Month: October 2016

Solange unveils music videos for “Don’t Touch My Hair” and “Cranes In The Sky” from A Seat At The Table

Last Friday, Solange released her highly anticipated new album, A Seat At The Table. The 21 track record, accompanied by an e-book, has already been reaping in the praise and today, she’s shared two official music videos to bolster the great vibes surrounding the follow up to 2012’s True. The music videos, co-directed by Solange and her husband,…

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Music Video of the Day: Cameron Avery “Ces’t Toi” (2016)

The now LA-based Perth native Cameron Avery has a new music video doing the rounds, this time for the dreamy, yet charged up single “Ces’t Toi”. Directed by Mike Bennett and Nathan Lewis (the Joy Collective), we see Avery perform the tune, written about ‘the last time he fell in love’. Recorded with Jonathan Wilson (Father John Misty, Elvis Costello), Avery’s vocals are a…

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Fine Arts, Best Comedy and Artisan ARIA Award nominees announced!

We’re entering ARIA Award territory for another year, with the first round of nominees (Fine Arts, Artisan and Best Comedy) being announced, the winners to be announced at the official ARIA Nominations Event in Sydney this Wednesday. Already, Flume and The Avalanches have had their latest records recognised across all three artisan categories, an impressive indicator of…

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Live Review: City Calm Down + Middle Kids + Ali Barter – 170 Russell (28.09.16)

Supporting last year’s extremely successful debut LP In A Restless House, City Calm Down seem more at home than ever. Straight off the line up from Splendour in the Grass, the electronic-rock band excitably rounded out their month of touring with a string of homegrown gigs at Melbourne’s own 170 Russell. Although a gradual crowd welcomed City Calm…

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The Iris’ EB Games Expo 2016 Awards

PlayStation’s VR is almost ready to be unleashed on a public that largely has very little idea of what awaits them. That idea became a little clearer after EB Expo though, one of the general public’s first real chances to go hands-on with this beautiful piece of immersive tech, with a handful of demos designed…

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It’s Finn-ished: Adventure Time to come to an end in 2018

Prepare to say goodbye to the Land of Ooo and all it’s inhabitants – in case you haven’t heard, sad news has emerged over the weekend that beloved cartoon and pop-culture phenomenon Adventure Time will be coming to an end in the near future. Cartoon Network announced Adventure Time will air it’s final season in…

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Review: Side Show is filled with some freakishly good voices – Hayes Theatre Co, Sydney (Performances until 16th October)

You can always rely on Hayes Theatre Co to bring the shows that you’ve always wanted to see but know in your heart that they’ll be a tough bring. Side Show is precisely one of these shows- with its big number “Who Will Love Me As I Am” and its notable conjoined twin role, it’s a rarely-performed…

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Sokyo’s Chase Kojima to serve premium rice burgers at new casual restaurant (Sydney)

Award-winning Japanese chef Chase Kojima, he who has turned Sokyo into one of the best in Sydney and has opened the equally fantastic Kiyomi on the Gold Coast, has announced that he’ll be moving into something a bit more casual for his third venture, Gojima. Opening up opposite Momofuku Seiobo at The Star, Gojima will…

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Opera Bar plans special long lunch for Good Food Month (Sydney)

Browsing the stacked program for Sydney’s Good Food Month will bring you across some pretty lavish, ambitious events, but pay just as much attention to the simple ones – they’re usually the highlights after the month-long festival of exploring the city’s best through eating and drinking is said and done. An example of such a…

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Review: Sugarcane – Coogee (Sydney)

After years of standing tall as a Surry Hills favourite, Sugarcane has uprooted and opened as a beachside retreat in Coogee. Chef Milan Strbac realised the sea change earlier this year, bringing the sunny suburb his energetic, Asian menu but kicking things up a bit, complementing Milan’s Thai-heavy style with other South East Asian cuisines,…

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Review: Four in Hand by Guillaume – Paddington (Sydney)

Few chefs in Australia command the type of ohhs and ahhs that regularly surround Guillaume Brahimi and everything he does. The man has not only become synonymous with the type of culinary mastery one would find at his eponymous fine-dining restaurant in Paddington, but proven his versatility over recent years with his more accessible Bistro…

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Single of the Day: Planète “Nightcrawler” (2016)

Melbourne muso and producer Planète has come on through with a gorgeous new single in “Nightcrawler”, his first piece of new music released after a lengthy hiatus. At seven minutes, “Nightcrawler” is a slice of house music that engages and draws the listener in, even if house isn’t necessarily your bag. We’ve heard similar releases from Planète in…

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Video Games Interview: Joe Nickolls talks Dead Rising 4

With Xbox FanFest and EB Expo both kicking off over the weekend, we had a chance to chat with Joe Nickolls, studio director of Capcom Vancouver, currently developing Dead Rising 4. We pelted him with questions about the upcoming invent-your-own-mayhem zombie adventure title.

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Recipes: butterflied lamb leg with quinoa tabouli + lamb & feta burgers

Australian lamb is some of the best in the world. The meat also taps into the rich tapestry of cultures that have blended to make for the country’s consistently inventive and exciting food scene, so it’s little surprise that lamb is often seen, and used, as one of the ideal inclusions in any social feast….

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Parramatta Lanes: Western Sydney’s laneway festival announces massive food, drink and art program (Sydney)

Pop-up food festivals are all the rage in Sydney, and this month’s Parramatta Lanes may very well eclipse them all with this epic lineup set to take over ten of the area’s inner city laneways and squares for four delicious days of food, drink, art, and music. Some of the best from all over the…

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Archie Rose, Big Papa’s and more for Marrickville’s weekend food circus (Sydney)

Across three days in November Sydney’s inner-west hub of Marrickville will play host to communal festival Street Food Circus, a forward thinking collective who have tapped into some of the city’s very best to create a pop-up mix of artisan food traders, craft beer, wine, vinyl DJs, and live music. They have looked far and…

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