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…

KATSEYE are taking the WILDWORLD TOUR to even more fans, with the group announcing a new run of shows across Asia, Australia and New Zealand in early 2027. Following a series of sold-out shows across Europe, the UK and North America, the global girl group will kick off the newly announced leg on January 27th,…

What happens when a seemingly innocent dinner party becomes an unexpected exercise in emotional honesty? In Olivia Wilde’s provocative and wickedly funny relationship comedy The Invite (read our full review here), Seth Rogen and Wilde star as Joe and Angela, a married couple whose increasingly fractured relationship is thrown into disarray when they invite their…

Thanks to Sony Pictures Australia, we have 5 double in-season passes (Admit 2) to see the action-packed How To Rob a Bank, from the director Bullet Train and The Fall Guy, exclusively in cinemas from November 12th, 2026. In HOW TO ROB A BANK, a crew of social media-savvy bank robbers broadcasts their daring heists,…

The most devastating thing about losing someone isn’t always the absence itself, but the possibility that holding on to them might prevent us from ever moving forward. It’s this uncomfortable intersection of love, guilt and obsession that drives Last Seen, the gripping six-part Australian thriller adapted by writer and executive producer Kris Mrksa from Ryan…

I feel like I mention this at the start of every Call of Duty review, but I’ll say it again. Call of Duty is my preferred franchise for multiplayer gaming, and I’m generally playing each year’s instalment, regardless of the varying levels of quality. Yes, there have been multiple ups and downs over the years,…

Sydney rock outfit Yendys are back with their second EP, If I Had A Hi Fi, and we’re delighted to be premiering it today, ahead of its official release tomorrow, 30 October. Following their 2025 debut Drawn Onward, the band have broadened their sound, bringing country, punk, grunge and funk influences into the mix. There’s…

Montreal indie trio Men I Trust will return to Australia next month, bringing their signature blend of hazy dream-pop, to Melbourne, Perth, Sydney and Brisbane. Featuring Emmanuelle Proulx, Jessy Caron and Dragos Chiriac, Men I Trust have built a devoted international following. Their music drifts between dream-pop, indie rock and soft-focus psychedelia, pairing Proulx’s distinctive…

Most teenagers have enough trouble navigating high school without having to contend with millions of strangers watching their every move. But for 16-year-old Australian rock sensation Maple’s Pet Dinosaur, growing up and breaking into the music industry have become almost inseparable experiences. What began as an outlet for the anger and isolation she felt while…

Western Australian singer-songwriter Michael Ward returns with “Little Yellow Aeroplane”, a grunge-rock track about trying to leave a toxic relationship. The single is out this Friday, 30 October, and we’re delighted to bring you an exclusive first listen today. More than 20 years in the making, “Little Yellow Aeroplane” was first written on the front…

When does ambition become obsession, and at what point does the pursuit of success begin to fundamentally alter who we are? In A24’s psychological crime thriller Primetime, Robert Pattinson portrays television journalist Chris Hansen, whose involvement in NBC’s controversial To Catch a Predator series transformed him into an unlikely cultural phenomenon. Set against the sensationalised…

In 2024, Aussie singer-songwriter Gretta Ray’s life took a turn when she was abruptly diagnosed with a rare, life-threatening infection of the heart. Just two days after moving to London to continue exploring her flourishing music career, she was forced to shift both her life and career, redefining her priorities and reimagining the future that…

In 1982, Loudon Wainwright III made his first trip to Australia and brought his father along. “We’d never done anything like that,” Wainwright says, speaking over Zoom from his home on Long Island, New York. “He actually wrote a column about the tour, and we had a wonderful time.” His father, Loudon Wainwright Jr., was…

Absolut®  and Tabasco™ have teamed up to create a spicy new vodka blend. To celebrate, the team have enlisted former Spice Girl and queer icon Melanie C to play a DJ set at a free day party in Sydney at Beresford Sundays on Sunday 15 November. Beresford Sundays have been hosting Sydney’s iconic Sunday sessions…

Frenzee are back to turn up the heat. The Melbourne-born, Crete-raised sibling trio have just unleashed their new album Runnin’ Amok via Poison City Records, delivering another blast of high-voltage punk rock. Featuring siblings Apollonia (vocals), Adonis (guitar) and Nikos (drums), Frenzee have carved out their own lane with a sound that fuses raw punk…

More than two decades after he first introduced audiences to the gloriously misguided, culturally appropriating wannabe gangster from Staines, Sacha Baron Cohen is bringing Ali G back into a world that, in many ways, seems even more absurd than the one he originally inhabited. But while the character’s tracksuits, questionable vocabulary and unwavering confidence in…

At a time when political absurdity has become so commonplace that reality frequently feels beyond parody, the return of Sacha Baron Cohen‘s Ali G should, in theory, provide the perfect opportunity to expose the increasingly ridiculous state of modern society. After all, Baron Cohen built his reputation on confronting prejudice through comedy, using the apparent…

History has a way of making the inevitable seem obvious. We look back on defining moments with the comfort of knowing how they unfolded, often forgetting that the people responsible for shaping them were operating without that same certainty. In the 72 hours leading up to D-Day, as the Allied forces prepared to launch the…

History may remember D-Day as one of the defining victories of the Second World War, but for the men tasked with deciding when it should take place, victory was anything but certain. Before Allied soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy, before the sacrifices and triumphs that would become etched into collective memory, there were weather…

Walking past Sydney’s TikTok Entertainment Centre on Sunday evening, you might wonder what’s happening… What is that sound? Just 9,000 people inside having a sing-song. What are they singing? “F**k yoooouuu, f**k you very, very mucchhhhh!” This is the Lily-oke show with tour band, Dallas Minor Sextet. The deal? They play, you sing. It’s that…

With their newest album Everybody Tells The Truth officially announced for release on February 5, Slowly Slowly are getting ready to enter a new chapter. For frontman Ben Stewart, it’s a chapter that feels especially good, with the band’s third Good Things Festival appearance on the horizon and a renewed confidence in the music they’re…

Castlevania has been driving stakes into the hearts of players for 40 years. Konami’s gothic saga debuted in 1986 and became a cornerstone of the NES era as Simon Belmont stormed Dracula’s castle, before 1997’s Symphony of the Night redefined what side-scrolling adventure games could be and gave the entire Metroidvania genre its name. More…