Following the release of new record Beautiful You and as they kick off their national tour in support of that record, we caught up with Vikki Thorn; one third of folk-rock band The Waifs. With the west coast leg of the tour now well and truly under way we found a little bit more about…
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Sometimes bands need to catch a break and Californian metalcore quintet, Atreyu did exactly that four years ago. Since their reunion last year, the band have had great things come by them with a new LP, Long Live releasing this Friday, as well as gracing the stages of this year’s Soundwave Festival. Before the band’s new release, we had…
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Last week, BIGSOUND broughtsome of the best young talent to the massive. This definitely included singer JOY. who sat down with the AU to about her new EP Ode and her passion for producing music. Click through to read more… “You wouldn’t think may people go out on a Wednesday night but it was pretty…
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Soulfest has just announced the stage schedule for its 2015 festival dates in Sydney and Melbourne. This year welcomes the best in soul featuring the one and only Mary J. Blige, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Miguel, De La Soul and many more, for performances on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th of October in Sydney and Melbourne,…
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Photo: David Edwards. Alex Kapranos of Scotland’s Franz Ferdinand, together with his band of Franz brothers, recently formed what can only be described as a ‘supergroup’, in FFS. Having teamed up with rock legends Sparks, they’ve created an exciting, unpredictable album, titled FFS. Talking at this year’s Lollapalooza Berlin festival with Sosefina Fuamoli, Kapranos shares…
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Led by what is described in their bio as the “fanciful charm” of Tim Karmouche, Melbourne-via-Ballarat five piece Crepes are making some truly great music right now, with the sort of music that you can’t quite stop listening too. We love their debut EP Cold Summers here at the AU and so their latest single…
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Pictured: WAAX The Brisbane based music festival and BIGSOUND has come and gone for another year, but the amazing performances we saw have stuck with us for the days since. We’ve spend the weekend reflecting on all the incredible showcases we saw, and now we’re bringing you our list of the 15 best… in no…
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Project Morpheus, Sony’s proprietary virtual reality headset, has been rechristened. The hardware’s new title, PlayStation VR, was announced by SCEJ&A president Atsushi Morita during Sony’s pre-TGS presser tonight.
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The first expansion for From Software’s demonically difficult adventure title Bloodborne will land on PS4 this November. The news comes from Sony’s pre-TGS showcase.
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Sony plan to release an updated edition of their popular PSVita title Gravity Rush onto the PS4 later this year. The news came straight from Sony during their pre-TGS 2015 press conference.
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Sega have announced during Sony’s pre-TGS 2015 press event that a remaster of their original Japanese crime adventure Yakuza (called Ryo Ga Gotoku at home) is on its way to PS3 and PS4 in Japan this year.
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Ni-Oh was originally announced as a PS3 title back in 2010. It dropped off the radar and many assumed it was cancelled. Not so. Sony have announced during their TGS press con that the game will see the light of day on the PS4 next year.
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In a wild departure for the Resident Evil series, Capcom have announced a tactical team-based competitive shooter called Resident Evil: Umbrella Corps. The game will arrive next year on PS4 according to producer Masachika Kawata, who made the announcement during Sony’s pre-TGS 2015 presser.
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Square Enix are bringing a total of three Kingdom Hearts games to the PS4. The games will come as a package deal called Kingdom Hearts 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue. The announcement came during Sony’s press conference ahead of TGS tonight.
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The brand new full length trailer was released today for the seventh film in the Rocky series, titled Creed, which brings back Sylvester Stallone into his iconic role, this time as he meets the son of Apollo Creed. The film is released in November. Here’s a bit more about the film, and then check out…
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In the early 1960’s a movement was beginning to grow amongst the African-Americans in the United States. It began in the south led by Martin Luther King Jr with a pacifist push but soon a group emerged in the west coastal city of Oakland (near San Francisco), founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale came…
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If you had seen what Madison has seen over the course of Fear the Walking Dead‘s first two episodes would you gather your two kids for a good ol’ game of Monopoly before following them out into the night to find a shotgun, while leaving a barking dog in your house, with the damn back…
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Girls just wanna have fun. Except that in the film, A Royal Night Out, those two ladies are Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret at ages 19 and 14, respectively. The film is a fun and warm-hearted historic romp that does feel like it’s being played a little too safe at times. On V.E. Day (8…
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