Year: 2012

Grammy award winning band Blues Traveler released their new album Suzie Cracks The Whip on Friday 6 July, and along with it they sent across the interwebs a fantastic music video for the album’s first single “You Don’t Have To Love Me”. Enjoy it below! Suzie Cracks The Whip is in stores now.

Adelaide outfit The Shiny Brights have just released a new clip for their track “Tightrope”, comprised of 1,500 stills taken and then stop motioned into the clip itself. It’s basically like Inception, only with a different framerate. This may or may not be accurate, you’ll probably want to view yourself: For a free download: http://theshinybrights.bandcamp.com/track/tightrope…

While in town for the Sydney Film Festival, I caught up with Oscar winning cinematographer Dion Beebe and his wife and director Unjoo Moon to talk about their work on the new documentary The Zen of Bennett. Larry: So how did you find your way into Tony Bennett recording studio? Unjoo: Well we’ve known the…

Melbourne trio Pony Face have a new album coming out next month, and they’ve come out swinging with the second single to be released from it – “Silver Tongue”. You can get your first listen to it below and you can listen to it as a free download here: http://ponyface.bandcamp.com/ “Silver Tongue” is the second…

They’re coming to Australia in just two weeks and have just released a new music video! Who are we talking about? Why, The Shins of course, and their video for “It’s Only Life” is currently doing the rounds. The clip was directed by Hiro Murai and ‘features James Mercer trapped in an apocalyptic suburbia by…

Great news or greatest news? Last seen in Australia 16 years ago, the iconic Californian group Weezer will finally be returning to our shores for one hell of a special performance. As though to say “we’re sorry for our absence”, they will be performing everyone’s favourite* Weezer record in FULL: The Blue Album. They also…

The 2012/13 Falls Festival continues drip-feeding us their lineup, with 7 new bands announced today. These are: Bombay Bicycle Club, First Aid Kit, Hilltop Hoods, Maximo Park, Millions and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs. This year’s event will be the 20th year of the Lorne, Victoria (18+) event, and the 10th year of the Marion Bay,…

Not long now until Bloc Party finally return to Australia to play Splendour in the Grass – and to whet our anticipation they have released a new music video for their brand new single “Octopus”. Without further ado…

In a world of kaleidoscopic and hazy nostalgia comes the latest single from Tame Impala, entitled “Apocalypse Dreams”. It’s an injustice having to wait until October for their upcoming record, Lonerism, however, this single will more than make up for the increasing bouts of curiousity.

The Night Terrors mesmerised the audience for a brief but exciting set that lasted forty minutes. They took over The Toff In Town to launch their new 12” Monster/Lasers For Eyes that’s taken from their forthcoming sophomore LP. Opening for them however was Forces, a hardcore Eurotrash band, whose live show is made for the…

This Thursday a new Aussie comedy will be unleashed onto the silver screen. Starring True Blood‘s Ryan Kwanten, Not Suitable for Children is a refreshing move away from the more serious, though highlight celebrated Australian films of late. After seeing the film at the Australian Premiere during the Sydney Fringe Festival, Larry Heath caught up…

If you’re not familiar with this band by now, you should be. The Fumes are an Australian bred 2 piece outfit comprising of Steve Merry and Jacob Mann who have been creating dirty blues riffs since the beginning 2011, though the band’s original line up dates to early 2002. With new blood in the band…

Ahead of a small media crowd today at the Capitol, Dame Edna Everage talked at length about her career and her farewell tour (her “Diamonte Jubilee”) “EAT PRAY LAUGH!”, which kicks off tonight at the Capitol Theatre in Sydney and runs until July 14th. The show stars Dame Edna Everage, with Barry Humphries, Sandy Stone…

Adding a new voice to the next generation of Indigenous music, Thelma Plum from Brisbane has been announced as the winner of the NIMAs triple j Unearthed competition. Judges had a strong field to choose from right across Australia and Thelma blew judges away with her haunting, spiritual sound, showing a level of experience than…

I write this review as I recover from a two and a half hour onslaught of hilarity, brought (finally) to Sydney by the one and only Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie aka the Flight of the Conchords, with a very special and an unexpected appearance from someone who’s no stranger to our city, Arj Barker….

Another month has gone by so quickly and so much has happened in the last 30 days! What are those events exactly? Well… you’re about to find out… 1. The Rolling Stones unleash logo to commemorate their 50 year anniversary (Pictured Above) Legendary rockers, The Rolling Stones, have done what few bands have achieved –…

Warming the stage was local duo Udays Tiger who are a ‘coupla blokes’ that play grunge infused punk with a venomous fury. Live their music is like an untamed beast, gnashing its teeth with an unruly passion and ripping the bandroom to shreds with the sheer ferocity of its approach. Devin De Araujo and Nathan…

Image from Black Bear Lodge. I’ve been enamoured with the work of Kirin J Callinan since I first encountered him playing with Mercy Arms at the Northcote Social Club back in 2007. His solo compositions are of course vastly different from their sound and I’m still not entirely sure what the fuck it was I…

Earlier this year The Deer Republic released their debut single, taken off their forthcoming EP The Sweet Resistance, and now they have a music video for the track, too! The song is the catchy “The Score” and was recorded at the now defunct BJB Studios swith Jean-Paul Fung (Last Dinosaurs, Little Red) producing and the…

CMJ – or College Music Journal – is a weekly print publication and website that looks at the College Music scene, as well as throwing an annual music industry festival in New York in October. Always keen to discover new music, the folks behind CMJ have been kind enough to exclusively share their favourite new…

To celebrate 20 years of dedicated Pharcyde delivery, and following their successful performances at Good Vibrations Festival in 2009, California’s Imani and Bootie Brown of The Pharcyde are bringing their original, idiosyncratic style of hip hop back to Australia this August with a special audio/visual show. It’s hard to believe it’s been two decades since…

Earlier this year in Toronto, we caught up with up-and-coming trio Bensh, who are based between Austria and the UK. We chatted about their album “Clues”, learnt a bit about their music and talked about their experiences of playing industry festivals in the USA – such as Canadian Music Week and SXSW – and “overstepping…

Melbourne’s Blackchords have hit the airwaves of late with this catchy number “Dance Dance Dance”, and it’s no wonder why. It’s hard to get the song out of your head once you hear it – well in this writer’s humble opinion anyway – though it still feels like something original all the same. A difficult…

In the first part of my Sydney Film Festival review series last week, I looked at four of the films I saw during the festival, and gave you my impressions of the festival as a whole. In short, I thought they nailed it. This week I conclude my review series with another four films I…

Last week San Antonio rockers Hacienda released their Dan Auerbach produced record Shakedown to the world. Back in March in Toronto we caught up with the band to talk about the album, life on the road with Kasabian and much more… Camera: Andrew Wade Interview/Edit: Larry Heath Header Photo: Andrew Wade

We’re at the halfway mark of the year, and for us at The AU Review, it usually means that we take time to reflect on all the releases that made an impact over the last six months. We asked our contributors to cough up and confess on what their favourite albums are, whether it was…

Larry Heath caught up with Alexander Gow of Oh Mercy while he was Toronto earlier this year, where they talked about their tours around the USA and much more. The band were recently in Portland working on material for a third album… Camera: Andrew Wade Edit/Interview: Larry Heath Photo: The English Gentlemen

In this ongoing series we introduce you to songs that have (legally) borrowed, alluded to, been inspired by or stolen from (knowingly or unknowingly) the riff of another song. And we’ll have plenty more for you in the weeks ahead… this week we look at a more obvious riff off, where the riff from the…

Directed by Johnny Welch, acclaimed Sydney duo The Falls have just released the music video for the first single off their forthcoming debut EP Hollywood. The track is called “Home” and as the image above indicates, it gets pretty brutal. There may or may not be zombies. Although the song is anything but, with some…

So that graphic above is the album cover for the long awaited new album from Yeasayer, Fragrant World. They’ve just released the first OFFICIAL single from the record, “Longevity”, and we have the stream and accompanying ‘vignette’ for your listening pleasure. We can’t wait to hear the full record, which is due out Friday, August…