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Coachella Line-Up Lands for 2012
The highly-anticipated line-up for the colossal Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has just emerged.
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LCD Soundsystem Documentary to Launch at Sundance
Almost one year after their break-up, a film documenting the final chapters of alternative powerhouse LCD Soundsystem will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Peats Ridge Festival 2011 Review
It’s one-seventh the travel time to Woodford, one-fifth the number of Southern Cross tats at Field Day, as picturesque as Falls, and the local line up is without parallel.
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Concrete Playground Meets The Arctic Monkeys
The band's perfectly coiffed and sonorous toned lead singer, Alex Turner, takes time out to chat to Concrete Playground.
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Sydney: The Summer Guide
Welcome to the inaugural Concrete Playground Summer Guide, a comprehensive shortlist of the best this city has to offer over the next three months
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A Guide to New Year’s Eve 2011/12
Kickstart 2012 with a bang and head to one of these venues for a momentous start to the new year.
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Win a Double Club Stolen VIP Pass to Rhythm and Vines in New Zealand
Courtesy of our friends at Stolen Rum, Concrete Playground has a double-pass three-day Club Stolen VIP Package up for grabs.
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The Summer Concert Guide to Sydney
A summer line up this good is not going to be easy on the wallet. Let’s just hope that after a couple of months of epic gigs followed by dusty days at work, you’ve still got your day job.
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Win a Double Pass to the Rare Finds Festival
To celebrate their fledgling year in business, the guys and girls at Rare Finds are throwing a party, putting on a showcase of their bands, taking over The Zoo and Winn Lane this Saturday.
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The Spirit of Youth Awards Set to Grow in 2011/2012
With the competition's expansion into unprecedented categories, there are now more opportunities for Australia's finest creative minds to showcase their work to the world.
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New Years Eve with Yuksek
Skeptic or not, 2012 might be the last year for all of us so why not celebrate the beginning of the end with a bang?
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Concrete Playground Interviews Geoffrey O’Connor
Geoffrey O’Connor is bringing his polite heartbreaker brand of cool to Sydney.
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Win a Priceless Night Out with Florence + the Machine
Win the ultimate night out on the town for you and three friends.
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Concrete Playground’s Guide to Sydney Festival 2012
The reinvigorated Sydney Festival has completely transformed our city in summer and it’s made Sydney a truly amazing place to be in January.
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A Musical Guide to Sydney Festival 2012
The Sydney Festival has brought us some truly spectacular performers in years gone by, and this year's fanciful roster of artists brings another exciting bunch to Sydney in 2012.
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No Years Announce the Second Line-up of Artists
If you’re going to be in Brisbane in the waning hours of 2011 then to fulfill your requirements of getting loose/having fun you’ll need to be at the Powerhouse for No Years.
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David Bowie’s Face Graces the £10 Note
The face of Ziggy Stardust is now official currency in the London suburb of Brixton.
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Feist, Chairlift and Laura Marling to Headline St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival 2012
If you like bands most people haven't heard of, then you will likely love the St. Jerome's Laneway Festival 2012 artist roster.
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Unload Your Emotional Baggage and Get a Free Song in Return
This new site lets you unload your worries to a perfect stranger, who will in turn read it and send you a song they think will make you feel better.
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IPhone Bike Speaker Lets You Listen While You Ride
Play sweet music and use your iPhone as a GPS while riding through the town on your bike.
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Newcastle Hosts Two Festivals In One Weekend
Yes, we do like to poke fun at our younger brother Newcastle now and then. But next week we have to admit he's winning big time.
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Win One of Three VIP Passes to Parklife
The good folk at Barcardi are giving you and a friend the opportunity to get your hands on a VIP Parklife experience.
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The Ten Best Festivals in Sydney
Get ready to dance kids, because summer’s coming. Here is Concrete Playground's shortlist of Sydney’s best festival experiences.
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Win Tickets to the Opening of The Standard
The Standard, Sydney's newest multi-purpose performance space, opens this Thursday.
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Win Tickets to See Art vs Science Perform the Music of Icehouse at the JD Set
Our old mate Jack Daniels has made it to 161 fine years. And to celebrate, he’s throwing one mighty big blow out.
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Design Similarities That Will Have you Seeing Double
Bob Caruther's collection of images will leaving you wondering just how 'new' a new idea really is.
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Win Tickets to Silent Comics at Graphic
We have five double passes to giveaway to Silent Comics at Graphic.
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Three Ideas Shaping the Future of Music
Technology is changing the way music is made and consumed.
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Improv Everywhere Causes a Scene in New York
Their eighth mp3 experiment proves we've come a long way since the Napster debacle of the early noughties.
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Interview /// Concrete Playground meets Catcall
Yearning to create pop music that has a little more depth than your standard dancefloor anthem is Sydney’s Catcall.
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Download The Frankly! Pop Sampler
If you need something to tide you over before the festival in September, Frankly! have released a pop sampler with tracks from all acts on the bill. Best of all, it’s free
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The 100 Best Australian Albums of All Time
After the 47,000 votes were counted, the top gong went to Powderfinger's Odyssey Number 5.
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Watch Radiohead ‘Live From The Basement’
The band premiered a broadcast of The King of Limbs 'Live From The Basement' on Spanish TV over the weekend. Watch it in full here.
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Art/Work Interview with Jai Pyne from The Paper Scissors
This week Art/Work has a chat with Jai Pyne, frontman of local Sydney band The Paper Scissors.
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The Ten Best Live Music Venues in Sydney
Choose your own adventure from Concrete Playground's list of favourite spots, featuring everything from long-term Sydney stalwarts to DIY new kids on the block.
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Sonic Youth Sell Their Gear for Charity
The aging band auctions some vintage equipment for charity.
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Parklife 2011 Lineup Announced
Santigold, Gossip, Lykke Li, the Naked and Famous, Digitalism and the Streets all announced as headliners at this year's festival.
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Kaiser Chiefs Want You to Make Their Album
Design and sell the new Kaiser Chief's album and earn a quid.
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Interview /// Concrete Playground meets Computers Want Me Dead
One half of Computers Want Me Dead, Sam Harvey, chats to Kirstie Sequitin about Gary Numan, Nine Inch Nails and embracing their inner synth pop.
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Splendour in the Grass 2011 Sideshows Announced
If you missed out on tickets to Splendour in the Grass, never fear: the artists are coming to you.