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Bill Walsh Sells His Share of Cherry Bar

by Paul Cashmere

After 12 years, Bill Walsh of Cosmic Psychos fame has sold his share in Melbourne’s iconic Cherry Bar.

Tagged as: Bill Walsh, Cherry Bar, James Young, Peter Lewis

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Mick Hucknall Debuts As Solo Artist

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Mick Hucknall, the voice of Simply Red and recent lead for the b, has announced his first solo show for Royal Albert Hall in London on September 18.

Tagged as: Mick Hucknall, Simply Red

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Unauthorised Jimi Hendrix Biopic Goes Ahead

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

The Jimi Hendrix biopic, All is By My Side, starring Andre 3000, will go forward with production; however, Experience Hendrix, LLC is not on board. This means that the film, which is supposed to concentrate on Hendrix’ time in London in 1966 and 1967, can not contain any of Jimi’s music.

Tagged as: Jimi Hendrix

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Stevie Wonder To Receive Billboard Award

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

The second Billboard Icon Award will be presented to Stevie Wonder at the Billboard Music Awards scheduled for May 20 at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas and showing nationwide on ABC.

Tagged as: Billboard, Stevie Wonder

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Jason Mraz Says CDs Are Now Just Merch

by Music-News.com

Music-News.com met up with American singer-songwriter Jason Mraz whose acoustic melange of reggae, pop, rock, folk, jazz, and hip hop has charmed globally.

Tagged as: Jason Mraz

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Gurrumul Records With Sarah Blasko

by Music-News.com

‘Bayini’ is a spiritual love song, an Australian classic hymn, and now a haunting duet between two iconic Australian voices.

Tagged as: Gurrumul, Sarah Blasko

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Carole King Retires

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Carole King has told the Associated Press that her days in music are most likely over.

Tagged as: Carole King

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Zooey Deschenel To Play Loretta Lynn

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Once again, Broadway is going to the movies for a “new” show, this time with a country legend and one of television’s hottest actresses.

Tagged as: Loretta Lynn, Zooey Deschenel

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Don Walker Announces Nightfishing Solo Tour

by Paul Cashmere

Don Walker has announced solo dates off the back of those upcoming Cold Chisel UK dates.

Tagged as: Cold Chisel, Don Walker

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Steel Panther Are Coming Back To Australia

by Paul Cashmere

Steel Panther are coming back to Australia for the second time this year.

Tagged as: Australian Tour, Steel Panther

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Punch Brothers Australian Tour Dates

by Paul Cashmere

Punch Brothers will head to Australia for the first time in August for dates in Melbourne and Adelaide.

Tagged as: Punch Brothers

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30 Rock Given Termination Notice

by Paul Cashmere

30 Rock will be back for a 7th season but then it will be gone. NBC has given the hit TV comedy its termination notice after a reduced farewell season.

Tagged as: 30 Rock, Alec Baldwin, NBC, Paul McCartney, Tina Fey

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Blink 182 Out of Action For Medical Emergency

by Music-News.com

A ‘medical emergency’ has forced pop/punksters Blink-182 to cancel all of their scheduled May 2012 tour dates. It has been revealed that the drummer, Travis Barker, “required an urgent tonsillectomy”.

Tagged as: Blink-182, Travis Barker

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Beastie Boys Albums Shoot Back Into The Charts

by Andrew Tijs

Following the death of Adam Yauch, the Beastie Boys get seven albums back in the Billboard 200.

Tagged as: Adam Yauch, Beastie Boys, Billboard 200, chart, death, Licensed To Ill, MCA, Paul's Boutique, seven albums, Solid Gold Hits

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Lady Gaga To Appear On Simpsons Finale

by Paul Cashmere

Lady Gaga is coming to Springfield. She will meet the Simpsons on the season finale to air in the USA on May 20.

Tagged as: Lady Gaga, The Simpsons

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George Michael, photo by Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, photo

George Michael Fans Furious At eBay And Scalpers

by Paul Cashmere

Tickets for George Michael’s Australia tour went on sale at midday today and by 12:15pm almost 50 tickets were being scalped on eBay for up to 300% above face value.

Tagged as: eBay, George Michael, scalpers

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Mudhoney Announce A Sole Splendour Sideshow

by Andrew Tijs

Grunge pioneers Mudhoney will play a single Splendour In The Grass sideshow in July.

Tagged as: blues, Corner Hotel, grunge, July, Mudhoney, punk, rock, sideshow, Splendour In The Grass, tickets

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Live Nation Acquires Creamfields Music Festival

by Paul Cashmere

The company behind Creamfield’s, the world’s big electronic music festival, has been acquired by Live Nation.

Tagged as: Cram Holdings Ltd, Creamfields, Front Line, Live Nation, Michael Rapino, Ticketmaster

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Foo Fighters’ “Million Dollar Demos” Leaked

by Andrew Tijs

Songs from the One By One sessions dubbed by the Foo Fighters as the “million dollar demos” have leaked online.

Tagged as: Come Back, Foo Fighters, Have It All, Leak, million dollar demos, One By One, online, rock, sessions

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Listen: Previously Unreleased Millencolin Song ‘The Downhill Walk’

by Andrew Tijs

Swedish pop-punk royalty Millencolin prepare a massive b-sides collection with two new tracks and a DVD.

Tagged as: b-sides, documentary, DVD, Millencolin, new songs, Pop punk, rock, Sweden, The Melancholy collection, two

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ZZ Top Debut New Song In Beer Ad

by Paul Cashmere

ZZ Top have used the old Candid Camera format to launch their new song ‘I’ve Got To Get Paid’ via a beer commercial for new brew Jeremiah Weed.

Tagged as: Billy Gibbons, Jeremiah Weed, Rick Rubin, ZZ Top

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EXCLUSIVE: Train To Play At AFL Football Match

by Paul Cashmere

US rock band Train will perform at an AFL football match during their upcoming Australian tour.

Tagged as: AFL, Australia, INXS, Train

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Miike Snow Book Splendour Sideshows

by Andrew Tijs

Bright synthpop Swedes Miike Snow announce two sideshows and post a Dirty South remix.

Tagged as: Devil's Work, Dirty South, electro, indie, Miike Snow, pop, sideshows, Spelndour In The Grass, Sweden, synth, tickets

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Listen: New Future Of The Left Song ‘I Am The Least Of Your Problems’

by Andrew Tijs

Welsh rock bullies Future Of The Left tease their new album with a punchy new tune and hilarious song titles.

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Lana Del Rey, Band Of Skulls, Kimbra Headline Spin Off Fest

by Andrew Tijs

Lana Del Rey, Band Of Skulls, Friends, Kimbra, Last Dinosaurs and more come to Adelaide for the Splendour Spin Off.

Tagged as: Adelaide, Band Of Skulls, Bleeding Knees Club, DZ Deathrays, festival, Friends, Kimbra, Lana Del Rey, Last Dinosaurs, Spin Off, Splendour In The Grass, The Rubens, tickets, Yacht Club DJs

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Kate Miller-Heidke. image by Ros O'Gorman

Kate Miller-Heidke And Anthony Callea Feud Dates Back Years

by Paul Cashmere

The sudden feud between Anthony Callea and Kate Miller-Heidke actually dates back to 2005 when Kate wrote a song titled ‘Australian Idol’.

Tagged as: Anthony Callea, Julia Gillard, Kate Miller-Heidke, Q&A

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Metallica Play Entire Black Album Backwards

by Paul Cashmere

Metallica put a new twist on the complete album performance. For the first time ever on Monday they played their iconic self-titled ‘Black’ album from end to beginning instead of beginning to end.

Tagged as: Black Album, Metallica

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