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Steve Wynn Tours with Three Bands At Once

Steve Wynn gets a regular mention on this website because a/ he is good and b/ he sends good emails. The latest Steve Wynn news sees him touring with a band that makes your mouth water. Steve is joined by Linda Pitmon and REM’s Peter Buck and virtual REM member  Scott McCaughey and will be hitting the US highways in various musical disguises as the Minus 5, The Baseball Project and the brand new... Read the full story

Grant Lee Phillips Album Close

Grant Lee Phillips new album Little Moon is released in the US on October 13 and hopefully will find its way into record stores (what’s a record store?) here not long after. But if you cant wait you could order the album from the Yeprock Records website. Every pre-order of Little Moon will receive an additional bonus disc featuring five demo versions of songs from the album. The bonus CD is available... Read the full story

The Stems Farewell Again

Australian band The Stems have been a critics and fan favorite for many years, even in times when they were not playing as a band. In a way they were one of those bands whose legacy seemed to grow in importance in their absence. The band split in 1987 and they say there was always a sense of unfinished business about the band. Now though after reforming and touring they are able to describe their mood... Read the full story

Dylan For Christmas

Bob Dylan will be releasing an album of Christmas songs on October 13. Christmas In The Heart will be the 47th album from Bob Dylan, and follows his worldwide chart-topping Together Through Life, released earlier this year.  Songs performed by Dylan on this new album include, “Here Comes Santa Claus,” “Winter Wonderland,” “Little Drummer Boy” and “Must Be... Read the full story

Buzzcocks Tour

In January 2009 Buzzcocks announced the ‘Another… Bites’ tour performing both their classic albums Another Music In A Different Kitchen and Love Bites in their entirety and selling out an entire UK tour. That tour now moves to Australia. Original Buzzcocks, Pete Shelley & Steve Diggle will be joined by bassist Chris Remington and drummer Danny Farrant. The setlist will combine those two albums... Read the full story

Alice Cooper – The Palais

When Alice Cooper first started his/their shock rock act some thirty something years ago I’m certain no-one, least of all Vincent himself, was thinking about its potential relevance in 2009. But whether it be by luck or grand design ‘Alice’ made a couple of very shrewd early moves. Firstly the character of Alice was and remains virtually ageless. Once the make-up goes on and the costumes are... Read the full story

R.E.M. Live Album in October

R.E.M. will be releasing a live album on October 26 entitled R.E.M. Live At The Olympia. The title refers to the Olympia Theatre in Ireland where the band played a one week residency in 2007. The album is a two-CD set on Warner Bros Records, featuring a massive 39 songs. “Live At The Olympia” captures R.E.M. in uncharted territory. Over the course of their one week residency at the stately... Read the full story

Fleetwood Mac Tour in December

Fleetwood Mac have one of the most extraordinary stories both on and off the stage and in and out of the studio of just about any contemporary band. They climbed the mountain to be just about as big as it was possible to be and yet managed to self destruct internally about as explosively as its possible to…um… explode. But it seems that time will heal all wounds and following a successful  55-city... Read the full story

Jim Dickinson Dies

One of the unfortunate things about a website like this one is that eventually there’s going to be a lot of posts that take the form of obituaries. Sadly this week has seen such pieces on Les Paul and Willy DeVille and now we have to add the name of legendary Memphis producer and player Jim Dickinson to the list. Dickinson died in his sleep Saturday morning at the age of 67, while recovering from... Read the full story

Faith No More and Janes Addiction for Soundwave

A few months ago his website reported that  Faith No More had reformed and were playing shows in America – we also speculated that Australia was a likely destination for the reunion funk metallers. Well now that has come to fruition with the news that Faith No More has been announced as headline act for Soundwave 2010. Soundwave is of course the alternative rock festival that last year was headlined... Read the full story

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