Mystery surrounds CBD restaurant Norsk Dor, a unique Scandinavian venture from a team that has up until now been best known for their work behind small bar Uncle Ming’s. If it wasn’t for the modest signage and menu standing outside on Pitt Street, it’d be difficult to discern what the street level entrance actually leads…
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Talk about a way to wake up on a Wednesday morning: for another year, the Byron Bay Bluesfest has delivered its first artist announcement and it’s another big’n. Confirmed to perform at the Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm over the Easter long weekend next April are some of the most important names in contemporary music, including Patti Smith, who…
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This is one hell of a day house party. You’ve got a dance party in the backyard, an extensive vinyl collection inside, people of all different backgrounds drinking, smoking, loving, fighting…you name it. As Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds describe, it’s a ‘cross section of brown and beautiful eccentric types from every walk…
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Julien Baker will be touring Australia for the first time at the end of the year, fitting in some awesome festival appearances at not only Fairgrounds in December, but at Queenscliff and Mullum music festivals, but some unmissable headline shows dotted around the country too. For the US singer-songwriter, the trip will see her debut…
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January will see Dinosaur Jr return to Australia, bringing with them their latest album, Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not! Now with a catalogue of eleven studio albums to their name, comprehending just how these set lists will come together is a little daunting but knowing how long these shows have been anticipated, we’re fairly certain Dinosaur Jr are…
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Melbourne’s Alexander Biggs has once again charmed the hell of us with his latest single, “Tidal Wave”. The third single taken from his debut EP Until I Go To Hell, “Tidal Wave” is another stunning release from this emerging artist set up for wider acclaim, for sure. Biggs has a fragility to his voice that is arresting…
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Following on from this morning’s announcement that London Grammar would be joining Childish Gambino on this year’s Falls Festival tour, the festival organisers have continued to make our Tuesday by following through with a stack of international and local names set to hit festival sites in Lorne, Byron and Marion Bay and of course for its first year, Fremantle,…
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During my first listen of The John Steel Singers’ new EP, Midnight at the Plutonium, it’s a cold Melbourne winter day, but damn, this album makes it feel like a Brisbane summer afternoon. At just eight tracks, it’s short and sweet, and the funk that seeps through has a good chance of getting you bopping around,…
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Gary Ross’ Civil War drama Free State of Jones recounts one of the most interesting, albeit lesser-known, tales from the 1860s and 70s in Mississippi. Matthew McConaughey’s Newton Knight, disillusioned with the Confederate forces, deserts the war and builds himself a ragtag army comprised of poor farmers and runaway slaves, bent on fighting back against…
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Believe it or not, this isn’t a film about Simone Biles latent fifth gold medal that became a bronze. Aside from the scenes of gymnastics, this film is about as far from the grace of the American superstar as any film could possibly be, but unabashedly so. The Bronze is what happens when The Big…
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The Antenna Documentary Film Festival has delivered us a snippet of what’s to come in their 2016 program, releasing the titles of twelve of the documentaries set to air over the festival period (Tuesday 11 – Sunday 16 October) at the Palace Cinemas in Paddington, Sydney. The film festival will focus on highlighting the diversity…
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So if you’re over superhero films, Will Smith, Margot Robbie and Jared Leto, you will not be happy to hear that Suicide Squad remains top of the Box Office ladder this week, its third week in no. 1 since its premiere week. The DC Comics’ supervillains remain in top spot with AU$3.18 million made this week, followed by Bad Moms, having…
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Now in its fifth year, Oz Comic-Con’s dedicated focus to the very best across the local and international pop culture sphere places it in a league of its own. 2016 will see the return of the show-stopping Australian Championships of Cosplay. Plus a huge range of new and exclusive event features, including Australia’s best comic…
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Now that the Olympics have returned to hibernation, new shows are premiering and promising ones at that. Here are our picks this week. Tuesday 800 Words, Ch7, 8:45pm AEST George and Jan seek relationship advice while George and Arlo try to find a way to bring Shay back. Hell on Wheels, FX, 8:30pm AEST Truckee…
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Starring Jean Reno and Gary Oldman, and delivering the big screen debut of a young Natalie Portman, Leon The Professional is a classic action crime thriller. Leon (Reno), a professional hitman, reluctantly takes in 12-year-old Mathilda (Portman), after her family is murdered by corrupt Drug Enforcement Administration agent Norman Stansfield (Oldman). Léon and Mathilda form…
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Aided by funding from the Victorian Government and The Ian Potter Foundation, Monash University has announced that The Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts will be opening at the Clayton campus in the coming years, with two new performance venues adjoining the Alexander Theatre. The 586 seat Alexander Theatre, built in 1967, will undergo a refurbishment as…
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Hidden Sydney – an immersive, exhilarating and witty cabaret experience is set over four floors of “The Nevada”, the former Sydney brothel which boasted the biggest bed in the world. This exciting new theatrical event will play from 16 September. The star studded ensemble cast, as glittering as the Cross itself, includes – Ray Badran,…
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FORM Dance Projects and Riverside Theatres will present Metadata, an immersive work from the acclaimed dance performance company, De Quincey Co. Metadata includes two works, Pure Light and Moths & Mathematics, created by leading Australian dance, video, sound and animation artists. The two works probe the latest developments in physics and cosmology, with the artists…
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Come September, two days of surfing through a sweet sea of sugary treats will once again define the annual smooth Festival of Chocolate which each year transforms The Rocks into a hotbed of dessert trends both new and old, pastry pop-ups, cooking demos, and more. Some of the country’s best will be turning out for…
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Last Thursday, Ben Woolner-Kirkham and Harry Sayers, aka two-thirds of certified Aussie electro legends SAFIA joined us for a chat in Sydney ahead of the release of their long-awaited debut album Internal and their huge national tour. Releasing the music video for their latest single, “Over You”, the day of our morning chat, the boys tell us about their shiny…
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The Pandora party comes to Sydney this October, with news being revealed this week that the music platform and the folk behind the go-to music source will be hosting the first ever Pandora Warehouse event in Sydney. The Warehouse party adds on to Pandora’s world renowned run of events right through the US which include the popular Pandora…
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ICMYI recently, Cass McCombs will be back in Australia for a run of hot headline and festival shows in December! Already announced to be performing at this year’s Meredith Music Festival, McCombs will also be hitting venues in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane on either side of the festival show. An acclaimed songwriter, McCombs has been drawing…
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HUGE. TLC will be heading out to Australia and New Zealand this November for a tour fans have been hanging out for for a long time. Since the death of group member Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopes in 2002, TLC have continued to tour around the world but haven’t released any new music in over a decade. Until now. With…
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An eclectic group of musicians have been selected as finalists for FBi Radio’s Northern Lights competition for 2016! The competition offers the winning artist the opportunity to fly to Iceland to not only performed at the esteemed Iceland Airwaves Music Festival this November, but also record at Sigur Rós‘ Sundlaugin Studio for a day before bringing the music they made…
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Long may Client Liaison reign as purveyors of the glam. Purveyors of the funk. Wearers of magnificent power blazers and vests. Fresh out the gate with their new single “Wild Life”, the Melbourne group have come swinging – another musical gem of full of colour, co-written by Geordie Hewitt (Cleopold) and mixed by the master Eric J Dubowsky (Flight…
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Fresh off some killer shows with Grouplove, one of our favourite songstresses, Lisa Mitchell, has announced a brand new headline tour of Australia to support her highly anticipated new album, Warriors! The Something About These Streets tour will take Lisa around the country through October, showcasing music from the new album, including her latest single “The Boys”, a tune that has…
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Young UK artist Billie Marten has been on our radar for a little while now and as we near the release of her debut album Writing of Blues And Yellows (due out September 23rd), we’ve been eagerly getting around each bit of new music she’s been releasing in the lead up. The latest gem from Marten comes in…
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Lastlings have really started to gain momentum off the back of their stunning single “You”, and the next few weeks are certain to put the sibling duo further on the map with some lucrative shows lined up down the east coast. With BIGSOUND firmly on the horizon for Amy and Josh Dowdle, Lastlings are also set to support two…
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Currently airing on SBS to rave reviews, Trapped is an Icelandic TV series that tells the story of recently re-located police officer Andri Olafsson, who moved his life to a small town at the bottom of a beautiful fjord in the northeast of Iceland, leaving behind a questionable past in Reykjavik. It’s the first Icelandic…
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This Wednesday, The Martian follows its huge box office and home release success with an updated release on DVD and Blu-Ray. The Martian – Extended Edition comes with two cuts of the film, the theatrical release, and a new extended version that runs an extra ten minutes. You can read a full review of the…
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