Tag: local music
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SA musicians join the pro-Palestine chorus for Gaza
A group of South Australian artists, formed initially in protest against an Israeli electronic duo performing in Adelaide last month, will take to three stages in the city this weekend to raise funds for an organisation hoping to get Palestinian people in Gaza back on their feet following months of conflict. The collective – Musicians…
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Iconic Adelaide band honoured with city laneway
The Angels Lane was officially opened on Monday, featuring two murals, glowing light boxes, and some of the band’s iconic moments projected onto the street to be visible at night. The Angels are the fifth Adelaide band to receive a laneway named in their honour, joining Sia Furler Lane, Cold Chisel Lane, Paul Kelly Lane…
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Hilltop Hoods long-awaited album to drop in August
Hilltop Hoods’ ninth studio album is due to be released August 1, with the trio, Suffa, Pressure and DJ Debris, recording in Adelaide, Darwin, Melbourne and New Zealand. The album, announced today, has 12 tracks including features from Adelaide’s pop princess Nyassa and New Zealand pop band Six60. So far in 2025, they’ve released lead…
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Focusing the lens on Adelaide’s live music history
Rock ’n’ Roll City: Adelaide Babylon, featuring a collection of Eric Algra’s gritty gig photographs from the 1970s to the present day, will be launched at the Exeter Hotel on August 3. Some of the iconic local names who appear in the book include The Bodgies, Exploding White Mice, Redgum, Gumbo Ya! Ya!, July 14th, Catherine Lambert, Tubby…
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Business advice from the front lines of the music industry
Risking bankruptcy and escaping closure, Lock, 37, is no stranger to going all-in. The risks were worth it though with Lock and long-term business partner Ross Osomon’s businesses Five Four Entertainment and Plus One Co. growing to manage and co-own some of South Australia’s favourite music and entertainment venues and festivals, such as Lion Arts…
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Nominations are now open for the 2022 SAM Awards
The celebratory music festival that is the South Australian Music Awards will return on Thursday, 17 November this year, offering you a chance to make sure your favourite SA musos make the cut. The SAM Awards celebrates the best of our state’s music scene in a range of publicly voted and industry-decided categories, and you…
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SA bands with chance to play with Barnesy or Baker Boy
Music SA announced today the return of the popular Bands On Track live music initiative, where a select few local musicians are given the opportunity to play with international and national heavyweights in an initiative that could help launch their careers. Six local acts will share the main stage with leading artists to play at…
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Brenton Torrens: From street to stage
For most of Adelaide, Hindley Street at night is either a den of vice or a playground full of possibilities. But for Brenton Torrens, the neon forest of Adelaide’s West End – with punters puking into the gutter, punching on, and putting on highly inappropriate displays of public intimacy – is his workplace. Film-makers Jared…
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Here’s to music, booze, and this view
Here’s to Now began in the mode it intended to continue – as a big old party in a very beautiful place. Six years later it retains that essence. The music festival still takes place in the eye-wateringly exquisite gardens of Coriole winery, where plentiful consumption of good booze and ready creation of a dance…