Bluesfest Adds Another 18 Acts!
With just nine short weeks till Bluesfest, the finishing touches are being put on the festival line-up, and they have announced that the following 18 artists (in alphabetical order) will be joining the bill: Bobby […]
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Boogie Announces The 2023 Vibrations
In just under ten weeks from now, BOOGIE happens again, just up the Hume from Melbourne in Tallarook, Victoria. In its 16th year fans can expect the same ol’ magic, shenanigans, masterpiece moments and colourful […]
Redd Volkaert/Ray Beadle Tour Starts This Week
Titan of the Telecaster Redd Volkaert has barely stopped in a career spanning almost fifty years, and he’s bringing that energy back to Australia, where he’ll team up with our own Ray Beadle, writes Samuel […]
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Tributes For Tom Verlaine 1949-2023
Tributes have been pouring in for Tom Verlaine, founding member of the group Television and one of the most influential guitarists of the modern era. Verlaine (birth name Tom Miller) died on Saturday January 28 […]
Our Back Pages: David Crosby & Graham Nash On The 1974 CSNY Tour + David Crosby From 2012
THE DOOM TOUR From Rhythms, Issue 264, July 2014 In 1974 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young undertook their most ambitious tour commemorated in a box set. Brian Wise spoke to David Crosby and Graham Nash about […]
Tributes For David Crosby R.I.P.
Tributes have been plentiful for legendary singer-songwriter-guitarist David Crosby, founding member of The Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash (later Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young), who died has died on Wednesday evening January 18 (US […]
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Peter Farnan To Launch New Album At The Crystal Ballroom. See New Video.
Former Serious Young Insects & Boom Crash Opera guitarist/songwriter and noted theatrical composer and sound designer Peter Farnan returns to his spiritual ‘home’ – the beloved new St Kilda venue George Lane is located directly […]
A DIFFICULT WOMAN’S HAD TO BE TOUGH ALL OF HER LIFE!
The much-loved Renée Geyer has long been recognised as Australia’s foremost R&B, funk and blue-eyed soul singer, and she’s still making her mark. This in-depth Rhythms feature by Ian McFarlane appeared in the Sound of […]
RENEE GEYER DIES, 11 SEPTEMBER 1953 – 17 JANUARY 2023
Australia’s soul queen Renee Geyer has died in a Geelong hospital from compilations following hip surgery. A statement from The Mushroom Group (her record label) read: “It is with immense sadness that we announce that […]
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Jeff Beck – The 2014 Rhythms Interview
In April 2014 Jeff Beck returned to Australia to appear at Bluesfest after he had toured with Brian Wilson. Beck spoke to Brian Wise for the March 2014 issue of Rhythms. Master guitarist Jeff Beck […]