October 31, 20243 min read
September 26, 2023By yelomusic
It’s time to dust off your boots and Akubras for Australia’s biggest country music festival CMC Rocks QLD at Ipswich on March 17. The Willowbank Raceway event has seen major acts in the past such as Luke Combs, Taylor Swift, Luke Bryan and The Chicks. A full artist line-up will be announced in the coming
September 24, 2023By yelomusic
Burleigh Heads: Former The Cat Empire lead vocalist/rapper and trumpet player Harry James Angus will bring an enigmatic new solo set and some signature grooves to Mo’s Desert Clubhouse in November. Joining him in this incredible Gold Coast live music offering is drumming sensation Freyja Hooper (pictured), who placed third in New South Wales for her senior
September 24, 2023By yelomusic
Fortitude Valley: Los Angeles psych-punk quartet Frankie and the Witch Fingers is set to cast their spell on the Valley’s Black Bear Lodge this November. The US proto-rock outfit, with their signature sonic alchemy and explosive performances, has returned with their seventh studio album, Data Doom, and featured track, “Mild Davis” with its mind-bending animated
September 22, 2023By yelomusic
Gold Coast musicians have taken to social media to plead to Gold Coast Council asking for more back up when it comes to supporting local home-grown music. When Yelo editor Penny Brand did a quick survey on the city’s Facebook music groups asking users where they wanted to see the most change, she was overwhelmed
September 21, 2023By yelomusic
Woolloongabba: San Francisco musical project The Brian Jonestown Massacre will bring their haunting country psychedelic sounds to the Woolloongabba’s Princess Theatre this November. The band’s “post-punk” name has always attracted attention, combining the names of Rolling Stones music magazine founder Brian Jones and tragic US historical event the 1978 Jonestown Massacre. This Brisbane live music
September 19, 2023By yelomusic
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
September 17, 2023By yelomusic
Fortitude Valley: Aussie icons The Cat Empire will introduce their vibrant new line-up to the Valley on Friday, September 22, to celebrate their current album, “Where The Angels Fall”, with a massive new show that epitomises the herculean high-energy nature of this much-loved band. With their signature fusion of jazz, funk, ska, rock, and latin influences,
September 17, 2023By yelomusic
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
September 15, 2023By Penny Brand
Boondall: Their songs such as “Island in the Sun”, “El Scorcho” and “Buddy Holly”, have been blasted and streamed by hundreds of thousands of adoring Aussie fans in blow-up swimming pools and under beach umbrellas for decades. Grammy award-winning, US alt-rock band Weezer will bring all their feel-good summer rock anthems to Boondall next month,
September 15, 2023By yelomusic
Main Beach: R’n’B, hip-hop and reggae lovers represent! Promiseland Festival 2023 is making all the promises this year, with a whole new multi-genre concept and clutch of unmissable reggae, hip hop, and alternative artists, over two days on September 30 and October 1. What is sure to be the perfect prelude to our warmer seasons, Promiseland
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