Brisbane based musician and producer Alex L’Estrange comes to us today with new single, “Mr Mild”. Delicate and ethereal from the first listen, this little number is full of melody and gorgeous indie pop tones. Having already cut his teeth on the live front with his band, playing with the likes of Julia Jacklin, Hey Geronimo…
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Ahead of their national tour in support of their new album Midnight At The Plutonium, The John Steel Singers have announced via Facebook that they’re going to be going on hiatus after those tour dates. Having toured through the UK and Europe over the last few years off the back of Everything’s a Thread and then landing some impressive…
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It’s back! Rolling Stone is bringing its Live Lodge to the Workers Club in Melbourne for another year, taking over the Brunswick/Gertrude Street venue for three weeks of incredible live music. Like previous Live Lodge events before it, this year’s series will feature not only special live gigs, but artist Q&A’s, DJ’s and their own bar, open seven…
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Captives, the Tassie-Melbourne punk five piece, have been readying their debut album for people to get around by first releasing the music video for the first single from it, “Vines”. The song, which saw the band link up with Shihad‘s Tom Larkin on production, is visceral and frenetic; guitars and percussion scratch and thunder on, while the…
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Ahead of the 2016 Bush Bands Bash concert this month, there comes the Bush Bands Business skills development camp for the bands selected to participate in the Bush Bands Program. Run by MusicNT, the program has been running for seven years now in connecting musicians from different Aboriginal communities with visiting members of the industry over three days…
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Morrissey fans, take note. We all know by now that Moz is going to be on his way back to Australia for a run of headline shows in October (Sydney date still to be confirmed), but today we’ve gotten official word about ticket sales. If you’re a Frontier Member, you’ll have access to a special pre-sale…
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The Lavazza Italian Film Festival is returning for the 13th consecutive year to showcase the very best and freshest films in Italian cinema. Opening night will see the premiere of Perfect Strangers (Perfetti sconosciuti). Seven friends at a dinner party decide to share the content of every message, email and phone call they receive over the night during which more…
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Miss Saigon: The 25th Anniversary Performance is coming to cinemas around the world, including Australia this October. The acclaimed new staging of Boubil and Schönberg’s Miss Saigon was one of the most highly anticipated musical events the West End had seen in recent years. It broke box office records and won numerous awards. Shot in front…
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File this one under “bucket list festivals”. The Jasper Dark Sky Festival is an annual event in Jasper, Alberta, Canada, which starts just as the “dark months” of Canada start coming into focus, but before the freezing weather starts. It thus sits the event – which runs this year from October 14th to 23th –…
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Today we conclude our culinary adventure through the Summer festival of North America in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, for the annual Edmonton Folk Festival, which kicks off again this Thursday. But before the event starts once again, we wanted to look back to our time at the event last year and deliver you some of our…
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Here is a dance show that is so much more than just a dance show. What Jump First, Think Later brings to audiences is a poignant and raw tale of six young parkour and urban dancers who represent Australia’s wonderful multiculturalism. The narrative of this 50-minute show is really heartwarming as Joe Carbone, Johnny Do, Justin Kilic, Jimmy James…
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Peter Conistis’ Alpha Restaurant has long been known as one of Sydney’s greatest Greek restaurants, situated right next to the Hellenic Club with one of the CBD’s most enticing interiors. The space, the work of designers DS17, is as charming as the food and drink Conistis’ team serve daily, which leaves little wonder as to…
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Nestled in the corner right outside of Box Hill Central, the newly opened Miss Saigon sits, sporting its wide-windowed exterior with a shapely queue of hungry customers waiting outside the door. Being welcomed with the aromas of traditional and flavoursome Vietnamese herbs and spices of lime, chilli and smoky beef flavours made me all the…
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Lollapalooza closed outs its 25th year celebration in big time fashion Sunday night. Sunday night lacked the giant headliners that Friday and Saturday had but had plenty of star power and variety to close out in perfect fashion. LCD Soundsystem and Elle Goulding had the honors of closing out the two main stages. The two…
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Fans of Michael Franti & Spearhead are in for a special treat when the band comes back to Australia next month for two exclusive dates on the east coast! They’ll be hitting up both The Croxton Bandroom and The Metro Theatre late September, bringing their new album Soulrocker to Australia for the first time. Of course, the…
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Taken from their forthcoming new album Zone, Jeff the Brotherhood have recently gifted us with a new tune in “Idiot”. The album is out next week via Dine Alone Records and in this tune, it would seem that the duo are up to some more gritty, hook-laden mischief once again. A great slice of garage rock that…
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Dustin Tebbutt is soon to be out on the road with his highly anticipated debut album First Light and to keep us excited, he’s dropped a new music video for his gorgeous single “Wooden Heart”. “How I found you I’m not sure,” he sings. “Now we’re a thing worth fighting for…” Dripping with sentimental lyricism and melody, the single is…
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Melbourne group The Sand Dollars have continued to spur on the great momentum generated by impressive live shows and single releases through 2015 with a killer new slice of indie goodness in “Silence is Gold”. It keeps things snappy; coming in just over two and a half minutes in length, the single is driven by solid guitar…
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Having seen The Cure at Splendour in the Grass six nights previous to their Adelaide show, I had a pretty good idea of what kind of show I was walking into when I got into the venue on Friday night. With three hours allocated to their beloved catalogue of music and no support act, these headline shows of…
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In town as part of Australia’s premier winter festival Splendour In The Grass, Los Angeles natives The Internet hit Sydney’s Metro Theatre stage and left the crowd frothing at the bit in one of the most satisfying displays and uses of bass in recent memory. Opening the night was local DJ and quite possibly The…
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It feels like Montaigne’s debut album, Glorious Heights, has been a long time coming. Yeah, she’s been in listener’s ears since being unearthed back in 2011, but it’s not like she’s spent the past five years sitting back resting on the laurels she created as a high schooler. Some might not have blamed her if…
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If inferences can be drawn on the fans of Larry David, then the announcement of a ninth season of Curb Your Enthusiasm is probably being greeted with a lot of nonchalant, unenthusiastic cheers right about now. It has been five years since the friendly face of the neurotic Larry David flashed the screens of HBO…
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As Lights Out continues its surge through the box office, now accumulating as much as US$27 million in domestic sales since its July 22nd release, New Line Cinema have already ordered a successor to the film. David F. Sandberg and his wife Lotta Losten are reportedly both to return to work on Lights Out 2,…
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It’s not very often a film will change my perspective on life, but after viewing Taryn Brumfitt’s documentary Embrace it was a completely different story. The roots of this inspiring documentary stem from a post of Brumfitt’s that went viral in 2013, depicting Taryn in an unconventional before and after photo – from having a…
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Welcome to a brand new month and a new set of TV picks that will glue you to your seat.
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Written and directed by Maren Ede, Toni Erdmann is a meandering delight. By turns hilarious and poignant, it concerns the ageing Winfried Conradi’s frequently maladroit attempts to re-establish some sort of a meaningful relationship with his adult daughter, Ines, in the course of a spontaneous trip to visit her in Bucharest, the Romanian capital. Unkempt,…
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Continuing an amazing run of celebrity visits over the last couple of months, the stars of Bridget Jones’s Baby are coming to Australia. Bridget Jones herself, Academy Award winner Renee Zellweger and McDreamy (Grey’s Anatomy) himself, Patrick Dempsey – who joins the franchise for the first time – will both be in Australia to promote…
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From August 4th, IMAX Darling Harbour will be screening the latest DC Comics blockbuster Suicide Squad. With an all-star cast including Margot Robbie, Will Smith and Jared Leto, Suicide Squad is about a group of supervillains who accept a secret government mission that will likely results in their deaths. Watch the film trailer here IMAX…
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Biographical films, especially ones that revolve around triumphs of the human spirit, can range from the truly inspirational The Pursuit of Happiness to award-bait films like the dull and manipulative The Blind Side to unmitigated disasters like the agonizing Patch Adams. However, very few of those films show the comedic side of life and this is where Eddie the Eagle…
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The fashionable Pullman Sydney Hyde Park teams up with equally fashionable Australian interiors and homewares brand Matt Blatt to create a unique Matt Blatt-themed suite. Pullman Hotels and Resorts, hotel group Accor‘s higher-end hotels, offers mostly business travellers and visitors a combination of efficiency and wellness. Pullman has over 108 hotels and resorts in 31…
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