Ella Hooper is back with more Americana tunes on her third solo LP, Overnight Success. You may already be familiar with its four singles: “Growing Up is Hard to Do”, “I Got Eyes (On You)”, “When the Shit Went Down”, and, most recently, “Cowboy Man.” The opening track “Growing Up is Hard to Do” starts…
It’s hard to believe it’s that time of year again, as we prepare for PAX Aus. What might already feel like Christmas for gaming and pop culture fans will now get that much bigger, with the addition of Nintendo, World of Warcraft and Bandai Namco Entertainment joining the expo floor line-up this year. Play Some…
South Australia’s McLaren Vale wine region will host a veritable smorgasbord of Australian musical talent for the inaugural Garage Days Festival in February 2027. Performing at the event will be Spiderbait, Jebediah, The Potbelleez, Gyroscope, The Delta Riggs and The Lizards. It’s the soundtrack to a generation. The event happens at Richard Hamilton Wines on…
Colleen Hoover may not exactly be considered one of the great literary voices of our time, but there’s an amusing moment in Verity when struggling writer Lowen Ashleigh (Dakota Johnson) describes the titular author’s output as the type of books you pick up at the airport. It’s a knowingly cheeky assessment of Hoover’s own particular…
The Avalanches are returning to Australian stages in February and March 2027, announcing a six-date national tour that will include a Melbourne hometown show at Royal Botanic Gardens and a Sydney date on the iconic Sydney Opera House Forecourt. For more than 25 years, The Avalanches have remained one of Australia’s most distinctive electronic acts,…
There’s something particularly appropriate about Noosa Chocolate Factory finding its way to Hastings Street. What started in a small Noosaville kitchen in 2009 has grown considerably over the years, but the Sunshine Coast remains central to the family-owned business. Now, its latest store is bringing the chocolate maker closer to one of Noosa’s busiest stretches,…
Of all the romantic choices Friends made across ten seasons, few have been treated with as much contempt as Joey and Rachel. Their brief attempt at becoming a couple is regularly dismissed as a late-series mistake, a storyline born from writers running out of ways to keep Ross and Rachel apart before inevitably putting them…
The hints had been coming. Fontaines D.C. and Hayley Williams were looking increasingly likely to be sitting at the top of the Laneway Festival 2027 bill, and now we know for sure. They most definitely are. Laneway Festival has unveiled its 2027 lineup, with Fontaines D.C. and “The Hayley Williams Show” leading a bill that…
Melbourne’s The Hunter Express return this week with their new EP Gold Fades, a beautifully considered five-track collection that moves through love, grief and resilience while allowing the band plenty of room to explore sonically. We’re thrilled to premiere Gold Fades today ahead of its release this Friday, 2 October. There’s a wonderful cohesiveness to…
American jazz band The Bad Plus, initially a trio and now a quartet, are bringing their 26-year career to a close. Before they do, they’ll return to Australia in October as part of their farewell tour. We spoke to founding member Reid Anderson about the tour, the band’s evolution and what comes next. You must…
Ella Hooper is unleashing her inner country girl with the upcoming release of her alt-country/Americana record Overnight Success. Fittingly recorded in Nashville with producer LOLLIES, the Killing Heidi frontwoman feels that homing in on this sound aligns deeply with her as she continues to explore her identity as a solo artist. Growing up in Violet…
James are just over a week away from their first Australian shows since 2018, with Razorlight joining them for dates in Perth, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. The band will then head to Auckland for a James-only show. This is a tour we have been very much looking forward to. The songs are beautifully crafted, fabulous…
Alejandro G. Iñárritu has never been particularly interested in making films that quietly disappear into the background, and Digger may be one of his boldest swings yet. An absurdist, visually audacious satire about power, ego, environmental catastrophe and the stories people construct around themselves, it is the type of ambitious studio filmmaking that deserves to…
Private multiplayer servers can help you manage maps, rules, player access, mods, and event dates, and they can help you arrange gaming sessions for groups. It’s not expensive for a few pals to play, but it can get pricey when you need more players or more server power. You spend more every month on server…
Brandon Sklenar finally gets his leading-man moment in The Rescue, a new action thriller that looks to put a distinctly Western spin on the familiar Taken formula. Sklenar stars as former rodeo cowboy Jamie Lee Betts, whose quiet existence is shattered when his daughter is kidnapped and held for ransom. Rather than wait for someone…
Thanks to Sony Pictures Australia, we have 5 double in-season passes (Admit 2) to see the anticipated sequel to The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin‘s The Social Reckoning, starring Jeremy Allen White, Mikey Madison and Jeremy Strong, only in Australian cinemas from October 8th, 2026. Inspired by true events and the whistleblower who started the social…
I’m a massive fan of Dune, be it Frank Herbert’s original books, Denis Villeneuve’s more recent films, or even David Lynch’s underrated 1984 adaptation; I’m always looking for an excuse to return to the desert planet of Arrakis. Anyone who has delved into this world before will be aware of the expansive lore, long list…
John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein’s Mayday may wear the familiar uniform of an old-school 1980s buddy movie, but beneath the action, comedy and Cold War absurdity is a surprisingly tender story about two men questioning the lives they were taught to want. Ryan Reynolds stars as Lieutenant Troy “Assassin” Kelly, a hotshot U.S. Navy…
Sennheiser has made some of the most well-built, premium headphones across both the in-ear and over-ear markets for quite some time now, and the previous Momentum True Wireless 4 were a great example of that. In many ways, the Momentum True Wireless 5 in-ear headphones feel like a more refined version of their older sibling,…
God Bless You, Mr Kopu may unfold like a darkly comic genre piece about ambition, desperation and the seductive promise of success, but beneath its increasingly twisted surface, writer-director Alex Liu is asking a more personal question: how much of yourself are you willing to surrender to become the person you think you’re supposed to…
Australian alternative pop artist daine has released their new single “Product Of Profit (P.O.P.)”, as their international momentum continues to build, with North American venue upgrades announced following strong demand for the upcoming shows. Back home, the response has been just as huge. daine’s Australian tour has officially sold out, cementing a major milestone for…
There’s something so special about watching an artist you’ve seen in a smaller, stripped-back setting suddenly take over a venue the size of Rod Laver Arena. The last time Noah Kahan came to Australia, his band didn’t make it, so he took to stage completely alone, with nothing but his acoustic guitar and a microphone….
Acclaimed UK theatre company Forced Entertainment brings Table Top Shakespeare to the Sydney Opera House. The premise of the performances involves a narrator who retells one of Shakespeare’s plays using various items found around the home. Think of it as CliffsNotes with condiments. The Studio space at the Sydney Opera House contains a rectangular table…
Yeon Sang-ho has never needed monsters to expose the uglier parts of humanity. Even when working within horror, science fiction or apocalyptic spectacle, the filmmaker behind Train to Busan and Hellbound has remained fascinated by what people become when circumstances push them somewhere uncomfortable. Following Colony and The Ugly, Paradise Lost continues that fascination on…
This week’s Discovery playlist brings together ten of our favourite new tracks, including three premieres we were thrilled to share earlier in the week. As always, we cover plenty of ground, from artists just beginning to make their mark to long-time favourites returning with brilliant new music. Our Track of the Week is the dark…
Happiness is an easy concept to romanticise. We spend so much of our lives imagining the job, relationship or milestone that will finally make everything fall into place, only to discover that fulfilment rarely arrives as neatly as expected. That uncomfortable distance between the life we picture and the one we actually inhabit sits at…
Lance Oppenheim’s Primetime understands that the most disturbing thing about To Catch a Predator was never necessarily what happened when Chris Hansen stepped out from behind that curtain. It was how effortlessly something ostensibly created in the name of public safety became entertainment; how quickly justice could be packaged, promoted and sold to an audience…
Robert Pattinson has rarely seemed interested in taking the most obvious route into a character. Across a career increasingly defined by peculiar, unpredictable and sometimes deeply uncomfortable performances, the actor has demonstrated a willingness to disappear into characters without necessarily explaining them. For Primetime, though, Pattinson initially wasn’t planning on disappearing into anyone at all….
The ballot for Golden Plains Nineteen is officially open, giving festival-goers their best chance to secure tickets for the much-loved Victorian festival when it returns in March 2027. This is absolutely one of all-time favourite Australian festivals. Golden Plains Nineteen will take over the Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre from Saturday 6 to Monday 8 March 2027,…
Two giants of British new wave and electronic music are joining forces, with Simple Minds and Gary Numan heading to Australia for a five-date arena tour in February 2027. Simple Minds return to Australia as part of their V Tour 2027, celebrating five decades of music. Formed in Glasgow in 1977, the band have spent…
