Author: Larry Heath

To celebrate the 27th Annual Aria Awards, Nova is hosting an exclusive invite only Nova’s Red Room with Bliss N Eso as part of Aria week. It’s all happening TOMORROW NIGHT (28th November) in Sydney at The Standard. To celebrate, we have FIVE double passes to give away to the event. For your chance to…

We’ve been asked to be a part of the exciting tag project #youin this Summer by XXXX Summerbright Lager (@xxxxsummerbright), and we’re passing on the invitation to you as well, for the chance to win a prize pack worth over $200! Summer is all about making the most about every day; it’s the feeling that…

Larry catches up with Metric guitarist Jimmy Shaw to find out what we can expect from the Australian tour – which kicks off in a little over a week – given it’s been well over a year since Synthetica was released. Hint: Some old stuff! We talk about their first ever trip to Hong Kong…

The Australian box office saw the highly anticipated sequel The Hunger Games: Catching Fire claim the number one spot in Australia over the weekend, bringing in $12.475 million on 579 screens from Thursday 21st November to Sunday 24th November. The film took in $2.6 million on Friday alone, thanks to sold out midnight screenings around…

the AU review presents a LIVE and EXCLUSIVE performance by Robert Ellis and the track “Only Lies” as part of the AU sessions series. The track is from his soon to be released album. Robert Ellis is currently touring Australia, during which this was filmed. Watch the session now:

Sam Wilkinson from Ray Davies gives the AU an insight into recent times with the band, as they tour their debut album Tussle around the place, including an appearance at The Farmer and The Owl in Wollongong this weekend! You’ve played a few shows to celebrate your new record “Tussle” already – how have they…

Sydney band Treatment are set to play at The Farmer and The Owl Festival in Wollongong this weekend! They take some time to answer our questions and introduce themselves to you before they play alongside the likes of The Drones and Dappled Cities on Saturday. Who are you and where are you from? We are…

With The Farmer and The Owl Festival kicking off in Wollongong tomorrow, plenty of talented musicians and artists will be showing off their goods, and we’ve got another band to introduce you to. Meet Scarborough, the Kiama trio who are currently making waves and will be bringing them down to The Farmer and The Owl….

We’ve been digging on The Walking Who lately and this weekend, we’re going to be catching them down at The Farmer and The Owl festival in Wollongong! They answer some questions before the shenanigans are set to go off! Who are you and where are you from? We’re The Walking Who; we’re from Sydney, but…

Released last month, we’ve already heard the wonderful sounds of The Jezabels‘ new single “The End”, and now we have a music video to go along with it, directed by Ivana Bobic. The track is our first taste of their new album The Brink, which is due out in Australia and New Zealand on January…

Larry sits down with two incredible voices: Broadway legend and tenor Mandy Patinkin and the iconic baritone of Nathan Gunn. We talk about discovering art music, how they put together their show, what it means to them to be performing in Australia (a return for Mandy, a debut for Gunn) – in particular at the…

Larry sits down with Trent Grenell from Newcastle group Seabellies in Newcastle to talk about his time in Africa, the heartache that led to writing the new album Fever Belle, producing it with Simon Berkfinger in Berlin and much more. The band are on tour around Australia in celebration of the album through November and…

After Marvel’s Thor dominated the Australian box office for two weeks – last weekend bringing in close to $6 million – this weekend Australians looked towards the comedic world of Jackass, helping land the reasonably well received comedy Bad Grandpa to the number one spot with $3.4 million. Thor continued to perform well, however, coming…

As part of our series in the leadup to the Wollongong boutique festival The Farmer and the Owl this weekend, we catch up with Wollongong/Sydney outfit The Nuclear Family to find out a little more about them, and get a taste of what we can expect from them at the Saturday event! Who are you…

We’ve just returned home to Melbourne after finishing of our Euro tour with Canadians Half Moon Run. The trip covered Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland with all shows, bar one, selling out! After 33 hours in transit we’re pretty exhausted but will expend our remaining energy on one final diary entry. Our final show, and…

And we’re back. It’s the sort of feeling you get the minute The Hunger Games: Catching Fire hits the screen, throwing you right back into Suzanne Collins’ hypnotising dystopic world of Panem, this time in a film helmed by Francis Lawrence (no relation to the film’s star). The sequel to the international hit film The…

Fresh back in town from Berlin, Larry Heath caught up with Dave Rennick from acclaimed Sydney outfit Dappled Cities, to talk about their upcoming appearance as part of The Farmer and the Owl festival in Wollongong, the potential for some new music, working with Berkfinger and much more… So now that you’re back [from Berlin],…

Celebrating the release of their new EP Boondoggle we caught up with Newcastle outfit Benjalu – one of the hardest working bands in Australia – to talk about touring, the new EP, the upcoming debut album, their upcoming shows in December and much, much more… So you have been keeping busy this year with two…

the AU review is proud to present the 25th annual Bluesfest in Byron Bay next Easter weekend. One aspect of the festival we love every year is the discovery of young and emerging artists – alongside, of course, the more established on the lineup, and the countless “legends” along the way. As we look towards…

We catch up with Andrew Knox from Sydney band – and good friends of the AU – Made in Japan to talk about their UK adventures earlier this year, their new music, their upcoming shows in Sydney and Melbourne and much more! …you recently took on the streets of London – How did you find…

A record 26,000 runners braved the rain to run in the five kilometre night time fun run event, making it the biggest stand alone 5km event in Australian history. Brought to us by Wilkie Productions, enjoy these photos from the run and the big dance party that followed, featuring DJ Dingo and Alison Wonderland! The…

Our good friends in Melbourne’s goodbyemotel are continuing their tour around America. Enjoy part three of their adventures around the country in this very special tour diary feature video!

the AU review challenges Nick and Paul from Franz Ferdinand to a quiz on some “fun facts” about Australia.

the AU review sits down with Nick and Paul from Franz Ferdinand in Sydney, Australia to talk about all their adventures around the world, their return to Australia, performing their new album live and much more…

A little more than a month after Neutral Milk Hotel kicked off their reunion tour – their first run of shows since 1998* – in Baltimore, Maryland, the iconic group have made the journey down to Australia for their first ever shows in our country. To be considered so early in this reunion cycle, or…

Ahead of their appearance next weekend at Wollongong’s highly anticipated boutique music festival The Farmer and the Owl, we caught up with Luke O’Farrell from Sydney’s The Laurels to talk about the importance of events like this, growing up in Wollongong, The Drones, album number two, touring the USA and much, much more… How important…

It’s been almost four years since the John Butler Trio‘s record April Uprising was released. It went on to go platinum in Australia while the band toured the world. Now, it’s finally time for a new JBT record to see the light of day, with the band finishing up Flesh & Blood set to be…

the AU review presents Katie Noonan and Abby Dobson performing the classic Leonardo’s Bride track “Even When I’m Sleeping” in anticipation of Katie and Abby’s “Songs That Made Me Tour” which also features Angie Hart of frente and new talent Martha Marlow. The pair talk about the tour, Katie talks about her love of the…

To celebrate the bands return to Australia for the first time in 17 years – which kicks off in Brisbane tonight – Superchunk are offering a free download of a live recording from their last visit – a performance at Melbourne’s Iconic Corner Hotel! The release is called: Clambakes Vol 7: Shut the F*ck Up!…….

We came across this track “Bob Dylan” recently. It’s from a new outfit called Cold Clinical Love. We don’t know who they are or where they’re from. We know they have a Tumblr and a Facebook though, and that voice is quite familiar… well, we’ll let you be the judge on that. In the meantime,…