Day: 6 June 2014

Tour Diary: Emma Davis (Sydney) at Toronto's Canadian Music Week! – Part One!

So it all started with a rather long bus ride from New York to Toronto. I thought if I was going to go all the way to Canada I may as well spend some time in the US first, eating pickles, drinking oversized beers and prancing past the cacti of Austin. Here is one of…

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Travel Diaries: A week in Toronto with Sydney musician Emma Davis (Part One)

So it all started with a rather long bus ride from New York to Toronto. I thought if I was going to go all the way to Canada I may as well spend some time in the US first, eating pickles, drinking oversized beers and prancing past the cacti of Austin. Here is one of…

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The Music That Made Us: Mind Over Matter (Sydney)

This time last week, Sydney hip hop outfit Mind Over Matter released their anticipated new album This Way To Elsewhere. We sat down with the band for an interview today which you’ll be able to see on the AU soon, but we also wanted to get an idea of the music that influenced them. In…

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CLOSED Win a copy of "Lazaretto" by Jack White on "ULTRA LP" Vinyl!

We’re really excited about this one. We have a copy of Jack White‘s brand new album Lazaretto – released today – to give away on the much hyped ULTRA LP vinyl. You can learn more about what makes it ULTRA HERE. For your chance to win, head over to your Instagram OR Twitter account and…

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Interview: Bruno Brayovic & Ben Chamie from Peabody (Sydney) talk 20 years of music makin’

It seems like only yesterday that Peabody strummed through small venues like The Hopetoun Hotel with over-distorted guitars that rush through the eardrums like a steam train. They intend to be as energetic all again this month in celebration of twenty years in existence. The only difference now is there’s more a chance to develop…

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TV Review: Fargo – Season 1, Episode 7 “Who Shaves the Barber?” (USA, 2014)

This time around we’re given a reprieve from the hefty violence and an opportunity to see the intricate web revealed as well as some surprisingly touching and sensitive moments. For a series that has been so brutal, dark and twisted this is a much brighter albeit still emotionally heavy episode to take in. At the…

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Sydney Film Festival Review: Appropriate Behaviour (USA, 2014)

Played with deadpan composure by writer and feature debut director Desiree Akhavan, we meet Shirin in the last stage of her breakup with long-term girlfriend, Maxine (Rebecca Henderson). In the opening scene she is collecting her remaining belongings, exchanging final barbs and discussing the future custody of a shared strap-on dildo. The scene closes on…

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Sydney Film Festival Review: 20,000 Days on Earth (UK, 2014)

Viewers are gifted a film which is undeniably Nick Cave with (sort-of) rock bio-pic 20,000 Days on Earth ditching everything we have come to dread of rockstar-centric films and giving us something which truly seeks the mind of this infinitely interesting artist. Filmmakers Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard employ various techniques to twirl around an…

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