Recorded at the Red Bull Music Academy (RBMA) studios in Tokyo, Melbourne producer Lewis Cancut has linked up with Japanese vocalist TIGARAH for this tune we’re digging, “Say Ok”! In TIGARAH’s vibrant and sugary vocals and the tropical house and bass thumps Cancut brings to the table, “Say Ok” is an ear worm of a…
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With an odd burst of warm weather over the weekend, Northbridge was buzzing nice and early on Saturday night with the maze of boutique bars around Jimmy’s Den thriving as we waited for doors open. After hearing an interview with the band, I was well and truly keen to see Sydney act Tigertown taking their…
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Melbourne psych-punk purveyors Horace Bones are due to be back out on the road down the east coast with their brand new track “Outside” this May and June! Riding high on their singing with the 123 Agency in Melbourne and Thirds Music, the band have been consistently backing it up, quality track after quality track….
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Hilltop Hoods hit their hometown over the weekend to celebrate the release of their latest album, Drinking From The Sun, Walking Under Stars Restrung—their follow-up to 2007’s The Hard Road: Restrung. Joined by Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (ASO), Adelaide Chamber Singers and other special guests, the sold-out crowd was in for a monumental night. A.B. Original…
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There’s only a few weeks to go until Bad Vision drop their sophomore record, Turn Out Your Sockets, quite the anticipated release from the Melbourne band! In their latest single “Fairweather”, we’re given an upbeat and colourful tune (as is the music video, featured today), but the lyricism nods to less happy themes. As songwriter Jerome Rush has described,…
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It’s hard to tell when Fear the Walking Dead will start living up to its potential. The tone is there, and the scenes with the infected are deliciously dark and effective, presenting with the kind of horror The Walking Dead took four years to perfect, but these are only small flickers in what is an…
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An amazing list of new shows are coming to your Foxtel screens this week and are guaranteed to be promising gems. Tuesday 19th April 2016 The Tempest, Foxtel Arts, 8.30pm AEST A masterpiece adaptation of Shakespeare’s arguably most original work, The Tempest is a tale of enlightenment, power, corruption and melodrama. Foyle’s War‘s James Garnon…
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Fans of techno-thriller series Mr. Robot will be excited to know that a new trailer for the series upcoming second season landed online over the weekend. Entitled ‘We The Bold’, the short trailer splices together footage from the show’s upcoming season with real world images to chilling effect. Watch it below: Mr. Robot returns later this year. ———-…
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The big-hearted, character-driven ensemble film takes place in a dusty old pawnbroker’s in the heart of Footscray, where world-weary owner Les Underwood (John Brumpton) watches as the lives of people who come through his doors collide, change and unravel. From blossoming romance to desperate last gambles, these twelve individuals’ stories represent the best and the…
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Australia has a patchy history of great films but in the post Peter Weir years we’ve seen a new class of auteurs fill the gaps in our national cinema narrative, enter: Joseph Sims-Dennett. Having a frenetic past of studying film, balancing books for Subway and shooting TV commercials, Joseph owes a lot to his experiences as…
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While it’s fairly simple to get around in Melbourne, you want to get the location of your hotel exactly right, especially if you are down for a series of events. In this particular case, I was down in Melbourne for a music festival (Soulfest) at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl and to check out the new…
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The April – July Season at Perth’s Blue Room Theatre kicked off last week with Renegade Productions’ Selkie the new work from writer Finn O’Branagáin, and directed by Joe Lui. Selkie is a contemporary reimagining of the old myth; stripped of the romanticism and whimsy; an exploration of the darker themes at play. I was…
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As the 30th Melbourne International Comedy Festival drew to a close, thoughts turned to the annual awards ceremony and the announcement of the recipient of the prestigious Barry. Named for festival patron and Aussie icon Barry Humphries, the award recognises the Most Outstanding Comedy Festival Show. The 2016 award went to Australian Zoe Coombs Marr, for her show Trigger Warning, making…
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Singer songwriter Alice Night and composer Robert Davidson will be perfomring at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts for a night of live, theatrical music on April 29th. Alice Night will be performing her debut album, Culture How Could You?, questioning contemporary culture, strained love with integrity and dark hope. The ‘Artivist’ performance — a…
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Four of Perth’s independent theatre companies are getting together for a range of performances at the Subiaco Arts Centre Stage from the 8th of June to the 2nd of July. The 2016 festival (previously known as the Independent Theatre Festival) supports local artists and gives them the opportunity to showcase their works to a wider…
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The name gives you everything you need to know where the new Oreo Thins are concerned. The instantly recognisable brand of chocolate biscuits have been downsized, I’m not quite sure why, but they have. The thins were first introduced last year in the U.S and China, the brand continuing to experiment with ratios and flavours…
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Our national day of remembrance is upon us once again, and as Sydney prepares to commemorate the ANZACs with its annual ceremony on 25th April 2016, we’ve looked to some of the city’s most loved hotels and pubs to put together this list of seven essential events celebrating the memory of our fallen soldiers. Martin Place…
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