Australia’s largest independent arts festival has released details on over 300 productions that will take over Sydney venues this September. Covering theatre, physical theatre and circus, music, comedy, visual art, film, cabaret, musical theatre, dance and spoken word, the Sydney Fringe Festival this year launches with a “call to party”, highlighting and celebrating the city’s…
Read MoreThe team behind what is now one of Australia’s most iconic burger joints, Mary’s, aren’t messing around when it comes to overturning dagwood dogs and those weirdly shaped chip things to become reigning champions of festival food. Just the other week, the crew were invited up to mega-festival Splendour in the Grass for the second…
Read MoreFor the business traveler, time spent away from home often conjures up the mentality of having no creature comforts around. No familiar faces, no familiar items. This becomes all the more apparent at the airport lounge, where the décor serves a more functional purpose, and aesthetics more or less fly out the window. The food…
Read MoreThere is no denying that Italy is a food lover’s paradise. The culture and the cuisine can send a visiting foodie into fits of whatever the hell it is that makes a foodie uscire di senno (lose your head); this is where a joint like Italian Street Kitchen comes into play, an “over the bridge”…
Read MoreThe AU Review recently captured Australian artist Jack Carty performing his new track “I’m Not Sure I’m Here At All” in a park out the front of the famed Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The track is taken from Jack’s brand new record Home State, which is released tomorrow, on 5th August 2016. This…
Read MoreWarpaint will be releasing their third album, Heads Up, come September 23rd and today, we’ve been loving their new single, the aptly titled “New Song”. The new tune marks the first piece of new Warpaint music in a little while, with the band members spending time outside Warpaint either exploring solo records or other creative projects….
Read MoreMelbourne psych-folk pop group Cold Hands Warm Heart are the latest local artists to be featured in our Stumbled Upon series! Finding each other through uni and other bands, the group is currently gearing up for a special show at the Gasometer Hotel to launch their new music video for “Nightfall”. Learn some more about the…
Read MoreEzekiel Ox is soon to be on the road with his new EP, Proper Gander, this November! Hitting venues down the east coast later on this year, Ox is bringing an excellent band of musicians on tour to bring the new EP to life; Steven Smith (drums), Drew Goddard (guitar) and Sarox Martin (bass) all set to add their own flair….
Read MoreHorrorshow have finally given us some new material in their latest single, “If You Know What I Mean”! The Sydney duo have come through with some hot tour dates for October as well but in the meantime, let’s have a suss of Adit and Solo‘s new beat. As you’d expect from Horrorshow, the production on “If You Know…
Read MoreThe first round of showcasing artists and speakers for Australian Music Week has been announced! 25 names have been locked down to perform at the music summit going down in Cronulla this November 2nd-4th. The applications for artists wanting to showcase at Australian Music Week have also been extended, closing on August 19th. If you want…
Read MoreSticky Fingers have revealed details of the highly anticipated follow up album to their acclaimed Land of Pleasure, plus some national tour dates for later in the year! The boys’ new record, Westway (The Glitter & The Slums), will be released on September 30th, the result of a four week recording period/sojourn in Thailand at Karma Sounds Studios…
Read MoreThe Contemporary Music program of this year’s Melbourne Festival has been unveiled – another exciting and diverse range of shows pulled together to whet the appetites of music fans this October. Among the headline performances is a special tribute to David Bowie in David Bowie: Nothing Has Changed, featuring iOTA, Tim Rogers, Steve Kilbey, Adalita and Deborah Conway, backed by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra….
Read MoreNever put it past Nick Cave to do things a bit differently. Stirring up the hype surrounding new music with news of a new Bad Seeds project in the works, some more details have been unveiled when it comes to the band’s new, sixteenth studio album, Skeleton Tree. Set to be released globally on September 9th, the only…
Read MoreWith his new album KING coming out this month, Mike Noga has announced a run of tour dates for September! The record, a concept outing based around George Büchner‘s 1830 play Woyzeck, KING has seen Noga work with Paul Dempsey on production and have actor Noah Taylor onboard as ‘The Narrator’. A story of a man’s descent into madness, KING is easily a collection of material that…
Read MoreAs the much anticipated entry in the DC Cinematic Universe Suicide Squad opens this week, it has been announced that one of its stars Karen Fukuhara, who plays Katana, will be part of the Supanova’s lineup in Adelaide and Brisbane this November. Katana, a masked assassin assigned to protect Rick Flag, the leader of the…
Read MoreAcclaimed artist and filmmaker Lynette Wallworth will present a virtual reality film experience titled Collisions at ACMI from October this year. The free exhibition will be a part of the Melbourne Festival, and will run at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image from Thursday 6 October 2016 to Sunday 15 January 2017. Exploring the…
Read MoreWe’ve heard the rumours for months but now Ubisoft Motion Pictures have officially announced that their newest IP, The Division is coming to the silver screen.
Read MoreFor those who have been waiting to clear out a bit of space in their overstuffed home theatres, Microsoft have come to the rescue. The Xbox One S, Microsoft’s smaller, leaner Xbox One console is available today across the nation.
Read MoreFemFlix is set to open at Sydney College of the Arts (SCA), at the University of Sydney, on 10 August 2016. It will feature an overlooked decade of feminism, the 1990s, that highlighted zine counter-culture, post-punk gestures, and cyberfeminists on screen. It will feature the work of Australian filmmakers who led the new wave of…
Read MoreThe Environmental Film Festival Australia (EFFA), now in its seventh year, is set to return to Melbourne next month. From 29 September, the EFFA will kick off in Melbourne and then tour nationally, covering Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Hobart. EFFA encourages the participation of environmental advocates, film buffs, academics, business people, scientists, government, and creatives, all…
Read MoreThe USA is well into their summer, so blockbuster after blockbuster have been trotted out, both here and internationally, while Australian audiences delight in getting great content as we freeze our butts off. Matt Damon‘s new action-venture, Jason Bourne, has just made it through its first weekend in Australia and it’s already done well over the previous week’s newest release, Star Trek Beyond (making…
Read MoreThe DC Comics Extended Universe (aka DCEU) has a bit of catching up to do if it wants to level up to its competitor Marvel. Even though DC has some of the more renowned superheroes in its deck of cards – Superman and Batman being two aces – it hasn’t had as much luck with…
Read MoreTourism Australia have announced a $20 million deal with Qantas aimed at promoting Australia to the world, emphasising the use of digital marketing with a sharp focus on the U.S, Asia, U.K, and Europe. Seeing as Qantas carry 27 million passengers each year and, together with codeshare and oneworld partners, offer customers access to more…
Read MoreThe heads of agreement regarding a proposed merger between the University of Sydney‘s Sydney College of the Arts and the University of New South Wales Art & Design faculty was terminated by USyd Vice-Chancellor Dr. Michael Spence earlier this week. In an email sent out to students, Dr. Spence said that the “two institutions have a…
Read MoreCramming as many tasty yeeros into that mouth of yours for a shot at an easy $1,000 voucher seems like a good way to spend an afternoon, no? That’s what you’ll be doing if you head along to The Civic Hotel next week, as Tuesday 9th August will see an official yeeros eating contest to…
Read MoreFive new venues will be opening up around Sydney this month as part of a rapid rollout from Urban Purveyor Group, the hospitality giant behind winners like Sake Restaurant & Bar, Ananas Bar & Brasserie, and the recently acquired Fratelli Fresh brand. This includes the first of Fratelli Fresh’s Fratelli Famous pizzeria spin-off, which expands…
Read MoreThe latest artist to join the I OH YOU family, Jack River, has unveiled her debut music video for her impressive tune “Talk Like That”. The clip, directed by Victor Pakpour, the music video is stunningly shot on film, adding to that grainy home video style feeding into the sense of nostalgia and wandering offered by the…
Read MoreNewcastle’s THIS THAT festival has today unveiled its official artist line up, naming the likes of Sampa The Great, Elliphant, Hermitude, SAFIA, Peking Duk and more to join the already announced ScHoolboy Q (in his only Australian festival gig for 2016). Taking place on the Newy Foreshore on November 5th this year, THIS THAT organisers have curated one killer line up that will…
Read MoreIn an awesome move by the dedicated folk at the Live Music Office, a new online mapping tool for musicians and music industry members has been developed to aid the successful establishment and creation of tour – the Live Music Map. Artists and the wider music industry will be able to access information on the essentials;…
Read MoreThe celebrations around their new EP Let Me Be Clear continue in their hometown of Sydney tonight, with Gang of Youths set to perform and exclusive FREE show at the Newtown Social Club this evening. Numbers are obviously going to be extremely limited, so if you want to see the band showcasing their new record, be sure to get to the…
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