Oz Music Scene

February 12th, 2008

Carl Riseley Releases Debut Disc

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Carl Riseley’s the latest graduate of the Australian Idol class of 2007 to make good. The swing king has quit the navy and signed a major record deal with Universal.
Carl’s debut album Your Imagination is due out in the next few months. It features cover […]

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February 12th, 2008

James Blunt Heads Back to Oz

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British softie James Blunt is heading back to Australia in May to support his second album All the Lost Souls.
James was a big hit when he played here in 2006, selling out every single Australian show. This time the venues will be bigger, but […]

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February 11th, 2008

Music Blog Spotlight: Feature Post Catch-Up

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Last week I wrote about the Aussie musicians I wouldn’t want to switch places with. Unfortunately, on the very same day b5media suffered some serious server glitches, and I didn’t get to see which other music bloggers joined me in sharing their views.
Now that everything […]

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February 11th, 2008

Keith Urban Bags a Grammy

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Keith Urban has brought home Australia’s only award at the Grammys today.
Keith won the gong for best male country vocal performance for his song “Stupid Boy.”
Keith’s no stranger to the Grammys. He won the same award in 2006 for his song “You’ll Think of Me.”
Keith […]

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February 10th, 2008

Aussies Head to SXSW

A strong Aussie contingent will play this year’s South by Southwest Conference in Austin, Texas in March.
We’ll send big names like Paul Kelly, Old Man River, The Vines, and Ash Grunwald along with some hot up-comers including Kate Bradley and The Goodbye Horses, The Chevelles, Justice Yeldham, Naked on the Vague, and Xno Barbequex.
They’ll play […]

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February 9th, 2008

Celebrate Aussie Rock in WA

Some of Australia’s hardest rockers will hit Perth later this month for the Aussie Rock Celebration Concert.
Line-ups don’t come much better than this, with Rose Tattoo, The Screaming Jets, Noiseworks, and The Party Boys heading up the bill. But that’s not all, with former AC/DC members Dave and Marck Evans, Kevin Borich, Buzz Bidstrup (The […]

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February 8th, 2008

Casey Goes Bald

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Good on Casey Donovan! While most female stars spend thousands painstakingly styling their hair, Casey’s preparing to shave hers off!
The former Australian Idol winner will go bald next month as part of the World’s Greatest Shave.
I’ve always thought the hair dying option was a […]

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February 8th, 2008

Olivia Newton-John Releases Opera House DVD

Back in March 2006, Olivia Newton-John played a historic concert at the Sydney Opera House backed by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. She played hits that spanned her amazing four-decade career, and I heard so many people say how amazing it was. Now two years later, she’s releasing that concert on DVD so we can all […]

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February 7th, 2008

10 Aussie Artists I Wouldn’t Trade Places With If You Paid Me

It probably comes as no surprise to you that the passionate writers in the b5media music channel would secretly love to trade places with our musical idols. I’m completely tone deaf, but give me a SingStar and I can easily pretend I’m not. Of course we all know being a big star isn’t all glitz […]

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February 6th, 2008

New Song Obsession: American Television

Ben Lee’s new music video has sparked a whole new love affair with his song “American Television.” With so many great tracks on Ripe it almost got lost, but this clip is all kinds of awesome.

It’s a homage to the TV shows of my youth, with parodies of Doogie Howser M.D., Blossom, ALF, and stacks […]

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