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The Cure The Head on the Door

The Cure’s The Head on the Door: 40 Years of Post-Punk Perfection

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Released on August 26, 1985, The Head on the Door marked a pivotal moment in The Cure’s evolution. Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, the album stands as a testament to the band’s ability to blend post-punk sensibilities with accessible pop melodies, propelling them into the mainstream while retaining their distinctive edge.

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The Korgis Coffee In New York

The Korgis Join Forces With Australian Guitarist Joe Matera For ‘Coffee In New York’ Album

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English pop-rock survivors The Korgis are back in 2025 with a brand-new collaborative album, teaming up with Australian singer, songwriter and guitarist Joe Matera. The project, titled Coffee In New York, will be released on October 24, 2025, via Renaissance Records in the USA on both vinyl and CD.

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Bon Jovi, Photo By Damien Loverso

Bon Jovi Call On Friends For Forever (Legendary Edition)

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Bon Jovi will return this October with a brand-new collaboration record, Forever (Legendary Edition), set for release on October 24, 2025. The 14-track album finds Jon Bon Jovi and the band reimagining the spirit of their 2024 record Forever with the help of an all-star guest list. The project arrives after Jon Bon Jovi’s vocal cord surgery, a setback that forced him to step away from touring while still creatively hungry to share music.

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Tom Araya of Slayer at Download Melbourne 2019 photo by Mary Boukouvalas

Slayer Announce One-Night-Only Headline Show at Hersheypark Stadium

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Slayer will return to the stage this September for a rare headline show on the U.S. east coast, confirming a massive one-night-only concert at Hersheypark Stadium, Pennsylvania, on September 20, 2025.

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Mike Joyce The Drums

Mike Joyce Turns the Tables in The Drums: A Candid Beat from The Smiths’ Backseat

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Manchester’s unsung pulse, drummer Mike Joyce, finally steps out from behind The Smiths’ jangly guitar riffs with his much-anticipated memoir, The Drums, due for release in November 2025.

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Ali Campbell

UB40 Featuring Ali Campbell Announce Perth Show For Big Love World Tour

by Paul Cashmere

UB40 featuring Ali Campbell have added a Perth date to their Big Love World Tour after strong demand across Australia, bringing one of reggae’s most distinctive voices back to the West Coast. The show will take place at Kings Park & Botanic Garden on Sunday, 18 January 2026.

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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds photo by Ros O'Gorman

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Announce Wild God 2026 Tour of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds will return home to Australia in January 2026 with the official announcement today of their Wild God Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand tour. The run of shows will be the band’s first in the region since 2022 and will bring their acclaimed Wild God album to life for local audiences.

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Nick Cave photo by Ros O'Gorman

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Bring Wild God Tour Home to Australia in 2026

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Nick Cave has let slip what fans have been hoping to hear for months: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds will return to Australia in January 2026 for the Wild God tour. In a recent post on his Red Hand Files website, Cave revealed the news with typical candour, writing:

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Jon Stevens of Noiseworks photo by Winston Robinson

Jon Stevens Releases Fourth Song In Four Weeks ‘Paradise’

by Paul Cashmere

Jon Stevens has been quietly heading towards a new album, feeding fans a song a week. This week, he is at week four with ‘Paradise’.

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UB40

Robin Campbell’s UB40 Premiere ‘Say Nothing’ Video And The Family Feud Continues

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Robin Campbell’s UB40, one of the two UB40’s that now exist, has premiered a video for the song’ Say Nothing’ from the UB45 album.

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Spandau Ballet Artwork by original band graphic designer and Blitz Kid Graham Smith

Spandau Ballet To Release Definitive Early Years Box Set ‘Everything Is Now – Vol 1: 1978-1982’

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Spandau Ballet, one of the defining names of 80s British pop, will revisit their origins with the release of Everything Is Now – Vol 1: 1978-1982, a nine-disc box set capturing their most creative and radical formative years. The collection, due September 12 through Parlophone, brings together their groundbreaking debut albums, singles, BBC sessions, demos and rare live footage in the most comprehensive archive of the band’s first chapter ever assembled.

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Neil Finn of Crowded House photo by Ros O'Gorman

Neil Finn Makes a Powerful Statement at Auckland Pro-Palestine Rally

by Labelle Hayes

In an unexpected, yet profoundly moving moment this past weekend, Kiwi music icon Neil Finn stepped into Aotea Square, Auckland, and lent his voice to a pro-Palestine rally, delivering a stirring a capella performance of “Don’t Dream It’s Over” to a gathering estimated at 300–500 people braving the elements.

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Electric Pandas secret warmup gig at Paddo RSL 2025 photo by Glen Morgan

Electric Pandas Reform for 2025 With November Shows Alongside James Reyne

by Paul Cashmere

Sydney’s Electric Pandas, the cult pop-rock outfit who made their mark in the mid-80s with one album and a hit song ‘Big Girls’, are officially back together. Lin Buckfield has revived the Pandas for 2025 with a refreshed line-up, and they’ll share the stage with James Reyne this November.

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John Mellencamp Scarecrow

John Mellencamp “Scarecrow” at 40 The Album That Defined Heartland Rock

by Paul Cashmere

On July 31, 1985, John Cougar Mellencamp released Scarecrow, his eighth studio album. Reaching #2 on the US Billboard 200, the album became a commercial milestone, eventually earning 5× Platinum certification in the U.S.

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Chrissie Hynde joins Stevie Nicks ADOTG at Rochford Winery on Saturday 18 November 2017. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Chrissie Hynde & Pals Unveil Duets Special: A Heartfelt Collection of Covers with Stars

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Chrissie Hynde, legendary singer-songwriter of The Pretenders, returns with an unexpected, warmly intimate project: Duets Special, issued under the inviting banner Chrissie Hynde & Pals, set for release on 17 October 2025 via Parlophone (and Rhino).

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Vernon Reid photo by Justin Borucki supplied by Mascot Label Group

Vernon Reid Readies New Solo Album ‘Hoodoo Telemetry’ With Single ‘Beautiful Bastard’

by Paul Cashmere

Vernon Reid, the Grammy-winning guitarist best known for his incendiary work with Living Colour, has announced the release of his new solo album Hoodoo Telemetry, due October 3 via Artone / The Players Club Records. Ahead of the full release, Reid has unveiled the single Beautiful Bastard, a song he originally considered for his Yohimbe Brothers project but has now reclaimed for this collection.

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Midge Ure, photo by Ros O'Gorman, Noise11

Midge Ure Reschedules Australian Tour To October 2026

by Paul Cashmere

Midge Ure’s postponed 2025 Australian tour has been rescheduled for October 2026.

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Paul Kelly and Dan Kelly at Red Hot Summer Mornington photo by Bron Robinson

Paul Kelly To Release ‘Seventy’ at 70

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“Tell us a story” …That’s how Paul Kelly begins his forthcoming album SEVENTY, an invitation as old as childhood, whispered from the back seat of a family car or around a glowing campfire. Who better to ask than Australia’s master storyteller himself? For more than 45 years, Paul Kelly has chronicled lives, characters and contradictions with matchless insight and heart.

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Sting photo by Ros O'Gorman

Sting To Take Up Residency In Brisbane In 2026 With ‘The Last Ship’

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In 2026, Brisbane audiences will be given a rare and remarkable opportunity: the southern hemisphere premiere of The Last Ship, the acclaimed musical written and composed by Sting.

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Dave Stewart Dave Does Dylan

Dave Stewart Has An Album Of Bob Dylan Covers But They Have Been Friends For Years

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One album that slipped through the cracks in July was Dave Stewart’s ‘Dave Does Dylan’, an album for Dylan covers from the Eurythmics co-founder.

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Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine and new guitarist Teemu Mäntysaari performing live in 2025

Megadeth Have One Final Album and One Final World Tour

by Paul Cashmere

Dave Mustaine is pulling the plug on Megadeth after one final album and a world tour.

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Jimmy Barnes Photo Credit Jesse Lizotte

Jimmy Barnes To Perform For The Working Class Man On The Sydney Opera House Forecourt

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In the pantheon of Australian rock, few records have etched themselves as deeply into the nation’s cultural memory as Jimmy Barnes’ For The Working Class Man.

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War of the Worlds Ice Cube

Ice Cube’s War of the Worlds (2025) Is A Spectacular Failure in Adaptation

by Paul Cashmere

Ice Cube’s 2025 film War of the Worlds: Revival,—a screenlife-style reboot streamed on Amazon Prime Video, has emerged as one of the most spectacular flops in recent memory: critically derided, stylistically misguided, and thematically bankrupt.

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Madonna performs at Rod Laver Arena on Saturday 12 March 2016. This is the first show of the Australian leg of her world wide Rebel Heart Tour. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Madonna’s Plea to Pope Leo XIV: A Call for Humanitarian Action in Gaza

by Labelle Hayes

On August 11, 2025, on the birthday of her son Rocco, Madonna posted an emotional appeal on social media directed at Pope Leo XIV. She implored the pontiff to “please go to Gaza and bring your light to the children before it’s too late”, emphasizing the urgency of opening humanitarian gates and addressing the suffering of innocent children caught in the conflict zone.

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Eddie Izzard

Eddie Izzard Brings The Remix Tour Live to Australia – A Celebration of 35 Years of Surreal, Intelligent Comedy

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Eddie Izzard is set to return to Australia in 2025 with The Remix Tour Live, a unique and exhilarating new show that revisits, reimagines, and reinvents some of her most beloved comedic moments from a career spanning over three decades.

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Neil Young Old Ways

Neil Young ‘Old Ways’ Album Turns 40

by Paul Cashmere

Neil Young’s Old Ways, released on 12 August 1985, was Neil’s seventeenth studio album, not country Crosby Still Nash & Young). It was a return to straight-up country-country rock offering that marks a bold detour from the mainstream rock and folk he’d become known for.

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Colin Hay performs at the Recital Centre in Melbourne on 11 February 2018. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Colin Hay Revisits His Past and Brings It Home with Man @ Work Vol. 2 and Australian Tour

by Paul Cashmere

In this sit-down with Noise11.com (July 2025), Colin Hay reflects on his longstanding connection with Australia. He shares that after wrapping up a tour with Ringo Starr’s All-Starr Band, he’s gearing up for performances back home in Australia this December—including shows at the Melbourne Recital Centre (December 3–4) and Sydney’s Enmore Theatre (December 11).

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Swanee Believe

Swanee Ignores Streaming And Sails Into Multiple Australian Physical Charts With ‘Believe’

by Paul Cashmere

You won’t find Swanee’s new album ‘Believe’ on streaming services. When John Swan (aka Swanee) and Songland Records founder Brian ‘Frog’ Harris started the project, it was always going to be about the Swanee fans.

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Spinal Tap The End Continues

Spinal Tap The End Continues Soundtrack Cover Pays Homage To The Crosby Stills & Nash Debut With The Same Photographer Henry Diltz

by Paul Cashmere

The album cover for the upcoming ‘Spinal Tap: The End Continues’ is a homage to the ‘Crosby, Still & Nash’ album cover, the 1969 debut album from Crosby Stills & Nash and they even used the same photographer Henry Diltz.

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Ali Campbell

UB40 Featuring Ali Campbell Will Return To Australia In 2026

by Paul Cashmere

The Ali Campbell UB40 will return to Australia in 2026.

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