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16.05.12 BURNING LOVE COMING TO AUSTRALIA
Toronto rock troupe Burning Love, a collaboration between members of iconic bands Cursed and Our Father, will be bringing their anticipated sophomore record Rotten Thing To Say to Australian stages this June as part of a national tour.
11.05.12 RETURN OF THE STEEL PANTHER!
Drawing a massive midday crowd out to Soundwave this year (and apparently blowing Alter Bridge off the stage at Sidewaves interstate), LA’s nutty hair metal lads Steel Panther are getting their Balls Out during a new tour announced for October.
08.05.12 ELIZABETH ROSE AT ROCKET BAR
Sydney popette Elizbeth Rose has risen to prominence over the past twelve months with her Grimes-esque blip and bloop tunes and theatrical stage presence.
13.04.12 WHEATUS TO TOUR AUSTRALIA THIS YEAR?
Remember Wheatus, those guys that wrote Teenage Dirtbag (and are doubly every coealiacs worst nightmare)? Well, turns out the New York rock band have Australia set in their sights for a tour at some stage this year, according to the good ol' faithful source of Facebook.
14.03.12 FRANK TURNER COMING TO ADELAIDE
British folk/punk hero Frank Turner will soon be Australia-bound for a performance at Groovin’ The Moo festival, but if you don’t have tickets to see him on the open air stage you can catch him in a more intimate setting when he tours with his band The Sleeping Souls this May.
08.03.12 FUTURE MUSIC INTERVIEW: GYM CLASS HEROES
Thanks to the goofy music video hubris, clowning media shots and swaggering onstage confidence, Gym Class Heroes frontman Travie McCoy has the aura of a man completely comfortable in his heavily inked skin.
20.02.12 SAN CISCO LAUNCHING ROCKET SHIP TOUR
They may be a bit Awkward but that doesn’t mean that they are shy of a stage, as young WA guns San Cisco are getting back on the bandwagon just weeks after their debut national tour.
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.
02.02.12 RIP IT UP TV: BANDS ON TRACK
Over the past few weeks we’ve seen up to 15 local bands battling it out on the live stage to win a place at the concert series of this year’s Clipsal 500.
23.01.12 FRINGE OPENING NIGHT ANNOUNCES ACTS
For the second year running the main showcase event for FUSE Festival will coincide with the celebrations of Adelaide Fringe, this year seeing a fantastic list of up-and-coming locals taking to the stage for the opening night.
13.01.12 BANDS ON TRACK: JAYNE-ANNE POWER
Last night Fowler’s Live was treated to the first heat of Music SA’s Bands On Track competition, seeing The Sun and The Sky, Squeaker, Mase N Mattic, Jayne-Anne Power and The Belle-Phonics all battling it out on the live stage for a spot to perform at Clipsal 500.
21.12.11 RIP IT UP'S TOP MUSIC NEWS OF 2011
After a momentous year of royal weddings, narrowly escaping The Rapture, the deaths of Bin Laden, Kim Jong Il, Gaddafi and Jon Bon Jovi and Kardashian infiltration into mainstream media, it’s now time to finally farewell 2011.
12.12.11 GRINDERMAN CALL IT QUITS AT MEREDITH
Just days after wrapping up their national tour with a performance at HQ in Adelaide, Nick Cave’s ‘side project’ Grinderman have announced on-stage at Meredith Music Festival that they are calling it quits after five years and two studio albums.
06.12.11 RIP IT UP TV: KI SURF MUSIC FESTIVAL PART 2
The second episode of Rip It Up TV at Kangaroo Island Surf Music Festival is here, in which we asked all the big questions backstage to The Shiny Brights, Big Scary, The Salvadors and Gemini Downs.
25.11.11 INTERVIEW: ARCTIC MONKEYS
When Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders spoke to Rip It Up backstage at Thebarton Theatre during the band’s first Australian tour in 2006, he was a pimply and enthusiastic teen with a Chopper fetish.
09.11.11 BIG DAY OUT & HEARTBREAK
Kanye West, The Living End and Mariachi El Bronx will no longer be appearing at the Adelaide or Perth leg of the 2012 Big Day Out due to a decision by organisers for Adelaide to only have one main stage instead of the usual two for next year’s music festival.
29.09.11 KATY B INTERVIEW: KATY’S NEXT MISSION
Katy B has pulled out from the rest of the Parklife tour.
14.09.11 ADELAIDE PARKLIFE SET TIMES!
The Set times for Parklife have landed with Lykke Li, Magnetic Man, Duck Sauce and Simian Mobile Disco all closing various stages of the Botanic Park festival happening on Mon Oct 3.
26.06.11 MEAT LOAF AUSTRALIAN TOUR
Having kicked off his musical stride back in 1977, Grammy Award-winning rock musician Meat Loaf has become a household name over the decades.
15.04.11 PSYCROPTIC TO HEADLINE BASTARDFEST
After last year's stellar debut in Perth, Brisbane and Melbourne, Bastardfest is back in 2011 with many more dates on its calendar.
