City Riots vs. Smashing Pumpkins

Dreams do come true…It’s been a hell crazy couple of weeks for Adelaide indie band City Riots…and it just got a whole lot crazier!!

Only weeks after front man Ricky Kradolfer was held at knife point, CITY RIOTS have been handpicked by Billy Corgan to support the SMASHING PUMPKINS on their upcoming national Australian tour in October!

Yes, the Smashing Pumpkins, the same band that City Riots producer Bjorn Thorsrud (Dandy Warhols, everything Billy Corgan) has been working with since 1998! Only announced last week, the iconic alterna-rock superstars (that’s Smashing Pumpkins, not City Riots yet) will tour every major Australian cities including City Riots’ home town Adelaide!

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No Sleep Til…The festival line up from HELL! ……..Tickets on sale!!

Set your alarm, get your mum to wake you up and ask a friend to call you at 11:55am on Thursday 9 September! Then get yourself to a computer and make sure you grab your NO SLEEP TIL tickets because as of midday today , tickets to all No Sleep Til cities are officially on sale!!

No Sleep Till is the latest punk on the block. Blasting through Australia and New Zealand from mid to late December, the new national touring festival is set to deliver a mix of the best, and most interesting lineup of heavy music acts from around the world! From the legendary to the up and comers, and right up to the “fuck me dead, i thought i’d never see them”. Full Story >>

Pyramid Rock – Back, Big, Bigger, Better, Best!! The line up from Heaven

The colossal PYRAMID ROCK FESTIVAL is
returning to Phillip Island for its seventh year in succession! Running from Wednesday 29 December 2010 until Saturday 1 January 2011, we’re proud to announce that this years Pyramid Rock Festival is going to be bigger and better than ever!

After last years’ apocalyptic electrical storm there was a lot of speculation that Pyramid wouldn’t return to ring in the 2011 New Year. However, after the electrifying and untimely display by Mother Nature (described by keen weather watchers as a “once in a hundred year storm”), festival organisers have bunkered down to ensure that Pyramid 2010 will have the capacity to deal with any out of the ordinary event. Full Story >>

City Riots and knife crimes

When you think of the most dangerous cities in the world a few come to mind; Detroit, Rio De Janeiro, Cape Town, Baghdad, Chechnya… Not exactly a list that one would include Adelaide on.

But ask the City Riots where the most dangerous place they’ve ever been is and I bet their hometown of Adelaide will pop up on the list. Why? Well last week City Riot’s front man, Ricky Kradolfer was back in his home town of Adelaide, waiting patiently at the post office to mail some posters for their upcoming September shows, when he was held at knife point by an armed robber!

Thankfully Ricky and the posters came out of the situation unscathed.
Following his brush with death Ricky has dusted himself off, had a stiff drink or two and is preparing, with his fellow City Rioters, for their shows upcoming in Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney. Catch the death defying City Riots at these venues in September

Don’t like dancing? Thats Highly Problematic

Love a dance? Getting excited about the coming summer weather and its dancing potential?

Well wrap your ears around re:enactment’s new double A sided single Talent for Retail.

A side #1 – Problematic could very well become the soundtrack to your summer. This punked up electro dance anthem will have you hanging for warm weather and a packed dance-floor in the wee hours of a summer morning.

Not interested in another one-trick pony electro band? Not so fast sucker cause Nintendogs, A side #2, delivers perfect electro pop that gets all sexy and soulful … just the thing to calm you down before bed after staying up all night dancing your butt off to Problematic.

re:enactment will be releasing their debut album early next year, in the meantime you can drink your fill when they head out on the road in October to launch Talent For Retail. Check out their east coast gigs here.