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…
Some controllers are simply made for champions – and I do mean that quite literally. For those playing at a high level who want a controller to match, the new Tegenaria Lite from GameSir is made in collaboration with renowned fighting game competitor MenaRD. Designed for competitive play, this controller looks and feels great to…
Thanks to Warner Bros. Pictures, we have 5 double digital in-season passes (Admit 2) to see Tom Cruise in a role unlike any other in Alejandro G. Iñárritu‘s original dark comedy Digger, in Australian theatres from October 1st, 2026. Academy Award winner Tom Cruise stars in Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s original film “Digger”….
Back in March, we pad the pleasure of premiering “Winterlude” from Perth-based New Zealand songwriter Damien Binder, and today we’re equally thrilled to be bringing you the video premiere for his latest single, “I Can’t Believe My Mind”. Following his 2023 album Bright Side, 2024’s Heartful EP and this year’s “Winterlude”, Binder continues a rich…
You Am I are preparing for a string of shows to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Hourly, Daily. The band will be joined by a string quartet on their “Strung Up” tour that kicks off in Castlemaine. Tell me about the Strung Up tour that’s starting next month. Russell “Rusty” Hopkinson: Well, we have engaged…
Naarm/Melbourne metalcore outfit Vault Hill are preparing to release their new EP Modern Way this Friday, 25 September, and today we’re thrilled to give you an early listen to the record in full. Inspired by vocalist Morgan O’Brien’s experiences living and working across the Northern Territory, Modern Way is an ambitious and deeply personal collection….
Last year, I had the pleasure of reviewing Alienware’s budget-friendly 32-inch QHD AW3225DM monitor. I liked that monitor so much that I eventually bought one. Fittingly, I’m writing this review on it. I mention this only to say that as I peeled open the packaging of Alienware’s newest 39-inch 5K OLED ultrawide monitor, I felt…
I use earbuds daily, and while I use traditional earbuds for the most part, I have always appreciated the open-ear design to help users to keep track of their surroundings; a helpful feature when you’re taking the dogs for a walk at night or want to stay aware of the nearby traffic on a bike…
At 155 minutes, and unfolding across three timelines that initially appear to have only the faintest connective tissue, La Bola Negra asks its audience to place an enormous amount of trust in directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi. For much of its first two hours, their sweeping queer epic can feel deliberately elusive, moving between…
PNAU played an electrifying set full of (Go) bangers to an adoring crowd as part of Brisbane’s Night at the Parkland concert series, held in Roma Street Parkland. Opening the night was solo acoustic artist Birren. There were some slower and quieter moments throughout his set, including a cover of Leon Bridges’ “River”. Unfortunately these…
Chan Marshall brings Cat Power back to Australia in November and December 2026 to perform her acclaimed 2006 album The Greatest in full, celebrating one of the defining records of Chan Marshall’s remarkable career. The Australian tour kicks off at The Tivoli in Brisbane on November 30, before travelling to Geelong, Melbourne, Adelaide, the iconic…
Suki Waterhouse is heading back to Australia, announcing four headline dates for her highly anticipated The Loveland Tour this December. The British singer-songwriter will bring her dreamy indie-pop sound to Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Melbourne, marking her biggest Australian run to date. The tour follows the July release of Loveland, her third studio album. It…
Being encouraged to recognise your own brilliance can prove a cruel lesson when the person doing the encouraging preferred you when that brilliance remained safely beneath theirs. That uncomfortable contradiction sits at the centre of Niki Byrne’s The Julia Set, an academically minded coming-of-age drama that doesn’t rewrite the formula but finds enough intelligence and…
Hip hop heads left enlightened after legendary artist and activist Brother Ali played The Triffid in Brisbane last night. The second show of his three-date East Coast tour with support from homegrown heroes Horrorshow proved that the Minnesota rapper is far from finished. Brother Ali is one of the most respected MCs in the game…
There’s something inherently dangerous about satire when the person holding the knife is willing to turn it back on themselves. That tension sits at the centre of Everybody Wants to F*ck Me, the provocative new film from writer-director Jonathan Schey, which arrived at the Toronto International Film Festival with Taron Egerton stepping into the uncomfortable…
Jonathan Schey’s Everybody Wants to F*ck Me is the kind of film that seems determined to make you laugh before making you question exactly why you’re laughing. What begins as a filthy comedy about modern dating gradually mutates into something darker, stranger and considerably more uncomfortable. Taron Egerton plays Adam, a London gallery worker who…
There’s an agonising distinction between wanting to live and wanting to have lived. Elsinore, Simon Stone’s deeply affecting account of the final chapter in Scottish actor Ian Charleson’s life, understands that difference intimately. Faced with a body increasingly betraying him, Charleson isn’t simply fighting for more time. He wants the time he has left to…
I’ve seen so many new stories about abandoning a high-powered job for a role which is far simpler but also far more satisfying. Cosy fantasy novels about owning a tea store and farming sims about escaping to the countryside abound, and I’m a little sick of it. In this world of stories about the beauty…
