Day: 25 January 2015

Photo Gallery: Bo Ningen – Oxford Art Factory, Sydney (23.01.15)

Bo Ningen, one of Japan’s finest exports, played a special Sugar Mountain Festival sideshow at Oxford Art Factory on Friday night. Pete Dovgan was there and brings you the photos:

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the AU interview: Sky Picnic (Brooklyn) talk about their new album "Her Dawn Wardrobe"

Last week we exclusively premiered the new album Her Dawn Wardrobe from Brooklyn psych-rockers Sky Picnic. Today we catch up with the band to talk about the record, their music, the origins of their band and much more. Read on:

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Festival Review: St Jerome's Laneway Festival Part One ft. Courtney Barnett + Mac DeMarco + Eagulls – Singapore (24.01.15)

With 13,000 punters from Singapore and around the Asian region descending on the iconic Gardens By The Bay, yesterday saw St Jerome’s Laneway Festival take place for the fifth consecutive time in the city, with organisers selling out tickets for the first time ever. On arrival, punters are handed a bottle of water sponsored by…

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St Jerome's Laneway Festival tour kicks off for 2015 in Singapore with St Vincent, Banks, Chet Faker and more.

“This country is becoming one of the cultural epicentres of the world!” – Festival co-founder Danny Rogers said yesterday, as he thanked punters at the end of St Jerome’s Laneway Festival 2015. The country he was talking about was Singapore, which served as the opening date of the festival run for the fifth consecutive year,…

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Chet Faker talks about his Hottest 100 Chances for tomorrow.

Tomorrow is Australia Day, which means the winner of the Hottest 100 will be revealed – and finally we’ll never have to hear about the whole Taylor Swift “controversy” again. Assuming she isn’t eligible, there are two favourites looking to take out the top spot: Australia’s Chet Faker and Peking Duk. Either could walk away…

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We Ask: Do you remember the first time you heard yourself or your band on triple j?

Ahead of tomorrow’s Hottest 100 countdown, we ask The Preatures, Ball Park Music and Tkay Maidza to talk about the first time they heard themselves or their band on triple j. We also talk to KLP about the first time she hosted House Party… Filmed during the radio station’s 40th anniversary celebrations in Sydney: Beat…

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The trailer for the most ridiculous reality TV show of all time is here: Sex Box

We have seen some fairly out-there and outrageous ideas since the modest days of in-your-face reality TV but the one for American couples-therapy show Sex Box just about tops them all. This is a show where a couple has sex in a big neon-blue box on stage, after which they walk straight out, sit on…

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What to Watch: The Iris’ Weekly TV Picks (26th – 28th January 2015)

Kimberley is back with the first half of our weekly TV picks. Here’s what to watch this week on free-to-air from Monday through to Wednesday night, as we come around to Australia Day 2015. Monday The Manchurian Candidate, One, 9:30pm AEST The critically acclaimed remake of the 1962 classic, the 2004 Manchurian Candidate features an…

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