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NewsA 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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NewsNo 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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NewsDavid 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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NewsFeist, 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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NewsUnload 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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GuideGroup Dining: The Best International Restaurants for Celebrating the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023™
Get the gang together to fully embrace this footy season with a culinary journey throughout Sydney.
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GuideEight Vivid Sydney Highlights to Add to Your Diary If You Want to Farewell Winter with a Bang
Put these big-ticket items on your hit list, stat.
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GuideTen Sydney Solstice Highlights You Should Have on Your Radar This Winter
Don’t hibernate — head to debaucherous feasts, aquarium nightclubs and music-filled stargazing sessions instead.
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GuideSix Gigs to Catch During Sydney Solstice If You Can't Get Enough of Live Tunes
After so many months without live music, you've got some catching up to do — here's your chance.
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GuideNine Outdoor Adventures You Can Have in Sydney This Winter If You Unabashedly Love the Cold
Embrace your favourite season with laneway dance parties, harbourside ice rinks and kayak trips under the stars.
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NewsIPhone 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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NewsNewcastle 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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NewsWin 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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NewsThe 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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NewsWin Tickets to the Opening of The Standard
The Standard, Sydney's newest multi-purpose performance space, opens this Thursday.
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NewsWin 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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NewsDesign 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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NewsWin Tickets to Silent Comics at Graphic
We have five double passes to giveaway to Silent Comics at Graphic.
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NewsThree Ideas Shaping the Future of Music
Technology is changing the way music is made and consumed.
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NewsImprov 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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NewsInterview /// 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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NewsDownload 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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NewsThe 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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NewsWatch 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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NewsArt/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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NewsThe 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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NewsSonic Youth Sell Their Gear for Charity
The aging band auctions some vintage equipment for charity.
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NewsParklife 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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NewsKaiser Chiefs Want You to Make Their Album
Design and sell the new Kaiser Chief's album and earn a quid.
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NewsInterview /// 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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NewsSplendour 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.
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NewsSecond Opera for Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn
A new opera penned by Blur and Gorillaz frontman will premiere as part of the English National Opera's 2011/2012 season.
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NewsInterview /// Concrete Playground Meets The Wombats
We talk to the Wombats about music, near-death experiences, meeting Paul McCartney and dancing drunk to Joy Division.
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NewsNew Google Music Service Unveiled
Google Music allows you to access your music, anywhere and anytime, online and offline.
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NewsThe Cure Announced To Play at Vivid Live 2011
Get out your black trench coats and tease up your hair, The Cure are a-coming.
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NewsVivid Let Loose Their Plans For Creative Sydney 2011
Vivid Creative Sydney has just been announced, with over 50 creative leaders lined up to keep you inspired and full of ideas.
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NewsWatch /// Five Great Moments from Coachella 2011
Kanye, Arcade Fire, The Strokes, Cee-Lo Green....and Jeff Goldblum?
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NewsWatch Coachella 2011 Live on YouTube
YouTube Live will broadcast the Coachella music festival live from Palm Springs for the first time ever.
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NewsThe Nano Guitar that is Smaller than a Human Blood Cell
Cornell researchers have created a Nano Guitar that is smaller than a human red blood cell.
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NewsSplendour in the Grass 2011 lineup announced
Headlining the 2011 edition of the festival, to be held at Woodfordia in South-East Queensland for the second time, are Kanye West, Coldplay, Jane's Addiction, Pulp and Regina Spektor.
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NewsCrowd-Sourced Virtual Choir Unites on YouTube
Thousands of voices unite in global virtual choir.
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NewsFBi Social Pops Up In Kings Cross
FBi Social is shaking up King's Cross with live music from emerging talent.
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NewsThom Yorke Makes Another Last Minute Announcement
The Radiohead frontman just casually announced and premiered his newest collaboration with electro producers Burial & Four Tet on the radio.
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NewsSilicone Speakers for Sharing Music Anywhere
Foldable, stackable, washable and virtually indestructible, Tembo Trunks sustainable silicone speakers let you share your tunes wherever you are.
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NewsWear Music of Artists You Heart on Your Sleeve
Playbutton is an mp3 player embedded in a badge, each one storing pre-recorded content like an album or mix-tape.
