Day: 28 May 2025

Inhaler

Inhaler on their upcoming Australian tour, influences, and a well-travelled packet of crisps

Dublin’s indie rock band Inhaler released their third album Open Wide back in February of this year and are about to return to Australia after a sold-out tour last year on a five-date tour beginning next week. Inhaler are bringing some special guests along on this tour, both DICE and BIIG TIME will be supporting at…

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Eora/Sydney punks FANGZ annnounce new single “Anne-Marie” and debut album Shui

It’s a big week for Eora/Sydney punks FANGZ. Announce signing to Impressed Recordings – check Announce release of debut album Shui – check Drop details of upcoming album tour – check Release new single “Anne-Marie” – scheduled for May 30th We’ll start start with the Impressed Recordings announcement, revealed yesterday in an exclusive with The…

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Interview: GWAR’s Blöthar the Beserker and Grodius Maximus on 40 years of mayhem and murder

Incredibly, it’s been 40 years since GWAR first exploded out of Antarctica to wreck stages and lives across their adopted home planet of Earth. In the intervening decades, the self-styled Scumdogs of the Universe have firmly established themselves as the best (and if we’re honest, only) outrageous, blood-spurting, gore-metal, stage rock collective on the planet….

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The Butterfly Women

Book Review: Melbourne’s seedy underbelly is exposed in Madeleine Cleary’s sparkling debut The Butterfly Women

1863 Melbourne comes to life in Madeleine Cleary‘s much buzzed about debut novel, The Butterfly Women, released earlier in the month through Affirm Press. A publishing imprint making a name for itself in historical fiction, Cleary joins renowned historical fiction writer Pip Williams (The Dictionary of Lost Words), as well as a growing list including the…

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Justin Stewart Cotta

Exclusive Video Premiere: Justin Stewart Cotta “Was You” (2025)

Justin Stewart Cotta is an artist we’ve championed over the years at the AU. A poet, actor, singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist, he is a man of many talents. Last month, he released his latest single, the take-no-prisoners “Was You”. We’re thrilled to be premiering the video today, a cinematic marvel that was filmed on…

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Film Review: Bring Her Back; feel-bad movie of the year is a haunting, bleak tale of grief

Not that there was going to be any serious doubt about their ability to avoid a sophomore slump with their second go-around as filmmakers, but brothers Danny and Michael Philippou have easily cemented themselves as modern day horror auteurs with the highly disturbing Bring Her Back, a bleak, discomforting genre feature that makes their debut,…

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Interview: Danny and Michael Philippou on their new film Bring Her Back, exploring grief, and surprise casting; “Putting that on the screen is surely going to bother people.”

After taking the world by storm with their horror debut feature Talk To Me in 2023, all eyes were very much on Australian brothers Danny and Michael Philippou to see how they would follow up such a mammoth success. Proving that they were no flash in the pan, the twins launched back into the genre…

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