Day: 5 October 2016

Green Day are officially returning to Australia and New Zealand next year

In a sneaky 1am announcement, Frontier Touring have revealed that Green Day will be returning to Australia and New Zealand for their “Revolution Radio Tour” next April and May. They’ll be taking in a run of massive indoor arenas along the way. The band’s first Australian headline tour since 2009, these ones have obviously been…

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Desiigner joins the FOMO Festival next January

Panda. Panda? Panda, panda, panda. That’s right – Desiigner is going to be out in Australia for a brief bit in the New Year, being confirmed to play the FOMO Festival in Adelaide, Brisbane and Sydney in January. The dates will be the first for the rapper and they’ll also be exclusive to the tour, so if you’re…

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Single of the Day: Bad//Dreems “Mob Rule” (2016)

Baddies! The Adelaide crew is back with new single “Mob Rule”, the first taste of the new album that has kept Bad//Dreems squirrelled away a decent part of 2016. Dropping ahead of their national tour with DMAs, the single comes packed with that gritty, gnarly energy that first put the band on the map. It doesn’t feel…

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Flume’s Skin takes a hat-trick of ARIA Awards at official event in Sydney today!

At the official ARIA Award nominations event in Sydney today (still underway), Flume‘s 2016 album Skin has cleaned up, taking away three awards for Best Cover Art, Best Engineer and Producer of the Year. “We’re making incredible music here and everyone should be very proud of that.” engineer Eric J Dubowsky said, accepting his award for his work on the…

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Album Review: Solange – A Seat At The Table (2016 LP)

Solange Knowles‘ A Seat At The Table may very well be the album that brings the artist to breakthrough-levels of success but for those who have been following her music for the last few years, this 21-track epic is the result of a creative talent that has been thriving and developing outside the mainstream for quite some time….

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Bree Tranter announces national headline tour this November!

With her last solo performance over two years ago, Bree Tranter fans will be stoked to hear her headline tour announcement today, bringing the ex-The Middle East member to Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane this November for her Another Night on Earth East Coast Tour. The multi-instrumentalist’s critically acclaimed debut, Another Night on Earth, will be…

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Doom metal trio Roundtable announce east coast tour this October!

Following from their critically-acclaimed debut album Dread Marches Under Bloodied Regalia released last 2015, Roundtable are set to take on the east coast with a handful of shows due to make heads turn. This Melbourne trio find themselves somewhere in the realm of doom/sludge metal, with their sound distinctly tinged with a healthy dose of stoner…

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Shining Bird’s Black Opal tour kicking off in Canberra tonight!

Ahead of releasing their highly-anticipated sophomore album Black Opal due October 7, Australiana-pop outfit Shining Bird are kicking off their huge album launch tour tonight in Canberra, seeing them through Deadlam Festival (Brisbane) plus shows in Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales and the Northern Territory. Inspired by living in the Blue Mountains and immersing themselves in…

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Music Video of the Day: The Naked and Famous “The Runners” (2016)

The Naked and Famous have provided fans with another slice of goodness from their forthcoming album Simple Forms with a new music video released for single “The Runners”. Continuing to showcase a refined and slick brand of electro-driven pop, “The Runners” fits in perfectly alongside “Higher” and “Laid Low” – a glistening example of the direction the New…

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Film Review: The Girl on the Train (MA15+) (USA, 2016) is a long ride on the tracks

With the hype likening this Tate Taylor thriller to last year’s hit Gone Girl, The Girl On The Train returns to the classic bleak style but without the twists and turns that make the genre interesting. Adapting a fan-favourite page-turner to the big screen is always a risk, especially when that adaptation involves a relocation…

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Win a double pass to see Flying High (aka Airplane!) at In The House in Sydney

In The House takes to the skies on October 14 at Event Cinemas George St with the ridiculously funny Leslie Nielsen in the comedy classic Flying High known everywhere else in the world as Airplane! Join David “Quinny” Quinn from Supanova Pop Culture Expo and Jason “Jabba” Davis from Channel Seven to celebrate this incredible…

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The HD Remaster of Resident Evil leads the charge for your October PS Plus freebies

Sony continues its hit & miss run of quality free games this month, but fortunately this time it falls to the former, with October offering up a couple of awesome titles. PlayStation 4 Resident Evil 7: Biohazard is still a ways off but Sony are wetting our appetites by giving us the very first Resident…

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Ridley Scott’s son to close The 2016 Sci-Fi Film Festival with his Directorial Debut, Morgan

Luke Scott will draw the curtains to The 2016 Sci-Fi Film Festival with his first feature length directorial project, sci-fi horror Morgan. The son of legendary director Ridley Scott has appropriately inherited his father’s passion for the sci-fi genre, piecing together a project worth his appraisal. Ridley Scott, regarded as a notoriously reticent man, first…

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Tom Cruise is back in the new trailer for Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

Not since the 60’s has a period been so etched by the antihero or rogue agent, and it seems like Tom Cruise is playing them ass. He’s planning to reprise Maverick in Top Gun 2, he recently played Mission Impossible spy Ethan Hunt and this October he will return as everyone’s favourite military policeman, Jack…

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Kristian Fletcher to present a series of cult horror films around Brisbane this Halloween

Kristian Fletcher has a penchant for retro movies and cinematic events. The independent exhibitor has blessed Brisbane for the past 16 years with pop up period-cinema events and will continue to light the beacon for film romantics with his 2016 Halloween event. The event is to take place in various locations around Brisbane from Thursday…

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ACMI to celebrate Asian-Pacific arts with Asia TOPA

ACMI, Melbourne’s hub for film, culture and art (located at Federation Square) will soon be celebrating the Asia-Pacific region with the Asia TOPA festival/program. From Thursday, February 2, 2017, ACMI will home to Bollywood exhibition Bombay Talkies, queer mythology screen installation Ex Nilaling, and video triptych Climax of the Next Scene. Additionally, Ex Nilaling artists will…

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Mel Gibson to hit the red carpet for the Australian Premiere of Hacksaw Ridge

Director Mel Gibson (Braveheart, Passion of the Christ, Apocalypto) will be attending the Australian premiere of star-studded Biopic Hacksaw Ridge.  Written by Andrew Knight, Robert Schenkkan and Randall Wallace, Hacksaw Ridge made its world premiere in Venice were it was met with a ten minute standing ovation. The critically acclaimed film stars a slew of house-hold…

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Perth Festival teases 2017 program with Opening Weekend announcement

The organisers of the Perth International Arts Festival have teased details of their 2017 program, revealing a glimpse at what they have in store for the opening weekend, including details of next year’s opening event. In recent years the festival opening event has been a grand spectacle, from gigantic puppets walking the streets of the…

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World BBQ champion Tuffy Stone will headline Meatstock Melbourne this year

Get your grills out because Meatstock Melbourne is back for another year, and they’ve pulled some big smoking guns to come headline a stacked program in April of next year. Both Tuffy Stone, four-times world BBQ champion, and Jess Pryles, renowned Hardcore Carnivore, will sit at the top of a lineup that once again aims…

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Mister Gee, Knafeh, and Happy as Larry heading to new Western Sydney festival with over 40 food trucks

Food festivals are all the rage now, and Western Sydney is finally getting an onslaught of them. The latest is Off the Eaten Truck Festival, a mammoth sized event presented by Rooty Hill RSL and The Bearded Bakers. Over two days over 40 of the city’s best food trucks will be rolling along to the…

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Converse and DC Comics release The Dark Knight sneakers

Converse have unveiled two retro comic designs in collaboration with DC Comics for the 30th anniversary of Frank Miller’s iconic The Dark Knight Returns. A collage of panels from the mid-60’s featuring Batman, Robin, and Catwoman define the new look Chuck Taylor All Star ’70 sneakers, apparently pulled straight from DC’s archives to illustrate a…

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IKEA is giving out free meatballs in Sydney today!

Some might say Swedish “build it yourself” furniture giants IKEA are as well known for their meatballs as they are for their shelves. Well if you’re one of these people, and you live in Sydney you’ll be excited to find out that today they’re going to be giving out totally free meatballs! Celebrating the launch…

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Birds of the Inner West: Sydney’s fried chicken festival returns with huge line up

Sydney got its first ever food festival dedicated to some of the city’s best fried chicken and wine with Birds of Redfern back in July, a curated line up that brought in the likes of Hartsyard and Mitch Orr to deliver crispy greatness while Cake Wines took care of the locally made drops. It was…

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Review: ABODE Bistro & Bar’s Chocolate High Tea – CBD (Sydney)

High tea is something I grew up having a deep reverence for. My paternal grandmother loved it despite not being big on sweets. But whether you’re into the components of it or not, it’s undeniable that there’s something that’s very refined about sitting in a pretty little salon, nibbling on a huge amount of small things…

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20 of the best breakfasts in and around Sydney

There are so many excellent breakfasts to be found in and around Sydney, with the pre-midday dining scene really shaping up these past few years to rival Melbourne’s gold standard. It also helps that some of these places really show off those million dollar views, absorbing all that atmosphere to really smack you awake while…

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