The Financial Crisis, The WA Music Industry and Me
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La Roux
Hearted this evening
With the British charts currently falling at her feet, fiery vixen Elly Jackson talks about the breakneck rise of La Roux.
FL Shooting Star: Simon Atkinson
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For Part Three of our FL's Shooting Stars series, we're taking a look at Canberra multi-tasker Simon Atkinson.
The Next Big Thing - Heat 4 @ The Rosemount Hotel (17/06/09)
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7 bands, 20 minutes to impress and an audience teeming with judges, critics and the closest family and friends. The Rosemount Hotel was set for Heat 4 of The Next Big Thing.
Next Big Thing - Heat 5 @ The Rocket Room (19/06/09)
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With the slightly more fashionable doors open time of 8pm The Rocket Room hosted the fifth installment of The Next Big Thing competition 09.
Arcade Fire new album plans
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Montreal troupe Arcade Fire has a follow-up to 2007's lauded 'Neon Bible' in the works.
One Movement Festival
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One Movement is a music conference that will see industry figures and bands converge on Perth for a three day conference and showcase.
Apricot Rail @ Velvet Lounge 19/06/09
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Apricot Rail brings a distinct quaintness to the increasingly popular and diverse genre of post-rock.
Next Big Thing - Heat 7 @ The Rosemount Hotel (24/06/09)
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Saving the best till last Heat 7 of The Next Big Thing 09 was a showcase of diverse talents and eccentricities.
RTRFM's Winter Festival
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RTRFM’s Fremantle Winter Music Festival returns for ’09 and hits the port city on Saturday June 27.
NBT Update
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Next Big Thing heats continued last week to whittle down the entrants into a group small enough to be called finalists. Here’s the results from the week just gone complete with thoughts from punters on the ground:
Muse set album release date
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Three years after the release of 'Black Holes and Revelations', Muse will release its fifth album in Australia on 14 September.
Juicy June Jewels
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What's been happening in Perth while you've been huddling in front of your fires? Here's all the links to the best stuff...
Kram interviews Bob Evans
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Having ruled many an Aussie festival with their bands Spiderbait and Jebediah, we got Kram and Bob Evans to have a chat ahead of Splendour.
FL Shooting Star: Patrick Herve
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The FasterLouder Shooting Stars series turns the focus on Melbourne man-about-town Patrick Herve (herve photographic).
Next Big Thing
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Metropolitan and regional heats began as a fierce contest for rock supremacy.
The Living End @ Challenge Stadium (22/05/08)
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The Living End are a band that stimulates an overwhelming desire to rush at the stage or dive out of the seating area and crowd surf all the way to the front.
Paint Like No One's Watching
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Over the last year, the FasterLouder art studio has gone backstage at all our favourite festivals. Now the rock masterpieces are on sale for charity!
Events She's Going To
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Events She Went To
The Long Blondes
07/08/2007 > Club Capitol
Sheffield’s The Long Blondes will head to Perth as part of their first Australian tour in August.
Parklife
01/10/2007 > Wellington Square
Parklife rocked the streets of Perth last year and this year Parklife is back, bigger and better than ever.
Midnight Juggernauts
07/09/2007 > Club Capitol
Midnight Juggernauts are one of the hottest indie/electro crossover acts out there at the moment and they’re just about to drop their debut album. And you’ll be able to get a taste when they take it on the road during August and September. Winning
Midnight Juggernauts
07/09/2007 > Club Capitol
Interstellar space travel will be within arm’s reach of one and all when three-piece Midnight Juggernauts launch their highly anticipated on their upcoming national tour.
Daft Punk
16/12/2007 > Perth Esplanade
Daft Punk bring their pyramid spectacular down under this December.
Southbound
04/01/2008 > Sir Stewart Bovell Park
Kings of Leon, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Groove Armada head the list of bands set to line up for the 2008 Southbound festival.
Regurgitator
17/11/2007 > Amplifier Bar
Regurgitator are back – free from tropical fungus and ready to blaze a new rock path into your hearts once again.
Institut Polaire
30/09/2007 > Rosemount Hotel
Institut Polaire launch new EP The Flora and the Fauna this coming long weekend.
Muse
10/11/2007 > Supreme Court Gardens
After making the stage their own at this year’s Big Day Out, Muse return to Australia in November for a headline tour of their own.
FasterLouder Live
29/11/2007 > Amplifier Bar
The Silents, Institut Polaire, Sugar Army and Streetlight hit the stage at Amps for FasterLouder Live’s WA debut.
Harlequin League
23/11/2007 > Amplifier Bar
Harlequin League launch debut single Hole in the Heart at Amplifier Bar with support from some special guests.
Southbound
05/01/2008 > Sir Stewart Bovell Park
Groove Armada, BRMC and Kings of Leon head this bill for this summer’s Southbound festival.
A Not So Silent Night
22/12/2007 > Rosemount Hotel
Cinema Prague, The Bluejays and The Silents will top the bill as a fistful of Perth’s best acts hit the Rosemount Hotel’s annual Christmas gig.
Jebediah
31/12/2007 > Amplifier Bar
Jebediah’s comeback trail continues as the indie-pop legends say hello to 2008 at Amps.
The Mercy Arms
12/09/2008 > The Bakery
Ladies and gentlemen, the wait is finally over as the Mercy Arms hit the road to show off tracks from their self-titled debut album.
Yves Klein Blue and The Holidays - 'Immaculate Confection' tour
10/10/2008 > Amplifier Bar
Brisbane’s tasty effervescent Yves Klein Blue and Sydney’s sweet astutely pop The Holidays will be circling the nation throughout October on the Immaculate Confection tour.
The Next Big Thing Heat 3
13/06/2009 > Rocket Room
Presented by Healthway, WA’s biggest and richest original music competition is now in its thirteenth year.
Next Big Thing Heat 1
10/06/2009 > The Foundry
Presented by Healthway, WA’s biggest and richest original music competition is now in its thirteenth year.
