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22.05.12 SET SAIL ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM AND TOUR
After something of a turbulent start to the year involving visa woes, all members of Sydney’s indie-pop trio Set Sail are now back on Australian soil and ready to make the country privy to their newest material with the announcement of a national tour.
21.05.12 XAVIER RUDD ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM AND TOUR
Hot on the heels of his highest-selling single to date Follow The Sun, multi-instrumentalist Xavier Rudd has announced for this August and September plans to finally put forward his highly anticipated new record Spirit Bird alongside a national tour.
17.05.12 SLASH ANNOUNCES AUSTRALIAN TOUR
Recent Rock n Roll Hall of Fame inductee and former Guns’n’Roses guitarist Slash has announced that he will be returning to Australian this August in support of his new album Apocalyptic Love.
24.04.12 CANNIBAL CORPSE COMING TO TORTURE AUSTRALIA
It’s been three years since we were last graced with the sacophagic presence of death metal outfit Cannibal Corpse.
17.04.12 NED COLLETTE & WIREWALKER LAUNCHING NEW ALBUM
It’s been over two years since Melbourne musician Ned Collette relocated to Berlin.
12.04.12 HYPNO5E TOURING NEW ALBUM IN AUSTRALIA
French metal act Hypno5e will be bringing their frenetic tunes to Australia this May in celebration of their brand new album Acid Mist Tomorrow, seeing them landing in Adelaide for a performance at Enigma Bar.
05.04.12 LEST WE FORGET NE OBLIVISCARIS
After a 15-month battle with the Australian Immigration Department to grant their lead guitarist a long term visa, progressive metal band Ne Obliviscaris, which translates in Latin to ‘lest we forget,’ are finally embarking on an Australian tour this May and June with their first new album in five years, Portal Of I.
05.04.12 BUCKLEY WARD ALBUM TOUR
Melbourne five-piece Buckley Ward will be launching their new album So Pretend across a number of venues when they hit the road this April, including a stint at Adelaide’s Ed Castle.
04.04.12 GET MAT MCHUGH’S NEW ALBUM FOR FREE
It’s been a decade since the rise of The Beautiful Girls.
03.04.12 THE BEARDS LAUNCHING NEW ALBUM AT UNIBAR
Stints in-studio at Triple J and a spot in the Hottest 100? An APRA award nomination for single of the year? For a band that “never expected to play more than one show,” Adelaide’s own The Beards have certainly come a long way.
02.04.12 LISTEN TO NEW DIRTY PROJECTORS
It’s been nearly three years since experimental wonder kids Dirty Projectors released their acclaimed eighth studio album Bitte Orca.
29.03.12 BEST COAST'S NEW SINGLE 'THE ONLY PLACE'
When Rip It Up spoke to Bethany Coseninto of Best Coast earlier this year she delved into some details about her forthcoming new album: “I’m definitely becoming more confident and ready not to hide my voice under heaps of things.
29.03.12 VAN SHE RELEASING NEW ALBUM ‘IDEAS OF HAPPINESS’
It’s been four years since Sydney outfit Van She released their critically acclaimed debut album V, but now the four-piece are back with a new album in tow, Idea Of Happiness, due out on July 26 through Modular People.
19.03.12 WATCH THE DEATH STARRS
Gold Coast/Melbourne hip hop duo Death Starrs have won the 2012 Triple J Unearthed Hilltop Hoods Remix Competition with their take on the track Now That You're Gone from the Hoods' new album, Drinking From The Sun.
13.03.12 GRIZZLY BEAR TO TOUR AUSTRALIA?
Breaking news on the Twitterverse today.
10.02.12 INTERVIEW: CHAIRLIFT
Potential Laneway stage invaders, take heed: showcasing their new album Something at New York’s famed Bowery Ballroom last week, Chairlift singer Caroline Polachek took on an overzealous intruder with a move straight out of a police training video.
07.02.12 INTERPOL’S PAUL BANKS CUTS NEW RECORD
Interpol frontman, Paul Banks, is reportedly set to release his second solo album later on this year.
04.01.12 BLOC PARTY RECORDING NEW ALBUM FOR 2012
Last year Kele Okereke discovered blogging, essentially went ‘drunk Facebooking’ (hey, who hasn’t) and self-ignited rumours of his ousting from Bloc Party, leaving fans of the British alt-rock band confused and trawling the internet for confirmation of a band split.
25.10.11 TRACER TOUR DIARY
Amidst their European tour to promote their new album Spaces In Between, local outfit Tracer keep us up-to-date with an tour diary while on the road.
16.09.11 LIVE: THE VINES
Our writer Rob Lyon went to see just how 'Highly Evolved' The Vines had become since their new album release Future Primitive.
