Tag: Warner Music Australia

DEFTONES announce the release of seventh studio album ‘KOI NO YOKAN’

DEFTONES announce the release of seventh studio album ‘KOI NO YOKAN’

Grammy-winning alternative rock band Deftones have announced the November 9 release of their seventh studio album, entitled KOI NO YOKAN. KOI NO YOKAN was recorded in Los Angeles, CA with Nick Raskulinecz (Alice In Chains, Foo Fighters, Rush) who also produced Diamond Eyes. Front man Chino Moreno summed up Deftones’ sound in a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, saying “Obviously […]

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Matchbox Twenty – North

Matchbox Twenty – North

Back in 1996, before YouTube, before Facebook, before My Space and come to think of it, before the internet was what it is today, I stayed up for hours to hear a song on the radio, a song that half the time never got back announced, and all I knew was that the lyrics “Reach down your hand in your […]

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Gary Clark Jr announces Australian tour

Gary Clark Jr announces Australian tour

GARY CLARK JR ANNOUNCES AUSTRALIAN TOUR Texan Blues Singer-Songwriter & Guitarist to perform for the first time in  Sydney & Melbourne this September 2012] “Owing as much to Kurt Cobain and the Ramones as Buddy Guy and John Lee Hooker, indebted to hip-hop and psychedelia…. [Clark] is grounded in tradition while standing on the brink of change.”  – Rolling Stone […]

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Matchbox Twenty announce Australian tour

Matchbox Twenty announce Australian tour

October 2012 marks the highly anticipated return of MATCHBOX TWENTY, heading south for their first Australian dates since 2008, following the release of their fourth full-length studio album ‘North’. In their sixth Australian tour, Matchbox Twenty headline arenas around the country, as well as playing a special open air show at Hope Estate in the Hunter Valley. Be there to sing along […]

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Chuck Comeau & Sébastien Lefebvre of Simple Plan

Chuck Comeau & Sébastien Lefebvre of Simple Plan

“I think for me it’s the reaction and hearing the kids sing every night, it kind of makes everything we do worthwhile, and it gives you a lot of cool emotions when you’re on the road for so long and you’re in the studio for so long and when you actually see the result in some ways.” Back in Australia […]

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Neil Young & Crazy Horse announce first album in 9 years ‘Americana’

Neil Young & Crazy Horse announce first album in 9 years ‘Americana’

Neil Young & Crazy Horse will release a very special album titled Americana on June 1, 2012. Americana is the first album from Neil Young & Crazy Horse in nearly nine years. Crazy Horse is: Billy Talbot, Ralph Molina, Poncho Sampedro, and Neil Young. Americana is collection of classic, American folk songs. In their day, some of these may have been referred to as “protest songs,” “murder […]

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Aaron Barnett of The Getaway Plan

Since their re-emergence after a couple of years hiatus, with new album Requiem and a swag of major festival appearances, The Getaway Plan have slowly, but surely, reclaimed their status as one of Australia’s leading rock bands.  Following on from their 2012 Big Day Out appearances and a recent run of regional dates, in the coming weeks the band will […]

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Serj Tankian set to release new studio album ‘Harakiri’ available July 6

Serj Tankian set to release new studio album ‘Harakiri’ available July 6

Harakiri, the new studio album from singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, poet and political activist Serj Tankian is set to be released July 6 on Reprise Records/Serjical Strike. Look for a teaser video with a snippet of the first single, Figure It Out, on Serj’s website later this week. Harakiri, a Japanese word meaning ritualistic suicide, is the follow up to 2010’s critically acclaimed Imperfect […]

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Cold Chisel – Hordern Pavilion Sydney – April 18

Cold Chisel – Hordern Pavilion Sydney – April 18

Welcome to the wettest night in possibly the last 100 years in Sydney which sees an entirely drenched crowd filling the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney with definite plans to see the legendary Cold Chisel tonight. Trust me, not even the flame trees can dry these dripping punters… (I know, bad pun, but they get better.) Lanie Lane was our support […]

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Motion City Soundtrack return home to Epitaph to release new album ‘Go’ – out June 15

Motion City Soundtrack return home to Epitaph to release new album ‘Go’ – out June 15

Motion City Soundtrack Return Home to Epitaph to Release New Album Go – out June 15 Motion City Soundtrack return home to their long-time label Epitaph to release their fifth full-length studio album Go on June 15, 2012.  The new album is the follow-up to the critically acclaimed My Dinosaur Life and was recorded over an extended period of time […]

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Pantera’s Vulgar Display Of Power punches on 20 years later

Pantera’s Vulgar Display Of Power punches on 20 years later

Pantera Honours The 20th Anniversary Of Vulgar Display Of Power – With Two-Disc Deluxe Edition Featuring Previously Lost Studio Recording “Piss” and Unreleased Live Video From The 1992 Monsters Of Rock Concert In Italy – CD/DVD Set Available May 18 From Warner Music February 25 marked the 20-year anniversary for Pantera’s Vulgar Display of Power, a landmark album widely acknowledged […]

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Linkin Park to release new album on June 22

Linkin Park to release new album on June 22

Linkin Park has announced the release of their new album LIVING THINGS (Machine Shop Recordings/Warner Bros) on June 22, 2012 via their official website www.linkinpark.com LIVING THINGS is co-produced by Rick Rubin (Adele, Metallica) and Linkin Park vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, Mike Shinoda, who co-produced Linkin Park’s last two albums A Thousand Suns and Minutes to Midnight. “The material is the […]

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The Black Keys announce Australian tour

The Black Keys announce Australian tour

THE BLACK KEYS – ANNOUNCE AUSTRALIAN TOUR Tickets on sale from noon today  The Black Keys are the hottest rock and roll act on the planet right now! After selling out arenas all through the USA, Canada, UK and Europe and headlining Coachella and Lollapalooza and many other festivals they are very pleased to announce their long awaited return to […]

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Adam Lazzara and Shaun Cooper of Taking Back Sunday

Adam Lazzara and Shaun Cooper of Taking Back Sunday

“Well that’s kind of the feeling we had when we first got back together and all got in the same room.  We went into it realistically, knowing that there’s a great chance that it couldn’t work, but right when we started writing everything really clicked, so for us we were really confident after that first writing session.” With the ‘Tell […]

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Chad Gilbert and Jordan Pundik of New Found Glory

Chad Gilbert and Jordan Pundik of New Found Glory

“It was just special, there were these anthems that made you feel like you were a part of something but at the same time you could just go and enjoy yourself and sing along.” Their album Radiosurgery has been out now for over six months and in support of it New Found Glory were back in Australia to play some […]

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Green Day in the studio recording a trilogy of albums!

Green Day in the studio recording a trilogy of albums!

GREEN DAY IN THE STUDIO RECORDING THREE ALBUMS – A TRILOGY ENTITLED  ¡UNO!, ¡DOS!, AND ¡TRÉ!  ALBUMS TO BE RELEASED FROM SEPTEMBER 2012 TO JANUARY 2013 Green Day is currently in the studio recording three albums – a trilogy entitled ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, and ¡Tré! – that will be released by Reprise Records/Warner Music Australia in September 2012; November  2012 and January 2013 respectively.   The albums are the follow-up to the Grammy® award-winning 21st Century […]

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Cold Chisel forced to reschedule Melbourne concert

Cold Chisel forced to reschedule Melbourne concert

Cold Chisel Forced to Reschedule Thursday April 12 Melbourne Festival Hall Concert to Thursday April 19 Ian Moss involved in freak accident  Due to a freak accident to guitarist Ian Moss, the Cold Chisel show planned for Thursday April 12 at Festival Hall has been rescheduled to Thursday April 19. All tickets purchased are transferrable to the new show. If […]

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Cold Chisel – No Plans

Cold Chisel – No Plans

It’s as hard to believe that 14 years has passed by since Cold Chisel’s last studio album, Last Wave Of Summer, as it is to then ponder that it’s now been some 28 years since the album before that, Twentieth Century, when Cold Chisel “broke up”.  No Plans, the newly released seventh studio album from arguably Australia’s most iconic rock band, […]

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Rome of Sublime With Rome

Rome of Sublime With Rome

“It wasn’t so much the fear of if it wasn’t going to work, because you can’t take the fact away that the fuckin’ songs sound awesome, but there was always that kind of question in the back of our head of ‘Oh, can we?  Can we? What if?’” TOUR PRESS RELEASE: Featuring founding members of Sublime along with new frontman, […]

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Tay Strathairn of Dawes

Tay Strathairn of Dawes

“I guess it’s really song oriented music and I think each one of us really takes pride that we work really hard at being able to play our instruments, so there’s a lot of musicality and it’s kind of just four guys playing non synthesised instruments on stage.” Having received the patronage of both Jackson Browne and The Band’s Robbie […]

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Silversun Pickups To release new album on May 4th

Silversun Pickups To release new album on May 4th

SILVERSUN PICKUPS INVITE YOU TO THEIR NECK OF THE WOODS  New album produced by Jacknife Lee available in Australia May 4, 2012 Dangerbird Records and Warner Music Australia are excited to announce the release of the new record by the Grammy-nominated Silversun Pickups, Neck of the Woods, on May 4. The record was produced by the Grammy Award-winning Jacknife Lee (U2, Weezer, REM, Snow […]

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Want to be in a Cold Chisel video?

Want to be in a Cold Chisel video?

WANNA BE FAMOUS IN FIVE MINUTES? This is your chance for worldwide exposure in a music video for the new COLD CHISEL single Everybody. Only this time, instead of the band being in on it, it’s the fans that get to be the stars! We are looking for female and male talent from young to old, literally ANYBODY (and Everybody) that can show us […]

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The Getaway Plan announce Groovin’ The Moo side shows

The Getaway Plan announce Groovin’ The Moo side shows

The Getaway Plan will perform three exclusive club shows this May as side shows to their spot on the Groovin’ The Moo Tour. These are the first capital city headline shows of the year for the Melbourne four piece, who have just wrapped up a successful festival season that included spots on Big Day Out, Pyramid Rock and Breath Of […]

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Cold Chisel announce details of Sydney and Melbourne shows

Cold Chisel announce details of Sydney and Melbourne shows

COLD CHISEL ANNOUNCE TICKET DETAILS FOR SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE SHOWS! Cold Chisel will launch their new album, No Plans, with their headlining performance at Bluesfest, Byron Bay on Thursday, 5 April ahead of its official release on Friday, 6 April through Warner Music Australia. The band will also be performing on Saturday, 7 April at Sandalford Winery, Swan Valley in […]

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Dawes to release special edition of ‘Nothing Is Wrong’ ahead of Australian dates

Dawes to release special edition of ‘Nothing Is Wrong’ ahead of Australian dates

Dawes set to release special tour edition of Nothing Is Wrong to coincide with Blues & Roots performance “The most promising purveyors of new-school country folk…so authentically vintage.” – Rolling Stone “A tellingly titled sophomore set that affirms their quick ascension to the top tier of the Americana underground…nothing less than a beauty to behold.” –No Depression With highly touted […]

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Mutemath announce ‘Odd Soul’ Australian tour

Mutemath announce ‘Odd Soul’ Australian tour

“The #1 band you need to see live before you die” – Alternative Press. “..Mutemath are one hell of a band.” 4/5 stars – Bernard Zuel, Sydney Morning Herald Principal Entertainment and triple j are proud to announce for the very first time in Australia, Grammy® nominated New Orleans three piece, Mutemath.  Since 2004 the genre bending trio featuring Paul […]

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Andrew McMahon of Jacks Mannequin

Andrew McMahon of Jacks Mannequin

“Truthfully, I’m about to take a pretty good long break.  I finally got out of Los Angeles and moved back to the beach and in this period where I’m writing and recording and experimenting and just having fun bring back in a place where I can see a lot of people I haven’t caught up with in a while.  So […]

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Jack’s Mannequin set to release new album on February 10

Jack’s Mannequin set to release new album on February 10

JACK’S MANNEQUIN SET TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM PEOPLE AND THINGS FEBRUARY 10 TOURING AUSTRALIA IN FEBRUARY / MARCH WITH SOUNDWAVE Jack’s Mannequin is back. Andrew McMahon and his crew return with a new record, People and Things available in Australia on February 10.  The album debuted in the USA at #1 on Billboard’s alternative rock albums chart and in the […]

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The Getaway Plan announce ‘The Reckoning Tour’

The Getaway Plan announce ‘The Reckoning Tour’

THE GETAWAY PLAN ANNOUNCE THE RECKONING TOUR TO HIT EAST COAST SUBURBAN AND REGIONAL CENTRES It was a special start to 2012 as The Getaway Plan spent NYE playing their third slot on Pyramid Rock Festival. Now as they prepare for their second stint on the Big Day Out national touring bill, they will also take time out of their already […]

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REFUSED NOT F***ING DEAD

REFUSED NOT F***ING DEAD

Groundbreaking Band To Play Coachella and Way Out West Festival The groundbreaking, highly influential Swedish hardcore band Refused have announced a series of shows scheduled for summer 2012. This is the band’s first appearance since their breakup in the late ‘90s and will include performances at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 13th and 20th and the […]

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