The House of Vans at Mohawk’s has been a place of constant entertainment this week. Thursday night was no exception, with a massive night that concluded with Cold War Kids, getting ready to release their new record ??, and Local Natives, who are promoting their latest release Hummingbird, which is already being hailed as one…
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the AU review’s exclusive Australian chat with Pat Smear of Foo Fighters, The Germs and Nirvana on the SXSW Red Carpet during their 20th Anniversary Film Festival, and a special screening of Dave Grohl’s film Sound City. Pat talks about the film, the Sound City concerts at SXSW and also the latest on the possibility…
From 28th March through 1st April, Byron Bay will host Australia’s largest international festival of Blues and Roots Music that is Bluesfest. Located in Tyagarah Tee Tree Farm, it is the perfect place to hold the Festival and allows 17,500 Festival visitors per day and 6,500 campers over the entire weekend. This year, Bundaberg Brewed…
This week’s featured SXSW artist is the Australian folk artist Vance Joy, who heralds memories of someone like Glen Hansard. Truly soulful sound to his voice, backed by an excellent production, with his latest single “From Afar” no exception. Gives us goosebumps! The track comes off his debut EP God Loves You When You’re Dancing…
London four piece Deaf Club, one of our favourite new finds here at the AU, are preparing for their first shows in the USA at SXSW (that you better believe we’re going to try and check out). To celebrate, they’re sharing with the world a free download of a four track EP that features the…
In less than a month, the city of Austin, Texas will be throwing open its doors to tens of thousands of music fans, industry officials and musicians for the annual SXSW music festival and conference. Amongst that number are over thirty Australian artists. Over the course of the next couple of weeks we’ll be profiling…
You know that moment when you find your new favourite song? This is one of those moments. Big Black Delta is the project of Los Angeles’ Jonathan Bates, who has toured with M83 and is now ready to deliver his own taste of electronic bliss. “Side of the Road” is your favourite song you haven’t…
We’re proud to premiere the brand new track from QLD’s Wax Watches – the solo project of Alex Wall from Bleeding Knees Club. If you’re a fan of BKC, you’ll feel right at home here with the single “Nightmares”, which was recorded in Wall’s bedroom, and features Wall on all instruments. This is the case…
This past week in the US marked the end of yet another fantastic series, 30 Rock, which finished up its 7th season with a fantastic series finale – ahead of the premiere of Community next week for its final season! Ah, it’s the end of an era. We thought we’d take a moment and commemorate…
Nuns are a bunch of curly haired party boys from Wollongong who have decided to release some music. Their summer heartbreak anthem “Shotgun Girl” is the first taste off their upcoming debut EP. The track premieres today on the AU review and is available for download now off Bandcamp! Shotgun Girl by NUNS LINKS: http://www.facebook.com/nunsmusic…
Podcast produced and hosted by Tiffany Britchford, featuring Claire Knight, Phil Perez and Larry Heath.
10. Cloud Nothings – Wasted Days “If your face was not melted off upon your first of many, many listens to this phenomenal grunge-rock jam, you were listening to a different song entirely.” – David Young 9. Jack White – Love Interruption 8. Frank Ocean – Thinkin Bout You “The lead single is as smooth…
20. Collarbones feat. Guerre – Hypothermia 19. Alabama Shakes – Hold On 18. Of Monsters & Men – Little Talks 17. Mumford & Sons – I Will Wait 16. Grizzly Bear – Yet Again 15. Alt-J – Tessellate 14. Foals – Inhaler 13. Ball Park Music – Surrender 12. Jake Bugg – Lightning Bolt 11….
Having had a fair dose of laughter thanks to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival travelling roadshow, I headed to Shroom in New Delhi for the Second Aussie BBQ, which was part of a very jam packed final two days of my time in India. The show, in the futuristic surrounds of the venue – where…
We continue our countdown of the best tracks of 2012, as voted by our contributors! 30. Steve Smyth – No Man’s Land 29. Grizzly Bear – Sun In Your Eyes 28. Blood Red Shoes – Cold 27. Chance Waters – Young and Dumb 26. Iluka – Paper Doll 25. Kendrick Lamar – Bitch, Dont Kill…
As we all start making our decisions for the tracks that will make up our votes for the Hottest 100, we had our contributors tell us their favourite tracks of 2012. Each contributor gave us their top 10 and the resulting 40 tracks are the highest rated from those lists! As usual, it’s a fairly…
It’s that time of year again: the world famous Sydney Festival is arriving this weekend – Saturday the 5th of January to be exact – and as usual there’s so many choices, so much great music and theatre and art to see, that making a decision on what to see and what to miss is…
For our second Aussie BBQ show, the four remaining bands – Jinja Safari, The Aston Shuffle, Big Scary and Sheppard – along with myself and the BBQ crew headed onto Delhi. Flying with IndiGO airways, we got off to a shaky start with us, collectively, sitting 130 kilos over the limit in terms of baggage….
With the first of the Aussie BBQs behind us, and Karnivool on their way back to Australia, we were all treated to a day off in Mumbai before we headed to Delhi for the second show. Having spent most of our time in a bit of a glass bubble – taken from one event to…
Having completed the business end of proceedings, it was now time to return to the focus of our trip to India: The Aussie BBQs. Having had all five bands play at the NH7 Weekender in Pune, our travelling circus was now in Mumbai, where the first of three Aussie BBQs was taking place following the…
Perth duo Sun City caught up with us backstage at the Beresford in Sydney last week just before they hit the stage and filled us in on their favourite albums of 2012…
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As the triple j Hottest 100 opens up its digital doors for voting in its 2012 edition, we come to an end of our top 40 albums list with ten phenomenal albums. Stay tuned for our top 40 songs of 2012… they’ll be launching tomorrow and running through to the New Year! Mumford & Sons…
With the festival under our belts, we were now looking forward to the three standalone Aussie BBQ shows that would take us around the country. The first, in Mumbai, served as an official after-party of sorts for the Nokia Music Connects Conference held nearby; a two day event that looked at the business of music,…
We continue our top 40 albums of 2012 countdown with the third part of our journey to the number one spot… Lana Del Rey – Born To Die When I first heard the song “Born To Die” I was blown away. I felt liked I was hearing something different, something I had been craving to…
As it’s been previously reported, the Big Day Out is going to be joining the world’s elite festivals this Summer by introducing Chow Town to their festivals – a celebration of some of Sydney’s finest food. These are the sort of restaurants you couldn’t get bookings to even if you tried (and believe me, I…
We continue our Top 40 Albums of 2012 list with 30 to 21… These albums were voted by 42 of our fine contributors and the list that has resulted is an eclectic mix; from local indie, to international chart toppers, Australian Black Metal and all the way back again. We hope you enjoy our annual…
As we launch our Best of 2012 series, we begin as we usually do with the first ten albums of our Top 40 Albums of 2012 list. These albums were voted by 42 of our fine contributors and the list that has resulted is an eclectic mix; from local indie, to international chart toppers, Australian…
