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Silverstein announce local supports
The wait is almost over! Canada's Silverstein return to Australian shores in three short weeks for their hotly anticipated 'Rescue' tour. Skyway are locked in to provide support nationally* and now comes the announcement of local openers in each city, concreting stellar line ups at every post. Avastera and The Calling Of Levi will open the tour at Oh Snap in Perth. My Catalyst and Dead Joe will represent Adelaide, warming up the stage at Fowlers Live. Ensure you get down to Bang early to catch Melbourne's Like Royalty. At Pelly Bar, Frankston, Summerset Avenue, While The City Sleeps and Brighter At Night will get proceedings well and truly underway. The London Town Fire will kick off the show at Canberra's Bar 32. Hot Damn favourites Divide And Conquer are first on in Sydney. Entrance Leagues Club are set for a solid night with Lycanthrope, We Built Atlantis and None But The Brave setting the anti in Bateau Bay. For the final show of the tour, The Dream, The Chase and Milestones...
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Slash announces Australian tour
Recent Rock n Roll Hall of Fame inductee and one of the greatest exponents of the electric guitar, Slash, returns this August for an unmissable tour in support of his new album ‘Apocalyptic Love’. On his last visit Slash sold out all of his Australian shows in under 10 minutes. Those shows were moved up to much larger venues and promptly sold out again. So this time around, he will come not only armed with the most gifted rock vocalist of this generation, Mr. Myles Kennedy and the band of Conspirators, but with an arena production to deliver his fabled show; just as the rock gods intended. Slash & Co are set to perform an all killer career spanning set from early Guns to Velvet Revolver and 2 amazing solo albums, the latest of which, Apocalyptic Love, has garnered praise from fan forums to broadsheet newspapers and all points in between. “Like some kind of rock 'n' roll kaleidoscope, the album evinces the legendary guitarist at his best from all angles. There are soft and subdue...
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Poison City Records announce The Weekender 2012
Now in it’s fourth year, our annual Weekender fest is set to converge on Melbourne again this September for 3 days of friendship, punk-rock, bar hopping, hugs and high fives! Taking place at The Tote on Friday September 14th, Corner Hotel on Saturday September 15th and new venue The Liberty Hotel on Sunday September 16th, this year we’ve reached far and wide to assemble the event’s biggest line-up yet! Heading up the festivities is none other than New York post-hardcore supergroup Rival Schools, returning to Australia for the first time since the release of their 2011 comeback album ‘Pedals’. Also making the journey down under for the first time is Philadelphia’s Restorations, who’s recent ‘S/t’ debut continues to win the hearts of ‘older punks’ everywhere, their music being described as everything from angsty 90′s indie-punk, to shoegaze, to a melding of Lucero and Explosions In The Sky. They’ll be joined by The Smith Street Band, A Death In The Family (Final Show!), Extortion, L...