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  • Splendour In The Craft Returns For 2014

    If you're the type who likes playing with glitter, fabric, and hot glue guns, Splendour In The Craft will ensure you get your fix at the festival.


    After its...
  • Own The Streets With The Owls

    With a new EP soon to be released, Steel City lads The Owls are bringing their snarling brand of raucous rock north for several live dates.


    Drummer Matt McDonough...
  • Parkway Drive: Ten Years Strong

    To reach the milestone of surviving ten years in the music industry is an achievement most bands can only dream about, but Byron Bay's metallers Parkway Drive are still going

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  • Kim Churchill: Staying True On Tour

    Having returned from his Canadian tour, Kim Churchill is soaking up the rays before taking his talents across Australia.


    To promote his latest single, 'Window To...
  • The 17th Spanish Film Festival: A Festival Of Film And Food

    This year the 17th Spanish Film Festival, presented by Estrella Damm, will feature 30 of the very best and most recent Spanish and Spanish-language Latin American

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  • Salmonella Dub Soundsystem's Hotwired Dancehall

    Veterans of the New Zealand dub/ dancehall scene for more than two decades, Salmonella Dub know how to get a dancefloor moving.


    Which is what they’ll be doing when...
  • Michael Franti & Spearhead: All The People

    Musician, poet, humanitarian, Bono fan; these are just some of the strings to Michael Franti’s bow.


    The multi-talented Californian and his band will make a return...
  • The Delta Riggs Are A Bunch Of Scallywags

    Their hearts are set on a one day kickin’ it on a yacht in the Greek Islands.


    But for now The Delta Riggs are talking business with an album due out later in the...
  • Everlast: Blue Collar Blues

    It’s a cool afternoon in Los Angeles and Everlast is stuck outside a sandwich shop.


    “I’m sitting here in my car,” he says, chuckling. “I thought I was going to have...
  • Ozomatli: High Energy

    You can trace the origins of Ozomatli — the Los Angeles-based Latin jazz/ funk band — back almost 20 years.


    During that time, over the course of half a dozen or so...
  • Beth Hart: Blues Survivor

    Beth Hart is a singer-songwriter, storyteller and survivor all rolled into one.


    Handpicked to play Byron Bay Bluesfest after director Peter Noble saw her earn...
  • Splendour In The Grass 2014 Dates

    Dates have been announced for Splendour In The Grass 2014.


    If your boss isn't the sort of guy who'd be cool with you not showing up for days at a time without...
  • Ann Vriend: Straight Up Soul

    Blues and soul songbird Ann Vriend may have won the ‘She’s The One’ competition for solo female artists at the Ottawa Bluesfest, but she’s no cookie cutter Canadian

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  • Falls Festival 2014 Byron Bay Live Review

    I didn’t know what to expect from the inaugural edition of Falls Festival at North Byron Parklands; however, the music, the art, the food, the atmosphere, the amphitheatre,

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  • Play A 'Monstrously Huge Cowbell' Onstage With MGMT

    MGMT are offering one fan the chance to join them on stage at this year's Falls Festival.


    The winning audience member will play a "monstrously huge cowbell" during...
  • Bluesfest Makes Fourth Announcement

    The fourth Byron Bay Bluesfest lineup announcement cements Bluesfest's 25th year as one of its biggest yet.


    The Bluesfest announcements started off solid enough,...
  • Bluesfest Line-Up Gets Bigger

    The Doobie Brothers, Aaron Neville, Gregg Allman and Boz Scaggs headline the second Bluesfest 2014 line-up announcement.


    "Here come the Legends," said festival...
  • Falls Festival Line-up Expands

    It's hard to believe, but Falls Festival got a little bigger today.


    The New Year's festival had already announced a massive bill a couple of weeks back, but they've...
  • John Mayer Headlines Bluesfest

    Bluesfest Byron Bay has unwrapped the first of its 25th anniversary presents.


    The award winning five-day festival, held over the Easter long weekend (April 17-21)...
  • The Trouble With Templeton: Growing Pains

    An intense international and national touring schedule has been vital to the growth of The Trouble With Templeton, says mastermind Thomas Calder.


    It’s been a huge...