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In October 2012, Time Out Magazine Sydney turned five years old – half a million readers later we sat down with Joint-CEOs Justin Etheridge and Michael Rodrigues to look back at the five years of Time Out in Australia, we which bring to you now as we celebrate our own five year anniversary. Since Time…

Last week we had the opportunity to head along to the Sydney based rehearsals of the upcoming, multi-million dollar revival of Grease: The Musical, which will be touring Australia from later in the month. Pictured below, courtesy of Nathan Atkins, are some photos from the cast rehearsing one of the musical’s most iconic tracks “Grease…

the AU review is turning FIVE years old this week, and to celebrate, throughout the month of August we’re asking many of our musician friends to help us look back on the last five years of music! We’re kicking things off with a band who are kicking arse both locally and overseas: sleepmakeswaves. Kid from…

the AU review is turning FIVE years old this week, and to celebrate, throughout the month of August we’re asking many of our musician friends to help us look back on the last five years of music! We continue with acclaimed slide guitarist Owen Campbell giving us his top five moments of the last five…

So? Did we get it right? Well, we were pretty convinced on The Cure playing, so were a bit off the ball there. In fact the band who was booked as a headliner who had previously played a festival in Australia before was the band who played Big Day Out back in 2008, Arcade Fire!…

There’s a deep dark secret I like to keep from most of my new acquaintances. I am hopelessly fascinated by economics. Economics books take up an embarrassingly large portion of my bookshelves and the majority of my podcasts library is, you guessed it, economics-related. Why the need for secrecy? Well, if I’m completely honest dear…

the AU review is proud to premiere the track “Complicate”, which is is the launch single for Sydney solo artist Christo Jones’ forthcoming debut EP, due in September. Jones uses a towering self-built rig overflowing with guitars, keyboards, samplers and pedals to write, record and perform his “beautifully twisted tunes”. The video has been put…

Splendour, like many festivals around Australia and the world, is going to leave music lovers with some tough choices to make. Clashes are inevitable, and as much you as you say you’ll flit between both, it never quite works out as planned. Plus with some many high profile international and national artists on the bill,…

With the dates for Big Day Out now set in stone – and two shows in Sydney (and a venue upgrade in Adelaide) proving they have something MASSIVE up their sleeves – the rumour mill is now in full swing for the 2014 Big Day Out Festival. Based on trends of past years, and the…

Having now self-published three books, I know first hand the challenges at perfecting a hard cover, coffee table book. Clocking in at 450 pages – more than double anything we’ve put together here – I can only begin to imagine the task Kane Hibberd had in front of him when he was putting together his…

Dark Mofo is a brilliantly named winter festival which is debuting TODAY in and around Hobart in Tasmania, and running until June 23rd. It features concerts and performances; MONA’s first large-scale public art project and exhibition, ‘Beam In Thine Own Eye’; the Hobart City Council Dark Mofo ‘Winter Feast’; a family-friendly festivus to enliven the…

Local Singapore group These Brittle Bones kicked things off at the Crazy Elephant on the last night of Music Matters, with a British lead singer on the keys, who just so happens to be fourteen! I don’t know about you, but I certainly wasn’t performing at an international industry event at that age. The music…

Welcome from Luke (Buchanan‘s handsome lead guitarist) and my own track-by-track breakdown of our band’s debut album. We started writing this album while on tour, stopping en route to Sydney (albeit slightly off course) in Lorne around June 2011. That weekend we wrote Run Faster. A little over 18 months later, and a few days…

I feel like we hear about it all the time. Legendary Australian venues being forced to undergo expensive changes from their local council to cater to new residents who are bitching and moaning in the area. Some may argue this is the price we pay for an ever expanding urban sprawl, but when a venue…

As reported earlier last month by The Guardian, Beyoncé “has banned professional photographers from her current world tour.” Instead, publications are able to use photos from the only accredited photographer on the tour, Frank Micelotta. Plenty of tours suffer from similar restrictions on photographers, but the controversy here is that the ban comes in the…

It’s time once again for my feature column “Larry Likes!” in which I share recent musical discoveries with you – both locally and internationally. In this second edition I move to Melbourne to introduce you to Spender, the production moniker for Tommy Spender who released a new single last month, “Bed & Chair”. I’m a…

Larry: Thanks for taking the time to have a quick chat about everything you’re up to. I wanted to start off by going through the chronology of it and start with the origins of it. Can you tell us a little about how Avec Pleasure got started? Anne: It’s kind of interconnected with my background…

When the world loses a legend, everybody rushes to define what exactly it was that made them so extraordinary. For Chrissy Amplett, the most common descriptions will be these: singer, actress, icon; sufferer of drug and alcohol abuse, of breast cancer, of multiple sclerosis. But many people will wonder who she was, and those who…

The degustation is now a staple of modern dining culture, with chefs from around the world keen to show off their signature dishes – as well as road test a few new ideas – to their customers, through a night of multiple courses, matching wines and, as is all the rage, a theme to go…

Both playing Track and Field in Brisbane this Friday, we asked Dune Rats and The Jungle Giants to shoot each other some questions and here’s what came back… the results are… interesting… DUNE RATS ASKING THE JUNGLE GIANTS Answers by Cesira Aitken How many times do people mention the red hair thing? All the time……

We take you back to the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas with the final episode of the first season of the AU review podcast, featuring Australia’s own Jack Carty and much much more! We’ll be back later in the year with our second season! Stay tuned and thanks for listening. RIGHT CLICK HERE TO…

At today’s media conference in Sydney promoting this weekend’s mammoth Stone Music Festival, we had the opportunity to ask some of the event’s biggest names about their favourite vinyl records, in anticipation for this Saturday’s conveniently placed Record Store Day. Be sure to get out there and support your local record store – and if…

A towering monument on the Brisbane River, the Park Regis North Quay has become a go-to destination for Brisbane bound travellers (be it for business or tourism) since the 24 floor hotel opened in 1998. We stayed for two nights in a 1 bedroom apartment overlooking the beautiful Brisbane River – blessed with similarly kind…

Larry sat down with MUTEMATH at the end of their Australian tour to talk about their experiences here, road testing new songs in Perth, their new recording studio, plans for the next album, playing in Singapore, the New Orleans rock scene, the genius of tourmates Big Scary and much more…

We sit down with Mark Lang from Melbourne’s Skipping Girl Vinegar backstage at Bluesfest in Byron Bay.

We sit down with Australian duo Busby Marou backstage at Bluesfest in Byron Bay.

We sit down with UK troubadour Newton Faulkner backstage at Bluesfest in Byron Bay.