http://www.tonedeaf.com.au The Home Of Australian Music Sun, 19 May 2013 00:30:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/columns/306314/best-of-the-rest-1.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/columns/306314/best-of-the-rest-1.htm#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 03:53:08 +0000 Esther Semo http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=306314 By the end of every week there are a bunch of music-related stories, cool links, videos, and other internet ditties that we haven’t managed to get to throughout the week. As a remedy to this, we’re happy to introduce our new column Best Of The Rest – our avenue for sharing cool music tidbits we’ve [...]]]> http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/columns/306314/best-of-the-rest-1.htm/feed 0 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/columns/305971/new-record-report-pond-bliss-n-eso-smith-westerns-seja-more.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/columns/305971/new-record-report-pond-bliss-n-eso-smith-westerns-seja-more.htm#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 03:25:35 +0000 Esther Semo http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=305971 Every day we’re faced with an onslaught of album announcements so we thought we’d start sharing the soon-to-be-released love by putting together a list of the most notable and exciting album announcements on a weekly basis. This week’s features everyone’s favourite Tame Impala offshoot Pond, the smooth stylings of hip hop group Bliss N Eso, a 90s [...]]]> http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/columns/305971/new-record-report-pond-bliss-n-eso-smith-westerns-seja-more.htm/feed 0 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/opinion/305849/future-nostalgia-notsorandom-access-memories-daft-punk.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/opinion/305849/future-nostalgia-notsorandom-access-memories-daft-punk.htm#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 02:30:47 +0000 Al Newstead http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=305849 Ask any IT wiz to give you a definition of what RAM is and does and you’ll likely get a technical description about a storage system that allows the reading of data to happen much faster, allowing quicker access and minimal lag than it would from a hard drive. Comparable to a short-term memory that [...]]]> http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/opinion/305849/future-nostalgia-notsorandom-access-memories-daft-punk.htm/feed 0 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interviews/304650/jen-cloher-2.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interviews/304650/jen-cloher-2.htm#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 01:30:12 +0000 Christopher Harms http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=304650 Jen Cloher has been a familiar name on the music scene since she, together with her band The Endless Sea, released her debut EP Permanent Marker in 2005. Eight years, two albums, and one ARIA nomination later, Cloher is set to release her third long player, In Blood Memory, with the help of her fans. [...]]]> http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interviews/304650/jen-cloher-2.htm/feed 0 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/cookbook/305833/lita-ford.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/cookbook/305833/lita-ford.htm#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 18:04:38 +0000 Sarah Guppy http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=305833 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/cookbook/305833/lita-ford.htm/feed 0 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/columns/305625/industry-insight-lackey-leaves-village-sounds-agency-shuffle-music-seminars-more.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/columns/305625/industry-insight-lackey-leaves-village-sounds-agency-shuffle-music-seminars-more.htm#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 02:26:00 +0000 Al Newstead http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=305625 Mark Lackey Leaves Village Sounds, Takes 22 Acts With Him Village Sounds promoter Mark Lackey has parted ways from the booking agency to set up his own company, Wildfire Agency, taking a large number of high-profile acts with him, as The Music Network reports. A statement from Village Sounds directors Jessica Ducrou and Evan Davis reads: “We wish Mark [...]]]> http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/columns/305625/industry-insight-lackey-leaves-village-sounds-agency-shuffle-music-seminars-more.htm/feed 0 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interviews/304859/ghost.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interviews/304859/ghost.htm#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 01:30:15 +0000 Christopher Harms http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=304859 While melodic hardcore five-piece The Ghost Inside are no strangers to Australian shores, the band’s upcoming tour (featuring a list of impressive supports) is their first in headline mode. The Californian metalcore outfit released their latest album Get What You Give last year and received their biggest response to a studio release yet. They’ve been [...]]]> http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interviews/304859/ghost.htm/feed 0 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/columns/305308/crowdfunding-forecast-saskwatch-for-glasto-barbarion-doco-more.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/columns/305308/crowdfunding-forecast-saskwatch-for-glasto-barbarion-doco-more.htm#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 02:01:54 +0000 Al Newstead http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=305308 If the success of Melbourne prog-metal band Twelve Foot Ninja’s music video campaign, smashing the previous record set by Eskimo Joe in February this year, has taught us anything – it’s that crowdfunding is here to stay. Whether it’s as simple as a band recording a new album, raising funds for musicians to head overseas to [...]]]> http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/columns/305308/crowdfunding-forecast-saskwatch-for-glasto-barbarion-doco-more.htm/feed 0 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interviews/303447/cloud-control.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interviews/303447/cloud-control.htm#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 07:00:45 +0000 Christopher Harms http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=303447 Vampire Weekend called them “the best support we’ve ever had,” they won two AIR Awards in 2010 and 2011, trotted off with the nation’s sixth Australian Music Prize, then several weeks ago, they were listed as one of over 70 bands playing at Splendour in the Grass in Byron Bay. Now, as 2013 charges on, [...]]]> http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interviews/303447/cloud-control.htm/feed 0 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/opinion/304862/community-radio-no-funding-no-future-in-a-digital-world.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/opinion/304862/community-radio-no-funding-no-future-in-a-digital-world.htm#comments Sun, 12 May 2013 23:42:56 +0000 Al Newstead http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=304862 The details of the Federal Budget are being announced tomorrow, and with it, the future of community radio’s survival. The Commit To Community Radio campaign, which has been running intensely ever since the Federal Government and the Federal Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy revealed a budgeting shortfall for community radio digital services, has been spotlighting the [...]]]> http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/opinion/304862/community-radio-no-funding-no-future-in-a-digital-world.htm/feed 0