As a die-hard Boston Celtics fan, I was hoping NBA 2K27 would be kinder to me than the offseason was. It’s a tradition that I jump straight into Play Now and whip up a quick match between the Celtics and whoever I believe will be the best in the East for the upcoming season. As…

Naarm retro-pop rockers Creature Fear have never been afraid to embrace the playful side of their music, and the new video for “Mission To Love You” might be one of their most gleefully unhinged creations yet. Today, we’re thrilled to premiere the clip, a gloriously DIY collision of horror tropes, possessed dancing, strobe lights, laser…

Radiohead are finally coming back to Australia. In what is easily one of the biggest tour announcements of the year, the legendary Oxford band will return in May and June 2027 for their first Australian shows in 15 years, playing a mammoth 16 arena dates across Perth, Melbourne and Sydney. And yes, we’re jumping out of skins…

The Jungle Giants have officially wrapped up their biggest Australian tour to date, but not without making one final stop along the way. This Thursday, 10th September, the band are taking over the Manly Fast Ferry, turning the average commute home into a live gig across Sydney Harbour. To celebrate the launch of Lipton’s new…

Fresh off PlayStation’s back-to-back State of Play showcases, it’s Nintendo’s time to wow us with two Nintendo Direct showcases, one of which is delivering a closer look at a game we admittedly all can’t wait to see. The first Nintendo Direct will take place on Wednesday, the 9th September at 12:00 am AEST for The…

Thirty-five years after Pills ‘N’ Thrills And Bellyaches first soundtracked dancefloors, festivals and questionable life choices around the globe, Happy Mondays rolled into Sydney’s Enmore Theatre on Saturday night with a simple mission: remind everyone why nobody ever did it quite like Madchester’s favourite troublemakers. Before the band even appeared, the mood was set perfectly….

Photo by Stephen Porter BIGSOUND Brisbane brought BIG energy to the streets of Fortitude Valley last week, and as an Adelaide girl, the city definitely lived up to its nickname, BrisVegas. BIGSOUND, self proclaimed as “the biggest week in Australian music”, is a huge music conference by day, with networking events and industry panels across…

Movements have always made music that feels incredibly easy to fall into. They can be heavy without losing melody, emotional without being too dramatic and somehow make even their quieter moments hit just as hard as the big ones. Happier Now is no different. In fact, it might be one of their strongest records yet….

DJI is best known for ruling the skies, but today it’s bringing its airborne expertise down to floor level with the launch of the DJI ROMO 2—a robot vacuum that borrows obstacle-avoidance smarts straight from the company’s flagship drones. The company released the first iteration in Australia last year, the well-reviewed DJI Roomo P; now the next generation…

Happy Mondays brought their gloriously messy blend of Madchester grooves, psychedelic rock and dancefloor chaos to Sydney’s Enmore Theatre celebrating the 35th anniversary of their seminal album, Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches plus the hits. Frontman Shaun Ryder remained the wonderfully unpredictable centre of it all, delivering the songs with his trademark swagger while the…

An absolutely massive showing hit us late last night, with two back-to-back PlayStation State of Play streams highlighting not only a bunch of titles from PlayStation Studios and third-party developers, but also a range of titles from Asia as well. Without further ado, let’s dive in! STATE OF PLAY A NEW RESIDENT EVIL MOVIE TRAILER…

With the seasons beginning to turn, there’s plenty of fresh music to soundtrack the change. This week we’ve added another ten new tracks to our Discovery Playlist on Spotify and Apple Music, including two premieres we were lucky enough to share earlier in the week. Taking out Track of the Week is Naarm/Melbourne folk quintet…

When Paris Paloma released her 2023 track ‘Labour’, it quickly sparked conversation online, becoming a powerful anthem for feminist advocacy and cementing Paloma as a key voice in the ongoing feminist movement. The track went viral online, amassing over 11 billion views across social media, and three years later, it still soundtracks so many ongoing…

The Ministry of Sound Summer Dance Festival is returning in 2026, to kick off the warmer months in style with an Australian tour. But there’s only a few tickets left. There’s good reason to jump on board, too. Nothing says summer in Australia quite like a music festival and while the heyday has long passed,…

beabadoobee the Filipino-British singer-songwriter and alt-pop powerhouse will return in March 2027 for her biggest Australian shows to date, bringing The Powerlines Tour to Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. Fans can expect a career-spanning live set drawing from Pylon alongside acclaimed releases including This Is How Tomorrow Moves, Beatopia and Fake It Flowers, with the distortion,…

There’s a necessary emotional armour that comes with spending your life staring at the worst things human beings can do. In The Girl in the River, Devon Sawa’s seasoned criminologist has learned to treat death, violence and unimaginable crime as simply part of the job. But when that carefully cultivated detachment is shattered by the…

PlayStation’s State of Play streams are always something to look forward to, but I guess we’ll have to double our excitement for this week. We’re getting two State of Play streams back to back later tonight, the first of which will focus on the upcoming titles from PlayStation Studios and third-party developers alike, including another…

John Steinbeck’s sprawling American classic is receiving a new interpretation, with Florence Pugh stepping into one of literature’s most formidable roles in Netflix’s upcoming limited series East of Eden. Premiering October 1st, the new adaptation turns its attention towards Cathy Ames (Pugh), the unforgettable antihero at the centre of Steinbeck’s multigenerational story of family, love,…

There are a few things to note before I begin my review of Orbitals. If you read my Split Fiction review last year, then you’ll know how much of a sucker I am for a good cooperative experience. For one, I love getting my wife, who is not a gamer by any stretch of the…

NSW pop-rock artist Neo Stereo returns this week with his new single “Follow Me”, and today we’re buzzing to be able to give you an exclusive first listen ahead of its release tomorrow, Friday 4th of September. “Follow Me” captures a relationship somewhere between frustration and hope. A driving backbeat and insistent bassline give the…

You find the edition you want. A signed hardback, or that sprayed-edge special edition, or maybe it’s the boxed set that keeps surfacing on your feed. It’s sitting on an American bookseller’s site at a price that makes the local RRP look unkind, and then you reach the checkout and Australia isn’t showing up on…

Welsh genre-defying outfit Skindred are still finding new ways to surprise themselves after twenty-five plus years. Smashing together reggae, metal, punk, rock, hip-hop and pretty much anything else that’ll work, they’ve built a reputation as one of the most infectious and unpredictable live bands around in the process. Yet for all the festivals conquered, records…

Welcome to Westerberg High School where you’ll find a liquorice all sorts of jocks, nerds, angsty teens and mean girls. Most notably, the Heathers – a group of nasty girls who rule the school. They take oddball Veronica Sawyer under their wing and everything seems a-okay until things take a sharp turn when Veronica falls…

Fringe season is exciting, exhausting and often both at the same time. You’re performing, promoting, meeting people, seeing shows and trying to enjoy the festival while somehow remembering to eat and sleep. And Fringe doesn’t happen in just one place. Edinburgh Fringe just wrapped an epic month, Melbourne Fringe is coming up and artists are…

Dyson has announced they’re entering the oral hygiene game with the CameraJet electric toothbrush. Launching at 9pm tonight for a whopping A$799, the CameraJet will use a 100k pixel macro lens camera to help spray water through the gaps between your teeth. The included AI algorithm will also scan your mouth with 28 live images…

For all the Hadoukens, roundhouses and larger-than-life personalities synonymous with Street Fighter, Noah Centineo sees something surprisingly vulnerable underneath Ken Masters’ famous bleached-blonde exterior. Set in 1993, Street Fighter reunites the estranged Ryu (Andrew Koji) and Ken Masters (Centineo) when the mysterious Chun-Li (Callina Liang) recruits them for the World Warrior Tournament. What initially promises…

I was a fan of the original Mortal Shell when it was released back in 2020, but I will admit that it fell through the cracks, wedged within the rapidly expanding world of Souls-like games. Even so, it had introduced and implemented a few new ideas, mainly stemming from the Shell mechanic, but for the…

Father’s Day has a habit of sneaking up on us. And while Dad might insist that he doesn’t need anything, turning up empty-handed this Sunday probably isn’t the strongest way to test that theory. Gifts still matter, especially when it comes to parents. Fortunately, buying for dads has become a bit more interesting than defaulting…

Few films arrive quietly when they star Armie Hammer. Citizen Vigilante, the latest provocation from writer-director Uwe Boll, certainly hasn’t. The controversial thriller stars Hammer as Sanders, a self-appointed vigilante who hunts violent criminals and dispenses his own uncompromising version of justice. As his actions turn him into a hero to some and a dangerous…

The PAX Aus Indie Showcase is back once again for 2026 to celebrate Australia’s most inventive independent game creators, by highlighting a selection of digital and board games, which will be available to try out later this year. Superloop will be sponsoring the PAX Aus Indie Showcase for this year, supporting the next generation of…