Riesling is having a bit of an Australian renaissance of late, and to celebrate, CHISWICK Woollahra and South Australia’s most renowned winemakers Leo Buring will join forces to create a one-of-a-kind food and wine experience. To be held on Tuesday, 12th April at 6:30pm (for a 7pm start), the event will showcase the rich berry, fruit, and…
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Australian dessert connoisseur Katherine Sabbath has teamed up Swiss ice cream brand Mövenpick to launch their new Sydney CBD store on George Street, which features a coffee lounge, modern booths, communal banquettes, and of course, Mövenpick ice cream. Sabbath has created a dessert for the brand to celebrate their first few weeks of operation in…
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Seeing The Gooch Palms take to the Aussie BBQ stage at SXSW this year was a treat; especially after seeing how well the Novocastrian duo was received at the venue last year. Both Leroy and Kat bring such an eccentric and brilliant charm to their live shows that, when they mention they locked around 130 live gigs under their belt in…
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In This Issue: It’s a massive start to the new month this week with new overseas favourites Babymetal starting the list. Get scrolling through some ace album artwork and update your music library! BABYMETAL BABYMETAL all-girl-fronted Japanese heavy metal/teen-pop hybrid group are set to release METAL RESISTANCE on April 1 via RAL/Sony Music Entertainment. Darq…
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Emma Louise goes in with some heaving, evocative lyricism in her latest single “Talk Baby Talk” and now, we’ve got a brand new music video to accompany. The song itself is enticing, with that beat production luring the listener in, having us murmur the chorus without really realising. The music video illustrates a narrative featuring a troubled…
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Ivan Ooze fans will have multiple chances to see their boy on stage over the next few months, with the young rapper touring his new mixtape ’93 KFC Rotisserie Gold around the country. Set to capitalise on a successful set at Beyond the Valley over New Year’s and recent support slots backing the Wu-Tang Clan earlier this year, Ivan…
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Let me set the scene and take you back to the Aussie BBQ at SXSW this year; like last year, I arrived at Brush Square Park looking up at the overcast skies that threatened to unleash torrent upon torrent of rain on the event. Thankfully, unlike last year, the Aussie BBQ escaped and enjoyed a…
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This is one we’re excited for – Darling James and Machine Age on tour together next month! The two performers will be hitting three venues along the east coast for some unmissable shows in May, both showing off their latest wares. For Darling James, it’s the perfect opportunity to bring new single “The Itch” to…
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Next week, Oh Pep! kick off their Australian east coast tour starting in Adelaide, before winding down with a show in Sydney in mid-April! The first few months of 2016 have already been busy ones for the Melbourne group, who have been readying their debut album Stadium Cake for release and refining what’s become an excellent and endearing…
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Sure to be a highlight of this year’s VIVID Sydney line up, there’s a new event coming to Carriageworks in CURVE BALL. Created by the teams at Fuzzy and Carriageworks, the art space will morphed into an eclectic live music environment on June 11th, with international and local electronic music artists performing, while some sick video and lighting…
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It’s safe to say the last few years have been tumultuous for 3 Doors Down. Making the decision to cut loose founding member Todd Harrell can’t have been easy, not that it was without merit. But as guitarist Chris Henderson explains, the band’s new record Us And The Night is a chance for them to…
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Adelaide trio Flamingo have dropped their new single “Hypnotised” today and true to form and title, the song has had us hooked. The electronic beats and production continue to shine as the group’s strong point; working with some mesmerising beats and an electro-pop vibe that has been a strong element of the band’s repertoire since they properly began…
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Tigertown returned to Austin for their second SXSW this year, off the back of what’s already been a successful few months on the road through the States. The Sydney band has been garnering praise for shows alongside St. Lucia in particular and this month, the band returns home for their long-awaited Australian tour, kicking off in Sydney…
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It’s been a relatively quiet week for the music industry, but Soundcloud has launched a new streaming service but independent creators aren’t impressed, and Australia musicians are living off $2 a days! Streaming Service To Rejuvenate Dying Soundcloud This Tuesday struggling music platform Soundcloud released its own streaming service to rival industry powerhouses Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora and…
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To say I’ve been anticipating the return of The Decemberists for some time is an understatement. Since first seeing the Portland, Oregon group in Canada almost ten years ago, I’ve jumped at every chance to see the band live. When first in Australia for Big Day Out in 2010, I was lucky enough to catch…
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Five full days of music will wear even the most vehement live music fanatic thin. Byron Bay Bluesfest is always a big ask for those who are up to the task, but the ones who stick it out for the entire Easter Weekend are rewarded with some of the best, most profoundly satisfying live music…
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Taking place at the same time as the Supanova Pop Culture Expo later this month, the Surfers Paradise Alliance will see Queensland’s greatest pyro-technicians battle it out in the skies of Surfers Paradise next weekend. The Seafire event will see three separate firework displays launched from two barges, synchronised to a spectacular sci-fi anthemic music track to celebrate this…
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As reported by Variety, Robin Wright is set to join the Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling-led follow-up to Blade Runner. Like the film as a whole, little is known about the part Wright is expected to play but given her performance in House of Cards, it’s definitely going to be something worth seeing. Denis Villeneuve is set…
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Peter Sollett is the acclaimed director of Raising Victor Vargas (2002) and Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (2008). With the upcoming DVD release of his latest film, Freeheld (2015), he talked to the Iris’ Joseph Doumit about returning to romance, LGBT rights, and how the truth set him free. How did you get involved with…
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Tesla’s Model 3 was unveiled today, promising to be the first affordable electric car available in Australia.
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After stepping down from Universal’s live-action retelling of The Little Mermaid, Sofia Copolla will instead write and direct a remake of Clint Eastwood‘s 1970’s period drama The Beguiled. Originally starring Eastwood, directed by Don Siegel, and adapted from Thomas P. Cullinan‘s novel by the same name, The Beguiled follows a wounded American soldier rescued and nursed back to…
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Hans Zimmer, puller of violin and heart strings alike has announced his retirement from “the superhero business”. Following his most recent work on Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Zimmer sat down with the BBC to discuss his decision to retire from composing music for superhero films. “This one was very hard for me to do,…
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Curated by David Stratton, co-host of The Movie Show and At the Movies, Essential Scorsese will be screened at the Sydney Film Festival (8-19 June), ACMI in Melbourne (27 May-12 June), and the NFSA in Canberra (1-23 July). The collection of 10 films will include Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, and The Age of Innocence. …
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Following his breakout role as the titular hero in CW’s The Flash, Grant Gustin has signed on to what will be he first feature role. Alongside Nick Robinson (who you may recognize as the older of the two brothers in that underground Chris Pratt flick, Jurassic World), Gustin will star in director William H. Macy’s…
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It was NRL luminary Jack Gibson who said, “In football, if you are standing still, you’re going backwards fast“. These words are lived by Heath Davis’s lapsed hero Barry Kelly (played by Steve Le Marquand) and extend to the broader film in the suburban melancholy and missed opportunities of Australian redemption tale, Broke. Broke begins…
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As we look back on our time at SXSW last month, we wanted to briefly reflect on four comedy films we caught during the festival. We’ll give these the full review treatment closer to their Australian release dates, but in the meantime, here are our first thoughts on the overwhelmingly impressive run of films at…
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Fairytales and blockbusters aren’t two words you’d often expect to find side-by-side but the two have produced a slew of fun and often-fantastic films. In fact, the veritable sub-genre will have a new entry this month with The Huntsman: Winter’s War. In honor of the occasion, we thought we’d take a look back at some…
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New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art on the Upper East side has recently opened
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Sydney’s Gang of Youths have announced the dates for their May/June tour of Europe and America, which will see them playing a string of headline shows, alongside festival appearances at the iconic Great Escape in Brighton and Primavera Sound in Barcelona, alongside the likes of LCD Soundsystem and Radiohead. Their debut album The Positions received five…
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Qantas‘ ad campaign for their new health insurance program makes good use both of Christopher Walken’s acting range and his highly pun-able surname, as he gets on stage to demonstrate how one might earn points by runnin’, dancin’, climbin’, and – of course – walken’. The health insurance and wellness program will allow its members…
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