Since 2016, Spilt Milk has been giving Australians an opportunity to party in Canberra, Ballarat, and now the Gold Coast. It’s known for its sensational line-ups and delivered-upon promises – there’s a reason it sells out in less than 30 minutes when tickets drop! This year, we’ve got another incredible line-up to look forward to….
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The new novel from award-winning author Emily St. John Mandel traverses time and space to tell a multifaceted story of love, endurance, human nature and reality. Sea of Tranquility is set within the same universe as her previous novels Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel offering fans of her earlier works plenty of ‘a-ha’ moments….
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The high-end gaming headset market has assumed a predictable but ultimately reliable cycle; good sound quality, comfort for longer listening periods and a decent microphone, capable of making both the necessary callouts in your games and the odd phone call. Every new headset needs to bring something new to the table if they want to…
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The international acts are starting to travel again, and we were treated in Sydney last night to one of the best, with Wolf Alice playing at the Big Top, in Luna Park, Sydney. At long last, they are able to tour their Blue Weekend album from 2021. As you would expect, the setlist was heavily…
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Everything Everywhere All At Once is now one of A24’s highest grossing releases in the studio’s history, with audiences the world over enamoured with The Daniels‘ trippy, emotional multi-versal action film. If you’re yet to experience Michelle Yeoh‘s extravagance (or you just want to see it again!) we have 5 double in-season passes (Admit 2)…
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Indie-folk rocker Yazmindi hails from Byron Bay and is about to release her latest single, “Talk”. The track oozes swagger and a vibrant melody, where she gives some straight-up advice – you are good enough, you don’t need to pretend to be something you aren’t. We are stoked to be premiering it ahead of its…
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2019’s Downton Abbey, a filmic continuation of the long-running upstairs/downstairs television series that very much played to its strengths of catering to its devoted fans, was a product that very much felt like it had little interest in truly introducing a new dynamic. For Downton Abbey: A New Era, its bi-line is particularly apt, with…
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We love long weekends – particularly when they give us an opportunity to dance, eat well and sing along to Lime Cordiale’s ‘Inappropriate Behaviour’. Groovin’ the Moo (GTM) did just that in Canberra! This year, Groovin’ the Moo was held at the EPIC Showgrounds, a place we usually find graced by farmer’s markets, exhibitions and…
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Hollie Col has been teasing out singles and videos from her fabulous EP, Julia Stevens, for a number of months now, and the wait is finally over, for the release of the EP, and the conclusion to the passion-filled story about the fictional character. The EP was produced and co-written by Hollie and Dylan Nash…
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Producer and musician Just A Gent has just released his latest album, Planet Oasis. It’s hard to believe that it’s four years since his landmark record, Stories To Tell was released. That album has racked up over 20 million streams, and on Spotify, his overall streaming numbers have hit 200 million. Yes, impressive indeed, and…
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Lovers of folk-rock will absolutely crush on “Paralysed” from Sydney singer-songwriter Maia Toakley. This is a song that oozes honesty, the raw and heartfelt lyrics striking a chord. We are thrilled today to be premiering it ahead of its release tomorrow. Maia explores the paralysing nature of self-doubt. Her vocals draw you into her world,…
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Diane Connell’s The Improbable Life of Ricky Bird is about twelve-year-old Ricky Bird, whose life is slowly but surely falling apart during the summer that she becomes a teenager. Her parents have separated and her mother is moving Ricky and her six-year-old brother Ollie from Brixton to Camden to be closer to their mum’s boyfriend,…
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Netflix have released the first official still and release date for their forthcoming Chris Hemsworth thriller Spiderhead. Based on “Escape from Spiderhead” by George Saunders, a short story from The New Yorker, the Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick) directed film follows a brilliant visionary (Hemsworth’s Steve Abnesti) who runs a state-of-the-art penitentiary who experiments on…
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Uncaged Australia’s newest rock and roll festival was unleashed onto an enthusiastic crowd at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion and surrounds. Headlined by the mighty Wolfmother, even with Andrew Stockdale in a knee brace, they totally rocked out. Great performances from You Am I, NZ’s Shihad, Magic Dirt, Tim Rogers on vocals with Hard Ons, Twelve Foot…
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Thanks to Potential Films, we have 3 double in-season passes (Admit 2) to give away for the upcoming release of Wheel of Fortune & Fantasy, the new film from Ryusuke Hamaguchi, director of the Oscar-winning Drive My Car, set for release in Australian cinemas from April 28th, 2022. Composed of three short stories, WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY is a Japanese…
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To get to infinity and beyond, we need to explore the before. The upcoming animated sci-fi adventure Lightyear, from Disney and Pixar, is the definitive origin story of Buzz Lightyear, the hero who inspired Toy Story‘s fearless space warrior. Lightyear follows the legendary Space Ranger (voiced by Chris Evans) after he’s marooned on a hostile…
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A recently remarried Jack White took to the stage last night in Brooklyn’s Barclay Stadium, as part of his North American tour for the brilliant new album Fear of the Dawn – one of the iconic Detroit musician’s finest to date, and the first of two albums he’s set to release this year. The 2…
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It hasn’t even been a week since Harry Styles performed ‘As It Was’ for the first time and unveiled two brand new songs. Yet, fans from Australia and New Zealand are getting more sensational news, further satiating their voracious desire for all things Harry Styles. Harry Styles will be coming to Australia and New Zealand…
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Shipwrecks, court fashions and the Dutch art trade of the 17th Century take centre stage in Lauren Chater’s third historical novel, The Winter Dress. Chater was inspired by a shipwreck discovered in 2014 off the island of Texel, containing a dress perfectly preserved underwater for four hundred years. The dress was later found to have belonged…
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After taking a short break for Easter and Bluesfest, we’re back and adding ten new tracks to our Discovery playlist on Spotify and Apple Music. Our Track of the Week this time around goes to Melbourne singer-songwriter BATTS, who is kicking off her 2022 with a new label and a brand new single, “Blue” which…
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Perth psych-rock band Psychedelic Porn Crumpets are one of the whackiest acts in the country, but also one of the most inventive. Their fifth studio album Night Gnomes – to be released 22 April – sheds light on the darker moments in the past two years of lockdowns and border restrictions. The fun and friendly…
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Presented by Circa, Wolfgang’s Magical Musical Circus has a short stint at the Theatre Royal, adding a cheeky element of fun to the school holidays. The show is a more ‘child-friendly’ version of its adult counterpart, Circa’s Peepshow, which runs parallel in the evenings. The classical composer’s music comes to life on stage as the…
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“I will avenge you, Father; I will save you, Mother; I will kill you, Fjölnir.” These muttered, repeated words by Viking prince Amleth (played by Oscar Novak as a young boy, and a hulking, angry Alexander Skarsgård as an adult) are essentially summarising Robert Eggers‘ narrative intentions in The Northman, an ugly, brutal, at-times Shakespearean drama….
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If you thought it was too soon for a pandemic novel, you might just be put off by the premise of Toni Jordan’s newest book, Dinner with the Schnabels…don’t be! Known for her versatility across both the contemporary and historical genres, the Melbourne-based novelist has just published her first novel with Hachette. Schnabels follows down-on-his-luck former-architect Simon…
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Day five of Bluesfest comes around all too soon. The end is in sight, but there’s still the chance to see bands that you missed the first time round, and there are always a few that haven’t played yet. One of those was perennial favourite Kate Ceberano. Her voice is better than ever, she had…
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Rock and Roll festivals are back baby after a long COVID break! A brand new festival “Uncaged” has been unleashed on the East Coast of Australia playing iconic live music venues including Hordern Pavilion Sydney, Eaton Hill Hotel Brisbane and Festival Hall Melbourne. Sydney is the first city to be reached, this coming Saturday (23rd…
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The SteelSeries Apex 3 TKL (TenKeyLess) keyboard is an entry-level gaming keyboard that sits beside its larger sibling, the Apex 3. The Apex 3 TKL does away with the numeric keypad and wrist rest, all while providing a smaller, more compact alternative that holds some nifty features and smooth functionality for genera all-around use, even…
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The third album has always seemingly been the make or break album for a lot of bands. Often garnering some love on the first album after a string of successful EPs and singles, a band might follow up with the fabled sophomore slump or recycle reliable sounds from their first album and release as new…
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The excitement was palpable as we crunched our way through mud and pebbles towards the 33rd annual Byron Bay Bluesfest. After two years of cancellations, the 2022 festival was not just a celebration of music but a true celebration of life and the joy of human connection. I’d had my first Bluesfest experience back in…
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Australian singer, writer, producer and engineer Aaron Lee a.k.a Airports has this week released “Second 2 Breathe”. “Second 2 Breathe” is Airports’ first solo release of 2022, and promises to be just the first release from a larger body of six tracks set for release this year. The single builds upon Airports’ trademark style, which…
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