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  • 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

    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

  • 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 21, 2023By yelomusic

    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,

  • 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

    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

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