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Tuesday, 17 February 2009 |
- In a first for the East Coast Bluesfest, Ben Harper and John Butler have helped guest program the line-ups prior to their respective headline slots. Harper hand-picked Grace Woodroofe, Tom Freund, Tinariwen, and AYO to play before him on Saturday Apr 11, while Butler chose Paul Kelly, Blue King Brown, Saltwater Band featuring Geoffrey Gurrumul, State Radio, Jeff Lang, Ngaiire, and Nicky Bomba to warm-up for him on Sunday Apr 12.
- Celeb groupies ahoy, looks like Kate Moss will accompany fiancé Jamie Hince to Australia when The Kills play V Fest.
- Due to the bushfire crisis, radio stations have dropped tracks such as Jessica Mauboy’s Burn, Kings Of Leon’s Sex On Fire, Cold Chisel’s Flame Trees and INXS’s Burn For You from their playlists.
- Acrassicauda, the four-piece Iraqi metal band at the heart of the upcoming Heavy Metal In Baghdad documentary, have reportedly been safely resettled in America nearly three years after being forced to flee Iraq. Apparently they’re now in New Jersey, so it’s uncertain how much their situation has improved.
- New York noiseniks Sonic Youth have a new album out June 9 on Matador/Remote Control called The Eternal, which could be a reference to how they view their 27-plus year career.
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