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Ed Kowalczyk of Live Melbourne 2015 photo by Ros O'Gorman

Live And Stone Temple Pilots Bring Lookout To Perth With The Living End And Magic Dirt

by Paul Cashmere

Live and Stone Temple Pilots will co-headline Lookout in Perth in March 2027, joined by The Living End and Magic Dirt at Kings Park.

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The Push and triple j Unearthed competition for Push Over 40 Years Of The Push

The Push And Triple J Unearthed Search For Victorian Act For Push Over

by Paul Cashmere

The Push and triple j Unearthed are searching for one Victorian artist to perform at Push Over – 40 Years Of The Push in Melbourne on 21 November 2026.

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Live, Stone Temple Pilots and 4 Non Blondes headline Lookout 2027 in Australia

Lookout 2027 Unites Live, Stone Temple Pilots And 4 Non Blondes For Australian Tour

by Paul Cashmere

Live, Stone Temple Pilots and 4 Non Blondes will headline Lookout 2027, with Magic Dirt supporting on a 10-date Australian tour in March.

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Regurgitator 2025

The Push Revives Push Over Festival To Mark 40th Anniversary With One Day Melbourne Event

by Paul Cashmere

The Push will celebrate its 40th anniversary with the return of Push Over, featuring Bodyjar, Frenzal Rhomb, Killing Heidi, Magic Dirt and Regurgitator in Melbourne this November.

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Kram Spiderbait ADOTG at Mt Duneed Winery near Geelong featuring The Fauves, Tumbleweed, The Lemondheads, Veruca Salt, Spiderbait, The Living End.

Spiderbait Reveal Local Openers As Ivy & The Big Apples Anniversary Tour Begins

by Paul Cashmere

Spiderbait have unveiled local support acts for their Ivy & The Big Apples 30th Anniversary Tour, with the national run kicking off in Brisbane this weekend.

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Whit and Kram, Spiderbait ADOTG at Mt Duneed Winery near Geelong featuring The Fauves, Tumbleweed, The Lemondheads, Veruca Salt, Spiderbait, The Living End. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Spiderbait Add Second Melbourne Show To Ivy & The Big Apples 30th Anniversary Tour

by Paul Cashmere

Spiderbait add a second Melbourne Forum show after a sellout, extending their Ivy & The Big Apples 30th Anniversary Tour.

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Bleak Squad by Felix Oliver

Bleak Squad Add New Tour Dates As Strange Love Momentum Builds

by Paul Cashmere

Bleak Squad have announced new Australian tour dates following the success of their debut album Strange Love, with shows across Queensland, NSW and South Australia.

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Bleak Squad by Felix Oliver

Bleak Squad Premiere Third Single ‘Blue Signs’

by Noise11.com

Melbourne’s newly formed art-rock collective Bleak Squad—comprised of four luminaries from the Australian music scene—have unveiled their third single and music video, “Blue Signs”, ahead of their debut album Strange Love.

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Adalita Named Australian Musician’s Musician of the Month

by Paul Cashmere

Former Magic Dirt, now Bleak Squad member and most often out solo Aussie artist Adalita has been named Musician of the Month by Australian Musician for August 2025.

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Bleak Squad by Felix Oliver

Check Out Bleak Squad Melbourne’s New Indie Supergroup

by Paul Cashmere

Check Out Bleak Squad Melbourne’s New Indie Supergroup

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Icehouse at One Electric Day 19 November 2023 photo by Winston Robinson, Noise11

Face To Face Touring Spent The Weekend Putting An All-Aussie Line-up In Front of Thousands

by Paul Cashmere

Face To Face Touring had its biggest weekend ever delivering presenting 19 Aussie acts to tens of thousands punters at four events in two states.

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Steve Kilbey of The Church photo by Ros O'Gorman

The Music of John Lennon To Be Performed at Give Peace A Chance Concerts

by Noise11.com

Adalita (Magic Dirt), Diesel, Steve Kilbey (the Church), Isabella Manfredi (The Preatures) and Kevin Mitchell (Jebediah/Bob Evans) will perform the music of John Lennon for the Give Peace A Chance shows in Australia in July.

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Jet played AC/DC LANE on Tuesday 13 February 2018 to announce their upcoming National Get Re-Born Tour. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Jet To Headline Lookout 2025

by Paul Cashmere

The lineup for Lookout 2025 has been revealed with Jet headlining the festival with Grinspoon, The Veronicas, Spiderbait, Jebediah, Magic Dirt and Youth Group all going out on the road together.

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Magic Dirt photo by Mitch Lowe

Magic Dirt To Celebrate 25th Anniversary of ‘Young and Full of the Devil’

by Paul Cashmere

Magic Dirt released their second album ‘Young and Full of the Devil’ in 1998. The album was recorded in 12 days at Birdland Studios and introduced Raul Sanchez to the band.

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Adalita performs at the Reclink Community Cup Elsternwick Park Melbourne on Sunday 21 June 2015. photo by Ros O'Gorman

Adalita To Release ‘Inland’, Her First Album In Nine Years

by Paul Cashmere

Adalita will finally release new music in December with ‘Inland’ to become her first album since ‘All Day Venus’ in 2013.

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Adalita performs at the Reclink Community Cup Elsternwick Park Melbourne on Sunday 21 June 2015. photo by Ros O'Gorman

Adilita Will Perform ‘Tumbling Dice’ At ‘Exile On Main Street’ 50th Anniversary Concert in Melbourne

by Paul Cashmere

Magic Dirt singer Adalita has put her hand up to perform The Rolling Stones’ classic ‘Tumbling Dice’ at the ‘Exile On Main Street’ 50th anniversary show.

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Nirvana Nevermind 30th anniversary edition

Nirvana ‘Nevermind’ To Be Performed Live In Australia

by Paul Cashmere

Empire Touring has put together an Australian supergroup featuring members of Magic Dirt, The Superjesus, Even, Screamfeeder and Shihad to a performance of the complete Nirvana ‘Nevermind’ album.

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Eskimo Joe at Noise11 in 2013 photo by Ros O'Gorman

Eskimo Joe To Perform Black Fingernails Red Wine and A Song Is A City Albums On 2022 Tour

by Paul Cashmere

Eskimo Joe will break of their Western Australian prison to tour Australia in September and October showcasing two of their classic albums ‘Black Fingernails Red Wine’ and ‘A Song Is A City’.

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Rolling Stones Exile On Main Street

Tim Rogers, Adalita and Tex Perkins To Tour Exile On Main Street

by Paul Cashmere

After performing the Rolling Stones classic ‘Sticky Fingers’, Tim Rogers of You Am I, Adalita from Magic Dirt and Tex Perkins of Cruel Sea will take ‘Exile On Main Street’ on tour to mark the 50th anniversary of the Stones release.

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Grinspoon

Spring Loaded Festival Adds Melbourne and Brisbane Dates

by Paul Cashmere

Alt-Music festival Spring Loaded has new dates for Brisbane and Melbourne.

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Bored!

Former Magic Dirt Guitarist Dave Thomas Dies Aged 56

by Paul Cashmere

Dave Thomas, an early member of Magic Dirt as well as Geelong band Bored! has died at the age of 56.

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Grinspoon

Grinspoon, You Am I, Magic Dirt Prepare For Spring Loaded

by Paul Cashmere

After a successful 2019 in Queensland, Spring Loaded has expanded to Sydney as well for 2020.

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Magic Dirt Life Was Better

Magic Dirt To Reissue 1994 EP ‘Life Was Better’ In 2020

by Paul Cashmere

Magic Dirt’s second EP ‘Life Was Better’ will be reissued in January 2020.

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Adalita, Photo By Ros O'Gorman

Magic Dirt, Baker Boy and Harvey Sutherland Set For Community Cup 2019

by Paul Cashmere

The Reclink Community Cup 2019 line-up has been confirmed with Magic Dirt, Baker Boy and Harvey Sutherland along for 2019.

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Hoodoo Gurus Dave Faulkner, photo by Ros OGorman

Twilight At Taronga First Acts For 2019 Revealed

by Paul Cashmere

You Am I and Magic Dirt will play, Hoodoo Gurus are on and the reformed Do Re Mi have a By The C sideshow at Twilight at Taronga 2019.

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Happy Mondays, Noise11, Photo

Golden Plains Is Getting Kinda Retro With Liz Phair, Happy Mondays and Jesus & Mary Chain

by Paul Cashmere

Golden Plains is taking it back a little in March with instead of one traditional token “old” act they have gone for three.

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Magic Dirt

Magic Dirt Will Reform For Hotter Than Hell

by Paul Cashmere

Geelong’s magic Dirt will reform for the 2019 Hotter Than Hell festival around Australia.

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The Ape, Tex Perkins, Noise11

Tex Perkins To Debut The Ape And Announces Dates

by Paul Cashmere

The Ape, featuring Tex Perkins (Cruel Sea/Beasts of Bourbon), Raul Sanchez (Magic Dirt), Gus Agars (The Dark Horses) and Pat Bourke, will release their debut album in October.

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Adalita, Photo By Ros O'Gorman

Adalita To Join Powder Monkeys At Hemensley Cup

by Paul Cashmere

Former Magic Dirt singer Adalita will perform with Power Monkeys at the Hemensley Cup this Sunday in Melbourne.

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Adalita, Photo By Ros O'Gorman

Adalita Releases All Day Venus FIRST LISTEN

by Paul Cashmere

Adalita has released the first taste of her second solo album with the song ‘All Day Venus’.

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