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Dave Faulkner To Reform The Victims for Two Play Final Shows

by Paul Cashmere

Perth Punk band The Victims, Dave Faulkner’s band before Hoodoo Gurus, will reform for two final shows in December.

Tagged as: 70s, Australia, Dave Faulkner, Hoodoo Gurus, punk, The Victims

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Cold Chisel To Release Expanded Box Set of Last Stand

by Paul Cashmere

Cold Chisel’s live album ‘Last Stand’, documenting the end of the first era of Chisel in later 1983, will be expanded into a box set with bonus tracks and the previously separate ‘Barking Spiders Live’ album.

Tagged as: 80s, Australia, Barking Spiders, Cold Chisel, Last Stand, rock

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Jet To Be Inducted Into ARIA Hall of Fame Ahead of …

by Paul Cashmere

Jet will be inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2023 and so they should … eventually … but not just yet.

Tagged as: 10s, ARIA Hall of Fame, Australia, Jet, rock

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The Screaming Jets Plan Memorial For Paul Woseen And Continue Band In His Honour

by Paul Cashmere

The Screaming Jets have announced a Memorial in Melbourne for their bass player and co-founder Paul Woseen will be announced soon.

Tagged as: 80s, 90s, Australia, Paul Woseen, rock, Screaming Jets

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Darren Hayes Files For Divorce After 17 Years Marriage

by Music-News.com

Savage Garden singer Darren Hayes has filed for divorce from his husband Richard Cullen after 17 years of marriage.

Tagged as: 90s, Australia, Darren Hayes, pop, Richard Cullen, Savage Garden

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Chris Stapleton, Snoop Dogg and Cindy Santana Cover Phil Collins For The Footy

by Paul Cashmere

Chris Stapleton, Snoop Dogg and Cindy Santana have recorded a new version of Phil Collins classic ‘In The Air Tonight’ for the 2023 season of ESPNS’s Monday Night Football.

Tagged as: blues, Chris Stapleton, Cindy Santana, ESPN, In The Air Tonight, Phil Collins, rock, Snoop Dogg, USA

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Wolfgang Van Halen Won’t Be Covering Van Halen Anytime Soon

by Music-News.com

Eddie Van Halen’s son Wolfgang Van Halen refuses to cover his dad’s songs because it’s important to be his “own musician”.

Tagged as: 20s, metal, rock, USA, Van Halen, Wolfgang Van Halen, WVH

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Billy Corgan Marries Long Time Partner Chloe Mendel

by Music-News.com

Billy Corgan has married his long-time partner Chloe Mendel. Morgan confirmed that last week, he tied the knot with his partner Chloe, who he has been in a relationship with since 2012.

Tagged as: 90s, Billy Morgan, Chloe Mendel, grunge, rock, Smashing Pumpkins, USA

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British Folk Singer Roger Whittaker Dies At Age 87

by Paul Cashmere

Roger Whittaker, best known for the 1975 hit, ‘The Last Farewell’, has made his last farewell. Roger Whittaker has died at the age of 87.

Tagged as: 70s, folk, Roger Whittaker, UK

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Olivia Rodrigo Cancels Australian Trip

by Music-News.com

Olivia Rodrigo has cancelled her Australian publicity tour due to “unforeseen circumstances”.

Tagged as: 10s, 20s, Olivia Rodrigo, pop, USA

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Pretenders ADOTG at Rochford Winery on Saturday 18 November 2017. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

The Pretenders To Play Intimate UK Shows

by Music-News.com

The Pretenders will play two intimate UK club gigs next month.

Tagged as: 80s, 90s, rock, The Pretenders, USA

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Katy Perry Sells Music Catalogue For $220m

by Music-News.com

Katy Perry has sold her music rights to Litmus Music for $225 million (£180 million).

Tagged as: 10s, 20s, Katy Perry, pop, USA

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The ARIA Chart Is Something To Get ‘Angry’ About

by Paul Cashmere

The Rolling Stones ‘Angry’ debuted at 329 on the ARIA chart this week. Flop? Not really. It is another example of the how irrelevant the ARIA chart has become. It irrelevance is also having a negative impact on the perspective of Australian artist’s success.

Tagged as: Angry, ARIA, Australia, charts, Hackney Diamonds, music industry, rock, Rolling Stones

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U2 Premiere New Song ‘Atomic City’ At Las Vegas Pop Up Show

by Paul Cashmere

U2 have performed a brand new song ‘Atomic City’ at a Pop Up show in Las Vegas ahead of their residency. The impromptu performance happened in Fremont Street, Las Vegas, the same street the band filmed their 1987 video for ‘I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For’.

Tagged as: 80s, Atomic City, Ireland, Larry Mullen Jr, Las Vegas, rock, U2, USA

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Jim Kerr of Simple Minds photo by Ros O'Gorman

Simple Minds Add Theatre Date Sideshows To Red Hot Summer Tour

by Paul Cashmere

Simple Minds will perform addition sideshow dates when they return to Australia for Red Hot Summer on 2024.

Tagged as: Australia, Face To Face, live music, Regional Touring, Scotland, Simple Minds, Zaccaria

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+Live+ and Incubus To Headline Inaugural Lookout Festival

by Paul Cashmere

Australia will have a brand-new music festival in 2024. Lookout Festival will feature +Live+ and Incubus with Birds of Tokyo, Eskimo Joe and The Superjesus.

Tagged as: +Live+, Australia, Duane mcDonald, Face To Face, Incubus, live, music festival, Regional Touring, rock, Zaccaria

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Tom Jones To Perform Around Australian Including One A Day On the Green

by Paul Cashmere

The legendary Tom Jones has announced six more Australian shows around his Bluesfest performance including one A Day On The Green for Bowral in April.

Tagged as: 60s, 70s, A Day On The Green, Germein, live music, pop, soul, Tom Jones, UK

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Black Flag To Play First Australian Shows In 10 Years

by Paul Cashmere

Black Flag will play their first Australian shows in a decade in December with the classic album ‘My War’ as the centrepiece of the show.

Tagged as: 80s, Black Flag, My War, punk, USA

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Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets Is Such A Rare Privilege To See Live

by Paul Cashmere

Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets, featuring Pink Floyd drummer and co-writer Nick Mason who was there from the start, has began the first (and lets put it out there) last Australian tour. To be in the room with a Pink Floyd founder performing Floyd songs that are so rare many have never been played live by any member of Pink Floyd in Australia before, was indeed a privilege.

Tagged as: 60s, 70s, Nick Mason, Nick Masons Saucerful of Secrets, Pink Floyd, rock, UK

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

The Rolling Stones Are Working On A New Documentary

by Music-News.com

The Rolling Stones are filming a new documentary. Sir Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood have been working with Fulwell 73 on a documentary about the making of their latest record ‘Hackney Diamonds’.

Tagged as: 60s, 70s, 80s, Hackney Diamonds, Keith Richards, Paul McCartney, rock, Ronnie Wood, The Rolling Stones, USA

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NSYNC Won’t Tour Despite New Music

by Music-News.com

Justin Timberlake is planning a “big tour” next year.

Tagged as: 00s, Justin Timberlake, NSYNC, pop, USA

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Beyoncé Briefly Loses Her Voice During Seattle Show

by Music-News.com

Beyoncé temporarily lost her voice during her recent performance in Seattle, Washington.

Tagged as: 00s, Beyonce, pop, soul, USA

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Paul Woseen Of The Screaming Jets Has Died At Age 56

by Paul Cashmere

Paul Woseen, a founding member and bass player for The Screaming Jets, has passed away at age 56.

Tagged as: 90s, Australia, Paul Woseen, rock, The Screaming Jets

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Kurt Cobain Was A Huge Teenage Fanclub and BMX Bandits Fan

by Paul Cashmere

Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub recalled for Noise11 the time he met Kurt Cobain. Kurt was a huge fan of Norman’s previous band BMX Bandits and also Glasgow’s The Vaselines.

Tagged as: 90s, alternative, grunge, Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, Norman Blake, rock, Scotland, Teenage Fanclub, UK

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Walter Trout Completes 31st Album

by Paul Cashmere

The yet to be titled album will be released in February but don’t expect to hear anything from it on his next Australian tour in January.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, 90s, blues, Canned Heat, John Lee Hokker, John Mayall, Percy Mayfield, USA, Walter Trout

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Spinal Taps’s Derek Smalls Releases New Song ‘Must Crush Barbie’

by Paul Cashmere

With no news of a Spinal Tap reunion in the works, founding member, the legendary bass player Derek Smalls, has released a solo song ‘Must Crush Barbie’.

Tagged as: comedy, Derek Smalls, rock, Spinal Tap, USA

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Ozzy Osbourne To Undergo More Surgery

by Music-News.com

Ozzy Osbourne is set to undergo further surgery after his ATV accident.

Tagged as: 60s, 70s, Black Sabbath, metal, Ozzy Osbourne, UK

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NSYNC Release First New Song In 20 Years

by Music-News.com

NSYNC are back with their first song in 20 years.

Tagged as: 00s, NSYNC, pop, USA

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Sia To Release First Album In 8 Years

by Music-News.com

Sia is set to release her first solo pop album in eight years, ‘Reasonable Woman’, in Spring 2024.

Tagged as: 00s, 90s, Australia, pop, Sia

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Walk For Yes Events Planned Across Australia This Weekend

by Paul Cashmere

Walk For Yes events will happen all over Australia this Saturday and Sunday with Australia’s music community showing support for the Yes vote in the upcoming referendum to put an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.

Tagged as: Australia, Briggs, Dan Sultan, Paul Kelly, Peter Garrett, referendum, Spiderbait, Walk For Yes

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