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August 22, 2012 in
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Australian Asking-Alexandria-Core band Capture The Crown recently announced that they are touring in November with the likes of Woe, Is Me, Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!, Our Last Night, Secrets and The Seeking but wait for the other part, it’s an American …
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May 4, 2012 in
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There’s no doubt Belgian-Australian multi-instrumentalist Gotye is a very talented man, either very talented or just lucky. Gotye’s most popular song that has been reaching number one in most English speaking countries and staying there for ages is the track, …
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April 4, 2012 in
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The 50′s gave us rock n’ roll, the 60′s continued the trend of rock, the 70′s produced the kind of disco sounds your grandma’s organ plays when she hits the drum-beat switch, the 80′s produced a mixture of pop and …
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March 9, 2012 in
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There is a good chance you’ve heard of the campaign Kony 2012 being run by not-for-profit Invisible Children. A cause upon first glimpse that seems to be noble and relevant, wrong. Invisible Children are misleading everyone about Joseph Kony and …
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March 5, 2012 in
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When most think of famous guitarists they think of Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Eddie Van Halen, Kurt Cobain, Steve Vai and Slash – how many of you non-musicians can name a modern day guitar idol that isn’t one of the …
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February 9, 2012 in
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If you’re not familiar there has been ongoing issues for a while now with Dance Gavin Dance vocalist Jonny Craig who has had a serious and gradually worsening addiction to heroin which resulted in him scamming his Twitter followers, and …
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January 31, 2012 in
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Remember when artists used to make mistakes and bands like Metallica didn’t care about getting every single note sounding perfect? Many people probably wouldn’t remember or have long forgotten. Believe it or not there was a time producers never used …
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January 27, 2012 in
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Australians are a diverse bunch of people. We like drinking, drinking some more and once we can’t drink any more we get others to drink for us until we can drink again. Another tradition of the typical bogan and hipster …
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January 25, 2012 in
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Whatever happened to Oceana supposedly releasing an album by the end of 2011? They were in the studio sometime in April, 2011 – they released those “A Fonder Reel” videos and announced a new female member as backup vocals and …
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January 24, 2012 in
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Unless you’ve been living in a cave, lost at sea, decided to go hiking in Nepal or just clueless then you’d know the Megaupload and all of its associated websites like Megavideo have been seized and the owners arrested, etc.
Apparently …
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January 23, 2012 in
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Everyday we’re being told by some biased article or press-release from any one of the music industry lobbyist groups; MPAA, RIAA, ARIA – that pirating is harming the industry, yadda yadda yadda. The real question is: is the music industry …
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January 18, 2012 in
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In a few hours Wikipedia will be deliberately going down for 24 hours in protest of SOPA which essentially is proposed US legislation that will break the internet if it goes through. Making sites who link to copyrighted material or …