Claire Hennekam

Taylor Swift Paints iTunes Red As Her New Album Debut Breaks Records

With over 1.2 million copies downloaded last week, Taylor Swift’s latest album, Red, has scored the highest SoundScan sales week in over a decade and has set the record for the highest worldwide digital album sales debut in iTunes history.

Tagged as: iTunes chart, Red, Taylor Swift

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Led Zeppelin Albums Being Remastered For Box Set Releases Starting In 2013

by Claire Hennekam

Jimmy Page has revealed the he is working on remastering all of Led Zeppelin’s albums and that they plan to release one box set per album, starting next year.

Tagged as: Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, Primal Scream, Robert Plant

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Black Sabbath Announce Australian Tour For 2013

by Claire Hennekam

The rumours have finally been confirmed. Pioneers of Heavy Metal, Black Sabbath, have announced their first Australian shows in nearly 40 years.

Tagged as: Black Sabbath, Live Nation, Ozzy Osbourne

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Carly Rae Jepsen And Owl City’s Adam Young Sued For Alleged Copyright Infringement

by Claire Hennekam

Carly Rae Jepsen And Owl City’s Adam Young are being sued over allegations of copyright infringement in a new lawsuit filed in California federal court.

Tagged as: Adam Young, Ally Burnett, Carly Rae Jepsen, Owl City

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Soundwave Adds Mark Tremonti And Living With Lions To Their 2013 Line-Up

by Claire Hennekam

Mark Tremonti And Living With Lions are the latest acts to be squeezed into an already massive line-up for Soundwave 2013, that includes Metallica, Linkin Park and Blink 182.

Tagged as: Living with Lions, mark tremonti, Soundwave 2013

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Deep Purple and Journey To Tour Australia and New Zealand In Early 2013

by Claire Hennekam

Deep Purple and Journey have given rock fans plenty to look forward to this summer, billed together for a tour down under in February and March next year.

Tagged as: Deep Purple, Journey

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Laneway Festival 2013 Sideshows Announced

by Claire Hennekam

Laneway Festival sideshows for 2013 are coming thick and fast now, with Bat for Lashes, Of Monsters and Men, Jessie Ware, Yeasayer and several others announcing sideshows in Sydney, Melbourne and a couple in Byron Bay and Wollongong.

Tagged as: Bat For Lashes, Cloud Nothings, Divine Fits, Jessie Ware, Julia Holter, Nite Jewel, Of Monsters And Men, Perfume Genius, Polica, The Men, Yeasayer

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Eminem appears to have 2013 album all sewn up

by Claire Hennekam

Forget tipping your hat – this week the hat is the tip as Eminem effectively announces 2013 as the year for his next album release by having it sewn into a commemorative baseball cap, even before it’s happened.

Tagged as: Dr Dre, Eminem

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Yothu Yindi Announced as 2012 ARIA Hall of Fame Inductee

by Claire Hennekam

The ARIA board have something special planned for next month’s ARIA Awards in Sydney, when eight time ARIA Award winners, Yothu Yindi, will be inducted into the ARIA Hall Of Fame, with some very special guests expected to join them on stage.

Tagged as: ARIA, Hall of Fame, Yothu Yindi

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Mission: Impossible Orchestra – 24hr Performance Marathon With Spotlight On Carers

by Claire Hennekam

The Impossible Orchestra is performing for 24hrs straight at Hamer Hall from 5pm this evening for Care Aware, a national communications initiative aimed at raising awareness of Australia’s unpaid carers.

Tagged as: Care Aware, Hamer Hall, Impossible Orchestra

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Justin Bieber Fans Tricked By Nasty Cancer Prank

by Claire Hennekam

Many Justin Bieber fans are learning the hard way this week that just because you read it on Twitter, doesn’t mean it’s true. For a teenage fan of the “Baby” singer, it’s hard to know what would be worse – reading reports (later proven to be false) that your idol has cancer, or else discovering

Tagged as: Justin Bieber

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Apple Expected To Move Into Online Radio

by Claire Hennekam

Rumours are intensifying around the likelihood of Apple introducing an ad-supported, web-based radio service into the already busy online streaming market by March next year.

Tagged as: Apple, Deezer, Pandora, radio, Spotify

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Prince Returns To Hollywood For A Second Secret Show

by Claire Hennekam

Tinseltown was treated to a second night of purple funk last night when Prince turned up to the intimate Sayers Club again, two nights after his surprise after jam at the club following his appearance on US talk show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, on Tuesday.

Tagged as: Jimmy Kimmel, Prince

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