melbjuz joined us ages ago and is a contributor. She was online last month on the 28th.
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Hi there and welcome to my profile. My name is Justine de Jonge and I'm a FasterLouder Contributor.
So, I guess this is the bit where I have to tell you about myself and why I'm here. Well, apart from my contributions here in the illustrious world of FL, I contribute to Melbourne's infamous streetpress rag Beat Magazine, the website for Melbourne's community radio station 106.7 PBSFM and the station's respective subscriber magazine Easey as well as an awesome Sydney based website called Bombshellzine. I also try to blog my little heart out at www.melbournezene.wordpress.com .
When I'm not writing, editing, gig listing, interviewing and reviewing, I'm generally found either in front of my stereo listening to CDs, watching music-related DVDs in front of the tube or down in the trenches of an insane moshpit at any one of Melbourne's incredible live venues. Just check out my pic above as proof. See the black bag? Scary, huh?
While my taste in music stretches far and wide, I'm particularly partial to metal, hardcore, punk and hard rock. I'm insanely passionate about Australian independent bands and I also get a nervous twitch every time I'm not doing something music related. Ha! Yeah right!! Now you get the gist - I am absolutely fanatical about music.
Feel free to email me any time if you're bored, or you want to share your passion for music and FL, or if you just have a desirable need to bag me out. There's an email field somewhere here (plus a shoutout box!) so you can send your messages of love, hate and indifference. Heck, I might even email you back! Woohoo! Erh...
Anyway, thanks for your time and be sure to support your local music scene. That's why bands tour here. Without it, we're lame and boring.
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Last night at Sydney’s Oxford Art Factory, the four state finalists in the Garage to V went head-to-head to decide who would claim the coveted V Festival slot. All the bands have talent to burn, but only one could prevail…
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Welsh group mclusky may have gone but their spirit, spit and smarm lives on in two new groups that its former members began - Shooting at Unarmed Men and Future of the Left. Melbourne’s lucky enough to be home to the relocated SAUM, but now we get a chance to witness the other former mclusky lads - Andy Falkous, Jack Egglestone alongside former Jarcrew member Kelson Mathias.
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The beautiful Angie Hart and her well groomed four-piece band promoted the recently released, critically acclaimed debut album Grounded Bird at Bennetts Lane.
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When old school hardcore is in town, it means big business and being the experts of this league would undoubtedly be New York's finest - Madball.
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Day two of the Golden Plains Festival was even more sweltering than the first, but the talent on show was equally stellar.
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Golden Plains delivered some stunning acts in the equally stunning Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre.
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Parkway Drive will once again be hitting the road this June, their first Australian Tour since their sold out dates in October 2007.
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Following a massive US tour, to returning home to the Big Day Out, Karnivool announce dates for a long awaited national tour.
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This leg of the appropriately titled Pre-Obsession tour impressed both new and old fans alike, suggesting that 2008 will finally be the year Gyroscope hit the big time.
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Sydney rock ‘n roll mainstays Front End Loader are ready to unleash Laughing With Knives, a live album recorded on a rollicking night at the Annandale Hotel.
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One of Australia’s most followed live bands, Cog will once again do the national rounds to support their upcoming album, Sharing Space. Presented by FasterLouder, the six-week tour is exhaustive, taking in regional areas as well as capital cities.
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Rock star progeny Frances Bean Cobain has told Harper’s Bazaar (and no doubt the scribes of many a creepy fan letter), “I’m not my parents.”
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Enduring agitator Henry Rollins is embarking on another spoken word tour of Australia in April.
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This amazingly phenomenal show will go down in every heavy metal encyclopedia as the historic moment when the brothers Cavalera joined forces again.
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Mel talks to Page Hamilton about creating dance music and being the anti-rockstar, ahead of Helmet's return to sunny Australia.
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March 2008 will see Madball return to Australia and joining them on the road will be Boston's Death Before Dishonor.
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Melbourne will have their chance to experience Final Days of Autumn next week as the band hit the stage at the East Brunswick Club.
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The rumour mill was running in overdrive yesterday with talk of Smashing Pumpkins Duran Duran and QOTSA hottlt tipped as acts for this years V Festival. Well we're pleased to say - everything you've heard is true...
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Mel talks to Blackie about flying under the radar, googling Hard-ons and the 'atrocious' state of Australian music.
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The Dresden Doll's Amanda Palmer announces additional Australian tour dates.
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Never a band to sit around in boxes discussing what’s to be done next, Mammal have booked a run of shows in support of their new single, ‘Slaves’.
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Bondi's Cog have now dropped new album Sharing Space and are ready to launch into a series of dates, kicking off this week in Victoria.
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A pioneering event in the UK, the Don’t Look Back concert series is coming to Australia this summer, courtesy of FEEL and All Tomorrow’s Parties!
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As part of their 'Lost Highway' tour, Bon Jovi will tour Australia for the first time since 2002.
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The Offspring and Incubus head a bumper bill for the 2008 Soundwave festival.
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There is no denying Chrissie Amphlett's school uniform clad figure is one of the most iconic rock images from the 1980s. So it is with great pleasure that we announce the return of Amphlett to the rock arena - when the Divinyls tour this December
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If you're a boy of a certain age then no doubt you will have fond memories of nineties rockers The Baby Animals, thanks to their sassy frontwoman Suze Demarchi. Well pass the lubricant, lads, the lass is back and ready to set your dreams in motion
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Mere Theory embark on their own national headlining tour throughout November in support of their recently released debut album, Catalan Atlas.
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In light of their new release Xenosapien and on the eve of their upcoming tour to Australia, FL chatted with vocalist for US hydrogrind band Cephalic Carnage, Lenzig Leal.
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Well the gods, AKA Dave Mustaine have spoken and the winner of our Metal Enough for Gigantour has been revealed and it's none other than a eight year old fan named 'Rattlehead'.
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Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor announced what he titled' Big News' on the band's website today - revealing that NIN and their current record label Universal have had a parting of the ways.
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Finnish metal band Nightwish will head down under in January and February for a five-date national tour.
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Chicago-based grungesters Local H will bring their rock and roll show to Australia for the first time in nine years.
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According to reports in today's Sydney Morning Herald fans are sick and tired of paying high prices for tix to sold out events and urge ticketing companies and artists to take action against scalpers now!
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We all suspected it, but now the rumour-mongering can cease with the news that Rage Against the Machine will indeed be playing Big Day out this summer.
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We've been waiting more than a decade - but finally the wait is over - Rage Against the Machine will be touring Australia this summer.
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For the third time in the last six months NIN frontman Trent Reznor has taken a swipe at Universal Music Australia, condemning the label for its high priced CDs
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California's Limbeck will hit our shores this September for an East Coast Tour that's sure to get heads banging across the nation.
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After smashing it last year on its Australian debut, metal festival Gigantour returns for a second year this November leaving a wake of destruction and bleeding ears behind.
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After selling out their first two Sydney and Melbourne shows almost instantaneously, Nine Inch Nails are excited to confirm a third and final show in each city. Fans that have had the chance to experience the band on stage understand the brilliance of
Something With Numbers are definitely living up to their tag as a band to watch in 2007. The band released their sophomore album Perfect Distraction in October last year and it shot straight to number 34 on the National ARIA charts spawning the hit Apple
Where pain, adrenaline and frustration turn to rage, therein lurk Lamb of God. In the six years since they changed their name from Burn the Priest and continued their musical quest, the Virginia band has written some of the heaviest, most brutal music eve
As a band at their beginnings, Birds Of Tokyo are already ahead of their game.
Karnivool hit the Hifi Bar & Ballroom as part of the venue’s ten year birthday celebrations.
The Come Together Festival will be back for a fourth round with even more music and mayhem this Queen’s Birthday Long Weekend. Come Together will once again be an all ages gig with more than 50 Australian bands and international guests and once again o
Brisbane’s Dead Letter Circus will be joining powerful Chicago three-piece Chevelle and the mighty Butterfly Effect for a stash of dates across the country in July and August (except Perth). It’s been a massive year for this Brisbane four-piece. Th
Local metal act Daysend release their 12 track monster metal album, The Warning this month and back it up with an epic tour. The album is the band’s first release since their hugely popular 2003 debut, Severence. The Warning was produced by metal mae
It’s a metal collaboration that dreams are made of – Pantera legend Vinnie Paul Abbott; Mudavayne’s Chad Gray and Greg Tribbet; Damageplan’s Bob Zilla and Nothingface’s Tom Maxwell – is that not one of the best metal line-ups you’ll see? Hel
“Animal Rebellion” is the only Australian tour in 2007 The Red Paintings will undertake. Be sure to get on board and check out The Red Paintings.
Australian rockers .hinge are defying stereotypes and expectations and bursting the seams with a new, daring sound. Since launching their 2005 album Something to Adore, .hinge is back with more creativity in their newest release The Rise and Fall of Li
Melbourne’s own, Rocket Science are back on the scene baby! Formed in mid-1998, Roman Tucker, David Gray, Kit Warhurst and Paul Maybury came together when they were in between groups. In Melbourne’s small but busy music scene everyone knew each oth
A fusion of blazing guitars, hip hop and metal beats, tight, funky and brutal bass lines and seething, revolutionary lyrics.
The agonising wait is now over. Bad Religion are finally returning to Australia. The L.A. band that sparked the punk boom in the 80’s and 90’s are finally coming back to our fair shores. And the timing could not be better, with Bad Religion riding
Straight from a national headlining tour in support of their successful third album 42:19, Blueline Medic have announced a second string of dates for Victorian fans. Blueline Medic proved they can still pack out a decent venue, considering their incr
Shock rocker Marilyn Manson will pack up his live act and bring it to Australia this October for a national tour in celebration of his latest release, Eat Me, Drink Me.
The legendary rock n roll band Motorhead will be bringing their Kiss of Death tour to Australia this October and FasterLouder have jumped on board for the ride! Last seen down under in 2005 playing support for Motley Crue, Motorhead – the loudest pro
Metal fans get your speed dial ready – tickets for Dave Mustaine’s metalfest – Gigantour go on sale today! Don’t miss out! In 2006, Gigantour creator Dave Mustaine promised “It is going to be something to look forward to each year, to see wha
The Offspring and Incubus will return to our shares next year to head a bumper bill for the Soundwave festival in February and March. After the success of the first Soundwave earlier this year, organisers have expanded the festival’s itinerary to inc
To celebrate the recent release of a split 12” vinyl with Brisbane band Arrows, Melbourne indie group with the longest band name ever – These Hands Could Separate The Sky will play a huge show at the Arthouse on Friday November 2. Also performing on t
Big Day Out is rolling into Melbourne with a sizzling line-up.
Hardcore Superstar, the most sleaze glam thrash punk rock band in the world from Gothenburg, Sweden are heading to Australia for the first time EVER!
Hot on the heels of his Sydney Festival appearances this month, Martin Craft will...
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