Today, I’m excited to introduce the latest additions to our collection of premium themes.

Designed by Andy Rutledge, Currents, is a responsive, minimal yet attractive premium theme from WooThemes.

Currents is perfect for news driven sites. The phrase, “less is more” couldn’t be more true. This clean and minimal design maximises your reader’s focus on the content. Having said that, the theme is packed with many customization options — a wide featured post slider, custom news areas, six alternative color styles, and more. Together, all of these features help you to control how to present current events you want to share with your readers.

Think your readers might check your site on a mobile device? No problem! Currents makes your site look great on an iPad, iPhone or any other mobile device.

This is not all about this great theme, Currents — so be sure to read about it on the Theme Showcase.

Next up is Debut – a beautifully designed theme by Luke McDonald of Press75.

Debut is a mobile-ready theme custom tailored to present your content in a professional and eye-catching manner. Five beautifully designed post formats provide you the flexibility needed to display media of all types. Musicians may be specially interested in the audio post format which expands into a multi-track playlist. Highlighting specific content couldn’t be easier with Debut’s Home page template which includes an innovative, customizable content slider as well as a featured area that can display in both grid and list styles.

Read about its features in detail in the Theme Showcase!

The Australia Council for the Arts is the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory body.

TO listen to two leading US musicians communicating on stage is to wonder why the piano and saxophone format isn’t more common.

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To celebrate its 40th anniversary, one of Australia’s iconic surfing films is touring the east coast, accompanied by live musicians.

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In a band? Boyfriend/girlfriend in a band? ArtsHub’s resident road-runner Lachlan Bryan offers his seven Touring tips for musicians and people in the early stages of a relationship. Sort of.

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On Thursday night we trotted down to The Joynt on Montague Road for a festive final BUMS meeting of the year (that’s Brisbane Ukulele Musicians Society). We played Santa Baby which turned out really well – and a stonking rendition of Blister In The Sun by the Violent Femmes (not very Christmassy but still lots of fun). It helps that we have a double bass and some very good ukulele players amongst us who carry the others. You can’t hear the wrong chords at all. At one point I had been confidently strumming away and concentrating on the words projected overhead – then I looked down to see my hand curled into the right shape but in the wrong position… which would have been resulting in a deliciously awful dischord. I am getting better, though!

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MULLUMBIMBY: With so many musicians, from overseas, interstate and everything in between, converging on one little tidy town, the 2011 Mullum Music Festival was truly amazing.

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ALBRECHT Dumling’s research into the impact of the Third Reich on musical history has uncovered a trail of exiles leading to Australia. 

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The West isn’t just a colony of artists, it’s also swarming with talented and diverse musicians.

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A song contest run entirely via Facebook, the Catapult Song Contest, is attracting a slew of Australian musos gunning for the top prize, worth $35,000.

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