Brisbane singer-songwriter Shumo AG is only 14, which makes his new single, “Young Boy Young Girl”, all the more impressive. He wrote, performed and produced it himself, and it tells the funny, awkward story of a first crush and a mum who thinks the girl is trouble. We’re delighted to bring you the exclusive premiere…

Fame has a peculiar way of turning visibility into vulnerability, and few understood that contradiction quite as painfully as Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy. Long before her marriage to John F. Kennedy Jr. made her one of the most photographed women in the world, Carolyn had built a career at Calvin Klein, working in an industry where image,…

What happens when the person you’ve fallen in love with is also someone the entire world believes it owns? In Ryan Murphy’s Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette, the intoxicating romance between America’s closest equivalent to royalty and the fiercely independent woman who captured his heart becomes an increasingly heartbreaking examination of…

What if the secret to a happy marriage wasn’t finding the perfect man, but having one made to order? It’s a wonderfully ridiculous proposition at the heart of Wicker, a deliciously peculiar romantic fable that finds unexpected tenderness beneath its twisted sense of humour. Directors Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson, adapting Ursula Wills‘ short…

The Lottery Winners are about to play stadiums around the country with Robbie Williams, and the good news is they’ll be back before long. The Leigh four-piece have announced their own headline tour for April 2027, opening at Perth’s Rosemount Hotel on Sunday 18 April, then hitting Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane before wrapping up…

Thanks to Paramount Pictures Australia, we have 5 double in-season passes (Admit 2) to Ebenezer, the new gothic Christmas tale starring Johnny Depp, in Australian cinemas from November 12th, 2026. This November, Johnny Depp is Ebenezer Scrooge. The name you know, the story you don’t. From Ti West, EBENEZER also stars Rupert Grint, Andrea Riseborough,…

Grief rarely follows a predictable path, and sometimes the people who offer us the greatest comfort are also those who remind us most painfully of what we’ve lost. In Mouse, the intimate and emotionally resonant coming-of-age drama from filmmakers Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson, the complexities of loss, friendship and identity unfold against the backdrop…

Grief has a peculiar way of making the world feel as though it has stopped turning, even as everything around us continues moving forward. For teenagers, whose lives are already defined by the uncertainty of growing up, losing someone who helped shape their identity can feel particularly cruel. It’s this uncomfortable intersection of adolescence and…

There is a long legacy that Godzilla Minus Zero must live up to. The original Japanese Godzilla film was released in 1954, over 70 years ago. According to the VFX team for this 39th film, Godzilla Minus Zero: Godzilla was born on the silver screen in 1954, created specifically to be experienced in a cinema….

We recently got the chance to chat to Infinity Ward’s Associate Design Director Alex Norris about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4’s latest campaign and some of its newest and most escorting features. Hi Alex, we just wanted to say a huge thanks for taking the time to chat with us as! 1. What sets this…

Passion might be what brings people together, but it doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll get along. In the wonderfully chaotic world of grassroots sport, where personal ambitions collide with club politics, financial pressures and the occasional bruised ego, sometimes the greatest achievement isn’t winning a championship, but simply keeping the doors open. It’s this beautifully contradictory…

Hollywood has always been a town where secrets are currency, reputations are fragile, and the right person can make even the most inconvenient problems disappear. And if there’s one man who knows how to navigate its seedier corners, it’s Cliff Booth. Seven years after Brad Pitt won an Academy Award for his effortlessly cool portrayal…

If you’re an independent musician, your online presence probably lives across half a dozen platforms. Your music is on streaming services, your photos and clips are on Instagram and TikTok, your gig announcements go out on Facebook, and your merch sits in an online store somewhere else again. Each of those platforms is useful. None…

Few things are quite as liberating as saying what everyone else is thinking but would never dare admit aloud. For Nikki Glaser, that freedom has become something of a professional calling card, with the Emmy-nominated comedian establishing herself as one of stand-up’s most unapologetically candid voices, turning deeply personal insecurities, uncomfortable truths and society’s often…

Nine years ago, Nothing If Not frontman David Maginity began writing a collection of poetry as he grappled with growing up and finding his place in the world. Those poems eventually became Gutter Gardens, the Indiana progressive rock band’s debut album, released on Friday, 30th October. It’s a beautifully lush record, with an expansive sound…

Steve Kilbey and The Church delivered a beautiful performance at the Sydney Opera House, with George Ellis conducting the orchestra and bringing a fresh perspective to the band’s much-love catalogue Steve Kilbey’s distinctive vocals remained at the centre, floating above the orchestral arrangements while the band’s layered guitars created a shimmering wall of sound. Familiar…

Wow, what a show. I really didn’t know what to expect as I walked towards Afterpay Arena in Sydney’s Olympic Park to see two-time Academy Award-winning composer Hans Zimmer’s The Next Level show. I knew the music more than the man, as the backdrop to so many of my favourite films, from Gladiator to Pirates…

From the brilliant playwright behind RBG: Of Many, One and Prima Facie, playwright Suzie Miller’s latest work, Strong is the New Pretty, presented by Sydney Theatre Company, explores the formation of the women’s Australian Football League (AFLW). The performance opens with audio of a young girl attempting to join a game of football. Her cries…

TISM played their first of two shows at Sydney’s Enmore Theatre on their TSIM No Mistakes tour. TISM turned the Enmore Theatre into a full-blown circus of chaos, satire and gloriously unhinged punk rock. Armed with their trademark masks, sharp-edged humour and an arsenal of irreverent anthems, the Melbourne provocateurs delivered a raucous performance that…

Few things are quite as entertaining as watching people who have absolutely no idea what they’re doing enthusiastically convince themselves otherwise. It’s an art form that Hamish Blake has practically perfected throughout his career, and in Stan’s delightfully chaotic new comedy series Unskilled Adult, the Australian entertainer puts his considerable confidence, questionable practical abilities and…

After nearly thirty years making music and releasing eight studio albums, Queens of the Stone Age can afford to let loose a little. Their ninth album, Perfecth, is a deliberate play on words. Lead singer Josh Homme describes the process of recording the album as like kintsugi — the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery…

Oxford Street’s nightlife revival has received another boost, with ESCA Hospitality Group opening Loa, a new underground music room beneath its recently launched Japanese-Peruvian restaurant Amé. Hidden inside the heritage-listed building at 90 Oxford Street, the 100-capacity venue opened on Friday, 23 October, bringing live music and late-night dancing to one of Sydney’s most historically…

Apple has given its smallest tablet a substantial makeover, unveiling an all-new iPad mini with a larger OLED display, significantly improved performance and a remarkably thin design. The new iPad mini starts at $1,099 in Australia, with pre-orders already open ahead of its release on Friday, 6 November. Announced on 27 October, the latest iPad…

For the final time this month we’ve updated our Discovery playlist on Spotify and Apple Music with some of the best new music from across Australia and the world. We’ve got ten new tracks for you, two of which we premiered earlier in the week. Sydney-based singer-songwriter, producer, and long time AU favourite Daphnie takes…

There’s a fine line between love and obsession, and an even more dangerous one between getting what you want and understanding what it might cost you. In writer-director Curry Barker‘s unsettling supernatural horror Obsession, that distinction becomes terrifyingly blurred when Bear (Michael Johnston), a lonely shop clerk harbouring romantic feelings for his longtime friend Nikki…

Is it really love if the person you desire has no choice but to love you back? It’s a question that takes on increasingly sinister implications in Obsession, the unsettling psychological horror film that explores the dangerous intersection of romantic longing, emotional manipulation and the desperate need to be loved. When hopeless romantic Bear (Michael…

Scotland has never been short on musical talent, and The Snuts are in no danger of letting the side down.  Their brand new album, Joy in Short Moments, is their fourth studio offering and the second released through their own label, Happy Artist Records (in partnership with Virgin Music Group). Formed in 2015, the band consists of…

Nu Zamrock opens with “Intro”, a conversation between Sampa the Great and her blood uncle George Kunda, set against instrumental music that builds slowly as they speak. Kunda was a founding member of the psychedelic rock band WITCH, and their conversation details how the group helped pioneer Zamrock in the 1970s, moving beyond covers of…

JPEGMAFIA and A. G. Cook are set to headline a new east coast touring event, PRESSURE POINT, in March 2027, with the inaugural lineup also featuring hardcore outfit Trash Talk, noise-pop trio feeble little horse, and local acts Shady Nasty, xiao xiao and FUKHED. The three-date run will mark the Australian debut of both A….

For anyone with even the slightest fear of spiders, the thought of being trapped inside an apartment building overrun by the eight-legged creatures is probably enough to induce a cold sweat. It’s a premise that practically writes itself, and one that Crawlers, the latest addition to the increasingly crowded arachnid horror subgenre, wastes little time…