Year: 2015

One of the most anticipated musical events at the Sydney Opera House this weekend arrived as part of the House’s GRAPHIC Festival, featuring acclaimed Icelandic pianist Ólafur Arnalds, accompanied by a 15 piece Orchestra and special graphics commissioned specifically for the event, produced by Máni M. Sigfússon. On hand to conduct the 15 piece Sydney Chamber Orchestra…

The Rewrite is a film that should heed its own advice. It’s a derivative and forgettable rom-com that is in desperate need of a re-working or two. The film is redeemed in part by a strong and likeable cast of actors that will be familiar to audiences, but this is not enough to get it…

Josh Brolin. George Clooney. Alden Ehrenreich. Ralph Fiennes. Jonah Hill. Scarlett Johansson. Frances McDormand. Tilda Swinton. Channing Tatum.

While everyone else was busy road testing the new iPhone 6S, I spent the last two months travelling the world with the recently released LG G4 phone. I wanted to give the much talked about device a run through on different networks, in different counties and test out the ins and outs through two months…

A bit of a chilled out track for today, with Twin Haus providing our single of the day with “I Used To Think”. Ambient and direct all at the same time, Twin Haus blur the lines between trippy and rocking in a seriously cool way that will probably have you playing this song on repeat…

American psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips are the first artist to be revealed for the Mofo Festival 2016! They’ll be taking to the outdoor stage at the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart, Tasmania in January next year. Since the early 80s, The Flaming Lips have released more than 16 albums and have…

As with every bit of music they’re putting out, Little May‘s music video for single “Seven Hours” is as gorgeous and flecked with an ethereal quality as you’d expect. The girls, currently on tour through Europe, release the visuals along with the release of their long-awaited and much anticipated debut record For the Company today….

The largest publicly voted music awards in the country, The Age Music Victoria Awards, have announced the nominees for 2015, highlighting the best of contemporary, Victoria-based Australian music in the past 12 months and celebrating the enormous success of our very fine, very strong industry. As always, the awards will also shed light on the…

Sydney artist Danny Yau performs an exclusive variation of his track “Courtney’s Moving To Newtown (To Start A Band)”, entitled “Courtney’s Moving To Newfarm (To Start A Band)”. It’s the Queensland version – just in time for his show in Brisbane! It’s happening on October 15th at The Junk Bar. The original track – about…

Now in its sixth year, Melbourne Music Week has released its full 2015 program. From the 13th of November until the 20th, over 100 events will light up the city, including live music performances, workshops, panel discussions, exhibitions, film screenings and more. This year’s flagship venue is the basement of the former Royal Women’s Hospital,…

With six episodes to weave a coherent first season, the team behind Fear the Walking Dead certainly took their time, carefully (and sometimes clumsily) building a bunch of everyday characters, spanning three different families, into a distinctive and likeable group of potential zombie apocalypse survivors. Some of this was successful but most was not, with…

It seems like a bit of an unexplained mystery that The X-Files has never been released as a blu-ray boxset; that all changes this December. One of the greatest and most influential television series of all time will finally get that release fans across the world have been waiting for, right before the show is…

With under a month to go before release, Bethesda have unveiled the minimum and recommended specs required for PC users to run Fallout 4.  Hit the jump to see if your rig is ready to explore the Bostonian Wasteland.

Adelaide film fans certainly have something to get excited about with more details about what will be on offer as part of FilmFest (https://www.filmfest.net.au/) later this month (Friday 16th, Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th October) at Palace Nova Cinema. The event is set to host three exclusive VIP Tour events including exclusive cocktail parties and red-carpet…

It’s been 22 years since Jurassic Park, and long have us fans of that very first film waited for a sequel that was worthy and lo we finally have it in Jurassic World. We can now safely relegate those other two films into extinction and rest assured that this is now an honourable contender for…

Wok on Inn is part of a formidable line up at East Village in Zetland (think The Village Crow, Lucio Pizzeria, and Taste Baguette) that’ll be competing for the chance to fill your bellies on a lazy day, of which there should be plenty this spring and summer. This Zetland branch marks Wok on Inn’s…

Making their first ever trip to Australia for Soundwave 2016 will be the “super group” who prefer to be labelled an “experience”, Metal Allegiance. The group are the 11th to be announced as part of Soundwave’s drip feed reveal, and features Troy Sanders of Mastodon, Mark Osegueda of Death Angel, Alex Sklonick of Testament, Mike…

If you’ve paid a visit to the official 1975 website lately, you’ll notice there is a countdown clock, set to reveal… something… in about 15 hours from the time of printing. Though it’s likely a new single, video, album or tour announcement, we thought we’d have a bit of fun with some other things the…

Fresh from the announcement that Peking Duk were down for two ARIA nominations – Best Dance Release and Song of the Year for “Take Me Over” – I sat down with Reuben Styles from the Canberra duo to talk about the nominations, the brilliant video for “Say My Name” featuring Matt McGorry (as well as…

Ahead of the return of one of Australia’s newest New Years Festivals – Lost Paradise in the Glenworth Valley, NSW – Larry Heath caught up with the event’s Directors (Wade Cawood and Simon Beckingham) to learn a little more about he origins of the event, the changes we can expect from their second year, the…

Art vs Science are back. And before you go jumping down my throat with the ‘they didn’t go anywhere!’s, the truth is that they did. Regardless of how well received their 2014 EP was, you cannot deny that the Sydney trio at one point trod a tightrope hovering over either falling into a party jam…

Sydney’s Lime Cordiale are about to take their summer jams on the road, announcing an extensive list of gigs in support of their new EP Road to Paradise. The tour will cover thirteen dates across Australia, including appearances at Soundscape Music Festival and Lost Paradise Festival in New South Wales. Tour dates: SAT 7 NOV:…

Australia’s hottest export Chet Faker is set to headline the Ray Ban x Boiler Room event in Melbourne on November 10. Faker, along with his beard, will be performing a live DJ set, as well as hand picking the other performers for the event. Click through for details… The Ray Ban x Boiler Room series…

There are many things in life that most people would deem to be unnecessary. Examples of these include public transport that doesn’t work, hot cross buns that look like choc-chip but are actually sultana, and now Ryan Adams’ cover album of Taylor Swift’s 1989. To set the precedent for this review, I personally consider a cover…

Trimming the fat of a large scale dance festival, Fuzzy’s Listen Out has gotten the boutique angle exactly right for the past few years. The music starts around 2pm – when most would rock up to a festival anyway – and rolls out some of the best international and local party-starters across three stages. It’s…

Hau Latukefu demonstrated a strong return to the game with the release of his debut solo album, The No End Theory. Really, he hasn’t gone anywhere, though this record has been a long time in the making for fans waiting for the Koolismlegend to drop a full batch of new material. Most Australian fans have…

Slum Sociable have been having a great year; they’ve released two killer singles, been one of the most talked about bands at BIGSOUND, and are set for a showcase at CMJ in New York, beginning next week. And on top of all this, their debut EP and video for single “All Night” just got released….

Acknowledging excellence and innovation in the field of screen composition, the Annual Screen Music Awards have nominated a collection of composers. The Awards, staged jointly by APRA AMCOS and the AGSC, celebrate achievements in music composition for documentaries, short films, children’s television, advertising, film and television soundtrack albums, as well as feature films. The 2015…

Sending out a little message to fans to be paying attention to triple j at approximately 4:20pm this afternoon, Mansfield’s favourite sons Violent Soho went on and delivered a huge new song in “Like Soda” along with news of a short east coast tour in coming weeks. “Like Soda” is the band’s first piece of…

With the Graphic Festival bringing some brilliant artists and minds to the Sydney Opera House, all eyes are going to be on how some visual and musical partnerships go down with Harbour City crowds. Elsewhere down the coast, some exciting Aussie bands both emerging and established will be doing their thing this weekend – check…