After having burst onto the Australian music scene in 2005 with his debut album Autumn Flow, Lior has gone on to perform at the likes of the Edinburgh Festival, and has in complete contrast won The Screen Writer Song of the Year Award in 2012 for his song “Lullaby” commissioned by the ABC for the…
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We continue out interview with Hiatus Kaiyote, talking about the release date of their upcoming album Choose Your Weapon – May 4th. Despite the date’s significance in pop culture by referring to ‘may the force,’ the band insists it was unintentionally placed there, exclaiming: “Nai has never seen Star Wars!” They all briefly discuss what Star Wars characters they would be, before moving on to touring news.
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Following his seventeen sold-out arena dates around Australia and New Zealand, Frontier Touring have revealed they’re bringing Ed Sheeran back to Australia before the end of the year to play a run of all ages stadium concerts. The shows will make him the first ever artist to tour stadiums in Australia and New Zealand completely…
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With the Sydney Comedy Festival now well and truly underway, we’re bringing you a list of the five comedic performances that you won’t want to miss at this year’s festival. Now in its 11th year, the event is the biggest it has ever been, and though it goes without saying that you need to see…
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Record Store Day brought with it a myriad of new music – but not all of it was available on vinyl. In advance of the day, Brit-pop icons Blur released another sneak peak from their upcoming record The Magic Whip in the form of the track “My Terracotta Heart”, while they teased fans with listening…
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San Diego, California is a beautiful place! A laid back kinda vibe, nice beaches and friendly folk. This was our first show in a string of dates through this beautiful state! Tonight’s venue is called The Casbah, so it was pretty cool to literally ‘rock the Casbah’ just one time in our musical careers, even…
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Takaakira “Taka” Goto is a composer based in Tokyo, Japan, who is also known as the lead guitarist and composer for Japanese group MONO. Today on Hello Asia! We’re excited to bring you Taka’s incredible debut solo record Classical Punk and Echoes Under the Beauty, streaming in full below, almost a week out from its…
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Before his performance at this month’s AU session taking place April 28, the AU review caught up with Brendan Maclean – the solo singer-songwriter and vocalist for international queer music movement: Stereogamous. We chat to the man himself about first instruments, influences, plans for the year ahead and more. Further information about the performance below……
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the AU review sat down with Danish electronic duo Rangleklods while they were in Austin for SXSW. The duo had just come off of four SXSW showcases and were there in advance of their upcoming second album Straightjacket, due out May 18th in Europe. Rangleklods, made up of Esben Anderson and Pernille Smith-Sivertsen, spoke about…
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the AU review sat down with two members of roots Americana band Animal Years, who were at SXSW to play eight showcases over the course of the festival – and doing so with some peculiar accommodation arrangements. “We’ve been here since Wednesday and we’re actually camping in tents the whole.” Animal Years are in the…
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the AU review caught up with English-born, New York based Tamsin Wilson, front woman of the ethereal dream-pop band Wilsen while she was in Austin for SXSW. Wilson was working on wrapping up and releasing the follow-up full length to 2014’s Magnolia EP. She described the upcoming album as “a mix of acoustic and electric”,…
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the AU review sat down with Carey Mercer of Frog Eyes after they played us one of their new songs in SXSW. The new song comes ahead of their next album, released August 18th, which Frog Eyes played a lot of while at SXSW. Of the anticipated response to the new songs, Mercer says “it…
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Pictured: Hannah Joy There’s nothing better than discovering a band before they break into the market. You get to see them earn their chops while you stand front and centre, learning every song and becoming one of their first fans. But sometimes it helps to have an idea about where to look! This week on…
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Ride is Italian developer Milestone’s first original IP after almost two decades of creating licensed products and it is something of a love letter to motorcycle enthusiasts. Pitched as Gran Turismo for bikes, does Ride manage to ascend to those dizzying simulation heights?
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The new Disney animated film Big Hero 6 – released in cinemas today – is the anticipated effort from directors Don Hall and Chris Williams, inspired by an obscure Marvel comic of the same name. Though Marvel were not involved in the film directly, a cameo from a certain Marvel patriarch keeps at least one…
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It’s easy to write about a film that was a bit more average than you’d expected; it’s much, much more difficult writing about a film like this, without making it sound like you are just gushing through a stream of superlatives between cast names and plot points. What Christopher Nolan has done with Interstellar is…
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There are some big plot changes from the book going down right about now, but none quite as significant as Jamie’s fifth season quest and some other changes which begin in this episode. “The House of Black and White” sets everyone’s favourite kingslayer on a much different course than in the source material, and the…
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A new trailer has been released for the upcoming Fantastic Four reboot. Starring Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Bell, the reboot will explore our four superheroes as they develop their powers, after being transported to an alternate universe. The four have to come to grips with their new abilities and save…
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Twentieth Century Fox classic The Sound of Music celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2015, and some of Australia’s biggest stars and media personalities have come together to commemorate the occasion with a special video and rendition of “Do Re Me”. Stars such as Guy Sebastian, Ita Buttrose and Ryan Fitzgerald have come together with the Australian…
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Grab some popcorn, a bunch of your friends, and a change of underwear – the trailer for the third Insidious film has been released. Starring Dermot Mulrony, Stefanie Scott and Australia’s Angus Sampson, Insidious 3 is a prequel set before the haunting of the Lambert family from the previous installments. The film follows the attempted…
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As part of the global Game of Thrones franchise, British actor Finn Jones has been thrust into the spotlight and under the microscope of what is a well known and intense fan base. Fleshing out and developing the popular knight on screen over the past four seasons of the show has seen Jones develop a following of…
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When Firefly Online, a strategic roleplayer based on Joss Whedon’s short-lived but much-adored sci-fi television show, was announced at San Diego Comic-Con last year, the game’s creators mentioned that cast member Nathan Fillion would be returning to voice his character Malcolm Reynolds in the game. Hit the jump to see and hear him doing just…
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