To celebrate the inaugural Festival Awards, FL looks back at the hits and misses that transpire when an Aussie festival takes a gamble.
It's time to polish those gumboots and air out the tents kids because our favourite weekend of mid-winter musical mayhem, Splendour In The Grass, will be returning in its eighth year...
With the first two shows of the Laneway Festival done and dusted, FL delivers all the goss from Adelaide and Melbourne. Check out the reviews and photos from both events here.
With the first leg of Soundwave Festival complete, FasterLouder gives you all the goss from the Sydney and Brisbane events. Check out awesome photos and reviews of the event.
2008's Soundwave managed to pull in a bevy of International acts under an uncommonly hot summer's day.
A veritable cornucopia of talented punk, metal, hardcore and similarly-styled artists converge on Brisbane to perform at a shining light in the Australian festival circuit, and leave a path of musical explosion in their wake.
The judges have ruminated, bickered and agonised…and now we are thrilled to announce the finalists in the band comp to end all band comps: Garage to V.
Josh Homme and the boys are back to play it loud and proud for the fans - the Queens of the Stone Age will be hitting the stage at V Festival as well as playing a series of headlining gigs!
Yep - it's true - Johnny Marr will be coming to town with Modest Mouse for this year's V Festival. The Washington based alt rockers will also be delivering a series of sideshows whilst in town.
Jesus and Mary Chain have been serving up music lovers' wet dreams ever since they hit the scene with their debut long player Psychocandy in 1985. So it is with great pleasure that I announce that the Brothers Reid and co. will be making a trip.
Ahh Billy Corgan - the very fact that Smashing Pumpkins have reformed brings a tear to the eyes of most music lovers - so the notion of seeing them live is enough to cause hysterical crying from most punters. Now news that the Pumpkins are serving
FasterLouder's Elmo Keep goes in for Round Two with the notorious Gene Simmons...
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