Music Universe

Fat Boy Slim announces Future sideshows

noreply@blogger.com (Jase Schattner) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:50:00 +0000

Future Music Festival 2012 will have Fat Boy Slim as their headliner. The legend will also make some time for his fans with a couple of shows on the side. Expect an amazing audio visual show to go with all the beats. Fatboy Slim Future...

Roots Manuva set to play Australia this March

noreply@blogger.com (Jase Schattner) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:24:00 +0000

Still burning up the airwaves with Toddla T on Watch Me Dance, Rodney Smith aka Roots Manuva returns to Australia with his full live band performing tracks off his brand new album 4everevolution as well as the classics from one of the most...

Donavon Frankenreiter announces free Australian tour

noreply@blogger.com (Jase Schattner) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:18:00 +0000

Touring the world on rips and riffs, surfer-musician Donavon Frankenreiter lands on Australian shores this Feb/March for an extensive national tour. With guitar and surfboard at the ready, Donavon and band will make their way from coast to coast,...

Gotye wins Triple J's Predictable Hottest 100

noreply@blogger.com (Jase Schattner) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:03:00 +0000

So every Australia Day, Triple J runs their Hottest 100 countdown. Every Australia Day, parties are thrown, bbq's are sizzling, drinks are overflowing and speakers are blaring in honour of this day. It's mainly 15-20 year olds that listen to Triple...

St Jeromes Laneway Festival release the timetables

noreply@blogger.com (Jase Schattner) — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 06:47:00 +0000

St Jerome’s Laneway Festival 2012 is almost upon us. It begins next weekend in Brisbane actually. The organisers have just released set times for each city and boy do they look scrumptious. The line up this year includes the likes of Feist,...

The Rapture announce Future Music sideshows

noreply@blogger.com (Jase Schattner) — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 06:38:00 +0000

The Rapture are returning to Australia for the Future Music Festival. The New York dance-punk icons will also play two additional sideshows. Joined by Canadian party starters Azari & III, The Rapture will be showing off tunes from their...

Fleet Foxes' drummer quits the band

noreply@blogger.com (Jase Schattner) — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 06:16:00 +0000

Fleet Foxes’s drummer Joshua Tillman has quit the band as the future of the band’s next label remains in the balance. Tillman – who uses the solo guise J. Tillman – has released a number of self-titled albums and joined the band in 2008 after the...

Want to shutdown Megaupload? I don't think so...

noreply@blogger.com (Jase Schattner) — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 06:13:00 +0000

Download host Megaupload was shut down yesterday with their staff arrested. This prompted hacking group Anonymous to launch a fierce attack on some of the biggest law enforcement agencies in the world. Fight fire with fire I say. The website,...

Temper Trap discuss second album

noreply@blogger.com (Jase Schattner) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:36:00 +0000

The Temper Trap have revealed that they are planning to release their second album later in the year. Speaking to NME about the album, The Temper Trap's lead guitarist Lorenzo Sillitto said that the tracks the band had recorded for their new LP...

Alabama Shakes to release 'Boys & Girls' on April 6

noreply@blogger.com (Jase Schattner) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:48:00 +0000

The show-stopping debut album from Alabama Shakes, will be released on 6 April 2012 via Rough Trade / Remote Control. Comprising vocalist/guitarist Brittany Howard, guitarist Heath Fogg, drummer Steve Johnson and bassist Zac Cockrell, as well as...

New Order announce Future Music sideshows

noreply@blogger.com (Jase Schattner) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:03:00 +0000

Manc legendary band from the 80s New Order will play a couple of sideshows while in town for Future Music Festival in March. Keyboardist Gillian Gilbert joins founding members Bernard Sumner (vocals) and Stephen Morris (drums) along with...

Bluesfest announces that John Fogerty will perform CCR set

noreply@blogger.com (Jase Schattner) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:51:00 +0000

The 4th round of artists to perform at Australia’s much awarded and loved Bluesfest has today been announced. It’s the Festival’s biggest announcement yet for 2012; presenting more than 30 artists, including some very special headliners, the...

Aural Canapés - Vol. 17

noreply@blogger.com (Jase Schattner) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:38:00 +0000

Happy New Year avid readers. I got the good crack again. That is to say, I’m back. Sorry about the delay. I was hoping to start the new with a couple of bangers or anthems or carols, but I have not recently discovered anything new that fits...

ALBUM REVIEW: Birdy - 'Birdy'

noreply@blogger.com (Jase Schattner) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:17:00 +0000

BIRDY - 'Birdy' When a certain musician is garnering a substantial amount of hype, listeners can decide to take one of two paths. We either embrace the parade, or we get all poppy-syndrome on the act and become cynical before even hearing a...

ALL THE HYPE 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Jase Schattner) — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:48:00 +0000

Last year MU's All The Hype dropped names like Crystal Fighters, The Vaccines, Yuck, James Blake, Boy & Bear and The Naked & Famous as bands/artists that we thought would come on to the scene in 2011. Not bad hey? Such nachus! We always...

Avett Brothers are recording a new album

noreply@blogger.com (Jase Schattner) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:26:00 +0000

According to Rolling Stone, The Avett Brothers are almost finished their new album. "We're right at the finish line," singer-guitarist Seth Avett says of his band's seventh album. "It's just the formalities now." The folk-rock crew recorded more...

Coachella 2012 announces lineup

noreply@blogger.com (Jase Schattner) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:52:00 +0000

For those of you that are either residing in the USA or making their way over around Easter time, the Coachella Festival will be on and they've just released their lineup. Oh wait, they've also announced that because it's the biggest festival on the...

At The Drive-In set to reform in 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Jase Schattner) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:52:00 +0000

In what could possibly be the best news ever, Texas post-hardcore rockers At the Drive-In have posted a cryptic tweet that all but announces that they will be reuniting for the first time in 11 years!!!! "¡ ATTENTION ! To whom it may concern: AT...

ALBUM REVIEW: Gabriel Lynch - 'Passerby Chorale'

noreply@blogger.com (Jase Schattner) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:35:00 +0000

It’s not that often that you come across a musician with a natural ability to story-tell without an agenda to sound ‘different’ or ‘monumental’. In fact, it could even be his nonchalant way with words and mellow execution that make him just as...

Van Halen and Roth announce 'A Different Kind of Truth' after 30 years!

noreply@blogger.com (Jase Schattner) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 02:42:00 +0000

Van Halen's first studio album with legendary frontman David Lee Roth in nearly 30 years has a name, a release date and its song titles have now been confirmed. A Different Kind Of Truth is set to drop on February 7 and the first single off the...

Music Industry shows positive signs in 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Jase Schattner) — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:52:00 +0000

The music industry showed signs of potential recovery in 2011, as sales of albums and concert tickets reversed declines, though it would be premature to declare a full-fledged recovery. The year's biggest concert tours made more money at the box...

The Last Shadow Puppets to hit the studio in 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Jase Schattner) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:50:00 +0000

Miles Kane has confirmed that he will reunite with Arctic Monkeys' singer Alex Turner to record again as The Last Shadow Puppets, possibly as soon as at the end of this year. 'The Colour Of The Trap' singer is currently on tour with the Arctic...

The Shins to release 'Port of Morrow' in March

noreply@blogger.com (Jase Schattner) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:37:00 +0000

The Shins have announced details for an LP due out next spring, their first since 2007′s 'Wincing The Night Away'. It’s called 'Port Of Morrow'. How un-Shins-like. It’s produced by Greg Kurstin (Lily Allen, The Bird And The Bee, Kylie Minogue)....

Falls Festival Marion Bay in jeopardy

noreply@blogger.com (Jase Schattner) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:30:00 +0000

The future of Falls Festival in Marion Bay is in jeopardy. The organisers of Falls are set to ask the Government for $350,000 per year starting from next year to help keep the festival alive. The Government have only been injecting $100,00 per year...

LIVE REVIEW: Falls Festival @ Marion Bay (30/12/11 - 01/01/12)

noreply@blogger.com (Jase Schattner) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:13:00 +0000

On what was to be the 4th anniversary of MU's coverage of the Falls Festival, Zack 'McChicken' Landy and me made their way down to the edge of the world - Tasmania. We arrived in Launceston and decided to take the scenic route along the coast to...