Music news

The music festival which brought 90's electronic music duo Daft Punk to Australia is back for the second time in 2008!  Nevereverland will be marking its 10th birthday and will be featuring the ARIA award-winning Presets together with an army of musical troops.
Here are the first musicians to be announced in the lineup: Klaxons, Hercules & Love Affair, Cut Copy, Whitest Boy Alive, Ladyhawke, The Bumblebeez, Muscles, Van She, Tame Impala, The Bang Gang Deejays, AJAX, The Lost Valentinos, Mission Control, Temper Trap, Canyons, Pepperoni, Andee Van Damage and Bag Raiders.
Nevereverland will be touring around Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth, between December 13 - 21 and tickets are on sale now! So hop to it and awaken your end-of-the-year spirits by travelling to a land where the people are happy and the music is your lifeblood!

Angus and Julia Stone's lastest music video is for the upcoming single 'Hollywood' . The next track taken from their Album ' A Book Like This'. The Hollywood EP features some cracking b-sides.. They actually take on each others tunes and completely re-work them into what sound like brand new tracks... Lonely Hands is Julia's cover of the Angus sung track, 'Just A Boy' and its one of the best things I've heard from the siblings. Indeed if this is the sound wave the pair are currently riding one can only imagine what the next album is going to sound like

Is she retired? Is she un-retired? Who knows but here she is with Blaqstarr in S.U.S (Save Ur Self)

                    
         
The legendary Leonard Cohen is coming to Aus for the first time in 24 years to perform at wineries around Australia in January and February. A Day on the Green promises to be a truly poetic day out combining wine, grass (no pun intended) and the sad rousing lyrics of one of the most significant balladists ever. At 74 years of age Cohen is still exciting young audiences and still having a profound influence on artists today.

For tickets and to check out the rest of the lineup head to http://www.adayonthegreen.com.au 

Cut of Your Hands' Expectations was just this second playing on the radio. God that's a fine song right there isn't it? I went from running around the office pretending to be a horse (no really, everyone LOVED it!!) to tapping my feet, and even humming a little bit, before the first verse was out. These New Zealand lads truly make the most perfect pop ("powerpop" according to the Wikis) and the proof is in their recently released debut album, You and I - it's a cracker my friends. As part of the album's release Cut of Your Hands have returned to Australia for a National tour, starting with Sydney's Gaelic theatre this Thursday. Head here for dates. Also, thanks to the nice people at Speak 'n' Spell records, we have five copies of You and I to give away! You pretty much must hate being happy if you don't email me right now and ask for a copy.

Google may be Goliath when it comes to searching, mapping and stalking, but it has an Achilles' heel. Gasp! The big 'ole behemoth can only find me one song at a time. I want lots of music, all at once and I want to play it now! Is that too much to ask? Enter Seeqpod. The search engine and music player in one. Seeqpod scours the net for mp3s and videos and all you need to do is add them to your playlist on screen. Easy huh? It's like the mixtape Google wished they had.

Thought radio documentaries were for grandparents and rhetoric-sprouting university lecturers? Think again... Australian music's messiah, Richard Kingsmill, presents a musical journey through the landscapes that have shaped the lyrical literature and melodic musings of many an Aussie muso. Wide Open Road, the four part series, rocks the Suburbs, hits the Road, surfs the Coast and gets stuck to the pub Carpet where our fave bands grabbed early inspiration for their later stellar careers.
As part of Aus music month, the series starts on Triple J and Radio National from Saturday. But for those of you in the 21st century know how, why don't you just go and listen to it here