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Chet Faker: Photo Ros O'Gorman
ARIA Award Nominees And Artisan Winners Announced

Chet Faker leads the ARIA Awards nominees for 2014 with 9 nominations including Album of the Year with Sheppard in for seven awards.

October 7, 2014
Ariel Pink
Sugar Mountain Announce Ariel Pink As First Act

The Sugar Mountain Festival will return in 2015 and the line-up announcement will be made next week but the first act revealed is Ariel Pink.

October 7, 2014
Joan Armatrading Noise11.com music news
Joan Armatrading Not Retiring, Just Not Touring

Joan Armatrading has clarified early reports that her final tour will be her exit from the music industry.

October 7, 2014
The Smith Street Band
The Smith Street Band Premiere Surrender Video

Melbourne’s The Smith Street Band have revealed the first official video for ‘Surrender’, their new song from the upcoming ‘Throw Me In The River’ album.

October 7, 2014
Kongos
The Kongos Name Rocks Again After 43 Years

South Africa’s Kongos is a band to watch in Australia but old news already in the USA.

October 7, 2014
Dallas
Dallas Axed, Twin Peaks To Return

The remake version of super-soap Dallas has been cancelled after three seasons but Twin Peaks fans are waking to news of a new season after 25 years.

October 7, 2014
Bill Bailey
REVIEW: Bill Bailey, Hamer Hall Melbourne, October 6 2014

Bill Bailey is equal parts comedian and philosopher. Yes, Bailey’s Limboland is billed as a comedy show but it is more a reality check of the pulse of the people.

October 6, 2014
Mariah Carey Jupiters Gold Coast Show 2013: Photo Gerry Nicholls
Mariah Carey Struggles To Sing At First Show

Mariah Carey has been criticised for delivering poor vocals at her Japan show this weekend.

October 6, 2014
Pearl Jam photo by Ros O'Gorman
Pearl Jam Play Austin City Limits

Pearl Jam are three shows in to their US mini tour with a stopover Sunday night in Austin for Austin City Limits.

October 6, 2014
The Tea Party - Photo Ros O'Gorman
WIN The Tea Party and The Superjesus Tickets

The Tea Party and The Superjesus will kick off their Australian tour on Thursday, October 9 in Perth. Noise11 invites you and a friend to attend the show of your choice.

October 6, 2014
Primus and the Chocolate Factory
Primus Take Ownership Of Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory

Les Claypool has turned the soundtrack to ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’ into a Primus album.

October 6, 2014
Lady Gaga, Photo Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, photo
Lady Gaga And Tony Bennett Record On The Nose In Australia

The Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett experiment ‘Cheek To Cheek’ will struggle to reach even Gold status (35,000 sales) in Australia.

October 6, 2014
Slash. image by Ros O'Gorman
Slash Saved By Tony Abbott

Slash’s irrelevant performance at the NFL Game Final in Sydney last night would be the talking point of today if Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott wasn’t there as well.

October 6, 2014
St Vincent poster
Bill Murray Sings Bob Dylan For St Vincent

Bill Murray sings the Bob Dylan classic ‘Shelter From The Storm’ along to Dylan in his new movie St Vincent’.

October 6, 2014
Paul Revere and the Raiders, Noise11, Photo
R.I.P. Paul Revere Dead At 76

Paul Revere, the charismatic leader of Paul Revere and the Raiders, died on Saturday at the age of 76. While no official cause of death was announced, Revere had been in poor health and had retired from the band in July.

October 6, 2014
BB King, Noise11, music news
B.B. King Falls, Cancels Remaining Shows

Blues legend B.B. King has cancelled his next eight shows after falling on stage in Chicago on Friday night.

October 5, 2014
Chris Martin of Coldplay. Image by Ros O'Gorman.
Chris Martin Joins Kings Of Leon At Hollywood Bowl

Coldplay’s Chris Martin was a surprise guest of Kings of Leon at Friday night’s Hollywood Bowl concert in Los Angeles.

October 5, 2014
Pink Floyd The Endless River
Pink Floyd Preview More Music From The Endless River

Pink Floyd have been teasing fans with 30-second snippets of their new album ‘The Endless River’ and have released a third video.

October 5, 2014
Nana Mouskouri
Nana Mouskouri To Tour Australia

Greek superstar Nana Mouskouri will return to Australia next April as part of her world tour marking her 80th birthday.

October 5, 2014
Ed Sheeran, Photo By Ros O'Gorman
Ed Sheeran Tackles The No 1 ARIA Album Spot Again

Ed Sheeran 'x' has returned to the top of the ARIA album chart.

October 4, 2014
The Veronicas You Ruin Me
The Veronicas Maintain ARIA Singles Top Spot

The Veronicas stay atop the ARIA Singles chart for a second week with “You Ruin Me”.

October 4, 2014
Alex Smith of Moving Pictures
Moving Pictures Perform First New Songs In 30 Years

Moving Pictures debuted their first new music in 30 years at the Sydney Opera House on Friday night (October 3, 2014).

October 4, 2014
Yusuf Islam - Image By Ros O'Gorman
Yusuf Releases Short Film For Tell ‘Em I’m Gone Album

Yusuf aka Cat Stevens has releases a short film by director Danny Clinch to explain his next album ‘Tell ‘Em I’m Gone’.

October 4, 2014
Rob Skipper and the Musical Differences
The Holloways Rob Skipper Dead At 28

Rob Skipper of UK indie rock band The Holloways has been confirmed dead at age 28.

October 4, 2014
Wu-Tang Clan, music news, noise11.com
Wu-Tang Clan Sign With Warner For 20th Anniversary Release

Wu-Tang Clan have signed with Warner Music and will release their new album ‘A Better Tomorrow’ in December.

October 4, 2014
Nikki Sixx, Motley Crue, Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, Photo
Nikki Sixx Streams Modern Vintage Album Pre-Release

Nikki Sixx fans is giving fans a full online listening session to his new Sixx:A.M. album ‘Modern Vintage’ before its release next week.

October 4, 2014
Lorde on South Park
Lorde Becomes A South Park Character

Lorde has been immortalised on South Park.

October 4, 2014
Kasey Chambers, Iwaki Ausitorium, Melbourne 2014
Kasey Chambers Releases Bernard Fanning Video Directed by Renny Wijeyamohan

Renny Wijeyamohan of Out Door Films has directed the new Kasey Chambers and Bernard Fanning video for ‘Bittersweet’.

October 3, 2014
Chuck Leavell
Chuck Leavell Reinvents How Music Is Taught

Rolling Stones keyboard player Chuck Leavell has developed an online teaching platform for music students to learn how to play piano.

October 3, 2014
Dave Matthews photo by Ros O'Gorman
Dave Matthews To Make His Film Debut

Dave Matthews has been dabbling in movies and TV over the last thirteen years, including such programs as House and movies as Because of Winn-Dixie and You Don't Mess With Zohan, but he will move into the big time with a leading role next year in the movie Angels.

October 3, 2014