Earlier this month we revealed our top 40 albums of 2014, which included 14 albums from Australia (including The Smith Street Band as our number one!). As we did last year, however, we want to make sure as many Australian albums are highlighted as possible! So, we’ve gone back to our list of votes from…
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We’re excited to present Kim Churchill fans with an amazing opportunity. We’re giving away two tickets to two lucky winners to his show at the Oxford Art Factory in Darlinghurst, Sydney, on Saturday the 24th of January. Winners will also be treated to a meet and greet with Kim at the venue after sound check…
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Farewelling Australia next month will be much loved US post-hardcore/melodic rock group Conditions, hitting the stage as part of the mammoth Soundwave Festival tour. In advance of the bittersweet shows, the band’s lead vocalist Brandon Roundtree shared with us ten of his favourite tracks for today’s exclusive playlist: Song name: Better In The Dark Artist:…
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Summer is here and if one thing Summer is tailor-made for it is fun in the sun. What better way to spend a Summer Saturday than grabbing some friends and family, and heading to Ballarat Beer Festival – Victoria’s original boutique beer Festival, celebrating all things liquid gold on the picturesque Ballarat City Oval on…
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Few films of recent years have had ingredients for wonder so specific as Birdman. Michael Keaton portraying a washed up, former comic book star trying to revitalise his career in an inventive script co-written and directed by the man who brought us Biutiful; the potential for amazement is through the roof and somehow, the film…
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Joss Whedon’s The Avengers: Age of Ulton is going to be met with alarmingly high expectations, especially with how successful and acclaimed the last Avengers film was. Marvel’s big gun will be hitting up cinemas worldwide come May 1st, and the world has been blessed with another look at the very big, very loud superhero…
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This March, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) is set to house Epic Intimacy: The Cinema of Zhang Yimou & Gong Li as part of its China Up Close program. From the 6 – 15 March, enthusiasts are invited to congregate together and celebrate the legacy of the award winning Chinese director and his exquisite…
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Surprisingly enough, Taken 3 has topped the box office this week with an astounding $5 million. Albeit stating in 2013 that there would be no further sequels as “she can’t get taken again. That’s just bad parenting”, it appears the masses were keen for more of Liam Neeson doing the impossible. Following behind on $3…
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WARNING: This review contains spoilers. “Hitler….Hitler…” was the name on the roll call rather than Bueller for this episode of Danger 5, which had the super team undercover at an American high school. Hitler’s disguise this time is a letterman jacket-wearing jock, who hopes to find a date and be crowned the King of Christmas…
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To say that “the stakes are high” would be a gross understatement when being confronted with the new trailer for the third (and assumed final) series of House of Cards, which was released today. We’re so used to seeing Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey) as a manipulative, cunning and at times, evil politician desperately trying to climb…
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Hannah, Marnie, Jessa and Shoshanna have never really been particularly likeable characters. They’re insecure, self-obsessed, naïve, entitled, rude, and often deluded about their own lives. Why, then, do I keep coming back, season after season, to keep watching their misadventures? The answer to this question has eluded me ever since I first started disliking Girls…
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