We chat to MS MR about playing Austin City Limits Festival (ACL), their two visits to Australia this year for St Jerome’s Laneway Festival and Splendour in the Grass, covering LCD Soundsystem for triple j, working with Australian artists like Gotye and Strange talk and much, much more…
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Larry sits down with Ben from Miami Horror to talk about their upcoming album, latest single, performing at Homebake Festival 2013 – as well as other Summer events in Australia such as The Plot – and much more!
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As Filter Magazine’s Culture Collide has drawn to a close, we wanted to take a look back at some of the bands we discovered over the weekend, and bring you a list of the five bands we experienced for the first time, loved, and think you should spend some time getting to know too. The…
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Following another day of insightful panels – covering everything from aligning brands with bands to the spirits of the world – the music of day two of Filter Magazine’s Cuture Collide festival kicked off with a couple of regional focused parties. First up were the Swedes, who brought with them some traditional Swedish herring and…
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The Jungle Giants played the Metro Theatre on Saturday night with support from Northeast Party House and The Creases. Gwendolyn Lee was there and brings us these photos from the pit.
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‘Boy meets girl…’ – On the face of it, Trampoline is about just that – a boy (Matt) meeting a girl (Kelly) and falling in love. If only it was as simple as that. Matt is a compulsive dreamer, the lines between reality and his dreams are blurred, meaning most of his attempts to have…
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Tonight would be a night of indie-folk music galore, but it would also be a night of thousands of screaming teenage fangirls. I was bracing myself to work out which of the two would be more overwhelming.
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And in the blink of an eye, Austin City Limits came to an end for yours truly for another year. But not before one more day of some incredible music, with Atoms for Peace (pictured) and Lionel Richie closing out the festival. Things kicked off with Vancouver based four piece Bear Mountain. They’re a band…
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Them Swoops are about to head to New York city to play CMJ. We caught up briefly with the band to chat about their trip, and find out how their recent Northcote Social Club residency went! You recently finished up a residency at the Northcote Social Club – how did those shows go? It was…
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Larry sat down with Australian artist Mark Wilkinson while he was in Los Angeles as part of his first ever North American tour. We talk about performing at the Hotel Cafe, busking, heading along to CMJ, his latest album, working with Ollie McGill from The Cat Empire and much more…
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Following on from the late afternoon parties, the rest of the day saw me jump from venue to venue trying to catch as much music as possible. First up, I caught the end of Wooster, a solid rock band from Santa Cruz, California. That’s about six hours North of LA for those playing at home….
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Nick Douwma, the man behind Sub Focus chats to John Goodridge about his recent album Torus and his upcoming tour with Future Music Festival. Hi Nick, thanks for taking the time today to talk to the AU Review. Your new album, Torus is a great album, which has just been released in Australia. The opening…
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Having moved past the jetlag that delayed my first day of the annual Austin City Limits event, I kicked into the festival grounds early to catch Parquet Courts opening the second day, well ahead of the anticipated headline performances from The Cure and Kings of Leon. Parquet Courts deliver interesting fast paced, high energy, punk…
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he AU review sits down with New Orleans artist Colin Lake to talk about his debut record, his forthcoming sophomore release, his experiences at Austin City Limits Festival 2013 and more…
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Jasmine Safaeian brings us photos from the first day of Culture Collide Festival in Los Angeles, featuring Denmark’s Iceage (pictured), a DJ Set from Australia’s own Miami Horror, Costa Rica’s The Great Wilderness, a panel featuring Moby, Dhani Harrison and many more from the world of music!
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For those unfamiliar with Filter Magazine’s Culture Collide Festival, now in its fourth year (and third year of exclusive Australian coverage on the AU) the best way to describe it is as a smaller version of BIGSOUND. Two days of talks as part of the Creative Summit, introduced last year, and three days of live…
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The Iris’ Johnny Au speaks with Jason Carter ahead of the Armageddon Expo in Melbourne. Jason is best known of his role as Ranger Marcus Cole in the Sci-fi series Babylon 5. What inspired you to get into acting in the beginning? I had been fortunate enough as a teen to be cast as ‘The Artful…
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The Iris catches up with Nazeem Hussain about his new show, Legally Brown, which is currently airing on SBS. Putting politics and culture directly in the line of fire, Legally Brown is a hilarious comedy and who best to find out more, than from the man himself? Thanks for your time Nazeem! So, you’re one episode down (at least in…
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The fourth annual Filter Magazine Culture Collide Festival has kicked off in Silverlake in Los Angeles, serving as a lead in for next week’s CMJ Festival in New York and embracing music from all around the world – including three acts from Australia: Miami Horror, Plastic Plates and The Novocaines. The festival has launched with…
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Rose Wintergreen may be in the middle of her co-headlining tour with Rosie Catalano, but she still has time for her fans. Emily Booth caught up with Rose about her hectic year: awards confusion, musical evolution, crowdfunding, and sand. Lots of sand.
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Austin City Limits Festival – much like the TV show from which it stems – is as much about the new acts as it is about the well established ones – and so it’s only natural that you’ll discover a few new favourites in your visit to the festival. Ahead of the event’s second weekend,…
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Larry catches up with Radio Personality and Comedian Tim “Rosso” Ross to talk about working in radio, his upcoming performances in Australia and overseas and much more… Find out more about Rosso’s upcoming dates at his official website here: http://timross.com.au/ – or on his Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/rossoworld.
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Another year and another Austin City Limits (ACL) Music Festival has come to an end. My second consecutive year at the event, it was a truly phenomenal weekend of music where I discovered new talent, caught up with some old favourites – and saw a few legends who I never thought I’d have the chance…
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The plot of the recently released Runner, Runner centres around Richie Furst (played by Justin Timberlake), a Princeton student who loses all of his tuition money on Midnight Black, an online poker site run by Ivan Block (played by Ben Affleck) who then ends up working for him, moves swiftly from the get-go, but begins to pace…
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Having missed them at Austin City Limits over the weekend, and witnessing way too little of their set at Splendour earlier this year, I was pretty excited to get the chance to see Irish up-and-comers Little Green Cars at the intimate Echo in Silverlake, California. In what is the band’s second US jaunt since they…
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Larry sits down at Austin City Limits 2013 with two parts of Franz Ferdinand to talk about their latest record (Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action), the American tour, their return to Australia next month, Neutral Milk Hotel and the unfortunate fall of Harvest Festival, cameras, a new iPhone app idea…and see what happens when…
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Larry sits down in the Austin Airstream at Austin City Limits (ACL) 2013 with Kevin Parker from Perth’s Tame Impala. We talk about life on the road since their latest record Lonerism was released 12 months ago – how easy it is to forget what’s happening (and what’s happened) one day to the next –…
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Following their four WAM nominations, Perth’s Rainy Day Women returned home from a national tour to launch their latest single “Ain’t It Time?” at Perth’s Amplifier Bar. Completing the bill were fellow locals PUMBA, Our Man In Berlin and 44th Sunset. Opening proceedings were PUMBA, playing only their second ever show. Not that you would…
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Regurgitator played the Hi-Fi on Friday night with support from Wampire, Super Best Friends and Bruce. Gwendolyn Lee was there and brings us these photos from the pit.
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