Posted by admin on Dec 1, 2009 Organisers of the popular Splendour In The Grass festival have been trying to secure a new permanent site in Byron Bay for the past few years. They’ve chosen the 660 acre parklands site at Yelgun in the Byron Shire, and are going through the process of getting approval for a permanent cultural event venue with the NSW Department of Planning. That won’t be done in time...

Posted by admin on Nov 25, 2009 Angus and Julia Stone delivered their brand new single And The Boys to the triple j studios this week. It’s the first new music they’ve released in a while, as they’ve spent the past couple of years touring the world off the back of their successful debut album A Book Like This. The pair reported that they’ve been working hard getting their second album...

Posted by admin on Nov 24, 2009 Stone Temple Pilots will spend the rest of 2009 in the studio. Scott Weiland and Co. have postponed the remaining U.S. dates on their tour to get to work on “their highly anticipated record, which will be coming out in the early spring of next year,” the reunited band announced on their official Website. As previously reported, the group has written roughly 18 songs...

Posted by admin on Nov 24, 2009 NEW YORK (Billboard) – Plenty of artists pay lip service to loving their fans, but they usually limit their interaction to meet-and-greets, tweets and shout-outs from the stage. But 30 Seconds to Mars, which is about to release its third album, “This Is War,” goes far beyond the usual platitudes and gestures. The band involved its fans, known as “the...

Posted by admin on Nov 23, 2009 John Paul Jones was an original member of seminal band Led Zeppelin. He’s recently teamed up with Dave Grohl and Josh Homme to create Them Crooked Vultures, and he revealed that this project developed differently to anything else he’s done in his more than forty year career. “We just plugged in and started playing the first day. Then the second day it was like,...