http://www.tonedeaf.com.au The Home Of Australian Music Wed, 22 May 2013 02:40:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/news/local-news/307332/objectors-fearful-proposed-development-tavern-site-stop-music-richmond.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/news/local-news/307332/objectors-fearful-proposed-development-tavern-site-stop-music-richmond.htm#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 02:00:17 +0000 Al Newstead http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=307332 A number of live music venues in Melbourne have famously battled with councils over noise complaints in recent years, including The Old Bar in Fitzroy, Pure Pop Records in St Kilda, and The Prince Public Bar In St Kilda - to name a few. Usually as a result of high rise residential developments going up in uncomfortably close proximity [...]]]> http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/news/local-news/307332/objectors-fearful-proposed-development-tavern-site-stop-music-richmond.htm/feed 0 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/news/local-news/307291/i-finished-it-then-scrapped-it-chet-faker-talks-debut-album-flume-side-project.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/news/local-news/307291/i-finished-it-then-scrapped-it-chet-faker-talks-debut-album-flume-side-project.htm#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 00:41:35 +0000 Al Newstead http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=307291 There’s no denying the success and popularity of Chet Faker. The soultronica star has gone from being Melbourne’s best-kept secret to soundtracking a Superbowl commercial in front of a viewing audience of millions in the space of a year – the word ‘meteoric’ springs to mind – so it’s easy to forget that the Award-winning [...]]]> http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/news/local-news/307291/i-finished-it-then-scrapped-it-chet-faker-talks-debut-album-flume-side-project.htm/feed 0 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/news/local-news/307273/liberals-propose-privatising-abc-triple-public-ownership-no-longer-valid-2013.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/news/local-news/307273/liberals-propose-privatising-abc-triple-public-ownership-no-longer-valid-2013.htm#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 23:41:36 +0000 Al Newstead http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=307273 The recently revealed Federal Budget may have neglected to show support to community radio, neglecting to address the $1.4 million shortfall in enabling up to 37 community radio stations to make the migration to digital, but on the flipside, the Federal Government showed immense support to public owned media bodies ABC and SBS. ABC saw [...]]]> http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/news/local-news/307273/liberals-propose-privatising-abc-triple-public-ownership-no-longer-valid-2013.htm/feed 0 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/news/tournews/307159/police-lift-obscene-ban-as-dark-mofo-skinnydip-given-go-ahead.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/news/tournews/307159/police-lift-obscene-ban-as-dark-mofo-skinnydip-given-go-ahead.htm#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 06:36:02 +0000 Al Newstead http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=307159 Yesterday, organisers of the inaugural Dark MOFO arts and music festival, which unveiled its full program a month ago, had one of their public events axed by Tasmanian Police had deemed the event “too obscene.” Amongst the Hobart-based festival’s impressive list of specially curated musical lineup – including the likes of Martha Wainwright, Boris, Mono, You [...]]]> http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/news/tournews/307159/police-lift-obscene-ban-as-dark-mofo-skinnydip-given-go-ahead.htm/feed 0 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/news/local-news/307055/publisher-drops-triple-j-magazine-staff-made-redundant-as-abc-eyes-annual-editions.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/news/local-news/307055/publisher-drops-triple-j-magazine-staff-made-redundant-as-abc-eyes-annual-editions.htm#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 03:00:40 +0000 Al Newstead http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=307055 Triple J’s bi-monthly print publication, Triple J Magazine is reportedly moving to an annual format with writers and staff allegedly being made redundant after the magazine lost their contract with publishers, News Custom Publishing, according to The Music. The news arrived yesterday, with reports that News Custom Publishing, part of the News Limited group, is centralising to [...]]]> http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/news/local-news/307055/publisher-drops-triple-j-magazine-staff-made-redundant-as-abc-eyes-annual-editions.htm/feed 0 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/news/local-news/306792/sydney-cultural-policy-submissions.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/news/local-news/306792/sydney-cultural-policy-submissions.htm#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 02:47:37 +0000 Al Newstead http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=306792 The City Of Sydney council and Lord Mayor Clover Moore have been pushing to revitalise the New South Wales capital’s cultural scene in recent months, in response to the issues faced by live music venues across the CBD – most notably, the recent issues with the legendary Annandale Hotel – Moore and her constituents formed [...]]]> http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/news/local-news/306792/sydney-cultural-policy-submissions.htm/feed 0 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/news/local-news/307011/spotify-announce-streaming-charts-celebrate-year-australia.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/news/local-news/307011/spotify-announce-streaming-charts-celebrate-year-australia.htm#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 01:00:05 +0000 Rebecca Russo http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=307011 Since its launch in Australia last May, Australians have streamed a staggering 42.5 million hours of music on Swedish music service Spotify, (that’s over 4,000 years worth of music) and with that, users have created over 14 million playlists. Those statistics arrive in celebration of their Spotify’s one year birthday down under, in conjunction with [...]]]> http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/news/local-news/307011/spotify-announce-streaming-charts-celebrate-year-australia.htm/feed 0 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/news/tournews/307023/melbournes-powder-monkeys-to-reform-for-tribute-concert.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/news/tournews/307023/melbournes-powder-monkeys-to-reform-for-tribute-concert.htm#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 23:59:23 +0000 Al Newstead http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=307023 A bass player and singer from Melbourne, Tim Hemensley is one of the great underrated figures of the Australian music scene. Beloved by those who new him, awed those who saw his thrilling live performance, and remembered fondly by all who met him, not least those who fell under the spell of Powder Monkeys, the [...]]]> http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/news/tournews/307023/melbournes-powder-monkeys-to-reform-for-tribute-concert.htm/feed 0 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/news/local-news/306900/karnivool-drop-first-taste-of-first-album-in-four-years.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/news/local-news/306900/karnivool-drop-first-taste-of-first-album-in-four-years.htm#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 08:13:53 +0000 Al Newstead http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=306900 The mighty Karnivool have spent the last two years crafting the follow-up to their hugely acclaimed second studio album, 2009′s Sound Awake, and now the Perth five-piece are ready to officially break the silence on what prog magic they’ve been conjuring in the stduio. The band have released the first taste of their as-yet untitled [...]]]> http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/news/local-news/306900/karnivool-drop-first-taste-of-first-album-in-four-years.htm/feed 0 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/news/tournews/306798/dark-mofo-skinnydip-cancelled-police-obscene.htm http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/news/tournews/306798/dark-mofo-skinnydip-cancelled-police-obscene.htm#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 03:42:44 +0000 Al Newstead http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/?p=306798 The inaugural Dark MOFO arts and music festival unveiled its full program a month ago, featuring an impressive list of specially curated musical acts and performances from the international likes of Canadian songstress Martha Wainwright and cult Japanese bands Boris and Mono, through to local highlights like You Am I, The Drones, and The Presets. [...]]]> http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/news/tournews/306798/dark-mofo-skinnydip-cancelled-police-obscene.htm/feed 0