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The Local Music Scene

  • September 22, 2023By yelomag

    Like seagulls at the beach on a hot sunny day, thousands of music lovers will flock to Kings Beach for the Caloundra Music Festival. The local’s favourite offers an unforgettable long-weekend of sun, surf and sounds, from September 29-October 1. Caloundra Music Festival continues to deliver a strong economic boost to Sunshine Coast businesses, with

  • September 22, 2023By yelomag

    Photo: Gold Coast musician Casey Barnes performs at Groundwater Country Music Festival, Broadbeach. Gold Coast musicians have taken to social media to plead to Gold Coast Council for more support for local live music. They say the music scene is being held back by restrictive policies, low pay and a lack of venues for original

  • September 21, 2023By yelomag

    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

  • September 17, 2023By yelomag

    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

  • September 17, 2023By Conor Cayley

    Nathan Cavaleri was Australia’s favourite child musical-prodigy who shot to fame on prime-time TV’s “Hey Hey It’s Saturday”. The break took him on tour with legendary US blues-master B.B. King, and later for a personal battle with cancel. This all happened before he turned 16. Nathan’s intense start to life put his career on ice

  • September 15, 2023By Penny Brand

    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

  • September 15, 2023By yelomag

    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

  • September 12, 2023By Conor Cayley

    Fortitude Valley and Eumundi: He was the child-star musical prodigy from TV’s “Hey Hey It’s Saturday” in the 90s (pictured) but it was a gig which could have killed him. While Nathan Cavaleri is still respected by Australian music industry leaders as one of our best blues and rock artists, his road to fame wasn’t

  • September 6, 2023By yelomag

    Noosaville: MORPH is a mini arts festival which brings together a variety of local multidisciplinary artists to celebrate the creative community on September 16. And as the name suggests it reinvents itself every year. This year there will be fine art from 40 global artists, live music from local Argentinian Chucho Bruno’s Karaka Orchestra (pictured),

  • September 6, 2023By yelomag

    Coolum: Calling all rappers, emcees, R&B enthusiasts, and new-wave melodic masters! If you’ve been cooking up in the stu’ and wondering where to play or simply craving some sample chops, dirty drums and big baselines, Coolum now has a home for you. The Sunshine Coast’s most exclusive Hip-Hop/R&B open mic Hip-Hop Haven is bringing the

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