Author: Larry Heath

As founder of the AU review, most weeks I’m invited along (or I invite myself along) to a variety of musical and arts based events around Sydney. Some weeks I take up these offers, while other weeks I stay at home like a hermit, going through the hundreds of daily emails we receive here at…

Yesterday we premiered the new music video for Pluto Jonze, which featured some stop motion animation, some of which took place in a forest. Coincidentally, Band of Horses have released a similar clip, created from thousands of stills in a forest somewhere. It’s a simple clip but a beautiful song. Our first taste of their…

Fresh off the road from a tour with Brooklyn’s School of Seven Bells, Little Scout have announced a run of headline shows in support of new single “Go Quietly” in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. Mixed by Lars Stalfors (The Mars Volta), “Go Quietly” signals an exciting new direction for the band, and its recent release…

If the promise of seeing bands like Eiffel 65 and Hanson later this year wasn’t enough to whet your whistle, we have another band from the late 90s to get you excited. Remember “All Star,” “Walkin’ On The Sun” and “Then the Morning Comes”? How can you not!? Yep, Smash Mouth have just announced an…

Pictured: Busby Marou, Jessica Mauboy, Shellie Morris, Gurrumul Yunupingu, Troy Cassar-Daley. From the Top End to Tasmania, the nation’s most outstanding Indigenous artists have been selected as the finalists in the 2012 National Indigenous Music Awards with the winners announced on August 11. Country music superstar Troy Cassar-Daley and folk/roots act Busby Marou have both…

We’re big fans of Sydney based artist Pluto Jonze here at the AU review, so you can understand that we’re pretty excited to be presenting to you this morning his brand new clip “See What The Sun Sees”. The song will stay with you long after you listen to it and the stop motion animation…

Sydney four piece Lime Cordiale have just released the video for their brand new single “Pretty Girl”, off their EP Faceless Cat, which was launched last week at The Standard in Sydney. The entertaining clip has been directed by the talented Matilda Brown. Enjoy! You’ll be able to check out the band in Melbourne on…

Adelaide outfit The Shiny Brights have just released a new clip for their track “Tightrope”, comprised of 1,500 stills taken and then stop motioned into the clip itself. It’s basically like Inception, only with a different framerate. This may or may not be accurate, you’ll probably want to view yourself: For a free download: http://theshinybrights.bandcamp.com/track/tightrope…

Grammy award winning band Blues Traveler released their new album Suzie Cracks The Whip on Friday 6 July, and along with it they sent across the interwebs a fantastic music video for the album’s first single “You Don’t Have To Love Me”. Enjoy it below! Suzie Cracks The Whip is in stores now.

While in town for the Sydney Film Festival, I caught up with Oscar winning cinematographer Dion Beebe and his wife and director Unjoo Moon to talk about their work on the new documentary The Zen of Bennett. Larry: So how did you find your way into Tony Bennett recording studio? Unjoo: Well we’ve known the…

Great news or greatest news? Last seen in Australia 16 years ago, the iconic Californian group Weezer will finally be returning to our shores for one hell of a special performance. As though to say “we’re sorry for our absence”, they will be performing everyone’s favourite* Weezer record in FULL: The Blue Album. They also…

They’re coming to Australia in just two weeks and have just released a new music video! Who are we talking about? Why, The Shins of course, and their video for “It’s Only Life” is currently doing the rounds. The clip was directed by Hiro Murai and ‘features James Mercer trapped in an apocalyptic suburbia by…

Melbourne trio Pony Face have a new album coming out next month, and they’ve come out swinging with the second single to be released from it – “Silver Tongue”. You can get your first listen to it below and you can listen to it as a free download here: http://ponyface.bandcamp.com/ “Silver Tongue” is the second…

Not long now until Bloc Party finally return to Australia to play Splendour in the Grass – and to whet our anticipation they have released a new music video for their brand new single “Octopus”. Without further ado…

The 2012/13 Falls Festival continues drip-feeding us their lineup, with 7 new bands announced today. These are: Bombay Bicycle Club, First Aid Kit, Hilltop Hoods, Maximo Park, Millions and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs. This year’s event will be the 20th year of the Lorne, Victoria (18+) event, and the 10th year of the Marion Bay,…

This Thursday a new Aussie comedy will be unleashed onto the silver screen. Starring True Blood‘s Ryan Kwanten, Not Suitable for Children is a refreshing move away from the more serious, though highlight celebrated Australian films of late. After seeing the film at the Australian Premiere during the Sydney Fringe Festival, Larry Heath caught up…

If you’re not familiar with this band by now, you should be. The Fumes are an Australian bred 2 piece outfit comprising of Steve Merry and Jacob Mann who have been creating dirty blues riffs since the beginning 2011, though the band’s original line up dates to early 2002. With new blood in the band…

I write this review as I recover from a two and a half hour onslaught of hilarity, brought (finally) to Sydney by the one and only Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie aka the Flight of the Conchords, with a very special and an unexpected appearance from someone who’s no stranger to our city, Arj Barker….

Adding a new voice to the next generation of Indigenous music, Thelma Plum from Brisbane has been announced as the winner of the NIMAs triple j Unearthed competition. Judges had a strong field to choose from right across Australia and Thelma blew judges away with her haunting, spiritual sound, showing a level of experience than…

Ahead of a small media crowd today at the Capitol, Dame Edna Everage talked at length about her career and her farewell tour (her “Diamonte Jubilee”) “EAT PRAY LAUGH!”, which kicks off tonight at the Capitol Theatre in Sydney and runs until July 14th. The show stars Dame Edna Everage, with Barry Humphries, Sandy Stone…

Earlier this year The Deer Republic released their debut single, taken off their forthcoming EP The Sweet Resistance, and now they have a music video for the track, too! The song is the catchy “The Score” and was recorded at the now defunct BJB Studios swith Jean-Paul Fung (Last Dinosaurs, Little Red) producing and the…

To celebrate 20 years of dedicated Pharcyde delivery, and following their successful performances at Good Vibrations Festival in 2009, California’s Imani and Bootie Brown of The Pharcyde are bringing their original, idiosyncratic style of hip hop back to Australia this August with a special audio/visual show. It’s hard to believe it’s been two decades since…

CMJ – or College Music Journal – is a weekly print publication and website that looks at the College Music scene, as well as throwing an annual music industry festival in New York in October. Always keen to discover new music, the folks behind CMJ have been kind enough to exclusively share their favourite new…

Melbourne’s Blackchords have hit the airwaves of late with this catchy number “Dance Dance Dance”, and it’s no wonder why. It’s hard to get the song out of your head once you hear it – well in this writer’s humble opinion anyway – though it still feels like something original all the same. A difficult…

Earlier this year in Toronto, we caught up with up-and-coming trio Bensh, who are based between Austria and the UK. We chatted about their album “Clues”, learnt a bit about their music and talked about their experiences of playing industry festivals in the USA – such as Canadian Music Week and SXSW – and “overstepping…

In the first part of my Sydney Film Festival review series last week, I looked at four of the films I saw during the festival, and gave you my impressions of the festival as a whole. In short, I thought they nailed it. This week I conclude my review series with another four films I…

Last week San Antonio rockers Hacienda released their Dan Auerbach produced record Shakedown to the world. Back in March in Toronto we caught up with the band to talk about the album, life on the road with Kasabian and much more… Camera: Andrew Wade Interview/Edit: Larry Heath Header Photo: Andrew Wade

Tales in Space are Luke Bertoz & Simon Widaur from Sydney who write, play & record their own tunes and – as you’ll see below in their new film clip – occasionally dress up as scientists and conduct experiments. You may remember the band from their track “Work You Out” that got a good amount…

So that graphic above is the album cover for the long awaited new album from Yeasayer, Fragrant World. They’ve just released the first OFFICIAL single from the record, “Longevity”, and we have the stream and accompanying ‘vignette’ for your listening pleasure. We can’t wait to hear the full record, which is due out Friday, August…

Directed by Johnny Welch, acclaimed Sydney duo The Falls have just released the music video for the first single off their forthcoming debut EP Hollywood. The track is called “Home” and as the image above indicates, it gets pretty brutal. There may or may not be zombies. Although the song is anything but, with some…