Music News
Caloundra: Retailers and businesses are set to reap the benefits of The Caloundra Music Festival next weekend, September 29-October 1. Set over three days on the last weekend of the Queensland school holidays, Sunshine Coast shops, cafes, restaurants and other local enterprise will soon enjoy a business boost thanks to the Sunshine Coast Council’s biggest
Gold Coast musicians have taken to social media to plead to Gold Coast Council for more back up when it comes to supporting home-grown music. When Yelo editor Penny Brand did a quick survey on the city’s Facebook groups, she was overwhelmed with responses. But the consensus is clear: Gold Coast musicians want more live
San Francisco musical project The Brian Jonestown Massacre will bring their obscure psych-folk calamity to The Princess Theatre in November. The band’s “post-punk” brand has always attracted attention. It combines the names of Rolling Stone magazine founder Brian Jones and the historical US event, the 1978 Jonestown Massacre. You gotta give it to the longevity
Maroochydore: If Sam Worthington has their merch then it’s no wonder this favourite Aussie indie-rock band is on high rotation of in-the-know celebrity music fans. Worthington is quoted on The Rions’s website as having said: “I’ve got all The Rions’ merch. I love that band” – Sam Worthington (Avatar). And given the band’s catapult-rise to stardom,
Broadbeach: The original “boy from the bush” and Australian country music legend Lee Kernaghan will join US country superstar Jackson Dean (hello, Yellowstone!) and this year’s Golden Guitar best-album winner Casey Barnes to headline Groundwater Country Music Festival on October 20-22. They join queens of country music: two-time ARIA nominated Amber Lawrence, who also took
Aussie icons The Cat Empire will introduce their vibrant new line-up to the Valley on Friday 22. They are celebrating current album, “Where The Angels Fall”, with a massive new show that epitomises their herculean high-energy nature. With their signature fusion of jazz, funk, ska, rock, and latin, the latest outfit is even more vibrant. Off
Miami: It’s the kind of music you’d expect to hear if you were driving down a Southern Californian coastline singing your favourite tunes with the windows down, and your worries far adrift in the balmy, salt-spritzed breeze. However, the soothing electro-pop sounds of TOPS were born out of a far crispier climate on the opposite
Weezer songs like “Island in the Sun” and “El Scorcho” have been blasted by fans in blow-up swimming pools for decades. The Grammy award-winning, US alt-rock will bring all their hit summer rock-anthems to Brisbane Entertainment Centre on October 8. Joining them is home-grown electro giants Regurgitator (AKA “The ‘Gurge”). And it’s about to be
Bokarina: They’re a Trainspotting-esqe, English-geezer-meets-Aussie-eshay rock trio, with an Oasis edge and overall brit-pop sound, featuring chill, yet upbeat sounds. And this sensational Sydney acoustic band will bring their multi-Platinum and critically-acclaimed sounds to Bokarina next month, with highly-anticipated fourth album, “How Many Dreams?”. The DMA’s are thrilled to be kicking off their biggest headlining
Calling all R’n’B, hip-hop and reggae lovers for Promiseland 2023! The festival will make all the promises on September 30- October 1. With a whole new multi-genre concept, expect unmissable reggae, hip-hop, and alternative artists, over two days from September 30-October 1. The perfect prelude to our warmer season, Promiseland brings to Main Beach a
