Greetings faithful readers. Are you a big fan of long weekends, the great outdoors, top quality live music, a hell of a lot of fun and being on the receiving end of free things? If you answered “yes” to all of the above, then 12MC has the perfect contest for you.
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The Vines exclusive fan club, Dreamin The Insane, recently posted a blog or two revealing a couple of shows for the band in April. The boys are finally paying the rest of the country a visit, with dates in Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth, Melbourne, and some place in Tasmania I’ve never heard of and I’m [...]

When news broke out last year that Isaac Brock had recruited ex-Smiths’ songwriter/guitarist Johnny Marr to join the ranks of his band, Modest Mouse, indie kids all over the world cheered in unison. Some even went as far as referring to them as “Marrdest Mouse” or “Modest Marr”, but probably only the real hardcore ones. [...]

If you’ve been keeping an eye on the international blog scene this past week (particularly those hailing from New York City), you would have no doubt read countless gushing reports about The Arcade Fire’s recent five night stint in the Big Apple. Keeping true to the religious theme of their highly anticipated Neon Bible record, [...]

Where would blogs be without YouTube? Today’s YouTube newie comes from Francais favourites, Air. I have personally never been a huge fan of Air aside from their soundtrack work on Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides and the occasional song here and there. However this latest video for “Once Upon A Time” off the recently leaked [...]

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every Wednesday night on the rooftop
$14 Pot n Parma
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What with the release of Silverchair’s fifth LP Young Modern just around the corner, it would only be appropriate to have selected the Novcastrian boys as this week’s proud representatives for the very prestigious T.G.I. Covers section.
The year is 1997. Pogs rule the school yards, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones are considered cool and Judgement Day [...]

Everybody’s favourite Blue Mountains’ five piece band; Belles Will Ring, have unleashed their new single “Park Benches” onto the unsuspecting masses via their official Myspace page. The song is a jangly folk-rock gem, full of harmonies, a great melody and even features some ever-welcome harmonica. “Park Benches” is from their forthcoming debut LP Mood Patterns [...]

The Music have been very quiet since the release of their second album, Welcome To The North. After 2002’s magnificent self titled debut and a touring schedule that can only be described as “absolutely insane”, the boys hurried into the studio and recorded a follow up which, in my humble opinion, didn’t do them justice. [...]

He’s about thirty-five years my senior, married, and very far from my type, but for some reason I’ve always had a school-girl crush on Sting. I blame my parents for drilling his music into my head from a young age. Back in the day I used to play my Best of Sting & The Police [...]

While browsing my iTunes music library as I often do during moments of complete boredom, I found myself scrolling through the colossal amount of Weezer mp3s that make up a fair bulk of my music. From poorly recorded home demos to rare live Blur covers, I feel safe in knowing that my obsessive nature has [...]

Is it just me or does the 2007 Australian V Music Festival have the worst promotion ever? Basically the only time I hear this festival mentioned is through either a blog, Myspace or word of mouth. I don’t know, maybe I’m just losing touch and the whole minimalist approach to the promotion is actually a [...]