We sat down with Adelaide singer / songwriter Naomi Keyte to discuss her sophomore album Milk Paper Gold, out now.She highlighted her collaborative process with songwriting mentor Ben Talbot-Dunn and co-producer Nick Huggins. She also emphasizes themes of connection, live performances, and overcoming challenges posed by climate change and COVID-19. Milk Paper Gold is an…
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Laneway 2023 was a fantastic showing of both Australian and International acts. For the first time, the Melbourne leg of the festival was held at Flemington Racecourse and proved to be a fantastic day of music. See more below! And you can read Dan’s review of the day HERE
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Continuing Laneway’s biggest year yet, the Melbourne leg of the St. Jeromes Laneway Festival was a success on Saturday, last week. Sporting a two-main stage set up (similar to Groovin’ the Moo or Download) and having its first year at Flemington, it was a fantastic day for the thousands of attendees, but it did suffer…
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The return of St. Jerome’s Laneway felt much needed and right, but not as familiar as we remember it, unless of course you remember the Big Day Out. The Sydney Showgrounds site, including the cavernous Boiler Room (version 2.0) on a 25+ degree summer’s day has been the location for many classic festival experiences and…
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On Sunday, Sydney had its first Laneway Festival since 2020 at its new home in the Sydney Showground. The new surrounds may lack in atmosphere, but the proximity of the four stages to each other was welcome, and with three of them being indoors, on a warm summers day, this was much appreciated. The bill…
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After 18 years on the scene you could expect some festivals to pander to an older market, but not Laneway. For the festival’s 18th birthday they’ve brought out some of the world’s biggest acts to celebrate alongside you. At the top of that list sits the behemoth sibling rock band HAIM who just last year…
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Singer-songwriter Julien Baker is all set to release her forthcoming album Little Oblivions later this week. Officially released on February 26th, the album delivers a sound that is bigger, bolder and more expansive than the sparse intimacy that we’ve come to expect from Baker. Recorded pre-COVID, Little Oblivions might be a sonic shift for Baker,…
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We’re big fans of Julien Baker here at the AU, so we were stoked to hear that the Memphis singer-songwriter has teamed up with Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus for a new side-project: boygenius. What initially started as a series of chance encounters, performances and a bit of pipe-dream has evolved into a forthcoming EP…
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With a new year of music already well underway, we’re looking down the barrel of an exciting 12 months of international and Australian releases, that much is obvious. While 2016 introduced us to some of our now-favourite artists who really took off in their own way, we also twigged to some bands and solo musos…
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