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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band To Play SXSW

Bruce Springsteen will be bringing the E Street Band to Austin to perform at SXSW ahead of the start of the world tour the following week.

Tagged as: Austin, Austin Convention Center, Bruce Springsteen, E Street Band, SXSW, Wrecking Ball

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ARIA Reports Music Sales Down Slightly For 2011

by Paul Cashmere

The Australian Music Industry was still hammered by piracy in 2011 but the good news is that sales are starting to stabilize.

Tagged as: ARIA, Dan Rosen, Denis Handlin, Sony Music

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Final Bluesfest Announcement John Fogerty To Play Second Show

by Paul Cashmere

Peter Noble has unveiled the final announcement for Bluesfest 2012 with John Fogerty added in for a second performance at the festival on Monday April 9.

Tagged as: Blackbirds, bluesfest, Bobby Alu, Claude Haye, Dan Hannaford, Daniel Champagne, Harry Healy, John Fogerty, Mason Rack Band, Mick McHugh, Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission, Minnie Marks, Mojo Bluesmen, Parties Anything, Peter Noble, Round Mountain Girls, Slightly Stoopid, The Hands, Weddings

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Fred Durst Calls Big Day Out Promoter A Fucking Asshole

by Paul Cashmere

Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit has used the stage at Soundwave to mouth off at the promoters for the Big Day Out, calling them “fucking assholes”.

Tagged as: Big Day Out, Fred Durst, Jessica Michalik, Limp Bizkit, Soundwave

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Muse Get Horny For New Album

by Paul Cashmere

Muse are using a horn section on their next album.

Tagged as: Muse

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My Disco Announce April Shows And Offer New Video

by Andrew Tijs

Beloved post-punk trio My Disco book four shows in April and reveal their first video.

Tagged as: art, clip, Melbourne, My Disco, post-punk, rock, Toff In Town, tour, Turn, video

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Keith Richards, The Rolling Stones images by Ros O'Gorman, noise11.com, photo

Keith Richards And Eric Clapton Perform For Hubert Sumlin

by Paul Cashmere

Keith Richards joined Eric Clapton onstage at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem for a benefit concert in the name of the late Hubert Sumlin to raise money for the Jazz Foundation.

Tagged as: Cream, Eric Clapton, Howling Wolf, Hubert Sumlin, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Rolling Stones

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Robin Gibb Undergoes More Cancer Treatment

by Paul Cashmere

Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees is back in a London hospital undergoing more treatment for liver and colon cancer.

Tagged as: Bee Gees, cancer, Robin Gibb, Titanic

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Black Sabbath Add Sole US Date

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

What sounded like a one-off reunion of the original (or mostly original) Black Sabbath at this year’s Download Festival has expanded, to one additional show.

Tagged as: Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Sharon Osbourne, USA

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Watch New Gotye Video Easy Way Out

by Paul Cashmere

Wally De Backer, a.k.a. Gotye, finally has a new song after ‘Something That I Used To Know’. ‘Easy Way Out’ is his latest single and video from ‘Making Mirrors’.

Tagged as: Easy Way Out, Gotye, Something That I Used To Know, YouTube

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Muppets Beats Sergio Mendes For Oscar

by Paul Cashmere

‘Man or Muppet’ for The Muppets movie has won the best Original Song music award at the Oscars.

Tagged as: Academy Awards, John Williams, Muppets, Oscars, Rio, Sergio Mendes

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Troy Cassar-Daley Readies Eighth Album Home

by Paul Cashmere

Troy Cassar-Daley will release this eighth studio album his Friday.

Tagged as: Home, Troy Cassar-Daley

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Operator Please Meet Colour Coding

by Paul Cashmere

Tim Commandeur and Chris Holland of Operator Please have a new project called Colour Coding.

Tagged as: Chris Holland, Colour Coding, Inertia, Operator Please, Tim Commandeur

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Paul Williams and Stephen Kessler. photo from SXSW.com

Paul Williams To Speak At SXSW

by Paul Cashmere

Legendary songwriter Paul Williams has been a last minute addition as a speaker for SXSW.

Tagged as: ASCAP, Paul Williams, Stephen Kessler, SXSW

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Taylor Swift Asks Leukemia Patient To Be Awards Date

by Andrew Tijs

Taylor Swift knocked back a teen leukemia patient who asked her to be his prom date… but returned with a far better counter-offer.

Tagged as: Academy Of Country Music, awards, cancer, country, date, leukemia, patient, pop, prom, Taylor Swift

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Adele Retains Top Spot On This Week’s ARIA Chart

by Andrew Tijs

Adele equals Delta Goodrem’s record, and not much else happens, in this week’s ARIA Chart wrap.

Tagged as: Adele, album, ARIA, Band Of Skulls, chart, Flo Rida, Paul McCartney, Roxette, singles, Whitney Houston, wrap

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Golden Plains Playing Times

by Paul Cashmere

Golden Plains playing times have been announced.

Tagged as: Bon Iver, Chic, Golden Plains, Nile Rodgers, Roky Erickson

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Radiohead Australian Dates Announced

by Paul Cashmere

Radiohead will mount an East Coast tour of Australia in November.

Tagged as: Australian Tour, Radiohead, Thom Yorke

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Bruce Springsteen Plays Surprise Gig In New Jersey

by Paul Cashmere

Bruce Springsteen performed in a small New Jersey club on Saturday night for a fund-raiser for his former trainer Tony Strollo.

Tagged as: Bruce Springsteen, SXSW, Tony Strollo, world tour, Wrecking Ball

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Johnny Cash Would Be 80 Today

by Paul Cashmere

February 26 marks the 80th birthday of Johnny Cash.

Tagged as: 80, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Rick Rubin, Roseanne Cash, Sam Phillips

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Bruce Springsteen To Release Studio Version Of Land Of Hope And Dreams

by Paul Cashmere

The new Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band album ‘Wrecking Ball’ will include a studio version of ‘Land Of Hope And Dreams’, a song Springsteen has been performing live for more than a decade.

Tagged as: Bruce Springsteen, Clarence Clemons, Land of Hope and Dreams, The E Street Band, Wrecking Ball

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Happy Birthday To George Harrison

by Paul Cashmere

George Harrison, the youngest Beatle, would have been 69-years old this weekend.

Tagged as: George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, The Beatles

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Little Feat and Frank Zappa Bass Player Jailed For 25 Years

by Paul Cashmere

Roy Estrada, an original member of both Little Feat and Frank Zappa’s Mothers Of Invention, has been jailed for 25 years for child molestation.

Tagged as: Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa, Little Feat, Mothers of Invention, Roy Estrada

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Nile Rodgers Rehearses INXS Original Sin For Playground Weekender

by Paul Cashmere

Nile Rodgers will be performing the INXS classic ‘Original Sin’ during Chic’s Playground Weekender set in Australia next weekend.

Tagged as: Chic, Daryl Hall, David Bowie, Hall & Oates, INXS, Madonna, Nile Rodgers, Original Sin

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Robert Plant To Debut New Band At Womad

by Paul Cashmere

Robert Plant will debut his new band the Sensational Space Shifters at Womad in the UK in July.

Tagged as: Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant, Sensational Space Shifters, WOMAD

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Chris Brown and Missy Elliot Added To Supafest

by Paul Cashmere

Celebrity thug Chris Brown has been added to Supafest 2012. So has Missy Elliot, Big Sean and Naughty By Nature.

Tagged as: Big Sean, Chris Brown, Diddy, Ice Cube, Kelly Rowland, Lupe Fiasco, Missy Elliot, Naughty By Nature, Rick Ross, Supafest, Trey Songz

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Whitney Houston Death Cocktail Revealed

by Paul Cashmere

Whitney Houston died from a mixture of Valium, Xanax and alcohol, the coroner’s report will reveal.

Tagged as: autopsy, coroner, Whitney Houston

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Roxette Put Respect Back Into Pop

by Paul Cashmere

Roxette have been setting the benchmark for pop performers during their Australian tour. This is how pop should be done, a real band playing real music.

Tagged as: Australia, Charm School, Live Nation, New Zealand, Roxette, tour

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