Author: Larry Heath

It’s not the first time Nick Cave has lent his music as a score, but it’s not every day an artist of his calibre supplies it for a commercial. Check out the classy campaign above for a new campaign for Bulleit Whiskey. This isn’t an original track however – it’s called “Martha’s Dream” and was…

the AU review sits down in Los Angeles with Santa Cruz based group Wooster to talk about playing Culture Collide, their music, Australia and much more… Filmed at Taix in Los Angeles during Culture Collide – October 2013.

Jasmine Safaeian brings us photos from the second day of Culture Collide Festival in Los Angeles, featuring Bombay Show Pig, Bleached (pictured), New Zealand’s Ghost Wave, The Deer Tracks, Adi Ulmansky, a celebrity spot of Jack Black and much more from the world of music!

Jasmine Safaeian brings us photos from the third and final day of the Filter Magazine industry event Culture Collide, which takes place every year in Silverlake, Los Angeles. Pictured above is King Khan and the Shrines and also check out photos of New Zealand’s Ghost Wave, france’s Chateau Marmont, US group NO and more from…

The second night of festivities at Culture Collide proved to be a massive one, with the event introducing an outdoor stage as part of the weekend showcases. This in turn replaced what used to be a free all-day “block party” for the general public. The result is something more intimate, though capturing the great vibes…

Following another day of insightful panels – covering everything from aligning brands with bands to the spirits of the world – the music of day two of Filter Magazine’s Cuture Collide festival kicked off with a couple of regional focused parties. First up were the Swedes, who brought with them some traditional Swedish herring and…

As Filter Magazine’s Culture Collide has drawn to a close, we wanted to take a look back at some of the bands we discovered over the weekend, and bring you a list of the five bands we experienced for the first time, loved, and think you should spend some time getting to know too. The…

Larry sits down with Ben from Miami Horror to talk about their upcoming album, latest single, performing at Homebake Festival 2013 – as well as other Summer events in Australia such as The Plot – and much more!

We chat to MS MR about playing Austin City Limits Festival (ACL), their two visits to Australia this year for St Jerome’s Laneway Festival and Splendour in the Grass, covering LCD Soundsystem for triple j, working with Australian artists like Gotye and Strange talk and much, much more…

Larry sits down at Austin City Limits Music Festival 2013 with Vancouver group Bear Mountain to talk about touring, the festival, defying boundaries of genre, their debut album XO, Australian plans and much more…

Following on from the late afternoon parties, the rest of the day saw me jump from venue to venue trying to catch as much music as possible. First up, I caught the end of Wooster, a solid rock band from Santa Cruz, California. That’s about six hours North of LA for those playing at home….

Larry sat down with Australian artist Mark Wilkinson while he was in Los Angeles as part of his first ever North American tour. We talk about performing at the Hotel Cafe, busking, heading along to CMJ, his latest album, working with Ollie McGill from The Cat Empire and much more…

Them Swoops are about to head to New York city to play CMJ. We caught up briefly with the band to chat about their trip, and find out how their recent Northcote Social Club residency went! You recently finished up a residency at the Northcote Social Club – how did those shows go? It was…

And in the blink of an eye, Austin City Limits came to an end for yours truly for another year. But not before one more day of some incredible music, with Atoms for Peace (pictured) and Lionel Richie closing out the festival. Things kicked off with Vancouver based four piece Bear Mountain. They’re a band…

The Iris catches up with Nazeem Hussain about his new show, Legally Brown, which is currently airing on SBS. Putting politics and culture directly in the line of fire, Legally Brown is a hilarious comedy and who best to find out more, than from the man himself? Thanks for your time Nazeem! So, you’re one episode down (at least in…

For those unfamiliar with Filter Magazine’s Culture Collide Festival, now in its fourth year (and third year of exclusive Australian coverage on the AU) the best way to describe it is as a smaller version of BIGSOUND. Two days of talks as part of the Creative Summit, introduced last year, and three days of live…

Jasmine Safaeian brings us photos from the first day of Culture Collide Festival in Los Angeles, featuring Denmark’s Iceage (pictured), a DJ Set from Australia’s own Miami Horror, Costa Rica’s The Great Wilderness, a panel featuring Moby, Dhani Harrison and many more from the world of music!

he AU review sits down with New Orleans artist Colin Lake to talk about his debut record, his forthcoming sophomore release, his experiences at Austin City Limits Festival 2013 and more…

Having moved past the jetlag that delayed my first day of the annual Austin City Limits event, I kicked into the festival grounds early to catch Parquet Courts opening the second day, well ahead of the anticipated headline performances from The Cure and Kings of Leon. Parquet Courts deliver interesting fast paced, high energy, punk…

The fourth annual Filter Magazine Culture Collide Festival has kicked off in Silverlake in Los Angeles, serving as a lead in for next week’s CMJ Festival in New York and embracing music from all around the world – including three acts from Australia: Miami Horror, Plastic Plates and The Novocaines. The festival has launched with…

Another year and another Austin City Limits (ACL) Music Festival has come to an end. My second consecutive year at the event, it was a truly phenomenal weekend of music where I discovered new talent, caught up with some old favourites – and saw a few legends who I never thought I’d have the chance…

Larry catches up with Radio Personality and Comedian Tim “Rosso” Ross to talk about working in radio, his upcoming performances in Australia and overseas and much more… Find out more about Rosso’s upcoming dates at his official website here: http://timross.com.au/ – or on his Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/rossoworld.

Austin City Limits Festival – much like the TV show from which it stems – is as much about the new acts as it is about the well established ones – and so it’s only natural that you’ll discover a few new favourites in your visit to the festival. Ahead of the event’s second weekend,…

Larry sits down in the Austin Airstream at Austin City Limits (ACL) 2013 with Kevin Parker from Perth’s Tame Impala. We talk about life on the road since their latest record Lonerism was released 12 months ago – how easy it is to forget what’s happening (and what’s happened) one day to the next –…

Larry sits down at Austin City Limits 2013 with two parts of Franz Ferdinand to talk about their latest record (Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action), the American tour, their return to Australia next month, Neutral Milk Hotel and the unfortunate fall of Harvest Festival, cameras, a new iPhone app idea…and see what happens when…

Having missed them at Austin City Limits over the weekend, and witnessing way too little of their set at Splendour earlier this year, I was pretty excited to get the chance to see Irish up-and-comers Little Green Cars at the intimate Echo in Silverlake, California. In what is the band’s second US jaunt since they…

Hello. We are sleepmakeswaves. We make instrumental rock music. Some people call it ‘post-rock’, we prefer to call it ‘love songs about delay pedals’. We are embarking on a tour of Europe with a band called 65daysofstatic. They sound kinda like us, but are slightly older, probably a little better and British. It will be…