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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