Let’s be real, I don’t think everybody’s completely recovered from the release of Kendrick Lamar‘s DAMN. yet. I know we’re not. Following his Easter weekend gift of an album and that Coachella performance, the online arena doesn’t know whether to be shook or woke right now but Kung Fu Kenny hasn’t waited round, instead coming through again; this time,…
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Your final chance to see The Dillinger Escape Plan on stage is coming this October, with the group outlaying their plans for their final ever run of shows in Australia. They’ve been hitting it hard on stages around the world for 20 years and with their final album Dissociation set to have The Dillinger Escape Plan going harder…
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Canadian Music Week is raring up in Toronto at the moment, with the music festival continuing through until April 23rd. There’s a great group of Australian artists who have hopped on planes out to Canada to take full advantage of the opportunity to showcase their music to a global audience and once more, they’re going to…
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Obviously, their return to Australia in 2016 for Splendour in the Grass brought At The Drive-In much acclaim and their two sideshows left crowds hungry for more out on the east coast. Today though, we can get pumped again, as the group has confirmed their next tour out to Australia is going to be kicking off…
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Returning to Australia (and hitting up NZ) this July with their stellar third album, Near to the Wild Heart of Life, are some of our favourite Canadians – Japandroids. Following incredibly well-received appearances on the east coast as well as at the Meredith and Fairgrounds festivals late last year, Brian and David are returning in a headline capacity for their…
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Melbourne has some kind of magic that breeds punk music, birthed across garages and sweaty stages. Hailing from the inner North, five-piece Clove are no exception, delivering punk that’s emotive, rhythm-driven and very 00’s tinged. Today we’re bringing you an exclusive taste of their second, and heaviest, single release, “I Saw Fire”. Vocalist Mark Jamieson brings a…
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The Cactus Channel are a Melbourne-based instrumental group who are teaming up with Ball Park Music/My Pet Radio‘s Sam Cromack on their upcoming 6-track EP, Do It For Nothing. Ahead of the release on April 21st, you can listen to the EP title track, which follows up their first single “Sorry Hills”. Going through The Cactus Channel’s…
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Sources close to popular gaming news website Eurogamer have indicated that Nintendo will follow up its wildly popular Mini NES console this year with a Mini SNES in time for Christmas.
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In some ways, it feels like Zach Braff’s involvement with Going In Style is the most interesting thing about it. Braff, now almost a decade after his tenure on Scrubs, hasn’t exactly had a perfect hit rate on the big screen. It’s not that he’s not an untalented filmmaker, it’s just his previous movies have…
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Praise Jeebus, the muscles won over the Easter long weekend, as The Fate Of The Furious, the latest film in the Fast and the Furious franchise (and the first since Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift that doesn’t feature Paul Walker) took in $10.07m in its opening week at the box office. The film has…
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When Guardians Of The Galaxy was released in 2014 it was considered a gamble, a bunch of rag-tag characters including a talking raccoon and a tree that says only three words. They were barely known outside of the comics so Marvel was taking a huge risk, but it paid off and the film was yet…
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Wendy & Lucy is a film that could be renamed “A Street Dog Named Lucy.” I tells the story of a homeless and nomadic American woman and her faithful companion, a dog named Lucy. The story is a slow character study that is lacking in characterisation, drama and detail. The story is directed by Kelly…
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Clementine Ford’s latest book Fight Like A Girl packs punches in the best possible way. The feminist commentator has penned a volume that is like a personal polemic; one that is not dissimilar to the work of Lindy West, Caitlin Moran, Tara Moss et al. Fight Like A Girl then, is another important and welcome addition to the ongoing…
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Set among the beautiful surrounds of Robertson Park in Watsons Bay, Sydney, Shakespeare By The Bay presents The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. In partnership with Bard on the Beach, Watsons Bay Hotel and the Woollahra Council, Romeo and Juliet plays out against an ocean backdrop, with the water lapping gently against the dock as…
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