CMJ – or College Music Journal – is a weekly print publication and website that looks at the College Music scene, as well as throwing an annual music industry festival in New York in October. Always keen to discover new music, the folks behind CMJ have been kind enough to exclusively share their favourite new…
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To celebrate 20 years of dedicated Pharcyde delivery, and following their successful performances at Good Vibrations Festival in 2009, California’s Imani and Bootie Brown of The Pharcyde are bringing their original, idiosyncratic style of hip hop back to Australia this August with a special audio/visual show. It’s hard to believe it’s been two decades since…
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Earlier this year in Toronto, we caught up with up-and-coming trio Bensh, who are based between Austria and the UK. We chatted about their album “Clues”, learnt a bit about their music and talked about their experiences of playing industry festivals in the USA – such as Canadian Music Week and SXSW – and “overstepping…
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Melbourne’s Blackchords have hit the airwaves of late with this catchy number “Dance Dance Dance”, and it’s no wonder why. It’s hard to get the song out of your head once you hear it – well in this writer’s humble opinion anyway – though it still feels like something original all the same. A difficult…
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In the first part of my Sydney Film Festival review series last week, I looked at four of the films I saw during the festival, and gave you my impressions of the festival as a whole. In short, I thought they nailed it. This week I conclude my review series with another four films I…
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Last week San Antonio rockers Hacienda released their Dan Auerbach produced record Shakedown to the world. Back in March in Toronto we caught up with the band to talk about the album, life on the road with Kasabian and much more… Camera: Andrew Wade Interview/Edit: Larry Heath Header Photo: Andrew Wade
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We’re at the halfway mark of the year, and for us at The AU Review, it usually means that we take time to reflect on all the releases that made an impact over the last six months. We asked our contributors to cough up and confess on what their favourite albums are, whether it was…
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Larry Heath caught up with Alexander Gow of Oh Mercy while he was Toronto earlier this year, where they talked about their tours around the USA and much more. The band were recently in Portland working on material for a third album… Camera: Andrew Wade Edit/Interview: Larry Heath Photo: The English Gentlemen
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In this ongoing series we introduce you to songs that have (legally) borrowed, alluded to, been inspired by or stolen from (knowingly or unknowingly) the riff of another song. And we’ll have plenty more for you in the weeks ahead… this week we look at a more obvious riff off, where the riff from the…
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Directed by Johnny Welch, acclaimed Sydney duo The Falls have just released the music video for the first single off their forthcoming debut EP Hollywood. The track is called “Home” and as the image above indicates, it gets pretty brutal. There may or may not be zombies. Although the song is anything but, with some…
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So that graphic above is the album cover for the long awaited new album from Yeasayer, Fragrant World. They’ve just released the first OFFICIAL single from the record, “Longevity”, and we have the stream and accompanying ‘vignette’ for your listening pleasure. We can’t wait to hear the full record, which is due out Friday, August…
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Tales in Space are Luke Bertoz & Simon Widaur from Sydney who write, play & record their own tunes and – as you’ll see below in their new film clip – occasionally dress up as scientists and conduct experiments. You may remember the band from their track “Work You Out” that got a good amount…
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Brisbane’s Little Scout are back with the new track “Go Quietly”, mixed by Lars Stalfors (The Mars Volta) in LA, a collaboration that occurred when Lars approached the band after hearing their tracks on triple j unearthed radio. Written with Scott Bromiley of The John Steel Singers, and recorded by Little Scout drummer Miro Mackie,…
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After selling out tours around Australia, Last Dinosaurs headed over to the UK to show off their music to a new audience. In the midst of it all, we caught up with Sean Caskey from the band to talk about their growing successes in Australia, guitars, AFL, what the UK tour has been like (and…
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Over the weekend, the 59th annual Sydney Film Festival wrapped things up with an excellent closing night film and party at the beautiful State Theatre. One of my favourite things about the festival is its inclusion of the classic venue – it’s a joy to see a film as they were watched many decades ago:…
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Just after we’d chatted to Howler on the Brighton Pier, we bumped into Brooklyn based duo Wild Belle – Natalie and Elliot Bergman – and spent some time learning a bit more about them, talked about Coachella, discovered their thoughts of Australia and much more… Camera: Johnny Au Interview/Edit: Larry Heath Photo: Phil Knott Photography
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While in London for The Aussie BBQ last month at Cargo, we caught up with Screamfeeder’s bassist Kellie Lloyd to talk about her performance in London, her new solo record Magnetic North and much more. Camera: Johnny Au Interview/Edit: Larry Heath
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Being transported from the initial secluded surroundings and scenarios of suburbia to dreary downtown New York is a realistic vision of troubled times, portrayed by electro-pop outfit, Passion Pit, with the introduction of new helicam technology featured in the video. Their new single, “Take A Walk,” should not be taken literally in this instance. Instead,…
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While many musicians go out of their way to produce a cinematic experience, Brisbane band Last Dinosaurs decided to keep it simple for their new video, “Andy”, with an monochromatic theme and brief glimpses of eccentric, coloured geometric shapes to keep us enticed. To be honest, it didn’t matter as the indie-rocker’s latest single has…
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When I was 13 my Dad gave me $20 to spend during a day out at the Salamanca markets. I quickly pocketed the cash and once our father-daughter bonding was complete I rushed to the record store as I had a big decision to make. $20 was enough to buy one CD and I’d been…
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Larry Heath talks to UK trio We Have Band about their experiences in Australia, Russia, Kate Bush, their latest record Ternion and more… Camera: Johnny Au Interview and Edit: Larry Heath
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With a rarely seen sun in the sky, we take to the beach in Brighton to touch base with Melbourne band Red Ink just after they performed at The Aussie BBQ showcase as part of The Great Escape festival. Watch on!
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As the bands performed at Digital in Brighton for The Aussie BBQ we caught a bit of sun on the beach with the appropriately named Brisbane band Inland Sea. Larry Heath caught up with four members of the ten member group to talk about the weather, Velociraptor, The Great Escape, the difficulties of getting the…
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Shortly after they left the Aussie BBQ stage at Cargo in London, we caught up with Adelaide group The Killgirls to talk about their music, the incident which saw them cancel their Great Escape performance the day prior and much more… Camera: Johnny Au Interviews/Edit: Larry Heath
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Static on the Airwaves is the tenth album from British folk punks The Levellers and marks their first release since 2008. Traditionally there has always been an element of sedition and the political to folk music, most recently the British far right tried unsuccessfully to commandeer the genre for its own purpose. The Levellers are…
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Fresh of the stage at The Great Escape in Brighton, Larry Heath catches up with Sydney it-kid Oliver Tank to talk about his music, Iceland, the shows in the UK and much more… Camera: Johnny Au Interview and Edit: Larry Heath
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One of our favourite Sydney bands, Cameras are touring this July to promote the new video for their track “June” – appropriate, no? They originally released the track a long time back in an unofficial manner, but now that it’s got an official release as a part of their breathtaking record In Your Room, they…
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While in Brighton for The Great Escape, we caught up with Splendour bound band Howler to talk about Australia, Brighton, Ladyboys, America Give Up, Roller Coasters and have a freaky moment involving James Brown. Watch the pretty hilarious interview to see what went down…
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We caught up with Sydney rock outfit Step-Panther while they were in Brighton for The Great Escape, to talk about their debut LP, the year ahead (which includes a UK exclusive vinyl release), their adventures in the UK, and much more…
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After gaining notoriety as founding member of Brisbane band The Gin Club, Ben Salter has ventured out on his own, releasing the brilliant solo record The Cat last year. He’s now taking his music to the world, venturing out on a tour around the UK and Europe. We caught up with Ben while he was…
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