Music festivals Splendour In The Grass and The Falls Festival are capitalising on the Australian invasion of Austin for this year’s South By Southwest festival by putting on a Secret Sounds-presented showcase in the Texan music hub, dropping hints about possible lineups for festivals later in the year. FasterLouder reports, a similar SXSW party was
Irish musician James Vincent McMorrow showcased his sonic development from folk troubadour to r’n’b-inspired multi-instrumentalist producer, while in the country recently for the Falls and Southbound festivals. Music Feeds has the exclusive behind-the-scenes photo diary, documenting the artist’s Australian escapades. The photo diary, which you can see below, follows the Irishman as he braces the
Vampire Weekend‘s bassist Chris Baio narrowly escaped a flare to the head as one was thrown onstage as the Vampires rang in 2014 with their headlining set at Falls Festival in Lorne. Fasterlouder reports a video of the incident, which you can watch below, has emerged online which shows the band celebrating the new year
The pop-up tent city on the vast flats surrounding the North Byron Parklands was already well populated as the sun began to rise on the first day of 2014. In the days that followed, Falls Festival’s inaugural leg in Byron Bay would be a blur of brilliant musicianship, enchanting art installations and eccentric sideshows all
Canadian indie rock trio Born Ruffians will be hitting our shores soon for their third trip as a band, playing Falls Festival and their own headlining dates armed with new record Birthmarks. Lead vocalist Luke Lalonde took some well-earned downtime in a Toronto coffee shop and called in to chat to the velvet-lunged Mike Hohnen
Uncap those highlighters, it’s time to start devising your musical plan of attack – organisers of Falls Festival 2013/2014 have released the full timetables for the massive NYE festival’s imminent dates in Lorne, Byron and Marion Bay. Ringing in the New Year on the Byron Bay main stage are hip-hop superstars The Roots. Punters seeing
Indie-psych duo MGMT are giving a lucky ticket-holder in each of the Falls Festival 2013/2014 locations to perform on stage with the band and their famously spectacular visual set-up, when they play their single Your Life Is a Lie from their self-titled third album, released back in September. The winner in each location will be
Philadelphia’s The War On Drugs are back, with the vehicle for musician Adam Granduciel today premiering Red Eyes, the first single from their upcoming third album, Lost In The Dream, which is set for Aussie release next March. Our first taste of the follow up to 2011’s Slave Ambient is an epic, upbeat slice of
The organisers of the Falls Music & Arts Festival 2013/14 have announced the winners of their ‘foster’ program and the three Triple J Unearthed acts set to take the stage alongside Vampire Weekend and MGMT, featuring such names as The Middle Names and Chase City. The organisers offered three paid slots on the Marion Bay
Chillwave distributors Grizzly Bear have announced plans to build on their 2012 release Shields with two subsequent releases Shields: Expanded and Shields: B-Sides. The band have unveiled the first unheard cut from the sessions, Listen And Wait which will be available on the Expanded version. Both additional releases have a street date of next Friday,
Just when you thought it was safe to start making playlists for your road trips to Lorne, Byron Bay or Marion Bay, Falls Festival has announced a stack of new artists for their 2013-14 lineup, including Canada’s Born Ruffians and a stack of local talent including Dappled Cities, Wolf & Cub, Smith Street Band, Touch
Last in town for a run of sold-out shows back in 2011, the electronically inclined Bonobo has announced he will be departing from the Falls Festival circuit for a brief headlining tour, bearing all the same sold-out potential as previous. Adding to the excitement is the fact Bonobo will be bringing with him his fifth
Vampire Weekend have announced that they will be kicking on from their Falls Festival 2013 and Southbound commitments with a run of headlining Australian tour date, which will see the band grace stages in both Melbourne and Sydney. Vampire Weekend are no strangers to our stages, in festival form or otherwise, and we can expect
With a massive lineup featuring the likes of Vampire Weekend, The Roots, MGMT, and Grizzly Bear, it’s only natural that tickets for Falls Festival 2013/2014 Byron Bay ran out fast. Now that Byron Bay has gone the way of Lorne in exhausting allocation, the only place fans can catch all the Falls ’13/’14 action is
Grizzly Bear have thrown their name into the Falls Festival sideshow mix this morning, with the band now set to make their debut performance at the Sydney Opera House in January for a super special one-off performance. By the time the band’s 2012 album Shields had dropped, Grizzly Bear already spent a considerable amount of
Irishman James Vincent McMorrow will be engaging in co-curricular activities while in town for Falls Festival and Southbound, seeing him performing headlining sideshows in both Melbourne and Sydney in January. McMorrow is no stranger to Aussie stages, having nailed his maiden tour just last year. The demand for the singer-songwriter went through the roof resulting
Californian singer Hanni El Khatib and Austin quartet White Denim are kindred spirits in the rock & roll game. Both trade in crunchy, emotionally raw, old-school R&B, with a souped-up modern sound. Their bond will be further strengthened when they play two East Coast shows together to celebrate their Falls Festival 2013 appearances. Hailing from
The trio of Hannah Reid, Dot Major, and Dan Rothman, London Grammar have been turning heads and haunting listeners since the release of their debut single Hey Now. To celebrate the release of their debut LP, London Grammar have announced two very special shows for Sydney and Melbourne, to coincide with their slot at Falls
As well as Southbound 2014 and the Marion Bay, Lorne and Byron Bay legs of Falls Festival 2013/2014, UK singer-songwriter Tom Odell has announced two very special, very intimate headlining performances taking place in Melbourne and Sydney. Odell’s Australian return is testament to how quickly the young musician has found himself rubbing shoulders with the
Singer, songwriter, model and all-round successful slashie Solange has announced a run of headlining Australian tour dates for January next year to coincide with her appearance at the upcoming Falls Festival 2013 and Southbound. The weed smoking rebel of the Knowles family, Solange has spent the last few years blazing her own path through the
