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Heroes For Hire to release new song
As their stint on the largely sold‐out 2012 Soundwave juggernaut draws closer, Sydney pop‐punk crew Heroes For Hire are gearing up to release a new single to celebrate the summer’s biggest and best music festival! Not ones to keep their fans waiting between releases, the hard‐working fivesome – who can count national tours with Unwritten Law, Short Stack and their own successful headline run amongst their many victories in 2011 – somehow found the time to pen their catchiest track yet, “Heart Stops.” Those already familiar with Heroes For Hire would know that the group has always embraced both extremes of the pop‐punk spectrum, with their past releases boasting as many instantly memorably pop anthems as they do pit‐friendly bangers that recall the genre’s glory days. “We’ve never shied away from the fact that we love to write to different types of songs, ‘Heart Stops’ is just another example of tha...
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Wavves announce sideshows
Penny Drop is pleased to announce the much anticipated return of U.S wunderkinds Wavves, back in Australia for a national tour this coming May 2012. Making their Australian debut last year with a small club tour and a blistering set at Golden Plains, Wavves left quite a mark on audiences across the country with their signature lo-fi punk rock. The brainchild of San Diego native Nathan Williams, Wavves started as a one-man bedroom project, where he penned summer anthems about being a slacker and smoking weed. Four years on, they have morphed into a four-piece musical tour de force, with bass player Stephen Pope, guitarist Alex Gates and drummer Jacob Cooper joining Williams as permanent fixtures in the studio and on the road. Even though he’s only been playing music as Wavves since early 2008, Williams has already amassed a formidable body of work in the form of three full-length albums ('Wavves and Wavvves' and the critically acclaimed 'King Of The Beach'), a handful of seven-inch...