Year: 2013

Photo Gallery: Filter Magazine's Culture Collide Day Two – Silverlake, Los Angeles (11.10.13)

Jasmine Safaeian brings us photos from the second day of Culture Collide Festival in Los Angeles, featuring Bombay Show Pig, Bleached (pictured), New Zealand’s Ghost Wave, The Deer Tracks, Adi Ulmansky, a celebrity spot of Jack Black and much more from the world of music!

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the AU interview at Culture Collide: Wooster (Santa Cruz, CA)

the AU review sits down in Los Angeles with Santa Cruz based group Wooster to talk about playing Culture Collide, their music, Australia and much more… Filmed at Taix in Los Angeles during Culture Collide – October 2013.

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Nick Cave provides music to new Bulleit Whiskey campaign.

It’s not the first time Nick Cave has lent his music as a score, but it’s not every day an artist of his calibre supplies it for a commercial. Check out the classy campaign above for a new campaign for Bulleit Whiskey. This isn’t an original track however – it’s called “Martha’s Dream” and was…

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TV Review: Homeland Season 3 Episode 3 – “Tower of David” (US, 2013)

Let’s get it out of the way up front: I love Homeland. I think it is the best thing on TV right now (with its only true competition being Game of Thrones now that Breaking Bad has ended). I found the first two seasons to be riveting and immaculately constructed, and I have high hopes for the third. As I…

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TV Review: Supernatural (USA) Season 9, Episode 1

Supernatural has long been a staple on Channel 10 and now its digital offshoot 11, since it first hit screens in 2005. With a team comprising of a large chunk of the production and writing crew behind The X-Files and a “supernatural” storyline base it was sure to sweep up the fans of the aforementioned…

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Film Review: About Time (M) (UK, 2013)

Have you ever wished that you could go back in time to stop yourself from saying something stupid? Or to return to a moment when you should have kissed someone but didn’t? Of course you have. One of the great frustrations of life is that you cannot re-live moments that have passed. But what if you…

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the AU interview at Austin City Limits: Bear Mountain (Vancouver)

Larry sits down at Austin City Limits Music Festival 2013 with Vancouver group Bear Mountain to talk about touring, the festival, defying boundaries of genre, their debut album XO, Australian plans and much more…

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the AU interview at Austin City Limits: MS MR (New York)

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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the AU interview at Culture Collide: Ben from Miami Horror (Australia) talking new album, Homebake, Los Angeles, The Plot and more!

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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Our Top Five Live Discoveries at Culture Collide 2013!

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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Festival Review: Filter Magazine's Culture Collide Day Two – The Parties Roundup – Silverlake, Los Angeles (11.10.13)

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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Photo Gallery: The Jungle Giants + Northeast Party House + The Creases – Metro Theatre (12.10.13)

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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Theatre Review: Trampoline – The Blue Room Theatre, Perth (10.10.13)

‘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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Live Review: Matt Corby + Bear’s Den + Bree Tranter – Hordern Pavilion (11.10.13)

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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The Festival Diaries: Austin City Limits (ACL) 2013 Day Three ft. Atoms For Peace + Lionel Richie – Zilker Park, Austin (06.10.13)

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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the AU interview: Talking CMJ and more with Them Swoops (Melbourne)

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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the AU interview: Mark Wilkinson (Australia) in Los Angeles!

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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Festival Review: Filter Magazine's Culture Collide Day One – Part Two: The Showcases – Silverlake, Los Angeles (10.10.13)

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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Interview: Sub Focus (London)

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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The Festival Diaries: Austin City Limits (ACL) 2013 Day Two ft. The Cure + Kings of Leon – Zilker Park, Austin (05.10.13)

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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the AU interview at Austin City Limits: Colin Lake (New Orleans)

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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Photo Gallery: Filter Magazine's Culture Collide Day One – Silverlake, Los Angeles (10.10.13)

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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Festival Review: Filter Magazine's Culture Collide Day One – The Parties Roundup – Silverlake, Los Angeles (10.10.13)

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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Iris Interview: Jason Carter of Babylon 5 (1994-1998, USA)

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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Iris Interview: Nazeem Hussain of Legally Brown (SBS, Australia)

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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Filter Magazine's Culture Collide 2013 Creative Summit opens with Dhani Harrison, Moby and Shepard Fairey.

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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the AU interview: Rose Wintergreen (Melbourne)

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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Five bands we discovered at the first weekend of Austin City Limits (ACL) 2013.

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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the AU interview: Tim "Rosso" Ross (Australia)

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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