Adelaide’s Kaurna Cronin has recently been working his way through Europe performing music that has been falling well within the embrace of a fast-growing fanbase that has been rocking with him for some years now. The acclaimed singer songwriter has been working on his sophomore album Southern Loss (scheduled for release in September), a highly anticipated follow…
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Simple Minds and The B-52s have announced their return to Australian soil with A Day On The Green shows. Culminating in a celebration of good food and music, A Day On The Green will be touring various wineries across the country. With a first stop at King’s Park and Botanic Garden in Perth, followed by Rochford Wines…
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Party-punk duo The Gooch Palms are undeniably one of the treasures from the Australian music scene, with their infectious songs, high-energy performances, on-stage nudity, garish outfits, and real ‘fuck yeah’ attitudes. The proud Novocastrians (read: from Newcastle) made the move to America last year, where they’ve been playing voraciously across the nation. Their newest album,…
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What we probably love more about festivals is the amount of sideshows that artists host and this year, A$AP Ferg steps up with a headline run of his own shows alongside his sets at the Listen Out Festival. Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide folks get a chance to catch the rapper at various venues come the end of September. A$AP…
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Since the release of their debut LP The Heist in 2012, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis have dominated the global music scene. While their latest project, This Unruly Mess I’ve Made, hasn’t peaked as high on the charts, it’s definitely helped cement the duo’s already loyal following, made evident in their live show. Frequent collaborator XP opened, running through…
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Sydney’s biggest showcase of cult and alternative films, the Sydney Underground Film Festival (SUFF), is back for its 10th year with a lineup of over 100 daring, experimental and controversial films. The festival will run over four big days, with screenings to include various Australian premieres alongside a collection of retrospective screenings, and special masterclasses….
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Little Men begins with Jake Jardine (Theo Taplitz) sitting quietly amidst anarchic scenes in a teacher-less classroom. Later that day, home from school, he takes a call from an old friend of his grandfather who, assuming that Jake knows more than he does, clumsily inquires about arrangements for Jake’s grandfather’s funeral. The juxtaposition of these…
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Seth Rogen has always been associated with stoner humour and raunchy comedy, but in the case of Sausage Party, he takes it to a whole new level. With animated films that have anthropomorphised objects like toys (i.e. the Toy Story films) and cars (i.e. Cars), Rogen had the idea to anthropomorphise consumer products while retaining…
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Tim Burton’s new film, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, is based on the best-selling novel of the same name. And this week we’ve been given a bit more insight into the anticipated movie, with a featurette being released, seeing Director Tim Burton take us inside the story’s most peculiar world. Watch the featurette here:…
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Set in a childcare centre called Big Oak, Little Acorns is a new Australian comedy series that will be available exclusively through YouTube from 1st September. The series will be told in nine parts, running in bite-size 3-5 minute episodes. Written and directed by Maria Theodorakis and Trudy Hellier, Little Acorns shows adults behaving like…
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Seemingly about the fun, bizarre world of an adult sub-culture called ‘Competitive Endurance Tickling’, comes a documentary that takes fast steps sideways, trips down some steep, morbidly dark stairs and leads viewers into the world of abuse, identity theft and cyber bullying. Like so many great documentaries before it, you walk away from Tickled wanting…
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In 2011, Oliver Burton undertook the ambitious task of building an improvised show in which the actors speak only in Shakespearean-style language. Five years on, the idea remains as fresh as ever, and the Post-Haste Players are now entertaining Sydney audiences with their take on Shakespeare’s History plays. I asked Burton about taking on the…
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And just like that, the biggest show to open in Australia this year has blown the socks off audiences. Ever since it was announced to make its Australian debut, the hype surrounding Disney’s classic Aladdin has been immense, with industry professionals and theatre lovers alike counting down the days until opening night. Every childhood memory…
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We can’t wait to see more from LANKS in coming months and with his latest single, “Bitter Leaf”, the writer is continuing to impress. Today, we’re digging the music video for his single, a clip that has seen LANK work with a great team in LA to bring this one together. With choreographer Leona Morimune, the multi-instrumentalist also…
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It’s a sprawling five day event that takes over a whole city, and it’s on again from October 19th-23rd this year. MoVement Sydney will this year feature a comprehensive and very impressive list of dance music performers. Featuring Sebastien Tellier, Daniel Stricker and John Kirby making their exclusive worldwide debut performance as MIND GAMERS, MoVement also has lined up the likes…
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We knew Travis Scott was coming down under in September for Listen Out, but fans in Melbourne and Sydney won’t have to settle for that as their only opportunity to see the hip-hop star, with two additional headline shows announced for late September. Scott will perform at 170 Russell in Melbourne on September 27th, and the Metro Theatre…
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The good news keeps coming today, now with Jordie Lane announcing he’s back with a new album and new tour dates to boot. Thank you, Thursday. His new album, GLASSELLLAND, is coming in September – Lane’s first studio album release in five years. Having returned from the US with the record, Lane is ready to get…
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Once again, the Meredith Music Festival has dropped a killer line up of artists that’ll have people rolling out to the ‘Sup in strong numbers this December! The 26th edition of the event now has its ticket ballot also open for everyone to get involved in via their website – you have until 10:26pm, August 16th to get…
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Margy Noble caught up with Alex Wilson, bassist of massive Australian post-rock outfit sleepmakeswaves, to chat about their epic ‘traced in constellations’ tour, what their future holds, and bromance. How was your gig in Wollongong last night? I’m still recovering from seeing you on Sunday at the Corner Hotel. It was really good – it…
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In 2013, two young men from Ohio took the stage in a small Kansas college town, in a small venue with a capacity of just over 1,000 people. The small band on this small stage, in a small city, brought one of the biggest shows I had ever seen. The crowd, mostly of college students…
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Unapologetic, bold Australian “black comedy” Down Under had its world premiere earlier this year the 63rd annual Sydney Film Festival, the only logical platform for Writer/Director Abe Forsythe to debut his second feature film seeing as it concerns one of the most talked about and shameful moments in the city’s history. This inevitably controversial film…
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Dennis Villeneuve (Prisoners, Sicario) has been at it again. This time he’s behind the camera for Arrival. And today we have your first look at the film with some first-look images and a trailer for the project. Starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker and Michael Stuhlbarg, Arrival is an extraterrestrial thriller for the modern film…
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Following San Diego Comic-Con’s unveiling of tantalizing Luke Cage footage, Netflix and Marvel have now released the official, full-length trailer and we are super impressed. Having shown up in Jessica Jones and slated to join The Defenders (Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist), Luke now stars in his very own series, which sees…
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Feast your eyes on this. After 15 years, six films and US$915 million dollars in box office dollars, the Resident Evil franchise is finally coming to an end, which will be bittersweet news for fans all-round who have loved and followed the films in the past. In a teaser trailer which was dropped only a…
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If you’ve ever stumbled upon the Narnia book series as a child, you came to love the characters, the storyline and the wild adventures it would take you on as you read page-to-page of every line C.S Lewis has ever written. Between the years of 2005 and 2010, the theatrical adaptations of the Narnia franchise…
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CBS has announced that Star Trek: Discovery will have a female lead, Variety confirmed. CBS Television Studios, who are producing the latest series, are still in the process of casting the lead role. Variety confirmed that the female lead will “not necessarily be a captain.” Though no one has been official cast in the role,…
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Warner Bros confirmed this week that October will be the start date for Ocean’s Eight, the female-led spin-off of the successful Ocean’s franchise. Production is set to begin in New York with many actors having their roles confirmed, Deadline Hollywood has reported. When the project was first announced, acaresses such as Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett…
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Baz Luhrmann, over a decade worth of planning, and a whopping $120 million dollar budget sit behind The Get Down, an upcoming Netflix Original that boldly tackles the origins (and fundamentals) of Hip Hop with the Australian director’s characteristically fanciful touch. The result is a surprisingly unique, compelling series that marches to the beat of…
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Billy Bob Thornton and his foul mouth are back for Bad Santa 2 – and this week we got our first taste of the film with the release of its first trailer. In the film, Billy Bob returns as Willie, the R-rated Santa, with his equally filthy elf accomplice, Tony Cox as Marcus. In the…
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Capcom is celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Dead Rising series by re-releasing Dead Rising, Dead Rising 2, and Dead Rising 2: Off the Record, for digital download on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The original Dead Rising game will also be available on Steam as a digital download.
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