Author: Sosefina Fuamoli

The first week of 2017 in the City of Churches starts strong with the debut of Gold Fusion, a brand new music event set to showcase some fantastic local talent and visitors from interstate. Held at the Published Arthouse on January 6th, the likes of Oscar Key Sung, I Know Leopard and Ali Barter will…

The Falls Festival saw out its first full day of programming, with both The Grand Theatre and Valley Stages running at full capacity. Crowd crushes and mini-stampedes unfortunately marred what was otherwise a great day out in Lorne, with the DMA’s crowd running into dramas on the way back down for London Grammar. It seemed…

Thursday at Lorne started not with a whimper but a downfall, as rain made sure campers arrived to the festival site well and truly soaked. Opening the action on the Valley Stage, triple j darling Gretta Ray took control early on, proving her potential on a large stage. As Falls entered the guts of the…

The 2016 Falls Festival returned to Lorne after last year’s bushfires forced the Victorian coastal event to up and move to Mt. Duneed Estate – a warm and humid return for punters. This year’s “All Gold Everything” Boogie Nights theme lined up perfectly with The Grand Theatre’s opening line up of acts including Mallrat, Spit…

Tegan and Sara have recently branched out from what’s been a hectic year of new music and touring in boosting their advocacy for the LGBTQ community, launching the Tegan and Sara Foundation. Established to ‘fight for economic justice, health and representation for LGBTQ girls and women’, the duo began working on the project in the middle of…

Vancouver trio The Courtneys have caught our eye with their flawless fusion of influences from the likes of Eddy Current to Teenage Fanclub, whipped up into some heartfelt music that sticks with you. Take their single “Silver Velvet”, for example. Dreamy, vocally dynamic and coming packing with that fuzzy grunge glory, the single bathes in 90’s…

Sad news for Childish Gambino fans out on the West Coast, with the Atlanta superstar having to pull out of Falls Downtown in Fremantle next month. Unfortunately (but at the same time, excitingly) for Donald Glover, the 2017 Golden Globes have come a-calling and with his hit FX show Atlanta reaping in a couple of nominations, the show’s star, writer and show…

Coming through with the latest taste of their debut album, Infinite Games, London’s Zola Blood share “Islands”. The electro-pop sounds ring out strong, which a prominent synth line coming through after the well-crafted drop. If you haven’t heard much about Zola Blood before, “Islands” is a great little intro track while we wait for Infinite Games to drop early…

As we reach the end of another year, the question of what has been the best album/s of the 2016 has been thrown around. While up at Festival of the Sun recently, we posed the question to some of the artists backstage. From Mesa Cosa‘s Blood & Brains, Skegss‘ Everyone Is Good At Something, D.D Dumbo‘s Utopia Defeated and A.B….

Recently, we welcomed Japandroids back to Australia eagerly – in a short amount of time, the Canadian rock duo had fans in a spin with a brand new live show indicating one hell of a new album was ahead in the forthcoming Near To The Wild Heart of Life. Following their Fairgrounds Festival set, Dave and Brian caught up with…

The Falls Music and Arts Festival remains one of our favourites on the summer calendar; whether you’re headed for the forest surrounds of the long-running Lorne event, the envious lush getaway vibes Marion Bay offers, the newer stomping grounds at Byron Bay or, in 2017, downtown Fremantle, Falls offers punters a festival experience unlike many…

Chasing Ghosts are to be on the road next February, squeezing the last out of Summer with their album I Am Jimmy Kyle on tour down the east coast of Australia and Adelaide. The album has seen the band earn much praise from the heads at Triple J and Triple J Unearthed; as a sophomore effort, I Am…

When the Clipsal 500 race comes through Adelaide next year, the official after-race concerts will be showcasing the talents of some musical heavy hitters, not to mention opening the stage up to some of South Australia’s best emerging artists. The winners of the annual ‘Bands on Track’ competition have been revealed today, with the artists announced…

Following on from a successful 2016 event, the Barossa Valley’s Turkey Flat Vineyards will be hosting the Silver Raven Festival for another year next April. The Americana heavy line up will be headlined by Philly’s Strand of Oaks, while Nashville’s Jonny Fritz and San Francisco’s Sonny & The Sunsets bring some of that heated American flavour through to South Australia….

If you’ve seen Betty & Oswald‘s music video for the catchy “Stuck in the City”, chances are you were hypnotised by the vibrant pinks, the dance moves, the sunbaking…too much to be stealing your attention. Ahead of their hometown show alongside Phantastic Ferniture and many others at the Oxford Art Factory tonight, we go behind the scenes and take a…

We’ve been loving watching Matt Gresham‘s progress through this year – an international profile on the rise and a swell of support on the homefront off the back of debut album One Night Away has propelled him onto the radars of many and rightly so. Most recently, Gresham has shown off his performance and creative chops in single…

We’ve been vocal about our love for Marian Hill through this year and last – Jeremy Lloyd and Samantha Gongol have generated some serious heat with 2016’s ACT ONE album and within the last week, they’ve struck upon another piece of fire with new single, “Back To Me”. Linking up with Fifth Harmony‘s Lauren Jauregui, the track has been quick to capture…

Earlier today, Flosstradamus fans were met with the news that, seemingly, the trap/EDM duo were to be no more with Josh Young taking to Instagram in announcing he was going to be focusing on a solo project under the moniker of Me2. Of course, we wondered what this would mean for the duo’s upcoming Australian dates in the New…

Throwback to the beginning of December, where a stellar line up of musicians, DJs and notorious club night curators pooled their powers and together with Bacardi, brought a free party to remember through to Melbourne. The ‘House of Bacardi’ east coast series wrapped up in Victoria following successful events in Sydney and Brisbane – all…

The Golden Era Records Cypher is finally here! Hip hop heads have been hanging out for this one for what’s seemed like an absolute eon but considering the year the Adelaide hip hop label and its artists have had in 2016 – we shouldn’t have worried, the GE crew were always going to deliver. Swapping the 2015 cypher…

Conspiracy theories. The fuel behind many a late-night Wikipedia trawls. We’ve all been caught up by the mystery and the oftentimes unexplainable; whether it’s the Illuminati, the existence of aliens, various assassinations or the incredibly far-fetched (Avril Lavigne is actually dead and a doppelgänger is in her place, Beyonce was never actually pregnant…), we love a…

Bluesfest takes another hit with Barry Gibb becoming the latest artist to cancel his trip to Australia for the festival. Following on after Neil Young‘s cancellation, the iconic Bee Gee has today announced that due to ‘international commitments’, he has had to cancel his entire Australian and New Zealand tour. Rescheduling of the tour isn’t possible at the moment, so…

Lazertits, possibly one of the best band names we’ve heard, are going to be wasting no time once January gets underway, revealing their first dates for 2017. Kicking off with a date at The Old Bar in Melbourne, the band heads to Sydney for the first time ever in Jan, hitting Vic On The Park…

“Already Home” has become a recent favourite of ours, we’re pitting Alex The Astronaut to have a promising year now 2017 is coming knocking. The single, recorded in Melbourne earlier this year, now also has a music video – the landscape has been swapped for that of upstate New York, directed by Roland Ellis. Following Alex and…

Millington – remember the name. While 2016 is beginning to wind down, this songwriter is only getting started. Today, we share his latest single “Spark in the Dust”, taken from his debut EP Being, due out on January 21st. The introduction leads into a vibrant and enveloping body of feel good folk; Millington wraps the listener up…

In case you missed it ahead of the weekend, the longlist for the 12th Australian Music Prize is now complete and being shown off in all its glory. 364 albums were listened to during the initial process by the judging panel – the most ever submitted in the history of the competition. For its 12th…

We’ve been rocking with Hazel English for a little while now – the Sydney native, now based in California, has been making music that not only opened the eyes of many to a new and exciting songwriting talent (we’re talking over three million streams online), but she’s also been generating that heavy industry buzz. Next month,…

Another mint slice from Jay Watson aka GUM today, this time in the form of a music video for his tune, “Gemini”. Taking influence from classic favourites like The Never Ending Story, the clip was shot in Los Angeles under the directorial and editorial eye of Sam Kristofski. Featuring Teresa Oman and Stephen Engstrom, the “Gemini” film clip is slick and well…

This Boxing Day, Australian audiences will be introduced to Disney’s latest heroine in Moana. The first ever Polynesian princess has already caused much conversation even before the film saw its recent premiere in the United States – while there was obvious excitement surrounding this new territory being tread when it came to exploring Polynesian cultures on…

Festival of the Sun this year saw Sydney’s Gang of Youths top the bill at Port Macquarie, drawing in strong numbers for what was to be one of their first festival shows of the summer. After spending 2016 on the road with The Positions and the Let Me Be Clear EP, the boys have hit the studio hard in recent months…