Day: 12 January 2015

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Album Review: Angels and Airwaves – The Dream Walker (2014 LP)

Angels and Airwaves are not your usual band. They are an art project; a multimedia amalgamation who have delivered a brilliant fifth studio album in The Dream Walker. On it, Tom DeLonge (also vocalist of Blink-182) and Ilan Rubin (of Nine Inch Nails) have further explored the dimensions of their own collaborative capabilities, reaching out to different audiences through the themes that circulate…

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Eating with the AU: Beer Deluxe – Federation Square (Melbourne)

Next time I’m heading into the city to meet up with friends at Federation Square they will find me round the back enjoying a beer (or two) at BEER DELUXE – isn’t that just the most fabulous name for a place serving over 250 types of beer plus a decent food menu! Tucked at the…

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Stumbled Upon #012 – Love Cream (Adelaide)

In our 12th instalment of “Stumbled Upon”, we meet Adelaide’s Love Cream, winners of the Australian final of the 2014 Emergenza international band contest and chat about just where their name came from (it appears to be more innocent than you would think) and get a sneak peak at their debut album, First Taste ….

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Secret Garden Festival announces full line up for 2015!

The Secret Garden Festival recently dropped the news that it had completely sold out all tickets for the 2015 festival, which was only testament to the event’s continued popularity and faith from the loyal public who’ve backed it for so long. Today, the Sydney organisers dropped the full line up of artists set to perform…

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Exclusive Playlist: NEEDTOBREATHE present their 10 favourite songs for a road trip

Ahead of their Australian tour next month, American rockers NEEDTOBREATHE are sharing exclusively with AU review readers their ten favourite songs to listen to on the road. And you know this is a band who spend a lot of time on it. So enjoy these amazing ten tracks and keep it as a playlist for…

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the AU interview at FOTSUN: Karl S Williams (Queensland)

Last month we sat down with Queensland artist Karl S Williams backstage at Festival of the Sun in Port Macquarie. We talk to him about his live show, his music, the past year and what might be in store in the future…

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Bates Motel Season 3 teaser clip hints at iconic shower scene from Psycho

A&E’s Bates Motel has two excellent seasons to speak highly for the vision creators Carlton Cuse, Kerry Ehrin and Anthony Cipriano have used to turn this classic thriller into a prolonged and in-depth psychological timeline. Freddy Highmore’s Norman Bates and Vera Farmiga’s Norma Bates are put under the microscope and their unhealthy relationship has been…

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Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead gets official trailer, and it looks brilliant

Australian zombie flick Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead may seem like your standard post-apocalyptic zombie film, but this trailer is telling us that it’s something much more than that. Made possible by the wonders of crowd-funding, the film is the debut feature from Australia’s Roache-Turner brothers: Kiah (writer-director) and Tristan (writer-producer-production designer), and is quite…

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The British Academy Film Awards announces nominees for 2015

The British Academy Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) have now announced the long list of nominees for the 2015 award ceremony, which will be taking place on Sunday February 8th. Ahead of the pack is Wed Anderson and his exceptional The Grand Budapest Hotel with 11 award nominations, beating both Birdman and The Theory of…

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First look at Tina Fey and Amy Poehler in Sisters

As they wrap up another year of slaying the Golden Globes, the much adored duo of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler bring their dynamism to the bring screen in upcoming Universal Pictures film Sisters. Universal have released a first-look trailer for the Jason Moore directed film, and it’s every bit as hilarious as you would…

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SXSW Film Festival Announces 2015 Opening Night Film + Additional Films Confirmed To Premiere

Ahead of announcing the complete festival lineup on February 3rd, the 22nd South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival has started rolling out a list of the screenings which will be spread across Texas come March. This year, SXSW has announced their 2015 Opening Night Film, and world premiere BRAND: A Second Coming, by…

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Birdman, Fargo, The Affair and Boyhood among the biggest winners at the 72nd Annual Golden Globe Awards

Today in Hollywood, the winners of the 72nd Annual Golden Globe Awards were announced at the Beverly Hilton, in a televised award show with Amy Poehler and Tina Fey hosting for the third and final time. As usual, the pair delivered a hilarious opening monologue that took aim at everything from North Korea (a popular topic of…

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Exclusive Interview: Helen Razer reflects on Triple J ahead of Sounds Like Teen Spirit: Triple J at 40

No matter what you think of the station, Triple J has never been a station to shy away from being the equivalent to the rambunctious rebel that’s chewing gum in an upper-class high school, giving off too many pieces of music trivia that you care about. What it did do for many of us music…

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