Already into the second half of the year and what a month it was! 1. Big Day Out 2013 line-up announcement In what is shaping up to become the more conventional way to circulate the news of a festival line-up announcement, the Big Day Out organisers did just by hinting that at midnight on July…
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Father John Misty played an impassioned set at the Corner Hotel last Saturday, with a great assortment of local folk/pop acts, it was a night to remember. It must be disheartening to be a support act and play to a nearly empty room, particularly when you’re as talented as ex-Snowman member Joe McKee. The man…
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Another year, another Splendour in the Grass – though this year we seem to have gone back in time, with the festival returning to its Byron Bay home for the first time since 2009. This brief trip down memory lane will forever be remembered as a muddy affair, with today’s 30 minute downpour – hail,…
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Though the 2012 event may be forever remembered as a return to the muddy Byron Bay site and a freak hail storm perhaps heralded by the loud rock of DZ Deathrays (who say their amps miraculously survived the on stage waterfall), ultimately it will be the music that we’ll be talking about until the next…
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Pictured: Bloc Party Or should it be called Splendour in the Mud? Well, everyone on Twitter seems to think so, with the #splendourinthemud hash tag proving quite popular indeed. For those who are attending the festival, it would be hard to argue to sentiment. With the brief but powerful downpour on Day 1, the Belongil…
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Howler were everything you’d expect from a bunch of boys who play American surf/garage rock – nonchalant, hip and way too cool for school. Their set started slow, opening with “Beach Sluts” there was an air of despondency about them and there was no energy in their delivery. Fortunately they improved quickly and the mandatory…
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Set to release their new EP The Colour Age on August 10th, Adelaide’s Red Ink have unleashed a brand new single and music video from the record entitled “Euphoria”. The track and the EP have been produced by Craig Harnath and Jez Giddings (Wilco, Cut Copy, Oasis, Midnight Juggernauts, Franz Ferdinand) and created between a…
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Next week, for the first time ever, Stonefield and Owl Eyes will tour together around the country, playing a variety of regional centres in support of the Australian Government’s initative The Line – a cause aimed at promoting respectful relationships amongst Australia’s youth. We caught up with Brooke aka Owl Eyes and Hannah from Stonefield…
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Kicking off with a showcase at Splendour in the Grass this weekend, The Beautiful Girls are set to embark on a farewell tour (Dates Here). Larry caught up with the band’s lead singer Mat McHugh to talk about his solo career, the tour, the decision to call The Beautiful Girls a day and a look…
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Though you tend to regret it the next morning, the joy of ending your weekend with a stand out concert never goes unwelcomed. This past Sunday night, Sydneysiders were treated to a stellar triple bill at the Oxford Art Factory featuring Sydney’s OAF residents The Falls, Brisbane’s The Trouble With Templeton (Thomas Calder performing solo…
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The eccentric and deliberately unpredictable UK singer/songwriter Cosmo Jarvis has a chat to our Editor in Chief Larry Heath. Cosmo will be in town to support his new album, Think Bigger. Here’s how it went down. Hello Cosmo! We’re excited to have you back in Australia! Let’s talk about your last time here first up…
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A new revolution was spawned when reality television paved the way for relatively unknown musicians to catapult themselves onto the main stage and become what seemed an almost overnight success. While the usual cast of overnight successes seem to burn bright and fade fast, the likes of Matt Corby, Lisa Mitchell and Owl Eyes (ie…
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Pope Innocent X, the fourth album by singer/songwriter Bertie Blackman, is the long-awaited follow-up to 2009’s acclaimed Secrets and Lies – a record which took out the 2009 ARIA for Best Independent Release, and the AIR Award for Breakthrough Independent Artist. The new record will be released on October 12th. The first music video for…
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With Splendour sideshows set to hit the country TOMORROW with the Spin Off Festival in Adelaide, we thought we’d take a look at 5 sideshows we don’t reckon you should miss…. 5. BAND OF SKULLS One of my personal favourite sets and sideshows of the 2010 Splendour, the rock band are one of the few…
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Long time favourites of the AU review, Sydney punk rock outfit Chicks Who Love Guns continue doing their genre proud with their latest track “Shin-Okubo”, the first single from their forthcoming EP Moon Eater. This is their third EP release in three years and we’re expecting plenty of eyes and ears to turn to the…
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Pictured: Busby Marou, Jessica Mauboy, Shellie Morris, Gurrumul Yunupingu, Troy Cassar-Daley. From the Top End to Tasmania, the nation’s most outstanding Indigenous artists have been selected as the finalists in the 2012 National Indigenous Music Awards with the winners announced on August 11. Country music superstar Troy Cassar-Daley and folk/roots act Busby Marou have both…
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If the promise of seeing bands like Eiffel 65 and Hanson later this year wasn’t enough to whet your whistle, we have another band from the late 90s to get you excited. Remember “All Star,” “Walkin’ On The Sun” and “Then the Morning Comes”? How can you not!? Yep, Smash Mouth have just announced an…
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Fresh off the road from a tour with Brooklyn’s School of Seven Bells, Little Scout have announced a run of headline shows in support of new single “Go Quietly” in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. Mixed by Lars Stalfors (The Mars Volta), “Go Quietly” signals an exciting new direction for the band, and its recent release…
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Yesterday we premiered the new music video for Pluto Jonze, which featured some stop motion animation, some of which took place in a forest. Coincidentally, Band of Horses have released a similar clip, created from thousands of stills in a forest somewhere. It’s a simple clip but a beautiful song. Our first taste of their…
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As founder of the AU review, most weeks I’m invited along (or I invite myself along) to a variety of musical and arts based events around Sydney. Some weeks I take up these offers, while other weeks I stay at home like a hermit, going through the hundreds of daily emails we receive here at…
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We’re big fans of Sydney based artist Pluto Jonze here at the AU review, so you can understand that we’re pretty excited to be presenting to you this morning his brand new clip “See What The Sun Sees”. The song will stay with you long after you listen to it and the stop motion animation…
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Sydney four piece Lime Cordiale have just released the video for their brand new single “Pretty Girl”, off their EP Faceless Cat, which was launched last week at The Standard in Sydney. The entertaining clip has been directed by the talented Matilda Brown. Enjoy! You’ll be able to check out the band in Melbourne on…
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Ahead of his debut Australian tour we catch up with British singer-songwriter Benjamin Francis Leftwich to find about more about his debut album Last Smoke Before the Snowstorm and to find out what he has in store for Australian audiences. Hey, how are you? Hey, good thanks man, how are you? Yeah not too bad…
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Opening the evening was a man and his polymba (Google that one if you don’t know what it is). Mick Stuart had a pleasant demeanour, but after the novelty of watching him play the instrument had worn off, I quickly grew tired of what seemed like one incredibly long song being played out onstage. Fortunately,…
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Grammy award winning band Blues Traveler released their new album Suzie Cracks The Whip on Friday 6 July, and along with it they sent across the interwebs a fantastic music video for the album’s first single “You Don’t Have To Love Me”. Enjoy it below! Suzie Cracks The Whip is in stores now.
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Adelaide outfit The Shiny Brights have just released a new clip for their track “Tightrope”, comprised of 1,500 stills taken and then stop motioned into the clip itself. It’s basically like Inception, only with a different framerate. This may or may not be accurate, you’ll probably want to view yourself: For a free download: http://theshinybrights.bandcamp.com/track/tightrope…
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While in town for the Sydney Film Festival, I caught up with Oscar winning cinematographer Dion Beebe and his wife and director Unjoo Moon to talk about their work on the new documentary The Zen of Bennett. Larry: So how did you find your way into Tony Bennett recording studio? Unjoo: Well we’ve known the…
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Melbourne trio Pony Face have a new album coming out next month, and they’ve come out swinging with the second single to be released from it – “Silver Tongue”. You can get your first listen to it below and you can listen to it as a free download here: http://ponyface.bandcamp.com/ “Silver Tongue” is the second…
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They’re coming to Australia in just two weeks and have just released a new music video! Who are we talking about? Why, The Shins of course, and their video for “It’s Only Life” is currently doing the rounds. The clip was directed by Hiro Murai and ‘features James Mercer trapped in an apocalyptic suburbia by…
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Great news or greatest news? Last seen in Australia 16 years ago, the iconic Californian group Weezer will finally be returning to our shores for one hell of a special performance. As though to say “we’re sorry for our absence”, they will be performing everyone’s favourite* Weezer record in FULL: The Blue Album. They also…
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