A training and development initiative of the Country Music Association of Australia, the College has been in operation since 1997. The course is focussed on vocalists and/or musicians aged 18 - 35 who are ready to take the next big step in their careers.
[full story] [13/05/2008 4:04:46 PM]
Aspiring musicians, actors and musical theatre performers are invited to audition for a unique opportunity to apply for a place at Singapore’s LASALLE College of the Arts to pursue a specialist tertiary education.
Recruitment auditions for applicants to LASALLE’s BA(Hons) Classical Music, BA(Hons) Jazz, BA(Hons) Popular Music, BA(Hons) Music Technology, BA(Hons) Acting and BA(Hons) Musical Theatre programmes will be conducted in Perth and Sydney on the following dates:
[full story] [12/05/2008 4:02:28 PM]
Folk-blues-jazz-funk-rock fusion
Internationally acclaimed brass & woodwind master Dale Barlow (Billy Cobham, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Cedar Walton Quartet, Dizzy Gillespie) joins legendary Australian band Matt Finish during June 2008 performing songs from their new album 1978-2008.
[full story] [7/05/2008 2:11:54 PM]
Visitors To Jim Morrison's GraveJim Morrison of the Doors was, to me, a fatalistic doom & gloom merchant with some fanciful ideas with a huge ego who took far too many drugs and whose best thinking killed him at too young an age. He overdosed and was found dead in his hotel bathtub in Paris in 1971. [full story] [6/05/2008 8:40:46 PM]
Paul was the artist responsible for our very first HotPick on Hotsource. Since that time over 12 months ago, Paul has been busy touring and has recently laid down a new album Distance Over Time. [full story] [6/05/2008 5:31:29 PM]
A lot of users are just putting their gigs up on Hotsource. While this is great it’s not using the best that Hotsource has to offer.
Hotsource has been developed to help musicians and venues to promote live music. It’s also a community so that bands can use our venues database to plan a tour, and venues can see the capabilities of bands. If you don’t have your page fully populated, then it’s not working for you.
[full story] [6/05/2008 5:12:10 PM]
Tooheys Extra Dry (TED) has long been a supporter of Australian music festivals including Big Day Out, Splendour in the Grass, Great Escape, Playground Weekender and more. Through this association, TED has increasingly become involved in the support of emerging music and up and coming bands. [full story] [6/05/2008 4:20:39 PM]
Andrew Keese and the Associates' debut single, Blessed are the Meek, was recorded during late 2007 at Atlantis Sound in Melbourne, Australia by the renowned Australian record producer Tony Cohen (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, the Go-Betweens, the Cruel Sea, the Beasts of Bourbon, and many others …)
[full story] [29/04/2008 10:56:27 AM]
Get along to the Bridge Hotel on Thursday night (24th April)for a night to remember. It's the second year anniversary of Pete's passing and he'll be celebrating with us, when his last CD, BODGIE DADA, is released. [full story] [22/04/2008 9:51:24 AM]
Take some PJ Harvey, Joan as Policewoman, Beth Orton and the Black Keys, arm it with a ’78 Gibson Les Paul and occasional loop pedal - and you’re starting to get the Tammy Ingram picture. Tammy takes the classic singer/songwriter sound and rubs its face in the dirt.
[full story] [21/04/2008 1:19:44 PM]