Year: 2012

When Snow Patrol come to town, you always know you’re in for something special. Throw in the “exclusivity” of an event like the Debit Mastercard series and indeed you have something truly unmissable. Tonight Snow Patrol fans were treated to a “stripped down” version of the band, performing as a three piece as they played…

Australia’s largest charity recycler, Salvos Stores has been changing the lives of Australians in need since 1883. To celebrate its important role within the community, Salvos Stores is hosting a one off pop-up store to be set up at Adelaide train station TOMORROW, this Friday, September 28 from 1-6pm. Having made a name for itself…

A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of joining Jake and Stav of Bluejuice as they took to the skies with the wonderful guys at Red Baron at Sydney’s Bankstown airport in their flagship Red Bull Stunt Plane. There are only two ways to describe it: exhilarating and nauseating. Both myself and Jake didn’t…

With sell out tours from bands like Hanson and S Club, not to mention the tours of bands like Wheatus and Eiffel 65 thanks to Fat as Butter festival, plus the forthcoming reunion album from Soundgarden, reminiscing about the 90s seems to be all the rage at the moment. So, in the spirit of keeping…

Jack (Mark Duplass) is mourning the loss of his brother. After a mild implosion at a memorial ceremony, his best friend, also his brother’s ex, Iris (Emily Blunt) orders him to some alone time in her father’s cabin in the wintery woods on an Island off Washington State. But Iris’ sister, Hannah (Rosemarie Dewitt), has…

The term “supergroup” can be used to include everything from The Traveling Wilburys to +44 , with the theory being that when already-successful musicians come together, they can make music even greater than that of their earlier projects. This is rarely the case. Though both of the above acts achieved commercial and critical acclaim, it…

When Sound of Seasons released “The Sheltered” a few days ago, I was impressed enough to think, ‘I should check them out.’ Coincidentally, they had a show at The Lair this weekend, so I went along to see if the single was a one-off success, or just a taste of how good the band was….

While at BIGSOUND, Larry Heath caught up with Canadian band The Darcys to talk about their all-too-brief Australian tour, their Steely Dan cover record, their upcoming plans and much, much more…

Last week, the first Byron Bay Bluesfest announcement was released – earlier than ever before, featuring an eclectic lineup that Peter Noble describes as the “Cool and Groovy” announcement. Featuring Iggy Pop, Ben Harper, The Frames and many more, I caught up with Festival Director Peter Noble to talk about the festival, BIGSOUND, the lineup…

Australia & New Zealand are set to experience the smooth soulful flavour of South Africa in September and October of 2012 as singer, songwriter, producer and chart topping artist Garth Taylor is headed our way to perform a series of intimate shows across the country in his very first Trans-Tasman tour. Garth made his debut…

We sit down with Peter and Greg from Brisbane up-and-comers Hey Geronimo! to talk about their debut EP and more…

While we were at Fat as Butter in Newcastle, we sat down with Mike and Josh from Vancouver, Canada band Marianas Trench to talk about their experiences during their first trip to Australia, including the intricacies of AFL, dangerous animals – plus talk their latest record Ever After – and more!

We sit down with Swedish electronic duo Rebecca and Fiona to talk about their first ever trip to Australia, while they were at the Fat as Butter music festival in Newcastle, NSW.

We chat to Josh and Matt from Newcastle band The Owls at Fat as Butter in their hometown!

With the release of her as-yet untilted EP only months away, Georgia Potter met up with Larry Heath at BIGSOUND to discuss the meaning behind her new single “XO” and the influence that travelling has had on her musical development.

Mojo Juju is one of those acts that you’ll find extremely difficult to pin into a genre. You’re guaranteed one thing though, the self-titled album from this unique songstress is quite the raunchy seduction for your ears.

Kerouac’s classic Beat-generation manifesto On The Road transforms to the big screen in all its pulsing, joyful free-wheeling madness, complete with crazy cats, hustlers, junkies, and poets. Brazilian director Walter Salles (Central Station) and screenwriter Jose Rivera (The Motorcycle Diaries) deliver a pitch-perfect manifestation of the cult classic, transporting the viewer to the time and…

Larry Heath sat backstage over the weekend to chat with the UK’s Fat as Butter to talk about Texas outfits, Red Bull sleeps, touring around Asia, underground music scenes, returning to Australia and much more in this UNCUT interview… listen on! Remaining tour dates: Tue 25th The Hi Fi, Brisbane, QLD WITH YOUNG MEN DEAD…

The horror of war is painted with devastating clarity in Flowers of War, a historical fiction drama by director Zhang Yimou (Hero, House of Flying Daggers). Set during the 1937 Japanese massacre in Nanjing, under imminent occupation, the city is reduced to dusty rubble and the last remaining citizens are fleeing for their lives amid…

Over the weekend I found myself in the simple yet elegant Galerie pompom, gazing upon Rochelle Haley’s mesmerising exhibition ‘Dead Precious’, on the final day of its showing. Comprised of thirteen water colours on paper, the collection captures an intriguing combination of sparkling precious gems, nestled amongst crisp clean skeletal remains. Rochelle’s inspiration stems from…

We catch up with our good friends in Chicks Who Love Guns to talk about their music, super heroes, the new EP Moon Eater and much, much more… If CWLG were a super hero, Avengers style crew, what would be the super powers of each member of the group and how do you think, in…

Hot on the heels of his new album My God Is Blue I caught up with the French bearded electronic maestro Sebastien Tellier to talk about the new album, the meaning behind “Pépito Bleu”, a film soundtrack that never happened and much more… oh and he reckons he’ll be back in Australia over the Summer….

A noir thriller set in grey, low-lit London and based on the Elsa Lewin’s 1990 novel of the same name, I, Anna is the directorial debut of Barnaby Southcomb. Beginning with a series of narrative threads woven together through a mosaic of flashbacks, the film draws on the classic murder mystery genre, with Anna (Charlotte…

An Australian-German collaboration by director Cate Shortland (Somersault) and based on Rachel Seiffert’s 2001 Booker Prize short-listed novel ‘The Dark Room’, Lore follows the journey of Lore (Saskia Rosendahl), the daughter of an SS officer at the fall of the Third Reich, forced to flee her home with her four young brothers and sisters when…

Former Idol winner Wes Carr has returned with Blood & Bone the debut EP from his new project Buffalo Tales. Anyone tuning in to hear a collection of pleasant radio friendly pop rock songs are going to be sorely disappointed. Blood & Bone is a completely different beast from Carr previous output, a return to…

Set in South Africa, Beauty is a sombre meditation on masculinity and sexuality. François (Deon Lotz) is an Afrikaanner family man, who, at the film’s opening is celebrating his daughter’s wedding. He is affluent, ordinary, respected and liked. But, as suggested by the film’s opening shot – a long-angle zoom, ever so slowly drawing in…

Winner of the Cannes Grand Prix, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia follows the overnight and early morning journey through the wind-swept Anatolian steppes of a group of forensic and law enforcement officers along with two murder suspects in search of a body they buried, but can’t remember where. It’s a long night, and as…

In Macy Gray’s first tour of Australia in twelve years – her last when On How Life Is made her a household name – a sold out crowd at the Sydney Opera House on Sunday night proved that this was a tour that fans had indeed been holding out for for a long time. In…

Set on the eve of the French Revolution (and based on the novel of the same name by Chantal Thomas, winner of French literary award the Prix Femina in 2002), Farewell My Queen, follows a fictional account of the early stages of the monarchy’s epic downfall through the eyes of the court’s peons – specifically…

A Year At Sea is the debut album from Sydney’s Winter People. Released on the 21st September the album is a real delight; a sophisticated synergy of the styles, with a rich modern approach rubbing shoulders with more traditional folk sensibilities. For a debut album it’s really quite ambitious, with moody atmospherics and swirling instrumentation….