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Frontier Touring And Future Music Join Forces For Future Music Festival

Australia’s Future Music Festival has been given a fresh injection with the announcement of a strategic alliance with Michael Gudinski’s Frontier Touring Company.

Tagged as: Brett Robinson, Frontier Touring, Future Music Festival, Good Life Festival, Michael Gudinski

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New Music Releases For W/C August 30, 2013

by Gavin Ryan

New Releases for week commencing Friday 30th August, 2013 (unless otherwise noted below).

Tagged as: ARIA, music releases, new releases

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Watch New Elton John Song Performed Live VIDEO

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Elton John has released a video for the new song Mexican Vacation (Kids in the Candlelight) from his upcoming album The Diving Board.

Tagged as: Elton John, Mexican, The Diving Board, Vacation

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Boy George To Release First Album In 18 Years

by Music-News.com

Boy George is back with a new studio album of original material, his first in 18 years.

Tagged as: Boy George, Culture Club, This Is What I Do

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Moby Releases Song With Wayne Coyne

by Music-News.com

The Perfect Life is the first single to be taken from Moby’s forthcoming new album Innocents and will be released on September 30.

Tagged as: Flaming Lips, Innocents, Moby, The Perfect Life, Wayne Coyne

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Ozzy Osbourne Safe After Bacon Tries To Burn His House Down

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

For the second time this year, the Beverly Hills fire department has been called to the Osbourne residence.

Tagged as: Bill Ward, Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Sharon Osbourne

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Ted Nugent’s Wife Arrested At Dallas Airport

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Shemane Dezial, the wife of rocker Ted Nugent, was arrested on Thursday morning at Dallas/Ft. Worth International Airport for allegedly trying to take a gun through airport security.

Tagged as: Shemane Dezral, Ted Nugent

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Joe Camilleri, Here Comes The Night, 2013, Ros O'Gorman, Photo

Joe Camilleri To Revisit Here Comes The Night For Sydney And Melbourne

by Paul Cashmere

Black Sorrows and Jo Jo Zep frontman Joe Camilleri will revisit his critically acclaimed show ‘Here Comes The Night: Songs from the Van Morrison Songbook’ for Sydney and Melbourne in November.

Tagged as: Here Comes The Night, Joe Camilleri, John McAll, Van Morrison, Vika Bull, Vince Jones

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Fergie And Josh Duhamel Name Son After Axl Rose

by Paul Cashmere

Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie and her husband actor Josh Duhamel have become first time parents.

Tagged as: Axl Rose, Black Eyed Peas, Fergie, Josh Duhamel

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Luke Yeoward, King Cannons - Photo By Ros O'Gorman

King Cannons Split

by Paul Cashmere

New Zealand band King Cannons have split after 6 years citing musical differences at the reason for the break-up.

Tagged as: Dan McKay, EMI, Jonno Smith, King Cannons, Lanae Eruera, Luke Yeoward, Mikey Ting, Rob Ting

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Rolf Harris Formally Charged With Child Sex Offences

by Paul Cashmere

Veteran Australian entertainer Rolf Harris has been formally changed with sexual offences against under aged girls.

Tagged as: Rolf Harris

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Joey LaCaze Of Eyehategod Dies At Age 42

by Paul Cashmere

Joey LaCaze, the drummer for New Orleans band Eyehategod, has died of respiratory failure just two days after his 42nd birthday.

Tagged as: EYEHATEGOD, Joey LaCaze

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Elton John Preps To Go Back To Work After Operation

by Music-News.com

Sir Elton John “can’t wait to get back on stage” after recovering from his appendix operation.

Tagged as: Elton John

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Dan McCafferty Officially Retires From Nazareth

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

After two recent incidents where shows by Nazareth had to be cut short due to illness, lead vocalist Dan McCafferty has announced that he is retiring from the band.

Tagged as: Dan McCafferty, Nazareth

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Van Morrison And Mick Hucknall To Pay Tribute To Bobby Bland At BluesFest London

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Veteran artists Van Morrison and Mick Hucknall will join forces on Friday, November 1 at London’s Royal Albert Hall for an All-Star Tribute to Bobby Bland.

Tagged as: bluesfest, Bobby Bland, London, Mick Hucknall, Van Morrison

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New Paul McCartney Produced By Mark Ronson LISTEN

by Paul Cashmere

Mark Ronson has managed to make Paul McCartney sound like Paul McCartney again on a brand new song released today.

Tagged as: George Martin, Mark Ronson, new, Paul McCartney, The Beatles

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Engelbert Humperdinck Lays Down Duet With Gene Simmons

by Paul Cashmere

The legendary Engelbert Humperdinck spent the day in the studio with Kiss founder Gene Simmons laying down a track for his Duets albums.

Tagged as: Elton John, Engelbert Humperdinck, Gene Simmons, Kenny Rogers, Kiss, Lulu

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Youssou N’Dour Wins Polar Music Prize

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Senegalese artist Youssou N’Dour, who has collaborated on numerous occasions with Peter Gabriel and other artists, has been named one of the two winners of the 2013 Polar Music Prize.

Tagged as: Peter Gabriel, Polar Music Prize, Youssou N'Dour

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Jimmy Webb Records With Joe Cocker, Art Garfunkel, Crosby and Nash

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Legendary songwriter Jimmy Webb has gathered some of his famous friends, including Joe Cocker, Art Garfunkel and David Crosby & Graham Nash for his next album.

Tagged as: Art Garfunkel, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Jimmy Webb, Joe Cocker

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South Australia To Showcase In Queensland For BIGSOUND

by Paul Cashmere

Five acts from South Australia will head north to Queensland to showcase for the BIGSOUND music conference in September.

Tagged as: Bad/Dreems, BigSound, Ride Into The Sun, The Audreys, The Aves, Tkay Maidza

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Midweek Chart Report: Its All About John Mayer And Katy Perry

by Gavin Ryan

Katy Perry looks set to claim the No.1 spot in Australia for a second week with her new single “Roar”.

Tagged as: ARIA Chart, Australia, Eminem, John Mayer, Katy Perry, music chart

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Spiderbait and The Preatures To Open Pink’s Final Australian Shows

by Paul Cashmere

Australian bands Spiderbait and The Preatures will open for the final shows of Pink’s record breaking Australian tour.

Tagged as: Live Nation, Pink, Spiderbait, The Preatures

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Kate Nash To Release Crowd Funded Girl Talk Album

by Paul Cashmere

British singer songwriter Kate Nash had her new album ‘Girl Talk’ crowd funded and will release the album through her own label Have 10O Records in September.

Tagged as: Australian edition, Girl Talk, Kate Nash, Tim Buckley, Tom Biller

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Coldplay Release Atlas Artwork From Hunger Games Catching Fire

by Paul Cashmere

Coldplay have revealed the artwork for ‘Atlas’, their new song to be included on the ‘Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ soundtrack.

Tagged as: Atlas, Catching Fire, Chris Martin, Coldplay, Hunger Games

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Nazareth Singer Dan McCafferty Suffers Stroke On Stage

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Scottish rock band Nazareth have cancelled all upcoming shows after singer Dan McCafferty suffered a stroke on stage during the band’s performance in Switzerland last Friday.

Tagged as: Dan McCafferty, Nazareth

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Archie Roach: Photo Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, Photo

RUFUS, Archie Roach To Perform At Independent Music Awards

by Paul Cashmere

RUFUS and Archie Roach along with Big Scary, Violent Soho, Saskwatch and Seth Sentry have been announced to perform at the Independent Music Awards in October.

Tagged as: Archie Roach, Independent Music Awards, Rufus, Saskwatch, Seth Sentry, Violent Soho

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