The West Australian Opera has named 2012 The Year of the Diva. And that it has been, with Electra, Pearlfishers,and Lucia Di Lammermoor gracing the stage this year. Puccini’s masterpiece, Madam Butterfly opens at His Majesty’s Theatre this month, completing the diva inspired line-up. The ‘diva’ in Butterfly is American Soprano Kelly Kaduce who stars [...]
Kylie Minogue has announced the track listing for her new album The Abbey Road Sessions which will be released on October 29. The album features radical reworks of sixteen tracks from the singer’s career recorded in London’s legendary Abbey Road Studios with a full orchestra. Nick Cave joins Kylie for a new version of their hit [...]
Kylie Minogue is set to release a new single in September. The orchestral track Flower was previously performed during Kylie’s 2008 X tour but was not included on the X album. The new studio version of the song was recorded at Abbey Road last year and is expected to be included on an orchestral album [...]
Australian band Van She return this month with their second album The Idea of Happiness, the follow up to their 2008 debut V. The title track has already been popular and the second single Jamaica is a sure fire summer hit. OUTinPerth spoke to band member Tomek Archer who explained why the band had taken [...]
Cory John Rist says ‘middle names are for using’, but they’re also a good way to distinguish yourself from Tiger Woods’ mistress. He’s front man of local Indie Grunge Rock outfit Mezzanine who, between Seinfeld references, have released their second EP Vile Horizons and will launch it on Friday at the Rosemount. ‘This is my [...]
George Michael will be the first artist to perform at the new Perth Arena. This morning Michael has announced that his Symphonica Tour that was cancelled earlier this year will now occur in November. The tour will open in Perth on November 10, before travelling around Australia. Michael was previously scheduled to play at the [...]
The Scissor Sisters have released their new song Only the Horses via a lyric video to their YouTube account. The new track is produced by Calvin Harris and Jake Ridha from Boys Noise. The Scissor Sister’s fourth album Magic Hour and will be released in May and features productions from Harris, Boys Noise, Diplo and [...]
Simon Lewis is best known as electronic musician Amanaska but for a number of years he’s has a successful side project performing under the name Pravana. He’s released four albums of music designed specifically for yoga, ‘Yoga Dreaming’, ‘Yoga Mystique’, ‘Eastern Meditation’ and ‘Yoga Meditation’ – four bestselling relaxation albums with a more tranquil ambience. [...]
The Scissor Sisters have announced their new album will be called Magic Hour and will be released in May. The next single of the album will be a track called Only the Horses, which has been produced by Calvin Harris. Earlier this year the band released the album’s first track Shady Love a collaboration with [...]
I think I’m still grinning. And my feet are stomping. And all sorts of silly jumpy, musically inspired twitches are going on. This is seriously the fault of Baro Banda, appearing at the Festival Gardens for Perth Festival on Tuesday Feb 28. Hailing from Turkey, Baro Banda play a rollicking Romany inspired fusion of Turkish [...]
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