The hints had been coming. Fontaines D.C. and Hayley Williams were looking increasingly likely to be sitting at the top of the Laneway Festival 2027 bill, and now we know for sure. They most definitely are. Laneway Festival has unveiled its 2027 lineup, with Fontaines D.C. and “The Hayley Williams Show” leading a bill that…
Melbourne’s The Hunter Express return this week with their new EP Gold Fades, a beautifully considered five-track collection that moves through love, grief and resilience while allowing the band plenty of room to explore sonically. We’re thrilled to premiere Gold Fades today ahead of its release this Friday, 2 October. There’s a wonderful cohesiveness to…
American jazz band The Bad Plus, initially a trio and now a quartet, are bringing their 26-year career to a close. Before they do, they’ll return to Australia in October as part of their farewell tour. We spoke to founding member Reid Anderson about the tour, the band’s evolution and what comes next. You must…
Ella Hooper is unleashing her inner country girl with the upcoming release of her alt-country/Americana record Overnight Success. Fittingly recorded in Nashville with producer LOLLIES, the Killing Heidi frontwoman feels that homing in on this sound aligns deeply with her as she continues to explore her identity as a solo artist. Growing up in Violet…
James are just over a week away from their first Australian shows since 2018, with Razorlight joining them for dates in Perth, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. The band will then head to Auckland for a James-only show. This is a tour we have been very much looking forward to. The songs are beautifully crafted, fabulous…
Alejandro G. Iñárritu has never been particularly interested in making films that quietly disappear into the background, and Digger may be one of his boldest swings yet. An absurdist, visually audacious satire about power, ego, environmental catastrophe and the stories people construct around themselves, it is the type of ambitious studio filmmaking that deserves to…
Private multiplayer servers can help you manage maps, rules, player access, mods, and event dates, and they can help you arrange gaming sessions for groups. It’s not expensive for a few pals to play, but it can get pricey when you need more players or more server power. You spend more every month on server…
Brandon Sklenar finally gets his leading-man moment in The Rescue, a new action thriller that looks to put a distinctly Western spin on the familiar Taken formula. Sklenar stars as former rodeo cowboy Jamie Lee Betts, whose quiet existence is shattered when his daughter is kidnapped and held for ransom. Rather than wait for someone…
Thanks to Sony Pictures Australia, we have 5 double in-season passes (Admit 2) to see the anticipated sequel to The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin‘s The Social Reckoning, starring Jeremy Allen White, Mikey Madison and Jeremy Strong, only in Australian cinemas from October 8th, 2026. Inspired by true events and the whistleblower who started the social…
I’m a massive fan of Dune, be it Frank Herbert’s original books, Denis Villeneuve’s more recent films, or even David Lynch’s underrated 1984 adaptation; I’m always looking for an excuse to return to the desert planet of Arrakis. Anyone who has delved into this world before will be aware of the expansive lore, long list…
John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein’s Mayday may wear the familiar uniform of an old-school 1980s buddy movie, but beneath the action, comedy and Cold War absurdity is a surprisingly tender story about two men questioning the lives they were taught to want. Ryan Reynolds stars as Lieutenant Troy “Assassin” Kelly, a hotshot U.S. Navy…
Sennheiser has made some of the most well-built, premium headphones across both the in-ear and over-ear markets for quite some time now, and the previous Momentum True Wireless 4 were a great example of that. In many ways, the Momentum True Wireless 5 in-ear headphones feel like a more refined version of their older sibling,…
God Bless You, Mr Kopu may unfold like a darkly comic genre piece about ambition, desperation and the seductive promise of success, but beneath its increasingly twisted surface, writer-director Alex Liu is asking a more personal question: how much of yourself are you willing to surrender to become the person you think you’re supposed to…
Australian alternative pop artist daine has released their new single “Product Of Profit (P.O.P.)”, as their international momentum continues to build, with North American venue upgrades announced following strong demand for the upcoming shows. Back home, the response has been just as huge. daine’s Australian tour has officially sold out, cementing a major milestone for…
There’s something so special about watching an artist you’ve seen in a smaller, stripped-back setting suddenly take over a venue the size of Rod Laver Arena. The last time Noah Kahan came to Australia, his band didn’t make it, so he took to stage completely alone, with nothing but his acoustic guitar and a microphone….
Acclaimed UK theatre company Forced Entertainment brings Table Top Shakespeare to the Sydney Opera House. The premise of the performances involves a narrator who retells one of Shakespeare’s plays using various items found around the home. Think of it as CliffsNotes with condiments. The Studio space at the Sydney Opera House contains a rectangular table…
Yeon Sang-ho has never needed monsters to expose the uglier parts of humanity. Even when working within horror, science fiction or apocalyptic spectacle, the filmmaker behind Train to Busan and Hellbound has remained fascinated by what people become when circumstances push them somewhere uncomfortable. Following Colony and The Ugly, Paradise Lost continues that fascination on…
This week’s Discovery playlist brings together ten of our favourite new tracks, including three premieres we were thrilled to share earlier in the week. As always, we cover plenty of ground, from artists just beginning to make their mark to long-time favourites returning with brilliant new music. Our Track of the Week is the dark…
Happiness is an easy concept to romanticise. We spend so much of our lives imagining the job, relationship or milestone that will finally make everything fall into place, only to discover that fulfilment rarely arrives as neatly as expected. That uncomfortable distance between the life we picture and the one we actually inhabit sits at…
Lance Oppenheim’s Primetime understands that the most disturbing thing about To Catch a Predator was never necessarily what happened when Chris Hansen stepped out from behind that curtain. It was how effortlessly something ostensibly created in the name of public safety became entertainment; how quickly justice could be packaged, promoted and sold to an audience…
Robert Pattinson has rarely seemed interested in taking the most obvious route into a character. Across a career increasingly defined by peculiar, unpredictable and sometimes deeply uncomfortable performances, the actor has demonstrated a willingness to disappear into characters without necessarily explaining them. For Primetime, though, Pattinson initially wasn’t planning on disappearing into anyone at all….
The ballot for Golden Plains Nineteen is officially open, giving festival-goers their best chance to secure tickets for the much-loved Victorian festival when it returns in March 2027. This is absolutely one of all-time favourite Australian festivals. Golden Plains Nineteen will take over the Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre from Saturday 6 to Monday 8 March 2027,…
Two giants of British new wave and electronic music are joining forces, with Simple Minds and Gary Numan heading to Australia for a five-date arena tour in February 2027. Simple Minds return to Australia as part of their V Tour 2027, celebrating five decades of music. Formed in Glasgow in 1977, the band have spent…
With the weather warming up and the days getting longer, there’s no better reason to be outside in February and March 2027 than for Sydney Summertime. From the minds at Secret Sounds and Live Nation, Sydney Summertime is a new outdoor concert series launching at Sydney’s Centennial Park this coming summer. Announced as the first headliner…
To look at Ken Carter’s 90-foot ramp jutting into the Canadian skyline was to look at a monument to sheer impossibility. In The Stunt Driver, filmmaker Michael Dowse dives headfirst into the folklore of Canada’s most audacious stunt performer, who, battered by decades of broken bones, staked his survival on jumping a mile across the…
Ken “The Mad Canadian” Carter may willingly strap himself into vehicles designed to leave the ground, but don’t call him a daredevil. For Carter, the distinction matters. What he does isn’t supposed to be reckless. It requires engineering, preparation and an almost irrational faith that every calculation will keep him alive. It’s that increasingly fragile…
Young love and all the amazing, traumatic things that come with such are explored in Charlie Harper, Mac Eldridge and Tom Dean‘s emotional, non-linear romance dramedy, anchored by the moving performances – and palpable chemistry – of its leads, Emilia Jones and Nick Robinson. Centering around the two halves of its titular coupling (so no,…
Fire Emblem is one of the biggest and best RPG franchises not only for Nintendo, but it feels like it can go toe-to-toe with the big ones like Final Fantasy. In Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave, a Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive, it’s safe to say that the franchise is still going strong. It’s not merely the…
The Strokes are returning to Australia in February 2027, announcing headline shows in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney as part of their Reality Awaits Australia 2027 tour. It will be the New York indie-rock icons’ first Australian headline tour since their sold-out run in 2022, following their return last year to headline Harvest Rock in Adelaide….
Earlier this year, we premiered Lucy Burke’s wonderfully atmospheric single “One Way Track”, one of the early tastes of her latest EP, Meet Me There. Now the Sydney singer-songwriter returns with the video for the EP’s title track, and we’re delighted to be premiering it today. The EP marked a new chapter for Burke, pairing organic…
