The New Zealand four piece visited our shores earlier this year, with a run of sold out club shows in June, coinciding with the release of first single “You Should Do Better”, and recently returned with a main stage spot at Splendour in the Grass as well as sideshows with UK outfit Friendly Fires.

Instead, she took to the stage on crutches and continued to blow everyone’s minds with her karate-inspired antics. She’s now had some time to rest up for Crystal Castles return, joining the summer festival circuit right here in Australia.

Along with the previously announced sets at Southbound festival, as well as sets at Falls Festival and Field Day, Crystal Castles will be heading to both Brisbane and Adelaide for two mega sideshows.

Now they have officially declared October 21 the day their debut record Forever So will be dropped into the ever loving arms of their burgeoning fan base, to be followed by a headline tour to celebrate.

Recorded in the band’s own makeshift studio in a backyard bungalow, Forever So was mixed by Noah Georgeson (Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart, The Strokes) at the House of Blues Studios in LA and is described by Rolling Stone as “breathtaking in its ambition.” Not bad.

Their debut album ‘Jumpstart’ is nothing short of pumping! “This whole album is about getting people up off their feet,” says front man/co-writer Alex Johnson.
“We always said that we wanted our music to have great energy – nothing negative. We want everyone to get on their feet and dance when they hear our songs played,” says bassist/co-writer Alan Poettcker.

With forty years of chart-topping singles and albums under his belt, The Frontier Touring Company are delighted to announce that Rod Stewart will be rocking his incredible ‘The Hits’ tour on stages in Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne as well as two special concerts at Hope Estate Winery in the Hunter Valley and Hanging Rock in the Macedon Ranges.

Having a phenomenal 62 hit singles in the UK, of which 31 reached the top 10, concert goers can expect to be treated to the likes of Tonight’s The Night, Maggie May, You Wear It Well, Stay With Me, The First Cut Is the Deepest, Sailing, Hot Legs, Da Ya Think I’m Sexy…the list of Rod Stewart’s chart-toppers goes on and on. And if past tours are anything to go by Rod will smash out hit after hit live with his trademark style and panache, treating fans to a massive trip down memory lane and one hell of a night out.

The ‘Good Things’ tour will kick off on the 1st of January in Melbourne, the perfect cure for that New Year’s hangover! The tour will continue with theatre performances in Brisbane, Sydney and Adelaide in the first week of January 2012.

With his mix of old soul sensibility and classic R&B musical styling Aloe Blacc is one of the most exciting artists to emerge in recent times. The unbelievably catchy track ‘I Need A Dollar’ is the first single taken from his second album Good Things and is tearing up the airwaves and charts both locally and overseas.

Possessing an expansive sound that marries a coarse folk ingenuity with the bold pop sensibility of an R&B siren, Tune-Yards is the project of New England native, Merrill Garbus. No longer is her artful songwriting and soulful voice obscured by digital fuzz as it often was on her solo debut, Bird-Brains (2009).

Transplanting herself from Montreal to sunny Oakland, California, while touring almost non-stop for over two years, Merrill has stripped Tune-Yards away to a more precise, concentrated and vivid sound. w h o k i l l retains the honesty of the lonely bedroom confessional characteristic of her early work, but with the addition of the fangs, claws and dented metal of its new surroundings.

From a croon to a shriek to a rap to a hum, the vocal gymnastics of Tune-Yards songs remain front and centre. Now, add a beat, one full of soul and swing and wonderful imperfection. That voice infiltrates your mind, shoots down your legs and converts any ground into a dance floor.

Playing tracks from his debut CANT release, ‘Dreams Come True’, Taylor has gathered a star-studded band to accompany on the journey. Members of the full band will include Dev Hynes (Blood Orange/Lightspeed Champion/Ex-Test Icicles), John Kirby (Sebastian Tellier’s band) and Guillermo Brown (recently played with Jamie Lidell/Arto Lindsey/Saul Williams). ‘Dreams Come True’ features Taylor collaborating with George Lewis Jr. of Twin Shadow. Taylor and Lewis wrote and recorded ‘Dreams Come True’ in just a week and a half, in a bedroom connected to what used to be Allaire Studios, where Grizzly Bear also recorded their 2009 release ‘Veckatimest’.

Sydney dates are yet to be announced.