Month: August 2025

Fresh off being announced on the incredible, sold-out Meredith Music Festival lineup, headliners TV on the Radio and Perfume Genius, alongside Sam Austins, have today announced headline shows across Australia’s East Coast. I was lucky enough to catch TV on the Radio earlier this month in Toronto, Canada, and have to say it was the…

Nintendo has officially unveiled Kirby Air Riders , the long-awaited follow-up to 2004’s Kirby Air Ride, and it looks like we are in for a treat. Revealed during yesterday’s Kirby Air Riders Direct, legendary director Masahiro Sakurai walked through the game’s new features, returning favourites, and expanded modes. The game launches exclusively on Nintendo Switch 2…

A pure studio comedy feels like a cinematic rarity these days.  For some reason a genre that no longer feels as if it has confidence in the bigger marketplace that is inside a multiplex, The Naked Gun – the third sequel in the (once again) long running franchise that was birthed nearly 40 years ago…

The last time Dominic Fike graced Aussie shores was at the start of 2024 during his packed Laneway Festival run. And after almost 2 years, he’ll be back this December for his biggest Australian tour yet, with a string of sideshows off of this year’s Spilt Milk music festival. With a couple of singles under…

It’s almost impossible to overstate the cultural weight of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-Earth. From the moment The Hobbit was first published in 1937, the world he built has continued to capture imaginations, inspiring countless adaptations, games, and creative works. Most video games based on The Lord of the Rings have followed a fairly predictable formula, epic…

One of the biggest gaming events of the year Gamescom is back upon us. The next four days will have gaming studios and hardware makers make big announcements, world premieres and updates on their projects. The opening night started at 4am AEST this morning, bringing with it a ton of new games and updates on…

Radio Free Alice are one of the most exciting bands to emerge from Australia in recent times. They’ve had a heady rise since forming in Sydney in 2020. Today they have released their third EP, Empty Words, and are currently on a massive three-month tour, hitting the UK, France, Ireland, the USA, Canada and back…

Facing his own painful past and the fears of his family in order to save his grandson, a retired rodeo legend (Neal McDonough) enters a high-stakes bull-riding competition as the oldest contestant ever. Along the way, he reconciles old wounds with his estranged daughter and proves that true courage is found in the fight for family. From acclaimed director Jon…

We are super excited today to be premiering the debut release for a new project out of Sydney/Eora, the entrancing and hip-shaking “Many Faces” from House of Strangers. It’s a track which captures the emotional push-and-pull between who we are and who we pretend to be. House of Strangers is the solo project for Liam…

Americana and alt-country musician Rosy Nolan is pulling at the heartstrings in her vibrant new single, “How It Feels To Fall In Love”. Rosy captures that moment when lightning strikes in that thing called love, and we are so excited to be premiering it ahead of the release on Thursday. In a time when it’s…

From writer-director Ari Aster comes a modern Western and paranoid thriller set in the American Southwest during the tumultuous summer of 2020. Isolated and sheltered in place, in a global pandemic, a nation under pressure found itself sifting reality through the haze of social media and lost its collective mind. A “true conversation starter” (you…

Forgoing the surrealism that largely laced his previous films (Hereditary, Midsommar, Beau Is Afraid), Ari Aster‘s Eddington is, arguably, his most straightforward film to date.  It’s also likely to be his most divisive. Set in the heat of the pandemic – May 2020, to be exact – the film’s lead focal character, Sherriff Joe Cross…

A reinvention of Robert E. Howard’s classic sword-and-sorcery character, Red Sonja is an empowering new action film from director M.J. Bassett (Deathwatch, Rogue), starring Matilda Lutz as the titular warrior, who after being enslaved by an evil tyrant who wishes to destroy her people, finds that she must unite a group of unlikely warriors to face…

Australian metal band Parkway Drive have had a huge couple of months- from playing a one-night-only show at Sydney Opera House to announcing their very own Park Waves Festival to now appearing on Chris Hemsworth’s Disney Plus show Limitless: Live Better Now. I sat down with drummer Ben Gordon to chat about teaching Hemsworth how…

Following a completely sold-out run across North America and Europe and fresh off the release of her highly anticipated new album Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You, Ethel Cain has just added a bunch of new Australian dates to her biggest tour so far. After years of building a project that spans music, visuals and…

Nintendo has a long history of taking sports games in unexpected directions. They turned tennis into a Mushroom Kingdom showdown, turned kart racing into an all-out weaponised brawl, and made golf somehow involve chain chomps. Now, with Drag X Drive, they’ve taken one of the most technical, fast-paced adaptive sports — wheelchair basketball — and…

Fresh off the back of supporting Taylor Swift at a humbly sold-out Wembley Stadium and now joining Sam Fender on his upcoming Australian run, Holly Humberstone is heading back our way for a string of intimate headline shows this November for the first time since her sold-out debut tour in 2023. 9th October update –…

A beautiful, affective drama about the resilience of the human spirit, Treading Water features a star-making turn from Joe Gill as Danny, who, following his release from prison, tries to take control of the mental health issues that have shaped his life. When a chance encounter with a former flame, Laura (Becky Bowe, in an…

At the midway point in August, we’ve added ten new tracks to our Discovery Playlist on Spotify and Apple Music, including two exclusive premieres from earlier in the week. Our track of the week goes to Naarm indie-rockers Belair Lip Bombs, with their grand, lush and driving new single, “Hey You”. With bustling guitars, intense…

Yesterday, Naarm’s Joan & the Giants released their latest EP, the emotive and healing The Five Stages of Grief. The genesis of the EP was the ending of the relationship between frontwoman Gracie Newton-Wordsworth and former guitarist Aaron Birch. It’s an incredibly vulnerable and honest record, featuring contributions from both parties. It was a nine-year relationship, so its…

The 39 Steps’ evolution dates back to the novel of the same title by John Buchan, published in 1915, Alfred Hitchcock’s film in 1935, then reimagined on stage in 1996 by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon, and then Patrick Barlow in 2005. As eloquently noted by director Damien Ryan, “The stage version winks at the…

Recently divorced phys-ed teacher Makayla is about to turn thirty and is determined to make up for lost time by having as many of the quintessential experiences that she missed out on in her twenties as possible. She makes a list. It includes such things as: go skinny-dipping, get a tattoo, and, the first cab…

Radio Free Alice are currently tearing it up in the UK. They are on a massive tour, with more than twenty shows in the UK sold out, as well as shows in New York, Canada, as well as appearances at the famed Reading and Leeds festivals on the immediate horizon, as well as Shaky Knees…

Despite opening during the pandemic when going to the cinemas wasn’t exactly the easiest excursion, Nobody – released in March of 2021, having been pushed from its original date of August 2020 – managed to (rightfully) fight its way through opposition to relative success; on a $16m budget it earned a solid $57.5m worldwide. It…

We are blessed in Australia with a plethora of talented female singer/songwriters. A newcomer to the list, with a bullet to her name, is Townsville-raised, now Melbourne-resident Matilda Duncan. Recently, Matilda released the emotional and poignant piano ballad, “Grocery Store”, and we are stoked to be premiering its video today. About the track, Matilda writes:…

Iceland’s Snæfellsnes Peninsula will play host to a celebration of human connection and celestial wonder in August next year with the Iceland Eclipse Festival. Running across four days and with a solar eclipse to kick things off, the limited capacity festival will see punters rubbing shoulders with astronauts, global innovation leaders, and a whole host…

Luke ‘Macca’ McCulloch spent eight years on the WA Police diving team, working on well-known cases like the light plane crash in 2017 which killed two people on Australia Day, and a prominent 2018 murder. Two years ago he left his role, and he has recently independently published an account of a particularly arduous ten-day…

Since forming in Chicago in 1999, rock powerhouse Rise Against have carved out a fierce and loyal global following with their anthemic choruses and unapologetic activism. Now, two decades and nine records deep, Rise Against are gearing up to release their tenth studio album, Ricochet, out August 15. Taking their sound to a whole new…

When Super Mario Party Jamboree launched on the original Switch, it genuinely surprised me. What looked like another family-friendly board game romp turned out to be one of the most fun and fully-realised party games Nintendo has ever made. Fast-forward to its new incarnation on the Switch 2, bundled with the shiny new Jamboree TV…

Let me start with a confession: I am a woman of a certain age, and yes, the algorithm knows me too well. It’s that shady little gremlin living in my phone, reading between the feeding me ads that are a little too on the nose. Case in point: my feed is a minefield of “miracle”…