Powderfinger News

In an Australian first, Powderfinger is set to launch their highly-anticipated album 'Golden Rule', with a live online concert on the eve of the album's release.

Organisers of Aussie music event Homebake have added new acts to the lineup of the sell-out festival.

The Powderfinger boys will spend November growing and grooming their moustaches.

"Completely devastated" ... Stephen Gately with fellow Boyzone members in Sydney.

THE music industry is abuzz with talk that Australia's biggest band Powderfinger are preparing to announce their split and plans for a final, farewell tour on the back of the release of their last album together.

SO, IAN Haug, when did you first realise there was such a thing as a Queensland music scene? "I think when I started noticing Who's Gerald graffiti everywhere," he says.

Muse, Lily Allen and Groove Armada are just three of the big-name international acts to head to Perth for next year's Big Day Out festival.

POWDERFINGER took to the stage at Federation Square last night with an apology. ''We don't have any amplifiers, so you'll have to huddle in,'' the crowd was told.

Aussie music fans got a treat on Friday when two of the biggest bands in the country put on a free concert.

Brisbane Times Powderfinger to release concert details via Twitter Courier Mail Follow the band with Twitter The band's Twitter followers will receive instructions for a time and location just 30 minutes before the surprise performances Read the rest here: Powderfinger to release concert details via Twitter - Courier Mail

Powderfinger play a surprise gig to morning commuters in Brisbane's Post Office Square.

POWDERFINGER are playing guerrilla gigs in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne today in promotion of their new album Golden Rule .

British alternative rock trio Muse , pop artist Lily Allen and returning local heroes Powderfinger are booked to play the 2010 Big Day Out festival tour of Australia and New Zealand.

MUSE has been announced as the headline act on next year's Big Day Out bill, which also features Australian rock veterans, Powderfinger.

Under fifteen-year-olds have been banned from the next Big Day Out concert in Auckland.

Here is the official Big Day Out line-up and yes, Muse is there and David Bowie is not.

BRISBANE rock band Powderfinger will headline a concert to end Queensland's 150th birthday celebrations at the city's Riverstage on December 10.

Highly anticpated ... Powderfinger will release their seventh album, Golden Rule on November 13 / Picture: Dew Process NEWS.com.au readers are being treated to an exclusive first listen of Powderfinger's highly anticipated album, Golden Rule.

GLOWING with studio tans and carrying reams of unfinished Sudoku puzzles, the Powderfinger lads have now emerged from their self-imposed musical retreat clutching their seventh record, Golden Rule .

Australia's biggest band, Powderfinger, returns in 2009 with a re-energised approach to the writing and recording process and the result is the phenomenal new album GOLDEN RULE, scheduled for release on November 13.