Larry Heath sat backstage over the weekend to chat with the UK’s Fat as Butter to talk about Texas outfits, Red Bull sleeps, touring around Asia, underground music scenes, returning to Australia and much more in this UNCUT interview… listen on! Remaining tour dates: Tue 25th The Hi Fi, Brisbane, QLD WITH YOUNG MEN DEAD…
Read MoreThe tail end of the film year is always filled with a healthy mix of blockbusters for the holiday season, and the Oscar-ready arthouse films that are waiting for your critical approval. Here now are the ten films we can’t wait for, and we’ll start out with a film that we don’t have to! It…
Read MoreWith sell out tours from bands like Hanson and S Club, not to mention the forthcoming tours of bands like Wheatus and Eiffel 65 thanks to Fat as Butter festival, plus the forthcoming reunion album from Soundgarden, reminiscing about the 90s seems to be all the rage at the moment. So, in the spirit of…
Read MoreThe second single off Edward Guglielmino‘s critically acclaimed record Sunshine State has been released, and we have its exclusively morbid video premiere! Indeed, “You’ll Be The Death Of Me” lives up to its title and takes an interesting turn… we hope you enjoy it as much as we did – but don’t say we didn’t…
Read MoreAbout to embark on a tour to celebrate the single of the same name, Little Scout have just released a special remix of “Go Quietly” by the one and only Jonathan Boulet. Get a free download of the track HERE or enjoy the track below!
Read MoreWith Splendour sideshows set to hit the country TOMORROW with the Spin Off Festival in Adelaide, we thought we’d take a look at 5 sideshows we don’t reckon you should miss…. 5. BAND OF SKULLS One of my personal favourite sets and sideshows of the 2010 Splendour, the rock band are one of the few…
Read MoreMelbourne trio Pony Face have a new album coming out next month, and they’ve come out swinging with the second single to be released from it – “Silver Tongue”. You can get your first listen to it below and you can listen to it as a free download here: http://ponyface.bandcamp.com/ “Silver Tongue” is the second…
Read MoreCMJ – or College Music Journal – is a weekly print publication and website that looks at the College Music scene, as well as throwing an annual music industry festival in New York in October. Always keen to discover new music, the folks behind CMJ have been kind enough to exclusively share their favourite new…
Read MoreIn this ongoing series we introduce you to songs that have (legally) borrowed, alluded to, been inspired by or stolen from (knowingly or unknowingly) the riff of another song. And we’ll have plenty more for you in the weeks ahead… this week we look at a more obvious riff off, where the riff from the…
Read MoreSydney electronic outfit Fox are getting ready to pump out some new music and we have the exclusive stream of the first track to come from them since last year’s self-titled EP, “Punchup”. We look forward to hearing what our contributors have to say on this one!
Read MoreFollowing on from last week’s profile of Ustralian, we get to know Deaf Wish, a Toronto based record label, website, party thrower and much more… Rock Trembath fills us in on what they’re up to North of the equator. What is Deaf Wish? DEAFWISH started as a record label for the music our friends were…
Read MoreYou may say we’re flogging a dead horse on this one, and you might be right, but we thought we’d use the recent controversy surrounding Delta Goodrem and a certain Arcade Fire song to help re-introduce you to the series we launched last year: Song Riff Offs. In the series we introduce you to songs…
Read MoreAs many of you know, one of the things we at the AU love to do is travel the world and see how our Aussie artists are fairing overseas. Right now, we have a man on the scene at Bonnaroo checking out The Temper Trap, and I myself was in the US and the UK…
Read MoreLarry Heath and Andrew Wade from the AU review head to the Lofty Dog in Austin, Texas with the one and only Henry Wagons. As well as finding out what he and his band Wagons are up to at the moment (and how SXSW is treating him), we learn about Henry’s two dogs as he…
Read MoreCMJ – or College Music Journal – is a weekly print publication and website that looks at the College Music scene, as well as throwing an annual music industry festival in New York in October. Always keen to discover new music, the folks behind CMJ have been kind enough to exclusively share their favourite new…
Read MoreIn September 2011, Australian soul singer/songwriter Ray Mann relocated to Berlin and began recording and releasing his new album Sketches, online, one track at a time. Instead of disappearing for 12 months and then resurfacing with a finished album, Ray is completing each song – and its accompanying video – online, month-to-month, with audience participation….
Read MoreWhen Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips was in town for Harvest last November, he stopped by the 4ZZZ studios in Brisbane to partake in a bit of an experiment… it’s hard to explain exactly what happened, so maybe let’s leave that to the video – in the first video in our new documentary series.
Read MoreWhether you were at the festival itself, or you were glued to your computer screen, this past weekend was all about the first weekend of Coachella, which featured one amazing performance after another, for three jam-packed days. Gotye held the flag up high for Australia (though pulled the live stream last minute), and impressed, but…
Read MoreIn just a few hours we’ll be finally hearing the 2012 Splendour in the Grass lineup. But so far we do know ONE artist who’s making the journey: UK’s Zulu Winter. From their forthcoming record Language, which is due out locally on May 11th, here’s the latest single “Key To My Heart”. Let’s see what…
Read MoreNewtons Nation and bandit.fm Records are searching for an unsigned artist to perform at Newtons Nation Festival on Sat April 28th April. This competition closes TODAY at 5pm with the winner being announced tomorrow. Just in case there were any of you out there still thinking of entering, we thought we’d have a look at…
Read MoreBrisbane duo DZ Deathrays cranked up their music to 11 during the annual Block Party at SXSW’s convention centre, so much so that the festival organisers had to tell them to end their set. Thankfully they let them finish the song… here’s the footage! Cameras: Larry Heath and Andrew Wade Edit: Larry Heath
Read MoreIn celebration of the release of their debut album Bloodstreams (out now), the AU review is premiering, exclusively, the official trailer for an upcoming short documentary film about DZ Deathrays: We’re Sorry There Weren’t More Strobes. The film focuses on their August 2011 support tour around Australia with Children Collide, during which time they won…
Read MoreJust before we all headed off to Austin for the 2012 SXSW Festival, we told you our 12 picks for the festival. Well some of them we saw (and were impressed by), others we missed, and of course at the other end of the spectrum there were plenty of surprises. Here now are our 12…
Read MoreThe trip to SXSW is always fraught with adventure, and this year was no different. Flying into Los Angeles on Friday afternoon – and arriving earlier that morning thanks to the wonders of the international date line – we hit the ground running and enjoyed the spoils of the Universal Studios to keep ourselves from…
Read MoreAndrew Wade: SXSW has rapidly become my favorite event of the year. Travel, free booze, music, free booze, partying, good friends and… free booze. There’s also a massive opportunity to meet and watch some of the best musicians and groups in the world today. Here are my highlights for the 2012 event; I’ll be endeavoring…
Read MoreMore than 100 music venues from around the country will celebrate Australia’s thriving live music scene at National Slam Day on February 23rd 2012. The day comes exactly two years after 20,000 passionate music fans marched down Melbourne’s Swanston Street for the inaugural SLAM Day in response to crippling Victorian liquor licensing laws, creating the…
Read MoreOne of our favourite bands here at the AU review is Oh Ye Denver Birds, and they’ve just announced that their debut album Good Ivy – will be available for online purchase on March 20th through Inertia. Exciting stuff! In celebration of this, they have made their opening track “Sea Other” available for online streaming…
Read MoreIn September 2011, Australian soul singer/songwriter Ray Mann relocated to Berlin and began recording and releasing his new album Sketches, online, one track at a time. Instead of disappearing for 12 months and then resurfacing with a finished album, Ray is completing each song – and its accompanying video – online, month-to-month, with audience participation….
Read MoreIn our final Peats Ridge Interview from the New Years 2011 event, we caught up with Sydney based electronic artist Oliver Tank, to chat about the year past and the year ahead…
Read MoreWe chat to Sydney’s Richard Cuthbert about playing Peats Ridge, his new record, and we look forward into 2012 – heading to Berlin and more… listen on!
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