Melbourne. Home of great coffee. Impressive architecture. Decent beers. Riotous punk bands. Clowns. Not the best segue I could have made but still, the point is, is that some of our favourite rock bands have been coming out of Victoria recently and Clowns are definitely ranking high up there when it comes to all out energy…
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Beyond the Valley has revealed their first round of artists confirmed for their 2016/2017 event, with Chance the Rapper leading a stellar group of international and Australian artists up at the Lardner Park New Year’s celebration. Chano’s Australian visit continues to garner hope as fingers are crossed tightly for some headline dates while he’s out here but for…
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22 year old songwriter and performer from Sydney, Carla Wehbe, has been capturing much attention recently with her new music. The pop artist has been amassing the followers online since the release of her debut single “Caught in a Lie”, though her social media presence over the last few years has been growing considerably off the back…
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Brissy group The Belligerents have come through once again with new single “Caroline”. Taken from their debut album Science Fiction (coming this November), The Belligerents continue to play with psych and some bloody great pop before taking a sharp turn toward some dance-party inciting sounds before winding out – “Caroline” is colourful, textured and definitely an exciting indicator…
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It’s not the first or the last time Hey Geronimo‘s music will be synonymous with the Beach Boys. Catchy lyrics about guys, girls and fun times with a quirky vibe seem to be the signature of Hey Geronimo’s new album, Crashing Into The Sun. The feeling of nostalgia was even more present the final stopover of…
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Jinja Safari have revealed details of their final album release, coming in the form of a two-part record series titled Crescent Head. The band announced that they were calling time on their career back in January and in this final collection of music, the band are gifting fans with a special thank you of an album….
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It’s been 16 years since Killing Heidi dropped their acclaimed debut album Reflector, and 20 years since Ella and Jesse Hooper branched out from their folk pop song origins on “Kettle” and embraced late 90’s/early 00’s Aussie indie rock glory. Celebrating their 20th anniversary and the digital release of Reflector, Killing Heidi will be appearing at the Queenscliff Music Festival for a special set….
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Sally and Erica, aka Sydney-via-Canberra hip hop duo Coda Conduct, just keep on getting better. Since the release of their debut EP Butter Side Up last year, the duo’s dextrous rhyming ability and flow, coupled with sharp lyricism and the ability to mix humour in with fiery and captivating lyrics near on damn flawlessly, has continued to evolve and bring them…
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The two longest running comedies currently airing on Fox in the USA will join forces (pun intended) on Tuesday October 11th for a special one-hour episode. The news came through Monday from the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour where New Girl creator Elizabeth Meriwether announced that “The crossover episode has historically been the artistic high point…
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For the second time this year, a film will take us through Aokigahara or Japan’s Suicide Forest, this time with Gus van Sant, Naomi Watts and Matthew McConaughey in the emotional drama The Sea of Trees. The film will follow McConaughey’s character as he travels to Japan with the intention of taking his own life, and decides…
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David O. Russell, Julianne Moore and Robert De Niro are the latest big names to make the transition from box office cannon to weekly Television. While the director of Silver Linings Playbook, Joy and American Hustle has ventured into TV before with projects at FX, CBS, ABC and Syfy the addition of Moore and De…
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Madman Entertainment has announced that Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV will brace select cinemas in Australia and New Zealand from the 27th of August. The film is servicing as a standalone CG companion feature to the highly anticipated game Final Fantasy XV, which will be available on Playstation 4 and Xbox One on 30 September 2016….
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Following a successful inaugural event in 2015, the Great Waikiki Beer Festival is set to return to the Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort’s Great Lawn later this month, and legendary musician Kenny Loggins has just been announced to perform. The event, which will be held on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2016, benefits Hawai’i’s Wounded Warriors…
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Debuted as part of their Bacon Festival menu earlier this year, Cuckoo Callay‘s epic Bacon Macdaddy stands as perhaps Newtown’s single most popular cafe dish of the year. Just head along to the Newtown hotspot on any given day and you’d see plenty of these being demolished by hungry diners, keen to get a serving…
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Famous as an everlasting icon of Italian style and refinement, Campari has launched its Rediscover Red campaign, a month-long celebration honouring the drink of the moment: the Campari Tonic, resulting in a bunch of pop-ups around Sydney that include everything from FREE GELATO MESSINA to campari mixed with some sweet live Jazz. The Campari recipe…
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I’ve had a confusing and somewhat hypocritical relationship with Macklemore & Ryan Lewis over the years. I was indignant in 2012 when my boy Flume came a mere fourth in the Triple J Hottest 100, wildly proclaiming how wrong it was that “Thrift Shop” should take the title; all the while grooving along to that…
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The National Indigenous Music Awards took place in Darwin on Friday night, with a huge event hitting the Darwin Amphitheatre and celebrating Indigenous musicians, both established and emerging. Gurrumul won the NIMA for Artist of the Year for the fifth time running, while up and coming star Gawurra took home a bunch of awards himself including New…
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The Oxford Creative Academy has been providing budding music entrepreneurs with the opportunity to learn from industry professionals and musicians since 2015. A collaboration between The A&R Department and the Oxford Art Factory, the Academy offers its students invaluable real world experience over the range of 12 week courses it currently has on roster, priming…
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We’ve become even bigger fans of Philly group Beach Slang since they impressed over Splendour in the Grass and their east coast side shows, with James Alex‘s indomitable efforts as a frontman in particular making the band one of our key recommendations when it’s come to linking friends up to new music out of the…
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In a special concert series, The Stone Roses will be performing at the Sydney Opera House this December! The Manchester icons will take to the Concert Hall Stage to end their world tour, a run of shows that has already taken The Stone Roses to the likes of Madison Square Garden in New York, Marlay Park…
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Ahead of their BIGSOUND appearance next month, Adelaide’s West Thebarton Brothel Party have given us a taste of what to be expecting in the way of new music, with their latest single “Dolewave”. Another strong tune to add to their steadily growing arsenal of chaos-inciting slacker anthems, the single takes aims at the labels applied to…
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Thompson’s Bay on Rottnest Island is going to be drawing out boatloads of music fans this December, as the Castaway Festival returns for its fifth year! We couldn’t think of any better way to spend a Sunday this Summer than by taking in some gorgeous ocean views and soaking up some good-time energy that comes…
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The 2016 SA Music Awards is taking on a bit of a different format this year, switching things up from last year’s ceremony and after party, instead opting for a more formal soiree. Celebrating SA music and the talent surging ahead and making an impact nationally and in some cases, abroad, the second annual SA…
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Independent Sydney record label TEEF recently released a special album curated and collaborated on by some of Australia’s best and innovative new talent. Titled Imperium In Imperio II (or, ‘Empire Within an Empire’), the title is in reference to this group of artists surging forward and creating something huge of their own within the wider Australian music…
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The Tambourine Girls today unveil the visuals for their latest single, the almost eponymous “The Tambourine Girl” – the second single release from the Sydney band’s debut album. Directed by James Kates (The Pinheads, Shining Bird), the music video shoot took the band to The Royal National Park, a place that’s held special memories for the group. Says frontman Simon…
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A man wakes up in a Moscow laboratory to learn that he’s been brought back from the dead as a half-human, half-robotic hybrid. With no memory of his former life, a woman who claims to be his wife tells him that his name is Henry. Before she can activate his voice, armed thugs storm in…
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Here’s this week’s picks that will keep you company other than what’s happening in Rio. Tuesday Russia’s Lost Princesses, SBS, 7:30pm AEST Follow leading historians as they learn about the last Russian emperor’s daughters outside of their rosy depictions and why they remain a fascination to the world. Dead of Summer, Fox8, 8:30pm AEST Things…
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David Hunter recently caught up with two gentleman who have taken Australia – and the world – by storm. From their YouTube sensation Bondi Hipsters to their ABC series Soul Mates returning for a second run, they don’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon. David talks to Christiaan Van Vuuren and Nicholas Boshier about…
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Elle, the latest from Dutch provocateur Paul Verhoeven, is sensationally subversive. Part unnerving psychosexual thriller, part searing familial comedy, the film commences disturbingly with the sounds of the violent rape of the film’s protagonist, Michèle LeBlanc (Isabelle Huppert), in her Parisian home. We do not witness the crime, only the immediate aftermath: masked assailant having…
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From the moment Steven King’s novel 11/22/63 was announced, there were efforts to turn it into a film, even before it had been released. However, its length and detail made it a difficult adaptation. Enter J.J. Abrams and streaming platform Hulu a few years later, and the book found its way into a eight part…
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