

Cliff Williams hopes the late Malcolm Young is “looking down” on AC/DC and “liking” their new record.

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John Lennon ‘Double Fantasy’ Signed For Mark Chapman To Be Auctioned

A signed copy of John Lennon's 'Double Fantasy', signed by Lennon for murderer Mark Chapman just hours before Chapman killed Lennon, is up for auction.

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