Day: 27 August 2015

Win yourself two passes to BIGSOUND LIVE! in Brisbane!

Pictured: All Our Exes Live In Texas, BIGSOUND Showcasing Artists from Sydney Across some 15 stages over two days, BIGSOUND LIVE will once again be taking over Fortitude Valley in Brisbane, bringing you the best music in Australia right now – alongside a few special guests from overseas. As we get excited for this annual…

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Failure to join Dead Letter Circus and Bullet For My Valentine at Soundwave 2016!

Soundwave Festival continues to drip feed us with the announcements for the 2016 event. Today the third band to feature at the festival has been announced – LA’s Failure, the much loved group who recently from a 17-year hiatus to play a one off show that led them to record the recently released and critically…

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The AU Mixtape: Nine Songs By American Bands Every Australian Should Be Listening To

Help us help you. Listen to some of the best music coming out of the US right now. 9 tracks from 9 artists that you may not be listening to. And we at the AU think you should be. Enjoy this little piece of music discovery to end your Thursday… The AU Mixtape: The Garden…

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Dates revealed for the 2015 Japanese Film Festival in Australia

The Japanese Film Festival dates for 2015 have been announced. Movies will be screened in Canberra, Brisbane, Perth,Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne from 14 October to 6 September. If you’d like to go, Hello Asia! has all the details below.

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Controversial Kurt Cobain docudrama Soaked in Bleach to get an Australian DVD release

Released in US cinemas earlier this year, Soaked in Bleach will be coming to Australian audiences on DVD through Shock Entertainment on October 7th.

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New Green Band trailer and poster released for Scout’s Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

In our first green band look at the upcoming zombie invasion comedy, Scouts’s Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, we see Tye Sheridan star as the socially-awkard boy scout. Along with his two childhood friends, the three struggle to manoeuvre through usual hardships of puberty and girls,  but it isn’t until their small town gets invaded by the undead that their scout’s…

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Win a double weekend pass to Oz Comic-Con in Brisbane and Sydney!

After the huge success of the inaugural Oz Comic-Con Brisbane and Sydney events in 2014, and a recent sell-out show for Oz Comic-Con Melbourne, Australia’s best-loved pop culture extravaganza jets back to Brisbane and Sydney this September. Taking over the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre on 19th and 20th September and the Sydney Exhibition Centre…

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CliffyB’s mystery project has a name: LawBreakers

After a very low-key showing at E3 this year, Cliff Blezinski’s BossKey Productions went quiet again, working on what they were calling Project BlueStreak. They’ve now revealed more about the game, it’s official title LawBreakers and a reveal trailer.

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The five best episodes from the first five seasons of FX’s Archer

We’re a bit excited that the first five seasons of Archer are finally on Netflix in Australia, after making quite a name for itself on the US version of the popular streaming platform. So excited, that many here at The Iris are not doing their work and instead having a binge of entire seasons of the…

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