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okay, cause we’re a bit in love with their music. LA surf punks Fidlar gained the gratitude of Australians pretty damn quickly. Within months of releasing their debut self ... Splendour In The Grass and the Spin Off festival, proceeded by a run of Australian dates for their own headlining tour. All of this, mind you, was announced by Brandon

music for weddings, funerals and South Australian tourism ads, Nick Cave had never seen the number one spot on the Australian album charts. On top of that ... proud to be Australian. Remember, you can have your say in our Readers Poll. And, unlike us, you can actually win a whole stack of awesome prizes just for telling

April to enormous critical acclaim and went on to win the prestigious Mercury Prize in October. Helen Lear praised Blake's “step up here to something a little more mainstream ... review . While Ross Clelland praised the evolution of the band's music. “The music has evolved a degree as well,” he wrote . “There's a little more variety

It was a Thursday night at the Rooty Hill RSL and the fancy blue LED Exhumed sign proudly overlooked a

arguably Australia's most prestigious album prize and PPCA's $30,000 cash prize goes a long way for any band, not that anyone who released a punk, metal ... have to worry about how to spend it. While there are undoubtedly some brilliant Australian albums in the list, the closest thing we get to punk or metal

there they were, sharing the stage with them at the 2013 Polaris Music Prize gala award ceremony in September. And although they may have been assaulting the senses more than ... just went with the flow with that one.” The day Edkins talks with The Music marks a year since Metz's first full-length was released. Unsurprisingly, he recalls

hosted by Lotterywest Festival Films. In another musical collaboration of a different kind, world-renowned soprano Dawn Upshaw will join the Australian Chamber Orchestra to perform Maria Schneider 's Winter ... picks include the tragic opera, Otello , which will be performed by the West Australian Opera and The Beijing Dance Company presents Haze . Visual arts enthusiasts should probably seek out Sacrilege

they feel has demonstrated “the most musical growth and potential to contribute to Australian music”. The list for 2013 is a particularly impressive one, with a number of very well ... Awards in Sydney. If you're wondering whether it's a prize worth winning; let's just say that past winners include Boy & Bear , The John Steel Singers , Ball

surrounds, and attending Catholic schools, he showed academic potential. Yet Okogwu discovered grime – and musical distraction – via So Solid Crew, best remembered for 2001's UK chart-topper 21 Seconds ... Brit for Best British Breakthrough Act, with Disc-Overy nominated for the Mercury Prize (which went to PJ Harvey's Let England Shake ). Between LPs, he popped up on hits

those bearing the aspiration of becoming Australia's next big name in electronic music. The prize is pretty damn decent, as the winner will be hooked up with ... kick back in five star accommodation and score VIP passes to the Australian Independent Music Awards where the winner of the Budweiser People's Choice Award will be announced. Entries

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