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Sunday Dec 6 | The Sydney Morning Herald

Ridgy-didge rappers connect with their culture

Music with a message Wok and Predator from Street Warriors with Shane Howard and dancer Albert David performing Solid Rock .

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Wed Dec 02, 2009

WEBSPHERE Journal

Kofi Annan's Tck Tck Tck Campaign From Havas Worldwide Delivers More...

Calling on world leaders to attend the Copenhagen summit and deliver a just agreement since its official launch on June 26, the Tck Tck Tck campaign has become a massive global petition raising awareness about climate change.

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Related Topix: Canada, Pop/Rock, Public Relations

Fri Nov 27, 2009

The Age

EG's Dock and roll of honour

CULT country-rock band Wagons were the big winners at last Friday's EG Awards, taking home best album and best group for their fourth album, The Rise and Fall of Goodtown .

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Fri Nov 13, 2009

The Age

Stepping from the shadows

After making a 'break-up album' for her solo debut, Angie Hart is more positive second time around, writes Jo Roberts.

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Related Topix: Kasey Chambers, Country, Pop/Rock, Frente!

Wed Nov 11, 2009

MetaFilter

Endangered sighs of relief

A rare living fossil, the Queensland Lungfish can today breathe a sigh of relief.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Tue Nov 10, 2009

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Warm light is reflected on the ocean as the sun rises over a beach.

The competition is now in its fourth year. Since entering Parliament in 2004, Peter Garrett has largely put down the microphone to concentrate on his political career, but that has not stopped him picking up a camera to channel some creativity.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Sun Nov 08, 2009

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Download - Mornings with Zan

Hi! Notice some changes? We've made some, for more info or questions - Hit us up on the forum .

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Philly.com

Krazy over karaoke: Enthusiasts will be converging on the First Person Arts Festival

FOR THOSE OF US who are petrified at the thought of getting up in front of a roomful of strangers to sing, the idea of karaoke is enough to make us stay home in our pajamas.

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Related Topix: Princeton, NJ, Pop/Rock, Ewing, NJ

Wed Nov 04, 2009

The Sydney Morning Herald

Rocco Bloggo: Peter Garrett

Often lampooned and in recent times the man himself will declare himself greatly misunderstood.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Saints, Opinion

Mon Nov 02, 2009

TrekEarth

Diesel & Dust

Whilst traveling between the Flinders Rangers and Burra in South Australia we came across this ruin, one of many in this rural area.

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Related Topix: Travel, Australia Travel, Australia, World News, Pop/Rock

Sat Oct 31, 2009

BRMB 96.4 FM

Oz Rock Minister Hopeful For Climate Progress

A former rock singer who became an Australian government minister says he now realises how hard it is to achieve progress through politics.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Kevin Rudd

Thu Oct 22, 2009

News.com.au

Peter, scrap Traveston dam

FORMER Midnight Oil drummer Rob Hirst has hit out at the states plans to dam the Mary Valley a project his former bandmate Peter Garrett will have final say on as Federal Environment Minister.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Wed Oct 21, 2009

A Fool in the Forest

The Inanity of Being Earnest

I am irritated, therefore I blog. You probably recall, or have heard, "Beds Are Burning," the whomping thwomping 1987 number from the whomping thwomping politically-engaged Australian band, Midnight Oil .

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Global Warming

Mon Oct 12, 2009

Bizcommunity

Tck Tck Tck: Time for Climate Justice - Euro RSCG asks SA to take action by downloading free music

In June Havas Worldwide joined forces with Kofi Annan and Bob Geldof to launch "Tck Tck Tck: Time for Climate Justice" - an open-source campaign to galvanise the public and world leaders ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this December.

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Related Topix: Inglourious Basterds, Pop/Rock

BlabberMouth.net

SCORPIONS Frontman Part Of Campaign For Climate Justice

Vocalist Klaus Meine of German hard rock veterans SCORPIONS is one of 55 world celebrities who have joined in recording a song to draw attention to the global warming crisis.

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Related Topix: The Scorpions, Pop/Rock, Global Warming, US Politics, US News, Al Gore

Sat Oct 10, 2009

The Age

Sorry, the PM inspired this art project

WEARING Salvador Dali lovers are no longer roaming around the NGV but now we turn to another nomadic experience: an Aboriginal art project called Nomad Two Worlds being previewed tonight in the Great Hall.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Fri Oct 09, 2009

LBC 97.3

Aussies Flock To Uluru Before Climbing Ban

Australians are flocking to the country's most famous landmark so they can climb it while they are still allowed.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Thu Oct 08, 2009

NEWS.com.au

Garret tight-lipped on Uluru future

Standing beside a new $21 million viewing platform in a previously closed corner of the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, the former Midnight Oil frontman said he had never made the climb in several visits to the rock and never intended to.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Wed Oct 07, 2009

Anorak

Kofi Annana s - Beds Are Burning' Global Musical Petition

Kofi Annan launches - Beds Are Burning' Global Musical Petition to demand climate justice with Melanie Laurent and Havas Worldwide CEO, David Jones & The:Hours - First ever global musical petition created to mobilise people to pressure their leaders to agree a climate justice deal at the UN's Copenhagen Climate Change Summit in December.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Tue Oct 06, 2009

The Age

Pollies and music mix like oil and water.

Politicians and music will always be like oil and water but it's still funny when the two ideas mix.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Opinion

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