Rat Vs. Possum : Live Photos at the Corner Hotel 2011

Rat Vs. Possum : Live Photos at the Corner Hotel 2011

Photographed by Alex Schoelcher Rat Vs Possum have been touring the country in support of their ace new album Let Music and Bodies Unite, check out the photos here!
Cold Chisel Light The Nitro Adelaide Photos 2011

Cold Chisel Light The Nitro Adelaide Photos 2011

Cold Chisel’s Light The Nitro tour lit up Adelaide Entertainment Centre and Jimmy Barnes and Co proved they are still an explosive musical force. The tour will be presented nationally in Australia by Triple M and Southern  Cross Media, MAX and CMC and by Radio Hauraki and Brent Eccles Entertainment...
SOUNDGARDEN  SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE BIG DAY OUT SIDE SHOWS ANNOUNCED!

SOUNDGARDEN SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE BIG DAY OUT SIDE SHOWS ANNOUNCED!

When BIG DAY OUT was born 20 years ago, a new wave of music was emerging from the American north-west. At the crest of that wave was one of the most incendiary heavy rock bands of our time: SOUNDGARDEN. It’s been fifteen years since they last graced our shores and...
SET SAIL  ANNOUNCE NATIONAL ‘CHASING SUMMER TOUR’

SET SAIL ANNOUNCE NATIONAL ‘CHASING SUMMER TOUR’

Three quarters of the way through their World Stage Tour – comprising of 48 cities across 7 continents – SET SAIL return to Australia with their notorious high energy live show ahead of the band’s first national Chasing Summer Tour.   While the boys were scooting around the globe turning...
Coaster 2011 Festival Photos Part 1

Coaster 2011 Festival Photos Part 1

The 2011 Coaster Festival rolled on with gusto and we’ve got all the photos to prove it! These pics were snapped up by Amy Freshwater for Department For Sound. Check out the photgraphic evidence of a great festival featuring some great Aussie acts. September 17 2011 Gosford Showgrounds   Here’s...
St Jeromes Laneway festival 2012 - venues and dates includes Singapore!

St Jeromes Laneway festival 2012 – venues and dates includes Singapore!

The dates and venues for the laneway festival have been announced, including a leg in humid Singapore. Stay tuned for full lineuo details on www.departmentforsound.com BRISBANE – SATURDAY 28th JANUARY 2012 Alexandria Street, Fortitude Valley QLD 4006 AUCKLAND – MONDAY 30th JANUARY 2012 Silo Park, Beaumont Street, Auckland MELBOURNE –...
Album Review: The Living End, The Ending is Just the Beginning Repeating

Album Review: The Living End, The Ending is Just the Beginning Repeating

Album number six for Australian Band “The Living End” marks somewhat of a return for the men of punkish, energised, hardish rock. Its a studio album with many marks of quality and is titled “The Ending is Just the Beginning Repeating”. There are many characteristics of this album that make...
F**KED UP! join Foo Fighters on Australian Tour

F**KED UP! join Foo Fighters on Australian Tour

FOO FIGHTERS WITH SPECIAL GUESTS AND F**KED UP! Hardcore punk ensemble F**KED UP are confirmed with the Foo Fighters’ nationwide stadium tour this summer with special guests Tenacious D as a featured additional support. The Canadian band have been tearing up stages all around the globe for nearly a decade...
Parkway Drive Live Photos - 2011

Parkway Drive Live Photos – 2011

Here are the incredible photos from the Mix N Mash tour, shot by Bryan Sun in Melbourne.  
Unkle Live photos @ Billboard (Meb) 2011

Unkle Live photos @ Billboard (Meb) 2011

Friday 29 April UNKLE played to a packed crowd at Billboard in Melbourne with support from TANTRUMS. Having recently been named one of Dazed Digital’s ‘Best Artists of 2010’, and with a mini album of all new material due to drop in advance of their arrival, UNKLE’s live show returned...
Little Red announce Australian ALL MINE TOUR 2011

Little Red announce Australian ALL MINE TOUR 2011

LITTLE RED Little Red have travelled around the world twice so far this year but they’re coming home in June and what better way to celebrate than a tour! The band are celebrating more than just a homecoming too; last year’s sophomore album ‘Midnight Remember’ has gone Gold, their single...
Lulo Reinhardt Latin Swing Project AUSTRALIA 2011 Tour

Lulo Reinhardt Latin Swing Project AUSTRALIA 2011 Tour

Lulo Reinhardt and his Latin Swing Project are back in Australia, touring their brand new album “Katoomba Birds” around the country in May. The much-anticipated new album was released by MGM on March 11. If you like WOMAD you will love Lulo. Recorded in Australia, the album “Katoomba Birds” features...
INTERVIEW- Squeaker

INTERVIEW- Squeaker

Those familar with the Adelaide music scene would have no doubt come across Squeaker , The Squeaker sound is best described as polished alternative pop, a combination of a live rock band and synthesized textures. We quizzed them on recent happenings, on the future and who they would like to...
We Are Augustine's, New Video clip "Chapel Song" and Free Download

We Are Augustine’s, New Video clip “Chapel Song” and Free Download

Here is a tasty new video delight from We Are Augistines, for their track “Chapel Song”. These boys are also currently supporting the amazing “Boxer Rebellion” on their US Tour. With the upcoming release of their debut album ‘Rise Ye Sunken Ships’ Billy McCarthy and Eric Sanderson, the men behind...
DEEP SEA ARCADE  SET SAIL FOR THE UK + SPAIN,

DEEP SEA ARCADE SET SAIL FOR THE UK + SPAIN,

DEEP SEA ARCADE SET SAIL FOR THE UK + SPAIN, RELEASE 7” Sydney’s Deep Sea Arcade are the latest signing to Ivy League Records, home to such talent as Cloud Control, Sparkadia, Josh Pyke, Alpine and The Mess Hall. With only a couple of singles under the belt to date,...
Splendour in the Grass 2011 Lineup

Splendour in the Grass 2011 Lineup

Here it is with some solid headliners coming to Woodfordia. So now we can start talking about potential splendour sideshows… COLDPLAY (only Australian show) • KANYE WEST (only Australian show) JANE’S ADDICTION • THE HIVES • PULP • THE LIVING END • THE MARS VOLTA • REGINA SPEKTOR (only 2011...
CHAPPO, unveil their video for "Come Home"

CHAPPO, unveil their video for “Come Home”

Brooklyn’s psychedelic space rock band, CHAPPO, unveil their video for “Come Home” via Future Sounds. “Come Home” is the lead track off the band’s debut Plastique Universe EP and landed them a coveted sync on an i-pod commercial. Migrating from some of the most musically inclined cities in America, Alex...
The Funeral Party announce Australian Tour 2011 & Letterman Video

The Funeral Party announce Australian Tour 2011 & Letterman Video

What a great start to the working week with a juicy tour announcement for The Funeral Party! Does this announcement have Slendour in the Grass written all over it? You be the judge. In the meantime, experience the intensity of Funeral Party live first hand at the following dates: Tuesday August...
Gareth Liddiard Potrait an Archibald 2011 Finalist

Gareth Liddiard Potrait an Archibald 2011 Finalist

Jason Benjamin has made it as a finalist  for the 2011 Archibald Prize with his piece titled “It’s not all Henry bloody Lawson” featuring The Drones frontman Gareth Liddiard. The actual potriat is  featured below and as in official shortlist on the Art Gallery Website. Now in its 90th year,...
Once Were Strangers

Once Were Strangers

ON C  E     W  E  R  E     S  T  R  A  N  G  E  R  S We love our hard rock at DFS so this piece of news put a big smile on our faces. Since overcoming an identity crisis that threatened to tear the very fabric of alternative rock...
Gypsy and the Cat Announce Aussie headline shows 2011

Gypsy and the Cat Announce Aussie headline shows 2011

These guys are heading on some much deserved headline shows, fresh from Future Music Festival and getting the call up to support our darling Kylie on her upcoming Aphrodite tour. Show dates below, kicking off in Adelaide its sure to sell out so get in quick. 6 May 2011 –...
Good Charlotte to be supported by "New Empire"

Good Charlotte to be supported by “New Empire”

Never heard of em? Get yourself on Myspace as they are the buzz of the moment. The boys complete the trio of entertainment that awaits if you head out to see Good Charlotte at any of their Australian shows. So that makes two Aussie acts to treat you before Good...
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The Ray Mann Three (Via Berlin): 'Sketches Vol 1' EP

The Ray Mann Three (Via Berlin): ‘Sketches Vol 1′ EP

Sketches An Interaction? A Sabbatical? An Album? In September 2011, Australian soul singer/songwriter Ray Mann relocated to Berlin and began recording and releasing his new album Sketches, online, one track at a time. Instead of disappearing for 12 months and then resurfacing with a finished album, Ray is completing each song – and its accompanying...
2012 Big Day Out sideshow announcements

2012 Big Day Out sideshow announcements

THe fine people of BDO have announced a solid slew of BDO sideshows, lets let the announcements do the talking! KASABIAN with special guests THE VACCINES SYDNEY: THE HORDERN PAVILION – TUESDAY, 24 JANUARY, 2012 Tickets available from: www.ticketek.com.au Ph: 132 849 & www.bigdayout.com MELBOURNE: FESTIVAL HALL – SATURDAY, 28 JANUARY, 2012 Tickets available from:...
Alexandra Stan "Saxobeats" album out now! Videos: Ola "All Over the World"

Alexandra Stan “Saxobeats” album out now! Videos: Ola “All Over the World”

Everyone loves a new and slick video clip, so today we have two. First up we’ll do some globetrotting with Ola’s  “All Over The World”: OLA - A SWEDISH SUCCESS STORY During his first six years as an artist, Swedish superstar Ola has enjoyed the sort of success that only a chosen few artists in Sweden...
The Grates’ Summer’s Breath Tour 2011

The Grates’ Summer’s Breath Tour 2011

is currently taking place and the band are excited to announce a whole bunch of comrades who will be joining them and Last Dinosaurs on the nation-wide run.  To help shake the New York chills and warm the stage they’ve dared Dune Rats to take the stage in Toowoomba and Brisbane and Melbourne’s Loon Lake...
Seeker Lover Keeper extra shows announced 2011!

Seeker Lover Keeper extra shows announced 2011!

SEEKER LOVER KEEPER, the hugely successful collaboration between Sarah Blasko, Sally Seltmann and Holly Throsby, returns to centre stage for a final series of intimate shows as part of the new HEAVENLY SOUNDS national tour this summer. For the first time in Australia, this unique tour will take place in some of Australia’s most beautiful...
The Tallest Man On Earth announces Australian Tour 2011

The Tallest Man On Earth announces Australian Tour 2011

The Tallest Man On Earth, aka songwriter Kristian Matsson (Sweden), returns to Australian shores this October for The Tallest Man On Earth Australian Tour. Joining Matsson, is Australian troubadour, Old Man River. Matsson is the rarest of performers. Charismatic and captivating, his passion for performance bleeds through every single time he takes to the stage....
Win a copy of Set Sail's latest  EP THE RILEY MOORE

Win a copy of Set Sail’s latest EP THE RILEY MOORE

Department for Sound are pleased to give you the chance to win a copy of Set Sail’s latest EP. SET SAIL are the first band to go from busking to headlining a national tour. The three-piece that make-up SET SAIL, who all dropped out of university with the ambitious idea of making music to fund...
Guitar Wolf Australian Tour 2011

Guitar Wolf Australian Tour 2011

Japan’s Guitar Wolf have announced a run of Australian dates in December which will be the first visit since 2007. As stated in the press release, their mission is simple; to headline Mere Noise Meltdown in Brisbane, to play 2 shows as part of The Tote’s 30th Anniversary Spectacular in Melbourne, and to wreak havoc...
Big Day Out 2012 Line-up – Official Announcement (Live)

Big Day Out 2012 Line-up – Official Announcement (Live)

After all the rumours and speculation the Big Day Out 2012 Line-up is finally here , well almost. Big Day Out drip fed the lineup. Big Day Out 2012 line-up (Updated) Second Announcement Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds The Vaccines Nero Kimbra Regurgitator Bluejuice Drapht Tonight Only Abbe May Shockone Cavalera Conspiracy Art vs Science...
EVERY TIME I DIE want to destroy the world! Australian Tour 2011

EVERY TIME I DIE want to destroy the world! Australian Tour 2011

EVERY TIME I DIE want to destroy the world! While there’s no exact science to the resulting madness that is EVERY TIME I DIE the band has consistently produced maniacal, convulsive and completely unpredictable albums throughout their career. Nowhere is this more evident than on their stunning fifth album, ‘New Junk Aesthetic’, which sees EVERY...
British India:  - "She Prefers Older Men" Tour

British India: – “She Prefers Older Men” Tour

British India have announced a run of Australian Shows on their Facebook events page. http://www.facebook.com/britishindiaofficial?sk=events Kicking off on October 7 Central Coast and heading through Aust into November, they stop off in Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney in early Nov. Do check it out  
The Grates - "Sweet Dreams" New Video Clip

The Grates – “Sweet Dreams” New Video Clip

Taken from the album “Secret Rituals”, here is the new video for “Sweet Dreams” It was again directed by Dimitri Basil (director of their “Turn Me On” video).