Author: Sosefina Fuamoli

Hot Chip are the latest to get behind the WA Bushfire Appeal, with the Brits announcing that they will be donating $20 from each ticket sold to their upcoming gig in Perth next week to the cause. The band performs at the Fremantle Arts Centre on January 29th, supported by Touch Sensitive and Empress Of…

With Australia Day now hours away, today’s Music Video of the Day couldn’t have come at a better time. Mia Dyson, who is spending the public holiday abroad, has released her new clip for “Tearing Up the Lawn” – a nostalgic throwback to spending teen years skipping school, hitting the beach with mates and getting…

Montreal artist Elliot Maginot performs his track “Monsters at War” off the record Young/Old/Everything.In.Between in Sydney, Australia as part of the AU sessions – Live and Acoustic web series! You can catch Elliot on the road with his new album through into February, don’t miss your opportunity to see him roll out the new material!…

Sydney has a new record label as of this week, with FBi’s Cassandra Wilkinson launching Lazy Thinking Records! Co-founded alongside Jim Flanagan, Paul Mcleay and Chrissy Flanagan, the label (one for ‘innovative music’) will celebrate its launch with an official party at Red Rattler on February 11th, showcasing the talented Rita Revell, Greenwave Beth, JaysWays…

It won’t be long before Illinois artist William Fitzsimmons will be in Australia with his captivating live show and latest record Pittsburgh and we’re even more excited to find out that the talented Krista Polvere has now been added to shows in Melbourne and Sydney! Having opened for the likes of Ryan Adams and Steve…

As many of us spend Australia Day enjoying time off work, tuning into the Hottest 100, celebrating the public holiday with family and mates, many will also be acknowledging the darker historical element of January 26th, a chapter of Australian history that cannot be ignored yet still is by a large percentage of Australians. The…

**Editorial Note: Since publishing, Papa Bilko and the Binrats have had to pull out of the event, being replaced by JOSEPH LIDDY AND THE SKELETON HORSE. Sydney musicians are hosting a celebration of the talent continuing to thrive within the city in the face of recent venue shutdowns, licensing restrictions and the general calls of the music…

In what’s expected to be a huge event for K-Pop fans this February, both Boyfriend and JJCC will be performing for the first time in Sydney at Carriageworks, opening the 2016 Sydney Chinese New Year Festival! It’s going to two massive nights of K-Pop boyband goodness, with SBS PopAsia’s Jamaica dela Cruz and Andy Trieu…

If you’ve got any passing interest in the quality crop of bands emerging out of Adelaide over the past few years, chances are you’ll know of Horror My Friend. The trio have been establishing themselves as a rock band to be aware of in the last two years especially and today, they celebrate the release…

In some sad news today, The Jezabels have announced the cancellation of their SYNTHIA album tour originally scheduled for February and March this year as keyboardist Heather Shannon prepares to undergo more cancer treatment in Sydney. Shannon had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer three years ago but until now, had managed to go about as…

Let the whinging and planning begin – the timetables and maps have been released for the Laneway Festival tour this year! Kicking off in Adelaide this year on February 5th before hitting sites around the country until its final stop in Freo on February 14th, you can now start working out where you’re going to…

With their debut EP gaining solid acclaim upon its release and their current single “Eye to Eye” generating some great momentum, Sydney’s Wild Honey recently capped off a tour with the Delta Riggs down the east coast – a perfect way to kick off a promising year! Spending the tour travelling along the Great Ocean…

!!! (Chk Chk Chk) have dropped their latest music video, taking over news broadcasts in “Every Little Bit Counts”. Teaming up with Funny or Die and Caspar Kelly, the music video is just a lot of fun. But we should always be expecting as such from !!! – as Kelly says of working with them…

Suede recently dropped a follow up to 2013’s Bloodsports in the ambitious Night Thoughts, released today. The album features some of Suede’s most focused material yet, with the entire record jumping up at the listener, beckoning you to listen to its material almost as a suite of music as opposed to 12 standalone tracks. According…

It’s been a few years in between Australian visits for Fatboy Slim. This weekend will see all of that change though, as he finally makes his return, playing his own headline sets on either side of a highly anticipated appearance at Sydney’s Electric Gardens Festival. The last time I saw Fatboy Slim lay down a…

The winners of Music SA’s Bands on Track competition, run each year in conjunction with the Clipsal 500, have been announced today! 134 applications were submitted by local bands to be in with the chance of opening one of the three nights of live music Clipsal programs, this year to feature the likes of Peking…

Ben Abraham has linked up with Oh Yeah Wow to make a stunning film clip for his new music video for latest single “You and Me”. The video producers, who have been behind clips by the likes of The Jezabels and Gotye, brilliantly captured the broodiness and intimacy of the song with the visuals, depicting…

Jordan Rakei has been whipping up quite the reputation for himself around the globe recently as a must-see artist, with live shows going down incredibly well and off the back of his recent collaboration with Disclosure, the now London-based Australian has cultivated a strong fanbase that has only continued to grow in size and enthusiasm….

Oh, Facebook. An avenue through which many a rumour can start, many hopes can be raised and much excitement can be generated. At the very least, that’s what At The Drive In have used it for today. The band posted a short snippet to their social media page with nothing but a link to their…

The artist announcement for this year’s Bonnaroo festival has been dropped in memorable style, with Conan O’Brien delivering the news on Tuesday night’s (US) edition of Conan. Headlined by Pearl Jam, LCD Soundsystem and new project Dead and Company (featuring John Mayer and members of the Grateful Dead), Bonnaroo returns to Manchester, Tennessee this June!…

Laneway Festival-bound goddess Grimes has released a new music video, this time for her tune “Kill V. Maim”, just in time for us to be getting proper hyped for her upcoming festival sets! The single, taken from her forthcoming album Art Angels had its music video show over in Toronto, directed by her brother and…

Bluesfest celebrates 27 years on the Australian festival calendar in 2016 and this year, the Byron Bay affair has brought together possibly one of its strongest and diverse line ups yet. Featuring the likes of Kendrick Lamar, D’Angelo, The National, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and more, the festival ignited conversation in 2015 surrounding the…

Scottish group WHITE have dropped their new music video for catchy single “Living Fiction” and we dig. The band is looking to have a pretty big 2016, with their biggest UK tour yet coming up and then a trip out to the US for SXSW also on the horizon. “Living Fiction” is a great introduction…

The 20 contenders for this year’s APRA Song of the Year accolade have been announced this week, with a diverse range of Australian songwriters being acknowledged for some great releases through 2015. There were thousands of votes taken in over the last month or so, with a mix of established artists and emerging frontrunners on…

With only days left to vote for triple j’s Hottest 100, your favourite bands still have a shot of landing their 2015 releases somewhere in the countdown, hopefully near the top! While at Festival of the Sun in Port Macquarie, Larry checks in with a range of the artists performing to see what their favourite…

Urthboy has dropped the next little taster of a track from his upcoming album today, “Second Heartbeat” and has demonstrated to the Australian hip-hop mainstay’s ability to link up cleverly with talented individuals who stand out on their own, rather than be relegated to backing vocalist/drowned out guest vocalist duties. For this tune, Urthy’s brought…

Doctor Who and Torchwood fans are in for a treat this April, with this latest bit of Supanova news dropping! For the pop culture expo’s Melbourne and Gold Coast events coming up, cast members from both hit TV shows will be attending, giving fans the opportunity to connect with some favourites, past and present. Eve…

  Adelaide’s SKIES have been busy already this year, not wasting any time in capitalising on the success 2015 brought them. Touted as one of your classic next big things to come out of SA, the trio have recently wrapped up work on their next single, one we’re excited to hear more of. Their tune…

Irish indie duo Heathers came on to our radar when we linked up with them at SXSW in 2014 – Dublin sisters Ellie and Louise McNamara were making great waves through the festival with their stunning voices great music we got to know more of on their Kingdom album. This year, Heathers have kicked things…

Brisbane does good pop. I don’t think anybody is disputing this fact but it definitely should merit some more mentions here and there. I don’t know what it is about bands coming out of the Sunshine State in recent years, but they’ve been churning out some great material that has been piquing the interest of…